Scooped

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Having made some of the most incendiary and evergreen rock music with the Who, nobody would disparage Pete Townshend for taking it easy. But the wildcat guitarist is nothing if not generous to his fans. Aside from the grinding tour schedule he has maintained both as a solo artist and with the band through his senior years, Townshend has also kept completists satisfied with a steady stream of albums that chronicle his personal demo recordings--1983's Scoop, 1987's Another Scoop and 2001's Scoop 3. As if that wasn't enough, he has now pared down the best tracks from those releases and packaged them in a convenient two-CD set titled, yes, Scooped. The 35 tracks included cover everything from well-worn gems like "Pinball Wizard" and "Magic Bus" in raw demo form to more obscure pleasures like "Recorders" and "Body Language." It doesn't exactly measure up to the fireworks on display on the My Generation remasters, but Townshend fans can certainly appreciate the gesture. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Description
A Decade Worth of Outtakes and Oddities from Rock's Living Legend Pete Townshend launched his creative landmine with The Who and continues to re- invent himself as a creative visionary as a solo artist. "Scooped" is a value priced 2 CD set featuring more of Pete's gems including oddities and outtakes archived over the last 10 years. Rare, solo versions of classics like "Pinball Wizard" and "Magic Bus" can be heard on this 2 CD set. The booklet contains Townshend's own commentary on the inspiration, ideas and instrumentation behind each song. Scooped is an essential addition to your Who collection.

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Scooped

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The Scoop Has A Few Holes In It
it should be five stars, really
Not enough substance, too much doodling
Snapshots of Townshend's Creative Process
Excellent, Encompassing Distillation

Scooped
Pete Townshend
Manufacturer: Redline Ent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000065V9O
Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

Recorders
Pinball Wizard
Can You See The Real Me
Dirty Water
Zelda
Pictures Of Lily
Body Language
Siege: Theme 019
971104 Arpeggio Piano
Brooklyn Kids
Substitute
Elephants
Eminence Front
Baroque Ippanese
Magic Bus
I Like It The Way It Is
Unused Piano
Bargain
Lonely Words

Tracks:

So Sad About Us/Brrr
Tough Boys
You Better You Bet
Mary
Begin The Beguine
Piano: Tipperary
How Can You Do It Alone
Football Fugue
Behind Blue Eyes
Never Ask Me
Circles
Holly Like Ivy
Variations: Dirty Jobs
Catsnatch
You're So Clever
Love Reign O'er Me

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Having made some of the most incendiary and evergreen rock music with the Who, nobody would disparage Pete Townshend for taking it easy. But the wildcat guitarist is nothing if not generous to his fans. Aside from the grinding tour schedule he has maintained both as a solo artist and with the band through his senior years, Townshend has also kept completists satisfied with a steady stream of albums that chronicle his personal demo recordings--1983's Scoop, 1987's Another Scoop and 2001's Scoop 3. As if that wasn't enough, he has now pared down the best tracks from those releases and packaged them in a convenient two-CD set titled, yes, Scooped. The 35 tracks included cover everything from well-worn gems like "Pinball Wizard" and "Magic Bus" in raw demo form to more obscure pleasures like "Recorders" and "Body Language." It doesn't exactly measure up to the fireworks on display on the My Generation remasters, but Townshend fans can certainly appreciate the gesture. --Aidin Vaziri

Album Description

A Decade Worth of Outtakes and Oddities from Rock's Living Legend Pete Townshend launched his creative landmine with The Who and continues to re- invent himself as a creative visionary as a solo artist. "Scooped" is a value priced 2 CD set featuring more of Pete's gems including oddities and outtakes archived over the last 10 years. Rare, solo versions of classics like "Pinball Wizard" and "Magic Bus" can be heard on this 2 CD set. The booklet contains Townshend's own commentary on the inspiration, ideas and instrumentation behind each song. Scooped is an essential addition to your Who collection.

