The Pretty Things - Latest Writs: Greatest Hits

Artist: Pretty Things
Label: Snapper
Category: Music

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

UPC: 636551562522
EAN: 0636551562522
ASIN: B00005BIIQ

The Pretty Things - Latest Writs: Greatest Hits

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Tracks:

Come See Me
Dont Bring Me Down
Defecting Grey
SF Sorrow Is Born
LSD
All Light Up
Midnight To Six Man
Remember That Boy
Rosalyn
Singapore Silk Torpedo
Old Man Going
Vivian Prince
Roadrunner
Talkin About The Good Times
Summertime
Tripping
Havana Bound
Cries From The Midnight Circus
Bitter End

Album Description

Updated 2005 collection features more tracks than on the Greatest Hits issued in the 90's. Along with The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays were the leaders of the late 80's/early 90's dance club-influenced Manchester scene. Happy Mondays were immersed in the club and rave culture, eventually becoming the most recognizable band of that drug-fuelled era. The Monday's music relied heavily on the sound and rhythm of house music, spiked with 70's soul licks and swirling 60's psychedelic sounds. Happy Mondays were one of the first rock bands to integrate hip-hop techniques into their music. They spent just a brief time in the spotlight before being undone by their addictions and collapsing in 1992, but they left behind a surprisingly influential legacy, apparent in everyone from dance bands like the Chemical Brothers to rock & rollers like Oasis. Elektra. 2005.

Album Details

2002 Digitally Remastered Greatest Hits Collection of 19 Tracks, Including One Freshly Recorded for this Disc.

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Near-impeccable introduction.......2006-03-03

Snapper Music are responsible for making available the Pretty Things back-catalogue in newly re-mastered editions with added A-sides and B-sides etc, licensed from the various labels for whom they recorded between 1964 and 1999. This was a time of shifting line-ups whose one constant was singer and lyricist Phil May. An obvious spin-off from this admirable project is this "best of" creatively compiled and sequenced non-chronologically by friend of the band Mike Stax.
The Pretty Things took their name from a Bo Diddley song and began life in 1963 as an R&B band, formed by Dick Taylor, former bass guitarist for the Rolling Stones. Their first single, Rosalyn, remains a classic piece of Bo Diddley-inspired proto-garage and began the most commercially successful part of their career when they regularly outdid the Stones in the "bad boy" image stakes. Both Rosalyn and their second 45, Don't Bring Me Down, were endorsed by David Bowie by inclusion on his Pinups album. By 1967, bored with "5 A sides, 5 B sides albums", they enthusiastically embraced the burgeoning underground movement, creating psychedelic wonders such as Defecting Grey.
This led to the concept album SF Sorrow, which allegedly inspired Pete Townshend to write Tommy. SF Sorrow was recorded at Abbey Road in the same magical time frame that had the Pink Floyd recording Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and the Beatles at work on Sgt Pepper in the adjacent studios (George's sitar was "borrowed" for the contemporary single Defecting Grey).

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