Freeway Madness

Freeway Madness Artist: The Pretty Things
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075992454926
EAN: 0075992454926
ASIN: B000002L20


Release Date: 1994-10-25

Freeway Madness


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Tracks:

  1. Love Is Good
  2. Havana Bound
  3. Peter
  4. Rip Off Train
  5. Over the Moon
  6. Religion's Dead
  7. Country Road
  8. Allnight Sailor
  9. Onion Soup
  10. Another Bowl?

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Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Pretty Things Enter the 70s.......2004-07-05

More than two years had gone since Pretty Things released their previous album, the highly acclaimed "Parachute". In the meantime there had been a split-up, a change of label, Peter Tolson was new on guitar and Stuart Brooks had replaced Wally Allen, who still contributed in producing the "new" album.

Whereas "Parachute" had been greatly inspired by the Beatles, "Freeway Madness" is much more a progressive 1970`s album - a change they persecuted with the next two albums "Silk Torpedo" and "Savage Eye"

The album sets off quietly with "Love is Good". With "Havana Bound" they enter the main-stream hard-rocking sound of the seventies. Both opening tracks have been added in fine live performances as bonus-tracks.

Peter Tolson`s autobiographical "Peter" is a great acoustic song, which has been put togethe "Over the Moon" is for me the outstanding track; fine melody and great vocals.

Second half of the album has its highlight in the uplifting "Country Road" .

The four live-tracks are great additions to a solid album.

4 out of 5 stars A prog rocker should have........2003-03-16

Yep, the moments of impressive skills here are too many to be neglected. A well produced rock album ranging from hard to soft. Maybe i choose song #1 as the favourite. The young guitarist Peter Tolsen (b.51) was indeed a gifted player with a clear tonal range, steady bending and a solid blues rock bottom with
musicality.
(The car seen on the album was actually David Gilmour's car! (guitarist of Pink Floyd) ).

4 out of 5 stars Freeway Madness ****.......2002-01-05

Yes this is not the Pretty Things best album. Yes It is not unlike other albums of its time. But This is one of the bands key pieces that shows how after spending about a year in the next studio from the Beatles that the band had absorbed their influences and perhaps had more successfully than any other band of this era combined the biting style of the Stones with the vocazl harmonic stylizations of the Beatles. At least one side of this album is great as a whole. The other side gets a little too much out there which is why it is not a *****. This is a band that has a catalog of 30 albums which are for the mostpart great albums. Not a stinker in the batch. Freeway Madness certainly is a fine moment!

3 out of 5 stars

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  2. Twilight Home
  3. The Skill ~ The Sherbs
  4. Give a Try
  5. Strange Foreign Beauty ~ Michael Learns to Rock
  6. Destination
  7. Live Your Life ~ Kinetic
  8. Outlaws ~ 'Spotnicks
  9. Who'll Be the One ~ The Easybeats
  10. Heaven & Hell ~ The Easybeats

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Piping Centre: Third Recital Series, Vol. 1 ~ Brian Lamond, Richard Parkes

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