Scoop is a compilation album by Pete Townshend containing 25 demos of various released and unreleased songs by The Who, as well as demos of entirely new material. The album has liner notes written by Townshend.[3]

Scoop
Compilation album by
ReleasedApril 1983
Recorded1965–1982
GenreRock
Length74:48
LabelAtco (US)
ProducerHelen Wilkins (as "Spike")
Pete Townshend chronology
All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
(1982)
Scoop
(1983)
White City: A Novel
(1985)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone[2]

History

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The album was the first in a series of three Scoop collections: Another Scoop was released in 1987 and Scoop 3 in 2001. All three albums were 2-disc sets, and in 2002 a pared-down compilation of them all was released as Scooped. Remastered versions of the original albums were released in 2006, and again in 2017.

Track listing

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All songs written and composed by Pete Townshend, except where noted.

Disc One
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."So Sad About Us/Brrr" 4:44
2."Squeezebox" 2:27
3."Zelda" 2:25
4."Politician" 3:38
5."Dirty Water" 2:07
6."Circles" 2:10
7."Piano: 'Tipperary'"Jack Judge, Harry Williams0:59
8."Unused Piano: 'Quadrophenia'" 2:33
9."Melancholia" 3:16
10."Bargain" 4:13
11."Things Have Changed" 2:25
12."Popular" 2:28
13."Behind Blue Eyes" 3:29
Disc Two
No.TitleLength
1."The Magic Bus"4:22
2."Cache, Cache"3:43
3."Cookin'"3:20
4."You're So Clever"4:18
5."Body Language"1:29
6."Initial Machine Experiments"1:54
7."Mary"3:20
8."Recorders"1:19
9."Goin' Fishin'"2:54
10."To Barney Kessell"2:00
11."You Came Back"4:05
12."Love, Reign O'er Me"4:59

References

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  1. ^ Scoop at AllMusic
  2. ^ Fricke, David (14 April 1983). "Album Reviews: Pete Townshend, Scoop". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Pete Townshend: Scoop / Another Scoop / Scoop 3, PopMatters". 10 December 2006.