Pete TownshendBest Pete Townshend Albums Ranked
6.5
Avg Score
7
Opinions
6
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 7 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Pete Townshend's catalog across 6 albums from 7 opinions, with an overall average of 6.5/10. The top-rated Pete Townshend album is Empty Glass (1980) with a 8.3/10 average from 1 rating, followed by All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes and Scoop. The discography on Wavelength spans 1980 to 2001.
Scoop
“No one in rock & roll has spent more time revealing the motivations for making music, the private energies and obsessions that drive one to it or the intimate details of the process than Pete Townshend. For that reason alone, Scoop — a two-record set of previously unissued home and studio demo recordings stretching back […]”
All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
“Something strange goes on between Pete Townshend and his fans. Other cults engage in the same worship and advocacy, but die-hard Who fans don’t stop there. Perhaps because Townshend is a compulsive anthem writer and pronouncement maker, his fans ponder every word. But unlike most pop listeners, they’re not searching for themselves in the songs; […]”
The Oceanic Concerts
“In his complex and often confounding career, Pete Townshend has proved himself a master of apparently contradictory impulses. Around 1980, while regularly leading the Who through bruisingly loud expressions of adolescent fury in massive sports arenas, he staged a pair of intimate and contemplative acoustic concerts for fellow disciples of Persian guru Meher Baba at […]”
Psychoderelict
“With the Kinks releasing a strong record and Mick Jagger a great one, the harder-core Brit Invaders have been rocking lately. Now Pete Townshend, the most ambitious musician of the lot, returns fiercely. A tamed Tommy is a Broadway smash; with trademark willfulness, the Who’s former main man gives us Psychoderelict, a rock opera that […]”
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