Pete Townshend – Who Came First (1972) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Pete Townshend – Who Came First (1972)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:57 minutes | 826 MB | Genre: Rock
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One of the more introspective and spiritual albums of Who leader Pete Townshend’s solo career came at a time when the Who’s rock & roll was shaking the earth. „Who Came First“ is centered on Townshend’s quest for spiritual enlightenment, in this case through the teachings of the famed guru Meher Baba. Those accustomed to the Who’s ear-shattering loudness and guitar-smashing violence will no doubt be just as disarmed at the relative peace found in the acoustic-based musings.
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The Who-Quadrophenia (Super Deluxe Edition)-24-96-WEB-FLAC-REMASTERED-2014-OBZEN

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The Who-Quadrophenia (Super Deluxe Edition)-24-96-WEB-FLAC-REMASTERED-2014-OBZEN
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:06:38 minutes | 3,85 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Rough Mix (1977/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Rough Mix (1977/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:33 minutes | 934 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

„Rough Mix“ is one of the most relaxed albums of Pete Townshend’s solo career. With this release, the Who leader leaves the thundering avalanche of his band to create a rustic pub band atmosphere. It’s a damned notable pub band to be sure (with guest performances from Charlie Watts, Eric Clapton, and Ian Stewart, to name a few) and one can only surmise how much the late (and former Small Faces member) Ronnie Lane is responsible for the offhand charm.
On „Rough Mix“, ukelele, dobro, and accordion outweigh the Les Pauls and Marshall stacks that usually attend Townshend’s music. The album’s best tunes (some of which were written and are sung by Lane himself) rely on warm, homespun invitations rather than riffs played at eardrum-shattering volume. With tunes that are by turn bucolically wistful (‘Annie’), sweeping and majestic (‘Street in the City’), and playfully grandiose (‘Misunderstood’), „Rough Mix“ is delightfully out of place in Townshend’s catalogue.

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Pete Townshend – Who Came First (Deluxe) (1972/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – Who Came First (Deluxe) (1972/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:39 minutes | 2,24 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

“Who Came First” is the debut solo record by Pete Townshend, first released in 1972. The album collected together tracks from Pete’s private pressings of his tributes to Meher Baba, Happy Birthday and I Am, as well as demos from the unrealized concept album Lifehouse, part of which became The Who’s classic Who’s Next album.

To celebrate the 45th Anniversary, the album will be released as a double expanded album version, featuring eight previously unreleased tracks, new edits, alternative versions and live performances.

“Who Came First” has been remastered by long-term Pete Townshend and The Who collaborator Jon Astley using the original master tapes. The first album consists of a remastered version of the original album and second includes unreleased tracks, alternative versions and live performances.

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Pete Townshend – White City: A Novel (1985/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – White City: A Novel (1985/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:39 minutes | 896 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

„White City“, which Pete Townshend called a novel, recalls the depth of „Tommy“. There are many memorable tracks on this collection, including “Hiding Out,” whose deceptive sweetness belies the detached destruction of “Crashing by Design.” The bracing “Face the Face” is as musically gripping as any of Townshend’s solo work, as is the rumbling “Give Blood.” Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour lends on a hand on the former and Big Country drummer Mark Brzezicki puts his walloping stamp on various cuts as well.

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Pete Townshend – The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete Townshend (1989/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete Townshend (1989/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:36 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend, released in 1989, is an adaptation of Ted Hughes’ story The Iron Man, produced and largely composed and performed by Pete Townshend of The Who. It also stars Roger Daltrey, Deborah Conway, John Lee Hooker, and Nina Simone.

The three then-surviving members of The Who (Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Townshend) performed as a group in two songs, “Dig” and “Fire”, although the latter was not penned by Townshend. (The Who would later perform “Dig” live during their 1989 reunion tour.)

“A Friend is a Friend” and “I Won’t Run Anymore” were released as singles; “Fire” was also issued as a promo-only in the United States.

A stage version was mounted at the Young Vic theatre in London in 1993. On the strength of this, Warners optioned the story for a movie which, with a very different adaptation of the story, became The Iron Giant; Townshend received an Executive Producer credit.

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Pete Townshend – Scoop 3 (2001/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – Scoop 3 (2001/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:58:53 minutes | 2,58 GB | Genre: Rock
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On this third collection of Pete Townshend rarities and demos, the Who guitarist/mastermind offers up another compelling set of curiosities that draws from both his solo career and his tenure with his legendary band. In addition to pensive, minimal takes on Who tunes such as “Sea & Sand” and “Eminence Front” (the latter sounding almost nothing like its popular synth-laden counterpart), Townshend presents previously unreleased tracks such as the majestic rock tune “Commonwealth Boys” and the delicate piano-only instrumental “Poem Disturbed.” While the compilation is mainly geared toward Townshend’s diehard fans, Who aficionados will have much to admire as well, making the anthology a welcome addition to his well-compiled SCOOP series.

