Get the Picture?

Get the Picture? Artist: The Pretty Things
Label: Original Masters UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 636551554923
EAN: 0636551554923
ASIN: B000006PYS


Release Date: 1998-06-09

Get the Picture?


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Tracks:

  1. You Don't Believe Me
  2. Buzz The Jerk
  3. Get The Picture?
  4. Can't Stand The Pain
  5. Rainin' In My Heart
  6. We'll Play House
  7. You'll Never Do It Baby
  8. I Had A Dream
  9. I Want Your Love
  10. London Town
  11. Cry To Me
  12. Gonna Find Me A Substitute
  13. Get A Buzz
  14. Sittin' All Alone
  15. Midnight To Six Man
  16. Me Needing You
  17. Come See Me
  18. L.S.D.

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Album Details

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

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The Last of the Real Pretty Things.......2001-06-12

I docked this one a star, taken on its own (see my review of "The Pretty Things" for comments on these two albums as a single-set issue in 1975), only because the material isn't quite the equal of their first album selections. But there's nothing wrong with the delivery by any means; in places, it's a little more scabrous than the first album, which is saying something if you've heard how raw that set was (and remains). Throw in a few traces of a nascent but smartly controlled and contextually appropriate psychedelia, and you've got the last of the real Pretty Things in your hands with this set, from Phil May's howling vocals to Dick Taylor's scratchy, blues-drenched guitar, to the splattering breastbone punch of the rhythm section. What came next should have been considered a punishable crime: the band shifted personnel and direction, taking the full dive into the psychedelic waters and going a few fathoms beyond to what would soon enough be called "prog rock". ("S.F. Sorrow" might have been thought daring in 1967 but, today, all it seems is an exercise in self-consciousness which probably began as an intriguing idea. If you can imagine, say, Nolan Ryan in prime heat shifting gears from power pitcher to junkballer, you have an excellent idea of just how drastically - and ill-advisedly, in the long run - the Pretties shifted gears.) Get the picture?

5 out of 5 stars Pretty Things at Their Peak.......2001-03-09

If you remember how much of a stink the Rolling Stones created in the U.S. in 1964 and 1965, you will be amazed at the Pretty Things. Their music is propelled by Dick Taylor's busy amphetamine-driven guitar, Phil May's slobberingly exaggerated vocals (surely the daddy of all heavy metal singers) and Viv Prince's similarly unrestrained drumming (Prince has the distinction of being kicked out of the Hell's Angels for being too wild). And all of it is recorded in a gloriously slapdash murk that would have done Lou Reed or Iggy Pop proud.

This collection shows the band at that all-too-brief moment when they had sufficiently honed their skills to author a batch of excellent original songs including their two most classic singles "Come See Me" and "Midnight to Six Man," just prior to the beginning of the fatal personnel changes that turned the group into a much less engaging psychedelic outfit.

If you savour albums such as "The Who Sings My Generation," then this release is for you.

4 out of 5 stars The "Alphaville" of British r+b.......2000-08-24

I have to admit being slightly disappointed by this cd. I had expected utter greatness and found only sporadic greatness. Still it is a classic bit of dirty r+b, with suitably raunchy guitar and at times lyrics worthy of the soundscapes. My favorite song would have to be "Can't Stand the Pain", which has the late night fractured feel one expects from the best of this genre. Excellent bonus cuts, including the thrown off but fascinating "L.S.D." There is also some archival footage for your computer, that reminds one that however strong the music they were slightly challenged in the charismatic singer category (which may explain why they weren't as big as they surely should have been). Well worth a purchase, though I still prefer SF Sorrow...

4 out of 5 stars

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