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- Artist: Pete Townshend
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- Release Date: 1972 10
- Total Time: 55:01
- Genre: Rock
Review
Pete Townshend's first solo album was a homespun, charming forum for low-key, personal songs that weren't deemed suitable for the Who, as well as spiritual paeans (direct and indirect) to his spiritual guru Meher Baba. Who fans will be immediately attracted by the presence of a couple of songs from the aborted Who concept album Lifehouse (much of which ended up on Who's Next), "Pure & Easy" and "Let's See Action." The Who did eventually release their own versions of both those songs. But Townshend's own versions aren't the highlights of this record, which shows a folkier and gentler side to the Who's chief muse than his albums with the group. "Sheraton Gibson" is a neat tune about rock & roll road life, and "Time Is Passing" takes very subtle inspiration from Baba. Most of the rest of the album contains some of the most unusual pieces Townshend has released: his acoustic cover of Jim Reeves' "There's a Heartache Following Me" (recorded because it was one of Baba's favorite tunes), "Evolution" (which is actually pretty much a solo track by his buddy Ronnie Lane of the Faces), "Parvardigar" (adapted from Baba's Universal Prayer), and "Content" (a philosophical poem by Maud Kennedy that Townshend put to music). The 1993 reissue of this LP for compact disc fleshes out the program considerably with six previously unreleased tracks, including Townshend's demo of the Who single "The Seeker." The other bonus cuts are by no means filler; meditative and melancholy originals, they're just as strong as the tracks on the original release. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Pure and Easy (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (5:33) |
| Evolution (Lyrics) | Ronnie Lane | Pete Townshend | (3:45) |
| Forever's No Time at All (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | (3:09) | |
| Let's See Action (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (6:25) |
| Time Is Passing (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (3:28) |
| There's a Heartache Following Me (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | (3:23) | |
| Sheraton Gibson (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (2:38) |
| Content (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (2:44) |
| Parvardigar (Lyrics) | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (6:49) |
| His Hands [*] | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (2:09) |
| The Seeker [*] | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (4:35) |
| Day of Silence [*] | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (2:53) |
| Sleeping Dog [*] | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (2:56) |
| The Love Man [*] | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (5:01) |
| Lantern Cabin [*] | Pete Townshend | Pete Townshend | (4:04) |
