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| 1. Scene One | |||
| 2. The Good Mr Square | |||
| 3. She Was Tall, She Was High | |||
| 4. In The Square | |||
| 5. The Letter | |||
| 6. Rain | |||
| 7. Miss Fay Regrets | |||
| 8. Cries From The Midnight Circus | |||
| 9. Grass | |||
| 10. Sickle Clowns | |||
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| 1. Blue Serge Blues | |||
| 2. Oct-26 | |||
| 3. Cold Stone | |||
| 4. Stone-Hearted Mama | |||
| 5. Summertime | |||
| 6. Circus Mind | |||
| 7. Scene One | |||
| 8. In The Square / The Letter / Rain | |||
| 9. Cries From The Midnight Circus | |||
| 10. Grass | |||
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DELUXE 40TH ANNIVERSARY 2CD EDITION OF THE CLASSIC ALBUM. ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR 1970 - REMASTERED WITH BONUS AND NEW TRACKS The Pretty Things created some of the most exciting and innovative records of the late sixties and early seventies. Last year the band were awarded the Hero award at the Mojo Honours and the band have been name checked over the years by an array of artists ranging from The Clash, David Bowie and Aerosmith through to The Libertines and Kasabian. Following the now legendary and critically acclaimed SF Sorrow, the psychedelic classic released in 1968, the band returned to Abbey Road and started work on Parachute. The album was released in 1970 and was named Rolling Stone’s album of the year ahead of Let It Be by The Beatles, Morrison Hotel by The Doors, After the Gold Rush by Neil Young, Moondance by Van Morrison, and Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother and Led Zeppelin III. This special limited deluxe 40th edition of the album is a 2CD set in rigid digibook packaging with re-worked art work and new liner notes written by the respected journalist Pierre Perrone. Disc 1 features the original album while the second CD collects the A and B sides from a number of singles released around Parachute alongside acoustic reinterpretations of tracks from the album recorded recently for this set.
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2010 remastered 40th anniversary 2CD edition of overlooked 1970 follow-up to SF Sorrow. CD 2 feat A and B sides from a number of singles released around Parachute plus acoustic reinterpretations of tracks from the album recorded recently for this set
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Although i've been listening to many types of music since the mid 60's i never really new much about the pretty things apart from a couple of tracks from sampler albums and must say what a brilliant cd this is.there are likenesses to the beatles & stones although after listening every day for fortnight i never tire of listening especially in the car, stand out tracks are; well there are too many to mention just buy for yourself you won't be dissapointed.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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40 years on and the Pretty Things are still grossly underrated and hardly well known especially in the UK.
Why should they be well known because they made one of the first concept albums `SF Sorrow' also available on Amazon? In Dick Taylor they contained an Ex rolling stone, in `Parachute' they had the only Rolling Stone Magazine Album of the year not to sell a Million copies, their next few albums (`Freeway Madness', `Silk Torpedo' and `Savage Eye') were original on Led Zeppelins Swan song label. In Phil May they have one of rock music great blues voices, and no matter what the line up was they were always very good musicians, step forward Wally Waller Peter Tolson, Jon Povey, Skip Allen and many more over the years.
To this album 40 years old and their first and Last on the Harvest records label. The music is blues based rock with plesent MOR twist possibly pushing progressive, but always blues based rock.
The album opens with `Scene One' a place setter for the first great song the `Good Mr Square', later in te album we have the wham bang crash trilogy of In the square/The Letter/Rain which highlights the other great thing about the Pretty things at this time the Vocal harmonies at times beach Boys like. On wards we go past `Cries from the Midnight Circus' , `Grass' More harmonies on `She's a Lover' finishing in great style with `What's the Use' and `Parachute'. As good a 40 minutes of music as you could expect from any band.
The 40th Anniversary digi-pack brings a second disc of music, the first 6 being commonly available and contemporary Singles and B-side's to singles at the time of the albums release. Then on to the best bit acoustic versions of seven songs from the album, stripped back these sound just as good as the album versions and again highlight the great harmonies this band can do.
A great end to the 60s indeed and a great re-issue please buy this album, if you like great music and a hard luck story, maybe one day the Pretty Things will be recognised as one of England's finest bands.
Why should they be well known because they made one of the first concept albums `SF Sorrow' also available on Amazon? In Dick Taylor they contained an Ex rolling stone, in `Parachute' they had the only Rolling Stone Magazine Album of the year not to sell a Million copies, their next few albums (`Freeway Madness', `Silk Torpedo' and `Savage Eye') were original on Led Zeppelins Swan song label. In Phil May they have one of rock music great blues voices, and no matter what the line up was they were always very good musicians, step forward Wally Waller Peter Tolson, Jon Povey, Skip Allen and many more over the years.
To this album 40 years old and their first and Last on the Harvest records label. The music is blues based rock with plesent MOR twist possibly pushing progressive, but always blues based rock.
The album opens with `Scene One' a place setter for the first great song the `Good Mr Square', later in te album we have the wham bang crash trilogy of In the square/The Letter/Rain which highlights the other great thing about the Pretty things at this time the Vocal harmonies at times beach Boys like. On wards we go past `Cries from the Midnight Circus' , `Grass' More harmonies on `She's a Lover' finishing in great style with `What's the Use' and `Parachute'. As good a 40 minutes of music as you could expect from any band.
The 40th Anniversary digi-pack brings a second disc of music, the first 6 being commonly available and contemporary Singles and B-side's to singles at the time of the albums release. Then on to the best bit acoustic versions of seven songs from the album, stripped back these sound just as good as the album versions and again highlight the great harmonies this band can do.
A great end to the 60s indeed and a great re-issue please buy this album, if you like great music and a hard luck story, maybe one day the Pretty Things will be recognised as one of England's finest bands.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The unlukiest band ever? Pete Townsend gets credited with "inventing" the rock opera with Tommy (an album I love by the way) when this lot got there first with SF Sorrow (with many similar themes). This album is more wistful and "English" and as other reviewers have pointed out has Beatles influences all over it. But there are other forces at work here. Early Pink Floyd, Procul Harem and indeed the Who all permeate this album but the real plus point is that all these influences are mingled into a coherent and imaginative whole, mainly through the lyrical content which is very "of its time" but strangely not dated in any way. Yes it sounds as though it is a late 60s early seventies album, but that is exactly what it is (obviously!), an album of its time which has stood the test of time and would tickle the fancy of fans of the likes of the Flaming lips.
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best band ever.
this is one of the best albums ever made.my fave band of all time.shame the prettys dont get airplay they should have had chart time for all there music. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ian Caldwell
the pretty things Parachute
I'm not normally a pretty things person,I enjoyed it I'm now waiting for their new one .Which is in the making as we speak. Read more
Published 18 months ago by jasperstone 2010
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