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Pete Townshend – Scoop (1983/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – Scoop (1983/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:52 minutes | 1,64 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Pete Townshend’s demos had grown legendary among Who collectors well before the official release of the double-album Scoop in 1983. On each demo, Townshend worked out full arrangements, which the Who would often follow exactly. He also recorded a wealth of songs and instrumental pieces that never made it to record. Over the course of two albums, Scoop features 25 of these demos, including both classic Who songs (“So Sad About Us,” “Bargain,” “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Magic Bus,” “Love Reign O’er Me”) and unreleased gems (“Politician,” “Melancholia,” “To Barney Kessell,” “Mary”). Occasionally, the songs sound better in their demo versions, particularly on latter-day Who songs, which were overwrought in their official incarnations. But what makes Scoop so fascinating is its revelation of the depth and detail of Townshend’s imagination, and how he refined his ideas. But even casual fans will find the sheer musicality of the record worthwhile — it’s one of the most focused and impressive albums he has ever released.

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Pete Townshend – Psychoderelict (1993/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Pete Townshend – Psychoderelict (1993/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:07 minutes | 753 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Psychoderelict is a concept album written, produced and engineered by Pete Townshend. Some characters and issues presented in this work were continued in Townshend’s later opus The Boy Who Heard Music, first presented on The Who’s album Endless Wire and then adapted as a rock musical.

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Pete Townshend – Empty Glass (1980/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – Empty Glass (1980/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:02 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Who mastermind Pete Townshend’s strongest solo record was born in a hailstorm of despair, uncertainty, and tribulation. With the once viscerally powerful Who in limbo, the guitarist nearly sunk himself into brandy-drenched oblivion. He emerged with one of his most gripping solo pieces and–perhaps unsurprisingly–the most Who-like album of all his solo work.

Pete plunges into his familiar themes of aging, sexuality, and spiritual decay with fervor, desperation, and commitment. And while „Empty Glass“ does not approach the roaring physicality of the Who at its best, the emotional punch of “Jools and Jim” and “I Am an Animal” is sure to rattle the cage of even the most ardent hard rock devotee. Also of note are Townshend’s vocals. Through the entire album, whether on the radio-ready paean to Meher Baba “Let My Love Open the Door,” the bracing “Rough Boys,” or the sublime “A Little Is Enough,” his vocals are hanging on the edge of a cliff, presumably dangling over a certain death.

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Pete Townshend – Another Scoop (1987/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – Another Scoop (1987/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:44 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Like “Scoop” released in 1983, “Another Scoop”, followed four years later and continued to provide valued access to the Pete Townshend’s vaults, features a multitude of demos, outtakes and unreleased material, many of which are songs by The Who. Among the tracks included on this volume are ‘Pinball Wizard’, ‘Substitute’, ‘You Better You Bet’ and ‘Pictures of Lily’. „Another Scoop“ is still highly recommended for the serious Who/Townshend fan.

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Pete Townshend – All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend – All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes (1982/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:22 minutes | 947 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

While Pete Townshend’s 1982 solo release, „All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes“, wasn’t as stellar as its predecessor (1980’s „Empty Glass“), several tracks easily stand among his best solo work. Townshend had just successfully conquered his life-threatening alcoholism and drug addiction, so „Chinese Eyes“ was the first album in a long time that he did completely sober. Again, Townshend worked with producers Chris Thomas and Bill Price (known for their work with the Sex Pistols and the Pretenders), who give the songs more pop flavor than an expected punk edge. Highlights include the quirky “Face Dances Part Two” (an early MTV favorite), the beautiful yet haunting album-closing “Slit Skirts,” “The Sea Refuses No River,” and “Somebody Saved Me.”

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Pete Townshend – Scoop (1983/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Pete Townshend - Scoop (1983/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Pete Townshend – Scoop (1983/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:52 minutes | 1,64 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Pete Townshend’s demos had grown legendary among Who collectors well before the official release of the double-album Scoop in 1983. On each demo, Townshend worked out full arrangements, which the Who would often follow exactly. He also recorded a wealth of songs and instrumental pieces that never made it to record. Over the course of two albums, Scoop features 25 of these demos, including both classic Who songs (“So Sad About Us,” “Bargain,” “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Magic Bus,” “Love Reign O’er Me”) and unreleased gems (“Politician,” “Melancholia,” “To Barney Kessell,” “Mary”). Occasionally, the songs sound better in their demo versions, particularly on latter-day Who songs, which were overwrought in their official incarnations. But what makes Scoop so fascinating is its revelation of the depth and detail of Townshend’s imagination, and how he refined his ideas. But even casual fans will find the sheer musicality of the record worthwhile — it’s one of the most focused and impressive albums he has ever released.
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