Pete Townshend - All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes

If Empty Glass, an album filled with songs that could have been performed by The Who, was a solo album because it was too revealing and personal, All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes was a solo record since it's impossible to hear anyone but Townshend wanting to indulge in this deliberately arty, awkwardly poetic bullsh*t. Where his other albums showed an inclination toward classical-influenced art rock, this is defiantly modern art, filled with stagey prose, synthesizers, drum machines, angular song structures, and a heavy debt to new wave -- in short, Townshend's vision of what modern music should sound like in 1982. Read More