℗ 2016 Eel-Pie Recording Productions Ltd.
| Released | April 21, 1980 |
| Duration | 40m 03s |
| Record Label | UMe |
| Genre | Rock |
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1.1
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Rough Boys
Pete Townshend |
4:03 | |||
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1.2
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I Am An Animal
Pete Townshend |
3:48 | |||
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1.3
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And I Moved
Pete Townshend |
3:23 | |||
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1.4
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Let My Love Open The Door
Pete Townshend |
2:45 | |||
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1.5
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Jools And Jim
Pete Townshend |
2:37 | |||
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1.6
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Keep On Working
Pete Townshend |
3:24 | |||
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1.7
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Cat's In The Cupboard
Pete Townshend |
3:34 | |||
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1.8
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A Little Is Enough
Pete Townshend |
4:43 | |||
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1.9
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Empty Glass
Pete Townshend |
5:23 | |||
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1.10
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Gonna Get Ya
Pete Townshend |
6:23 |
Billboard 200 - #5, 1980
UK Albums Chart - #11, 1980
Billboard Hot 100 - #9, 1980 - Let My Love Open The Door
UK Singles Chart - #39, 1980 - Rough Boys
"... initiated an adult style of songwriting that helped reenergize the singer-songwriter tradition in the '80s ... Townshend's ambivalent obsession with punk dominates both the lyrics and the music ... the album was raw, muscular and focused in a way The Who never would be again."
- Rolling Stone
"Empty Glass is confident, accomplished and lyrically as personal as anything Townshend has done ... Townshend’s songwriting makes the best of Empty Glass more than worthwhile. The hit single Let My Love Open The Door is just a great, unabashed love song and pop song ... his simple yet naked emotion is sincere, a notion that comes through in his overdubbed, barbershop quartet-style backing vocals and the song’s charming, three chord arrangement."
- PopMatters.com
Pete Townshend's most successful solo album, Empty Glass peaked at number five in the US and yielded the top 10 single Let My Love Open The Door. Co-produced by Chris Thomas, hot from his recent work with the Pretenders, Paul McCartney and the Sex Pistols, Empty Glass was ranked at number 57 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best albums of the 1980s.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – UMe Studio Masters
This album is a high-resolution digital transfer of material originating from an analogue recording. It may contain noise, distortion or other artifacts, and may also contain audio which is limited in bandwidth and dynamic range, due to the technology available at the time of its original creation. As such, it is offered as a high-resolution documentation of a historical release.
This album is a high-resolution digital transfer of material originating from an analogue recording. It may contain noise, distortion or other artifacts, and may also contain audio which is limited in bandwidth and dynamic range, due to the technology available at the time of its original creation. As such, it is offered as a high-resolution documentation of a historical release.
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | 0.00 0.00 to 0.00 | -11.86 -13.29 to -10.20 | -9.02 -11.10 to -7.30 | 7 6 to 8 | |
| 1 | Rough Boys | 0.00 | -10.20 | -7.3 | 6 |
| 2 | I Am An Animal | 0.00 | -13.29 | -11.1 | 8 |
| 3 | And I Moved | 0.00 | -12.73 | -10.4 | 8 |
| 4 | Let My Love Open The Door | 0.00 | -12.22 | -9.2 | 7 |
| 5 | Jools And Jim | 0.00 | -11.04 | -7.9 | 7 |
| 6 | Keep On Working | 0.00 | -11.37 | -8.8 | 7 |
| 7 | Cat's In The Cupboard | 0.00 | -11.25 | -8.2 | 7 |
| 8 | A Little Is Enough | 0.00 | -12.31 | -8.8 | 7 |
| 9 | Empty Glass | 0.00 | -13.20 | -10.1 | 8 |
| 10 | Gonna Get Ya | 0.00 | -10.99 | -8.4 | 6 |