Album Description

Special priced 2CD set featuring more of Pete's renditions of Who gems and original material archived over the last 35 years. Includes 'Pinball Wizard', 'Pictures of Lily', 'Can You See the Real Me', 'Bargain', 'Circles', 'Magic Bus', 'Substitute' and more. 35 audio tracks plus the video for 'Ask Yourself'. Gatefold digipak. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

The Scoop Has A Few Holes In It.......2002-10-14

The inherent problem with the original Scoop projects, as with Townshend's entire career with the Who and as a solo artist, is his inability to separate the wheat from the chaff, said chaff mostly being a result of his artistic pretensions. Towhshend's songwriting has always worked best when his subject matter is a little more earthy, and ridiculous song titles like "Baroque Ipponese" and "Prelude #556" are all you really need to now about those songs. I'm not sure who picked the tracks for this sampler, but I would have left off a lot more of Pete's latter-day drum machine and sequencer experiments, in favor of his early- to mid-period 4-track bouncerama tracks. Several prominent tracks from the original series, tracks that were revelatory not only from a songwriting perspective, but also regarding Townshend's creative process, are missing from this collection, nudged aside by entirely too many pseudo-classical doodles. Pete, it's not nostalgia that makes your fans buy the old stuff over and over--and every TV series and commercial use them--it's quality, mate. Something your career has sorely lacked for the past 20 years.

it should be five stars, really.......2002-07-10

This is a nice little compilation of the best of Pete's 3 Scoop albums, which in themselves were compilations, featuring demos of Who songs, demos of songs for solo albums and just plain old demos for the love of making demos. It's just my opinion, but I think Pete Townshend is one of the true geniuses of rock n' roll. He has an ability to write songs of complete originality using the creative left side of the brain which so few artists ever untap. It matters not that these are home recordings stripped clear of studio gloss and fancy productions. What matters is Pete's songwriting, which is so monumental that it hardly matters if his songs are done on 64-track high-tech studio equipment or if he serenades you around the campfire with an acoustic guitar that's missing two strings. Both Scoop and Another Scoop were plentiful in their offering of Who demos, but some of the best tunes were the ones that never showed up anywhere else. Case in point, "You're So Clever," a song that could easily have been another highlight in an album already chock full of highlights (Chinese Eyes) had it been taken further than the basement. Frank Sinatra may have turned his nose up at "Never Ask Me," but there's no reason to dismiss it on old blue eyes' decision not to cover it. It's a fine Pete Townshend ballad, which could have worked with the Who, but is possibly a little too personal and heart-wrenching to have sat next to "Love is Coming Down" on Who Are You. It shows a more tender side of Pete's songwriting. Easily one of the best songs he's ever written. "Zelda" is an interesting choice here, as it's such an ethereal demo, completely unfinished and is held together by Pete strumming fiercely on violin(s) (I think), and his use of the "f" word is so genuine and clever here that even the PMRC would have to pass on putting an explicit label warning on this CD just for the sake of letting Pete get his point across regarding a young girl who, all too soon, will be coming of age!! "Brooklyn Kids" is a masterpiece with lovely orchestration. It's another one of Pete's songs that takes off in directions that he had not ventured before or since, and therefore finds its home in the hodepodge that is Scoop. The same is true of "Mary" which is the absolute highlight of all three Scoops combined. I'll never know why the Who didn't put this one out. Sure, it lacks the sound of FM radio, but its melody and feel is purely beautiful and could have been the perfect bookend to either side of Who's Next. "Mary" is a five star nugget, and to my knowledge, features Pete playing every instrument himself (as he does on a large percentage of his demos). Scooped features filler, as should be expected of a collection of this magnitude. Surely even the Beatles' magnificant Anthologies have things that are on there just for the purpose of giving the die-hard fans one massive gulp to satisfy their insatiable need for lost rarites, however lacking in the quality of their original and most popular works. "Holly Like Ivy" kind of falls into this category. A wonderful track, but nothing essential. The inaudible vocals on this track still kind of annoy me. The reason I am not ready to give this package a five star rating is because Pete completely overlooked three or four of his best demos. Maybe he is planning to release Another Scooped, maybe he just forgot these songs, but help me out here PT fans, where is "Melancholia" and "Politician?" These are two of the earliest examples of Pete's recording demos that used more than 2 tracks. Maybe since the Who's version of "Melancholia" was finally officially released the decision was to let THAT one be the one to get the most attention. But come one, the home demo of "Melancholia" (Pete's solo version) is absolutely frightening!! He used a thick amount of phasing to achieve a psychedelic effect and really rocked out on drums, possibly even more than Keith Moon did on the Who's version. "Politician" is another gem that just should not have been neglected, I'm sorry. Couldn't they have left off "Substitute?" "Politician" just captures so perfectly what home recording is all about. The chance to achieve a sound or mood that cannot be dublicated, even though, ironically, the home recording studio has tremendous limitations. I'd also like to have seen "Girl in a Suitcase" on Scooped in favor of, say, a weak solo run-through of an early Who song. "Girl in a Suitcase" is full of charmful lyrics and a great melody. "Praying the Game" and "You Came Back" are the last two songs I will mention as should-have-been-worthy-Scooped-contenders. But all in all, if you're looking for a glimpse of a genius hard at work in the intimate process of demo-laying, this is a set to pique your fancy. Pete, much like George Harrison, was not simply going to live a life of fame and riches. He was always searching for something deeper. He wrote more than enough songs on all of the Who's releases and his solo albums to be considered a prolific writer. But part of the process of putting together ten great songs for an album is to actually put together TWENTY great songs and have the luxury of picking and choosing the ultimate album. I imagine the Who never had to complain that there was a shortage of material to work with. I hope there will be a Scoop Vol. IV one day and that Pete will continute to give the fans these prizes of his dynamic and unsurpassable work.

