Scoop (album)

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 Pete Townshend
Released	April 1983
Recorded	1965-1982
Genre	Rock
Length	74:48
Label	Atco (US)
Producer	Helen 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
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Rolling Stone	^[2]

History

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

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

Disc One

No.	Title	Writer(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 Williams	0:59
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.	Title	Length
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

1. Scoop at AllMusic
2. Fricke, David (14 April 1983). . 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.