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Track listing: 1. \"Stop Hurting People\" - The song was performed live by the Deep End with Pete Townshend and released on the 1986 live album, Deep End Live!. 2. \"The Sea Refuses No River\" - With its distinctive harmonica riff, played by Peter Hope-Evans, and poetic lyrics, the song was inspired by the teachings of Townshend\'s mentor, Meher Baba. The theme of water crops up periodically in the Meher\'s prayers, and Townshend had written several Who songs based around this theme. The brass arrangement on this song was by Ann Odell. 3. \"Prelude\" - The song was written with Andy Newman, formerly of Thunderclap Newman (whom Pete had produced their 1970 No. 1 single, \"Something In The Air\") who provided the orchestration arrangement. Overall, \"Prelude\" serves as a brief orchestral link into the next song. 4. \"Face Dances, Pt. 2\" - Contrary to popular belief, it was not written or submitted for The Who\'s 1981 album, Face Dances, but was actually written after the sessions for that album had been completed. Townshend was apparently inspired to write the first verse by a woman at a party who was flicking a matchstick between her teeth with her tongue, prompting him to say, \"Face dances\". 5. \"Exquisitely Bored\" - The song was written by Townshend during his stay in California for drug rehabilitation and was recently revealed that it may have been submitted for The Who\'s 1982 album, It\'s Hard. 6. \"Communication\" - Seemingly written about the deterioration of communication between people (the inarticulate lines \"Comma, commi, commu, communi\" reinforce this, and are similar to Roger Daltrey\'s stuttered lines from The Who\'s 1965 single, \"My Generation\") while also marrying poetry with rock, the song is propelled by the explosive drumming of Simon Phillips. Also of interest is the fact that it shares the same structural rhythmic hook as \"Cry If You Want\" from The Who\'s It\'s Hard LP. 7. \"Stardom in Acton\" - Sometimes mistakenly called \"Stardom in Action\", the song title actually refers to Acton, London, where Townshend (along with John Entwistle and Roger Daltrey) were born in the 1940s. 8. \"Uniforms (Corp d\'Esprit)\" - The song was released as the first single from the album and continues Townshend\'s explorations in synthesizer experiments, while its lyrics are somewhat conventional and are about the act of conforming to the latest fashions and trends of the day. 9. \"North Country Girl\" - This is the only cover song on the album. The most well-known version was covered by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash on Dylan\'s 1969 album, Nashville Skyline, while Pete\'s version stays close to that version and is the only track on this album to feature a prominent acoustic guitar (instead of a synthesizer or electric guitar as the main instrument). 10. \"Somebody Saved Me\" - The song was originally submitted for The Who\'s Face Dances, but was ultimately left unreleased. The original version was taken at a slower pace and is far more personal-sounding than on this album; this was released on the 1997 CD reissue of Face Dances. \"Somebody Saved Me\" seems to be about Townshend\'s well-publicized descent into self-destructive behavior following the death of Keith Moon in 1978, and makes several allusions to his fallen friend (\"And when I finally woke up clean, my friend was dead / Stone dead\"). 11. \"Slit Skirts\" - One of the most personal and autobiographical songs that Townshend ever wrote, \"Slit Skirts\" seems to be about trying to impress an unobtainable woman during Townshend\'s self-destructive phase of the late 1970s and early 1980s. | |
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