Track Listing

1. Pure and Easy
2. Evolution
3. Forever's No Time at All
4. Let's See Action
5. Time Is Passing
6. Heartache
7. Sheraton Gibson
8. Content
9. Parvardigar
10. His Hands [*]
11. Seeker [*]
12. Day of Silence [*]
13. Sleeping Dog [*]
14. Love Man [*]
15. Lantern Cabin [*][Instrumental]
16. Mary Jane [*]
17. I Always Say [*]
18. Begin the Beguine [*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22831 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
This Japanese pressing is part of a Pete Townsend miniature LP sleeve CD release series that has been fully remastered. Imperial. 2006.

Customer Reviews

WHO CAME NOW ?
And now yet another release of Pete Townshend's " Who Came First "... First on these shores in 1972, released on Compact Disc in the Mid-Eighties and a Limited Edition Deluxe Package released in 1992. Well, here we go again in 2006.

As it is Great to see " Who Came First " back for sale at a reasonable price with a Tiny Improvement in Sound Quality. The Ulitimate Deluxe CD is STILL the 1992 RYKODISC version as it tops this Edition for Bigger & Better Packaging of the Material. That Edition included a 64 Page Booklet in a Hard-Shell Book Casing that is really nice and it INCLUDES Pete's Rolling Stone Essay from November 1970 " In Love With Meher Baba " that is NOT a part of this Package.

That said this Edition has upped the amount of Bonus Tracks to NINE in addition to the Original Nine Tracks of the 1972 Version... Now we have 73 minutes of Music ( the first 6 Bonus Cuts are included on the 1992 Deluxe Edition ) and that alone is enough for Who-Freaks to shell out their Money one more time. The uncovered Tracks are "Mary Jane", "I Always Say" & "Begin The Beguine". Well, Firstly you can already find "Beguine" as part of Pete's "SCOOP" series so this is already out there elsewhere so it don't count as anything new, so we are down to 2 Tracks we haven't heard before, "Mary Jane" is a wierd little ditty with very strange - computer altered acoustic guitar and heartfelt singing from Pete. "I Always Say" gives Pete the chance to sing Da Blooze in a Mersybeat Style, both Tracks have Escaped the Bootleggers, so they are both are released for the Very First Time.

We all know and Love the Original Version (That included a Beautiful Painting as Poster by Mike McInnerny) that has NOT been included in the Package since the LP of 1972. And the Fantastic songs: "Pure & Easy", "Let's See Action", "Time Is Passing", "Sheraton Gibson" & "Parvardigar" . The Demo Version of "The Seeker" and the Wonderful tune "Sleeping Dog" are also worth notice.

This is a 5 STAR Release but I Have to subtract 1 Star for INCOMPLETE PACKAGING !!! Next time do this RIGHT and include the Beautiful Poster and bring the Booklet back up to at LEAST 64 Pages. This is NOT as DELUXE as it should be.... JAI PETE !

Pete steps out and into the limelight for the first time as "solo" artist
"Who Came First" features some terrific material that Pete wrote for the Lifehouse project (and that eventually ended up being released by The Who as well)along with originals written for this album and a guest appearence by the late great Ronnie Lane from the Faces. It's a terrific album that more than holds its own with later Townshend solo masterpieces (such as the more aggressive sounding rockin' album "Empty Glass"). The bonus tracks includes the acoustic "Sleeping Dogs" and "Mary Jane" with its banjo playing give the album a diverse sound. Some of these were on the earlier Ryko disc but, if I recall, the three bonus tracks at the end "Mary Jane", "I Always Say" and a re-recording of the standard "Begin the Beuine" round out this terrific re-release.

From the opening track "Pure and Easy" (which somehow sounds more personal and intimate when Pete sings it and the same can be said for "Let's See Action" although I prefer the Who version)through to "Time Is Passing" and re-recordings of "The Seeker" just about every track is a strong one.

Hip-O has done a great service for Townshend and Who fans by making this available again (with some terrific bonus tracks no less expanding on the original release)after Ryko's CD went out of print. The remastering sounds extremely good on this edition and the price is just right for fans.

Highly recommended.

The Who Unplugged
I can't say my opinion is unbiased about this music. As others have already said, I too bought this album when it first appeared on vinyl and have listened to it pretty much ever since. In short it is group of excellent Pete Townshend songs in what might be considered a more intimate setting... as there are no Marshall amps stacked here. Somewhere long ago, I read that some of these recordings evolved from tapes Pete would make as demos for The Who. These songs are all very personal, heartfelt, down to Earth and well conceived efforts that --as a Who fan right from their beginnings-- touched me the first time I heard them. Now all these years later, the same still holds true.

It was a thrill to find this music released as a CD and also very satisfying to discover that the additional material "enhancing" the album does exactly that. The bonus tracks are a very suitable fit with the original "Who Came First" and not just dredged up fluff to bulk up this re-release.