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The Pretty Things (Digipak) (CD)

By: The Pretty Things (Artist)
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DISC 1 for The Pretty Things (Digipak) (CD) Album By The Pretty Things (Artist)
1   Roadrunner
2   Judgement Day
3   13, Chester Street
4   Big City
5   Unknown Blues
6   Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
7   Honey, I Need
8   Oh Baby Doll
9   She's Fine She's Mine
10   Don't Lie To Me
11   Moon Is Rising, The
12   Pretty Thing
13   Rosalyn
14   Big Boss Man
15   Don't Bring Me Down
16   We'll Be Together
17   I Can Never Say
18   Get Yourself Home
 
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Rolling Stone (4/1/99, p.100) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...THE PRETTY THINGS packs the band's lock-up-your-daughters-and-liquor-cabinets stage charm into tightly wound Bo Diddley covers...and white R&B bullets..."
Q (10/00, p.148) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Apocalyptic R&B, Stonesy rock and Kinksy pop..."

Title Note

THE PRETTY THINGS is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files including a promotional video of "Rosalyn."

The Pretty Things: Phil May (vocals); Dick Taylor, Brian Pendleton (guitar); John Stax (bass); Viv Prince (drums).

Includes liner notes by Paul Du Noyer.

All tracks digitally remastered from the original master tapes by Mark St. John and Andy Pearce (February 1998, Masterpiece Mastering, London, England).

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

The Pretty Things: Phil May (vocals); Dick Taylor (guitar).

Raucous to the point of making their peers the Rolling Stones look tame, the Pretty Things took the emerging British blues-rock sound of the mid-1960s and injected it with a heavy dose of manic energy. Given guitarist Dick Taylor's initial musical camaraderie with classmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (Taylor was in the Stones briefly before bowing out to attend art school), it's no surprise that the lesser-known group had much in common with the soon-to-be superstars.

The Pretty Things' self-titled 1965 debut is a restless set of tunes largely made up of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry covers, with the quartet surging through a feisty take on Diddley's "Roadrunner" and a breakneck-paced rendition of Berry's "Oh Baby Doll," among others. Phil May, the group's hyperactive vocalist, makes Mick seem positively polite, while the rest of the band has clearly borrowed pages from the Keith Moon book of freewheeling musicianship. The resulting album may be too raw for some listeners, but for ardent fans of early Stones, Animals, and Kinks, THE PRETTY THINGS will be a welcome discovery.

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