Who Came First

by Pete Townshend

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1972
  • Label: Track
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:50:38
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Dedicated to his spiritual master Meher Baba, the first official solo release from the Who's visionary guitarist is a surprisingly intimate, acoustic-driven affair. The collection features stripped-down demos of songs that would later become massive rock anthems, alongside devotional covers and early synthesizer experiments. The record reveals the quiet, deeply philosophical core of his typically bombastic songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, spirituality, acoustic, confessional, demo, lo-fi, archival

Tracklist

  1. Pure And Easy (5:32)
  2. Evolution (3:43)
  3. Forever's No Time At All (3:05)
  4. (Nothing Is Everything) Let's See Action (6:22)
  5. Time Is Passing (3:25)
  6. There鈥檚 A Heartache Following Me (3:21)
  7. Sheraton Gibson (2:36)
  8. Content (2:43)
  9. Parvardigar (6:48)
  10. His Hands (2:08)
  11. The Seeker (4:36)
  12. Day Of Silence (2:57)
  13. Sleeping Dog (2:56)
  14. Mary Jane - Stage A / Alternative Take (2:35)
  15. I Always Say - June 2017 Edit (4:58)
  16. Begin The Beguine (4:41)
  17. Baba O'Riley (9:49)
  18. The Love Man - Stage C (4:54)
  19. Content - Stage A (2:46)
  20. Day Of Silence - Alternative Version (4:38)
  21. Parvardigar - Alternative Version (7:12)
  22. (Nothing Is Everything) Let's See Action - Incomplete Take (3:57)
  23. There鈥檚 A Fortune In Those Hills (4:09)
  24. Meher Baba In Italy (2:20)
  25. Drowned - Live In India (2:02)
  26. Evolution (Stone) (6:12)

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