Not enough substance, too much doodling.......2002-06-14

Parts of this are very, very good.... parts of this seem like nothing more than Pete doodling in the studio. With all there must be to choose from, I am surprised that there is so much unfinished stuff on these discs. It would have been better to include more demos that became songs on Who or Pete Townshend solo albums than stuff like "Unused Piano" or "Elephants". More demo songs like "Pinball Wizard", "Bargain", "Eminence Front" would have been much more interesting, and show off Pete's obvious songwriting talent much better. For die hard Townshend fans only.

Snapshots of Townshend's Creative Process.......2002-06-13

Okay, here's the scoop. This Redline 2-CD set is not a new collection of Townshend demos, but rather a distillation of his previous three "Scoops" releases. So if there's nothing new here, why bother? For me, it was an upgrade to CD of my vinyl copies of 1983's Scoop and 1987's Another Scoop. [All three original "Scoops" CDs are available through Townshend's e-commerce site; otherwise some of them--especially last year's "Scoop 3"--can be difficult to find.]

As to the music itself, some of it is amazing and it is never less than engaging. The label "genius" is used much too casually when talking about many rock artists, but it applies to Pete Townshend. What these demos allow the listener to do is to get a glimpse of the fertile mind of one of the rock world's most talented--and prolific--song writers. This is required listening for any serious Townshend/Who fan. And as a bonus, Disc 2 contains a four-and-a-half minute video of "Ask Yourself," a song that Townshend had been working on for the follow-up to The Who's 1982 LP "It's Hard," but was never completed. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Excellent, Encompassing Distillation.......2002-05-27

I purchased 1983's 'Scoop', 1987's 'Another Scoop', when they were first released on vinyl, and I was amazed at the contrast between Pete Townshend's demo versions of songs later recorded by The Who or by himself on solo recordings. (I replaced both vinyl recordings with compact dics, although they were out of print at the time and I had to order them from Eel Pie in London.) I purchased 2001's 'Scoop 3' directly from Eel Pie, as well. 'Scooped' is a wonderful distallation of the three previous "Scoop" releases, and I recommend the recording, particularly if you have never purchased one of Pete's demo compilations. If you get "hooked" by this recording, you will probably want to own the original "Scoop" collections, but you will not regret the duplication, if you are a devoted fan of Pete Townshend; also, 'Scooped' is more portable than the complete "Scoop" collection.

(I have every single release of 'Live at Leeds', without regret, by The Who, and I enjoyed the vinyl release, and subsequent releases on CD -- each one enhanced with more material.)

Pete Townshend's solo material covers a wide spectrum, from introspective and spiritual to fiery and defiant. Even different recordings of the very same song are enjoyable and thought-provoking.

Scooped
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Scooped
Pete Townshend
Manufacturer: Eel Pie
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000LYR2G0

Right Now/Ahora
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Nice Urban R&B/Hip-Hop flavor.

Right Now/Ahora
Natali Rene
Manufacturer: Nati Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00067W1KY
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Tracks:

Life After Life
Say You Will
Right Now
If You Only Knew
What You Don't Know
Cry Me a River
Forever We Love
The Hymn
Natali's Dance (Ven Conmigo)
The Moon Was Right (Iguana Danced)
Di Que Si
Si Supieras Tu
Ahora

Customer Reviews:

Nice Urban R&B/Hip-Hop flavor........2004-12-13

If you like Brandy, Monica, or young Urban R&B artists who have a bit of Hip-Hop flavor, I recommend this. Check out music samples at natalierene.com. She also has some spanish jamz on here. All 13 songs listed here.
1. Life After Life
2. Say You Will
3. Right Now
4. If You Only Knew
5. What You Don't Know
6. Cry Me a River
7. Forever We Love
8. The Hymn
9. Natali's Dance (Ven Conmigo)
10. The Moon Was Right (Iguana Danced)
11. Di Que Si
12. Si Supieras Tu
13. Ahora

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