Pete Townshend-Empty Glass (1980)


 

Artist: Pete Townshend

Title: Empty Glass

Label: Atco

Format: LP

Catalog Number: SD 32-100

Year of Release: 1980

Country and Year of Edition: US  Coumbia House Terre Haute Pressing

Sell Price: $5.06

Sell Date: 3/6/26

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 6/26/24 VG+/VG+ $2.88

Low: $1.12

Median: $5.06

Average: $5.32

High: $10.00

Current low price: $4.72 VG+/VG

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15

Have/Want: 214/28

Where Sold: Asheville, NC

Time It Took To Sell:  11 years

Where and When Bought: Al Bums Worcester early 80's $1.99 sticker (crossed out from $2.99) still on it

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

This may be the best set of songs Pete Townshend put out after his glory years with the Who.  You can compare this favorably to The Who By Numbers and Who Are You start to finish as well as Face Dances and It's Hard immediately after this.  Every track was instantly memorable to me even though I probably hadn't heard it start to finish since the early 80's when I bought it used after taking it out of the library.

The big hit of course was "Let My Love Open The Door," a bonafide top 10 smash.  The radio hit "Rough Boys" kicked off the album.  Pete wants to kiss them and dress them in leather and the masses dug it anyway in those more conservative times.  Pete is drinking with women models on the cover, but the glass is empty.  Pete's pool tough in the video is a glass half-full.  A full glass could only be left to the imagination of Pete.

The best guitar song here for me is "Cats In The Cupboard."  You better set it free! Bla-daah-bla-daah-bla-daah-bla-dash.  When chords speak to you like that hey make the song.  The other stand out,
"Jules and Jim" had a little new wave insistancy in short form.   It was a rip on the disrespect of Julie Burchill and Tony Parson's heaped "meanly" on Keith Moon after his passing.  Anyone can buy some leather and as for typewriter tappers?  All just crappers!

Keep on working....

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

The Who-The Who Sing My Generation (1966)

The Who-Tommy (1969)

The Who-Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy (1971)

The Who-Who Are You (1978)

The Who-Hooligans (1981)

The Who-Face Dances (1981)

The Who-Who's Last (1984)

The Who-20th Century Masters: The Best of The Who: The Millenium Collection (1999)

Wings-Back To The Egg (1979)

David Gilmour-About Face (1984)

Jimi  Hendrix-Between The Lines (1990)

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