| Scoop | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | April 1983 | |||
| Recorded | 1965–1982 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 74:48 | |||
| Label | Atco (US) | |||
| Producer | Helen Wilkins (as "Spike") | |||
| Pete Townshend chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Rolling Stone |  [2] |
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]
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.
All tracks are written by Pete Townshend, except "Piano: Tipperary" by Jack Judge and Harry Williams.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "So Sad About Us/Brrr" | 4:41 |
| 2. | "Squeezebox" | 2:27 |
| 3. | "Zelda" | 2:23 |
| 4. | "Politician" | 3:35 |
| 5. | "Dirty Water" | 2:06 |
| 6. | "Circles" | 2:09 |
| 7. | "Piano: 'Tipperary'" | 1:00 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Unused Piano: 'Quadrophenia'" | 2:32 |
| 2. | "Melancholia" | 3:14 |
| 3. | "Bargain" | 4:12 |
| 4. | "Things Have Changed" | 2:23 |
| 5. | "Popular" | 2:26 |
| 6. | "Behind Blue Eyes" | 3:25 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Magic Bus" | 4:20 |
| 2. | "Cache, Cache" | 3:42 |
| 3. | "Cookin'" | 3:18 |
| 4. | "You're So Clever" | 4:14 |
| 5. | "Body Language" | 1:29 |
| 6. | "Initial Machine Experiments" | 1:51 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Mary" | 3:19 |
| 2. | "Recorders" | 1:17 |
| 3. | "Goin' Fishin'" | 2:53 |
| 4. | "To Barney Kessell" | 1:58 |
| 5. | "You Came Back" | 4:03 |
| 6. | "Love, Reign O'er Me" | 4:56 |
