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The Best of Pete Townshend: Coolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking,Pete Townshend

- The Best of Pete Townshend: Coolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking
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Pete Townshend
Released 1996

Street in the City
06:06
995 plays

Uneasy Street [#]
04:39
945 plays

Let My Love Open the Door [E.Cola Mix]
05:00
9,112 plays

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songs

- 1
- Rough Boys
- 04:00
- 5,629 plays

- 2
- Let My Love Open the Door
- 02:42
- 4,441 plays

- 3
- Misunderstood
- 02:57
- 1,325 plays

- 4
- Give Blood
- 05:38
- 2,418 plays

- 5
- A Friend Is a Friend
- 05:01
- 1,418 plays

- 6
- Sheraton Gibson
- 02:35
- 1,182 plays

- 7
- English Boy
- 04:49
- 1,260 plays

- 8
- Street in the City
- 06:06
- 995 plays

- 9
- Pure and Easy
- 05:32
- 1,349 plays

- 10
- Slit Skirts
- 04:59
- 2,596 plays

- 11
- The Sea Refuses No River
- 05:55
- 1,262 plays

- 12
- A Little Is Enough
- 04:38
- 1,303 plays

- 13
- Face the Face
- 05:51
- 1,945 plays

- 14
- Uneasy Street [#]
- 04:39
- 945 plays

- 15
- Let My Love Open the Door [E.Cola Mix]
- 05:00
- 9,112 plays

album review

Despite some unnecessary problems, The Best of Pete Townshend: Coolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking is a good sampling of Townshend's biggest solo hits, as well as some of the songwriter's personal favorites. One of the major problems of the collection is Townshend's inability to leave the original mixes alone -- for instance, there are two versions of "Let My Love Open the Door" and neither of them is the original version. Furthermore, some tracks have longer mixes, others are shorter, and occasionally the mixes are significantly different than the album. Even with these problems, the album provides a good idea of the arc of Townshend's solo career, making it an adequate starting point for neophytes. For dedicated fans, it's a very frustrating release -- not only is it baited with the unreleased Psychoderelict outtake "Uneasy Street" and the "E.Cola Mix" of "Let My Love Open the Door," the remixes and edits are awkward for those intimately familiar with the tracks. Which means The Best of Pete Townshend is best as a sampler, not as a definitive retrospective. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide