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▐▓▌▐█▌ Artist : The Pretty Things ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▀▄██ Album : The Psychedelic Years 1966-1970 ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Label : Recall Records ▐███▄
▀███▌ Genre : Psychedelic Rock ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street date : 2002-02-02 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 170 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : Lame 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 153.76MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 118:48min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=236 ███▄▓
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█▓▌ 1. Scene One 1:51 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 2. She Says Good Morning (Live '69) 3:44 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 3. Talkin' About The Good Times 3:44 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 4. L.S.D. 2:27 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 5. Old Man Going 3:09 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 6. My Time 3:09 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 7. SF Sorrow Is Born 3:14 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 8. Trust 2:46 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 9. October 26 4:57 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 10. There Will Never Be Another Day 2:28 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 11. Mr Evasion 3:31 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 12. Death 3:09 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 13. Can't Stand The Pain 2:41 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 14. The Journey 2:43 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 15. I See You (Live, Abbey Road) 6:11 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 16. Well Of Destiny (Live, Abbey Road) 2:49 ▐▓█
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█▓▌ 2. In The Square\The Letter\Rain 6:02 ▐▓█
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█▓▌ 4. Bracelets Of Fingers 3:40 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 5. Growing In My Mind 2:20 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 6. Baron Saturday (Live, Abbey Road) 4:43 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 7. She's A Lover 3:29 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 8. Bright Lights Of The City 3:03 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 9. Blue Serge Blues 3:53 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 10. Children (Alternate Version) 3:02 ▐▓█
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█▓▌ 12. Private Sorrow 3:50 ▐▓█
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█▓▌ 15. Grass 4:21 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 16. What's The Use 1:45 ▐▓█
█▓▌ 17. Parachute 3:50 ▐▓█
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▐▓▌▐█▌ After a few years of outdoing the Rolling Stones at their own ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ game, Messrs. May and Co., clearly affected by their love of ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ swinging London nightlife and all that went with it, injected ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ their primal R&B roots with added spice (as Mike Stax, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ "numero uno Los Pretty Things fan," points out in his ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ excellent liner notes). "Can't Stand the Pain" (from the 1965 ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Get The Picture album) has "a remarkably effective mood with ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ a sense of a dreamy disembodiment that foreshadows what was ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ yet to come with the arrival of psychedelia." By April 1966, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ B-side "LSD," yet another controversial shot in the Pretty ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Things' canon, helped pioneer the "freakbeat" sound, whilst ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the media's attacks on the Pretties slack, druggy values were ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ foremost to the changing times -- in fact, the record was a ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ play on words about the English economy and not a celebration ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ of the merits of LSD usage. However, the band was clearly ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ well-aware of LSD and its effects, and over the coming months ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ further musical explorations that were to steer the band away ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ from their earlier tough R&B sound were to occur. After the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ rather well-thought inclusion of these two late 1965 and ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ early 1966 tracks, the rest of this double CD focuses on ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ output that was recorded across the 1967 to 1970 psychedelic ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ era. Cuts from the much maligned Emotions album, released in ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ May 1967, take on a new edge when singled out from the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ album's far from psychedelic brassy pop numbers. The visceral ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ "There Will Never Be Another Day" chronicles an LSD trip, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ whilst "The Sun" and "Growing in My Mind" show a far more ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ introspective side well suited to the floral times. A primer ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ for this set is an earlier take of "Children," which crackles ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ with raga guitar in an altogether less commercial manner than ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the album version. Although somewhat of an albatross around ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the band's neck, when intermingled with their psychedelically ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ charged later material, the chosen cuts from Emotions ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ certainly indicate the direction they were intending to take. ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ The pre-S.F. Sorrow November 1967 single "Defecting Grey" was ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the pinnacle of not only the Pretty Things' experimentation ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ with psychedelia, but one of the finest examples of British ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ psychedelia. A cacophony of fuzz guitar, trippy lyrics, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ fairground organ, and sitar, with numerous twists and turns ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ in tempo, mood, and thematics. Like an acid trip, "Defecting ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Grey" was a rollercoaster of a ride that was fun, disturbing, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ and overall invigorating. At last the band had conquered ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ psychedelia. Although they would never match its lysergic ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ quality again, the Pretties were now a bona fide "underground ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ freak band." After a following single ("Talkin' About the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Good Times"/"Walking Through My Dreams") that utilized the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ heady sounds of the Mellotron, the psychedelic instrument ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ that was second only to the sitar, the band soon unleashed ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the song cycle that they had been working on over the past ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ months. S.F. Sorrow displayed the darker, more theatric side ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ of psychedelia. Based on a short story written by Phil May, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the album shifts moods and textures, making great usage of ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Norman Smith's production techniques at the Abbey Road ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ studios. On this set, the selected album cuts are taken out ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ of their original context, but as Stax notes, work superbly ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ as songs on there own accord. (Also included on this CD are ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ three tracks that were recorded for the September 1998 ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ internet webcast of S.F. Sorrow. These are proof that the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ band still has it, even 30 years on.) And as if a cohesive ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ compilation of the band's psychedelic era wasn't enough, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Snapper unleashed two previously unreleased live cuts that ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ were recorded in Amsterdam in March 1969. "Alexander" was ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ previously recorded for the DeWolfe Music Library as extra ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ income for the non-hitmakers and was featured in the swinging ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ '60s Norman Wisdom farce What's Good for the Goose, where the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Pretties mimed to it in all of their hippy glory. Live, they ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ attack the song with psych-punk venom, along with an equally ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ powerful version of "She Says Good Morning" from the same ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ concert. (These two searing examples of the band at the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ height of their acid-tinged period warrant purchase for those ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ who have every other cut.) Although psychedelia was becoming ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ passΘ and heavy blues-rock and progressive rock the norm, the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ September 1970 album Parachute continued in a similar vein to ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ its predecessor, although without such an evident acid edge. ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ In essence, it is to S.F. Sorrow what the White Album was to ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Sgt. Pepper's -- further Beatles' comparisons may also be ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ drawn from May, Waller, and Povey's mastery of three-part ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ harmony vocals. Of course, Parachute was smoother and at ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ times far more heavy than the band's 1967 psychedelic ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ explosion "Defecting Grey," but like many other bands in ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ 1970, the Pretties had not entirely shaken off their ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ psychedelic manacles. By November 1970, the superb Wally ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Waller-sung single "October 26" ended the Pretties' ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ involvement with psychedelia. Not only does this set neatly ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ draw together nearly five years' worth of the Pretties most ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ exciting era; it is also very refreshing for the fact that it ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ does not chronologically arrange the track listing. A far ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ more interesting listening experience is to be had hearing ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ the songs in this context than playing Emotions, S.F. Sorrow, ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ and Parachute in succession. Rather than focusing on the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ progression from R&B through to late '60s rock and the ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ lysergic path that that musical journey took, this set solely ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ focuses on the songs. And the sadly neglected Pretty Things ▐█▌▐▓▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ certainly had a bastion of those. Superb. ▐█▌▐▓▌
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