Pete Townshend - Tommy (1969)

I know Paul over at albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com posted this album last year, but it nicely finishes off this series of Pete Townshend demos, and I did spend a bit of time on the cover, so I'm posting it anyway. Paul sourced his tracks from the deluxe issue of 'Tommy', whereas these have come from the various editions of the 'Scoop' series, although I'd be very surprised if there were any differences between them. The one difference that there is between our two posts, however, is the addition of three extra tracks on this one, none of which were written by Townshend, although strangely enough all three have appeared on either 'The Genuine Scoop' 5CD set, or the 'P.T. Demos For The Who - "Tommy" Demos 1968' (what a convoluted title) bootleg CD. While we know that it's highly unlikely that Townshend would have recorded demos for songs he didn't write, I decided to include them just so that we'd have alternate takes of every track on the actual album. It's been suggested that 'Cousin Kevin' is the album version stripped of the acoustic guitar and is possibly the harmony vocals only, but it does make for a very different sound, and although 'Fiddle About' does sound like a stripped back take of the album track, 'Tommy's Holiday Camp' is definitely just the album version. I've created new artwork to make this a Pete Townshend solo album, and that's the end of this short series of 'What If...' albums.

Track listing

01 Overture

02 It's A Boy

03 1921

04 Amazing Journey

05 Dream One

06 Sparks

07 The Hawker

08 Christmas

09 Cousin Kevin

10 The Acid Queen

11 Underture

12 Do You Think It's Alright?

13 Fiddle About

14 Pinball Wizard

15 There's A Doctor

16 Go To The Mirror!

17 Success

18 Tommy Can You Hear Me?

19 Smash The Mirror

20 Sensation

21 Miracle Cure

22 Sally Simpson

23 I'm Free

24 Welcome

25 Tommy's Holiday Camp

26 We're Not Gonna Take It