ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST | Pete Townshend - Who Demos 1979-1981: Empty Glass & Face Dances

Pete Townshend - Who Demos, Volume 9: 1979-1981: Empty Glass & Face Dances

Paul says : The other day, I got a request to change something about Volume 8 in this series (which I did). That reminded me that I never quite finished this series off. So here's the next one, another collection of Pete Townshend's demos. There's just one more to go after this.

Townshend has made so many demos that I've created two different series for them. One series contains all the demos I could find of songs that weren't included on albums by the Who, or his solo albums. Then there's this series of demos for songs that did eventually make it to Who albums or solo albums. During this time period, Townshend was busy, putting out both 1980 solo album "Empty Glass" and the 1981 Who album "Face Dances." 

Five of the songs here made it to "Empty Glass" in different form. One, "Teresa," would later get on the 1982 album "It's Hard" with the title change to "Athena." I'm not quite sure why "Initial Machine Experiments" got on here instead of my other Townshend demos series, but oh well. The remaining six songs made it to "Face Dances."

Most of the versions here have been officially released. Generally, they came out on the compilations "Scoop," "Another Scoop," and "Scoop 3." Four of the songs that made it to "Empty Glass" were released as bonus tracks on that album. Finally, "Another Tricky Day" is unreleased.

This album is 59 minutes long. 

01 I Am an Animal 
02 Initial Machine Experiments [Instrumental] 
03 Tough Boys [Rough Boys]
04 And I Moved 
05 Did You Steal My Money 
06 Don't Let Go the Coat 
07 Gonna Get Ya [Long Version]
08 Keep On Working 
09 Teresa [Early Version of Athena] 
10 You Better You Bet 
11 Another Tricky Day 
12 Cache, Cache 
13 How Can You Do It Alone