The Pretty Things

Artist: The Pretty Things
Label: Original Masters UK
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 636551554824
EAN: 0636551554824
ASIN: B000006CCJ

Release Date: 1998-05-19

The Pretty Things

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Album Details

Digitally Remastered Reissue of their 1965 Album, Augmented with Six Bonus Tracks Not on the Original Edition.

Customer Reviews:

underated .......2007-04-11

If I could set the "way-back machine" grab Sherman and head back to 1965,
I would have been this band's most ardent fan.How could I have missed these guys?
What a shame that they never got their dues here in the States.
This is a fabulous release...Minor flaws aside (the out of sync tapping that mars Judgement Day) I assume it's a Micky Most type foul up of tapping the soundboard while recording.
Since I never heard the analog recording it may have been buried in the mix. But it sure sticks out like a sore thumb on this digital remaster from Snapper Music.
Also the enhanced portion of the CD is not accessable on anything beyond Windows M.E.
BUT, these are minor issues and hardly can detract from what is arguably one of the strongest L.P.s released in '65.

Gritty,loud & dangerous...hmmm...wonder why they failed to register on homoginated American radio airways of 1965?

This is worth every cent spent!
Seek it out...buy it...
and play it...
LOUD!!!

early punk at its best.......2003-09-07

Along with The Who's "My Generation" Lp from 1965 this must rank as one of the first punk albums ever. Listen to the snarling vocals of Phil May and the over amped guitars of Dick Taylor, and Brian Pendleton, the crashing drums of Viv Prince and the bass of John Stax. These guys truly made the Rolling Stones look like angels. The album is rife with hard edged takes on blues numbers as well as bonus tracks of the first couple of singles. Its raw and powerful. In my opinion the only thing that set the Pretty's apart from The Who ( who were also on the rise when this album was released) was The Who added violence to their act, something the Pretty's could have done with ease. This album should be played extremely, dangerously loud. In addition any band that dares calls themsleves punk or grunge should listen to this album, because many of them could use the lessons the Pretty's laid down.

The baddest of the bad!!!.......2002-06-20

I first saw The Pretty Things on one of the "Shindig" TV shows originating from Los Angeles in 1965. The other acts looked hip and mod; The Pretty Things looked like trouble. They went on to be virtually unnoticed in the U.S. and so they remained until the recent rebirth of interest in the band.

I acquired this album on vinyl because a friend of mine was going away to school and he wanted some extra cash so he sold this along with several other albums (including the one and only album by the now classic-and-revered proto-garage band, The Syndicate of Sound) for 50 cents each! The album had a 1/2" crack in it, but in those days you could set the edges together and the disk would still play reasonably well.

I have gotten many hours of enjoyment from this and later the follow-up second album. Their sound was as raw and raucus as their lives, The Pretty Things being everything the Stones pretended to be. I heard a rumor that they were banned from an entire continent--probably not true, but it reflects their well-earned reputation at the time. Small example: one of their songs contains the line "...if you're underage, I just don't care..." I rest my case.

I would definitely recommend this album to anyone who wants blistering, smoking blues and R&B as it was done by one of the seminal British blues bands of 1964 and to see the groundwork that was laid for those to follow.

Don't forget to turn up the volume.

A Classic!.......2002-04-05

I have the original on vinyl and it is great although it is in "electronically created stereo". If you are a lover of early Brit Invasion, early Stones then this is right up your alley. You can also find a couple of their tracks on Rhino's Nuggets 2. Good solid British Blues- Love it!

THIS Was Maximum British R and B.......2001-06-12

In college years, I had finally figured out who the Rolling Stones' real competition had been for a pull-few-punches approach to the blues, and bought a two-record set Sire had issued of the Pretty Things' first two albums (this set and "Get The Picture"). And, in 1975, this music still made Mick and the boys resemble the dandy-goes-slumming wannabes they were at heart, even if the second album showed a flirtation with semi-psychedelic sound that threatened to explode into full-fledged self-conscious indulgence, which is precisely what they went on to do - with the overrated "S.F. Sorrow," a classic case of a nice idea which didn't wring out properly in the wash and about as good a way to flatten your rep as you could ask for when you haven't got a clue that you were already more than what you thought yourself to have been.

I lost a lot of albums over the years, including that Sire set, and despaired for ever stumbling over those first two Things albums, until now. ("Get The Picture" is also out and about again.) But here's the proof that the Pretty Things (who were formed in the first place by a former Stone - Dick Taylor, who'd been the Stones' bassist, before yielding to Bill Wyman so he could finish art college, then switched to lead guitar and rounded up this bunch) had one hell of a case for having been about the most dangerous blues group England would yield up in the mid-1960s. They might have had a particular addiction to Bo Diddley - material and predominant rhythm style being Exhibits A and B - but they seemed smart enough to know when to give it a break in favour of some other choice meats, and they mostly played as though they couldn't have cared less for anything much beyond the core of the music and throwing it not just in your face but through it. Which is precisely why "The Pretty Things" holds up just as well as and gets more deadly than their more obvious contemporaries of R and B raunch (the earliest Stones, the Yardbirds, Them, the Animals and company, even the Who).

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