''The Best of Pete Townshend'' (sometimes listed with the subtitle '' oolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking', after a lyric from the song "Misunderstood" which is printed on the front cover) is a compilation album by

Pete Townshend Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Townsh ...

released in 1996. It was released in the UK on the Virgin label, and the US on Atlantic.TheWhonet
/ref> The compilation included songs from Pete Townshend's solo career as well as two songs from the album

Rough Mix ''Rough Mix'' is an album by the Who's guitarist Pete Townshend and former Small Faces and Faces bassist Ronnie Lane. The album was released in September 1977 as Polydor 2442 in the UK and MCA 2295 in the US. It peaked at number 44 on the UK a ...

with

Ronnie Lane Ronald Frederick Lane (1 April 1946 – 4 June 1997) was an English musician and songwriter who is best known as the bass guitarist and founding member of Small Faces (1965–69) and subsequently Faces (1969–73). Lane formed Small Faces in ...

. It also included the single edit of English Boy" and the first appearance of "

Let My Love Open the Door "Let My Love Open the Door" is a song written and performed by Pete Townshend from his 1980 album '' Empty Glass''. That year, it reached number nine on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It peaked at number five on ''RPMs Top 100 singles chart. Bac ...

(E. Cola Mix)" and the

Psychoderelict ''Psychoderelict'' is a concept album written, produced and engineered by Pete Townshend. Some characters and issues presented in this work were continued in Townshend's later opus ''The Boy Who Heard Music'', first presented on The Who's album ...

outtake, "Uneasy Street".

Track listing

Rough Boys "Rough Boys" is the debut solo single written and performed by English musician Pete Townshend, released in 1980 from his second solo album '' Empty Glass''. Known for its homoerotic lyrics, the song was a minor chart hit in both the United Kingdo ...

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" #"Misunderstood" #"Give Blood" #"A Friend Is a Friend" #"Sheraton Gibson" #" English Boy" on-dialog version#"Street in the City" #"

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" #"Slit Skirts" #"The Sea Refuses No River" #"A Little Is Enough" #"Face the Face" #"Uneasy Street" #"

(E. Cola Mix)"

References

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