The Pretty Things - The Rhythm & Blues Years (2 CD)

Album: The Rhythm & Blues Years
Size: 115,7 + 109,8 MB
Time: 49:37 + 47:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2001
Styles: R&B/Rock
Art: Full

CD 1:
1. Judgement Day (2:48)
2. The Moon Is Rising (2:33)
3. I'm Gonna Find Me A Substitute (2:58)
4. 13 Chester Street (2:21)
5. Oh Baby Doll (3:02)
6. Get A Buzz (4:01)
7. Don't Bring Me Down (2:11)
8. Sittin' All Alone (2:48)
9. You'll Never Do It Baby (2:27)
10. Come See Me (2:40)
11. Rosalyn (2:21)
12. She's Fine, She's Mine (4:24)
13. I Can Never Say (2:37)
14. Get Yourself Home (2:16)
15. I Had A Dream (2:59)
16. Me Needing You (1:58)
17. It's Been So Long (5:06)

CD 2:
1. Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut (3:04)
2. Rainin' In My Heart (2:31)
3. Big Boss Man (2:39)
4. Unknown Blues (3:48)
5. We'll Play House (2:33)
6. Don't Lie To Me (3:53)
7. I Want Your Love (2:17)
8. Roadrunner (3:12)
9. We'll Be Together (2:11)
10. Honey I Need (1:59)
11. Cry To Me (2:52)
12. Buzz The Jerk (1:55)
13. Big City (2:02)
14. London Town (2:27)
15. Out In The Night (2:41)
16. Vivian Prince (5:14)
17. Pretty Thing (1:39)

Before the Pretty Things began dabbling with psychedelia in the late '60s, they were primarily a R&B-influenced rock band. The double-disc, 34-track The Rhythm & Blues Years collection compiles the work from that early era in the band's history. Featured songs include the group's biggest hit from the time, "Don't Bring Me Down," along with less-remembered songs like "Honey, I Need," "Judgement Day," "The Moon Is Rising," "I'm Gonna Find Me Substitute," "13 Chester Street," "Oh Baby Doll," "Get a Buzz," and many more. Overall, this is a great one-stop collection for anyone interested in the group's more-anchored and less-heady work. /Jason Birchmeier, AllMusic

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The Pretty Things - The Sweet Pretty Things (are in bed now, of course.)

Released: 2015
Size: 84.5 MB
Time: 36:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Rock
Art: Full

1. The Same Sun [3:25]
2. And I Do [3:33]
3. Renaissance Fair [1:54]
4. You Took Me By Surprise [2:35]
5. Turn My Head [3:42]
6. Dark Days [4:41]
7. Greenwood Tree [4:18]
8. Hell, Here and Nowhere [4:57]
9. In The Soukh [2:31]
10. Dirty Song [5:12]

Ok, I have to admit to a ‘moment’ before I cued up the new album by The Pretty Things. It is over seven years since ‘Balboa Island’ (in my opinion one of the best albums of the century so far) and Phil May has had a near-death experience recently, you also have to bear in mind that they have been around since 1963 and no-one could say they have taken (or had) it easy in all that time.

So, tremble passes and I hit the play button and I am immediately knocked to the back of the room by a sound that is so vital, so fresh and so immediate that I can scarcely believe it – hot damn, this is good!

The sound of the Pretty Things was always hard boogie with more than a touch of psychedelia – they started out devoted to Bo Diddly and along the way were always the band that had the attitude and the heart that the Rolling Stones aspired to but never quite reached (guitarist Dick Taylor was actually the Stones original bassist but left in ’61 and he and vocalist Phil May hooked up in the early part of 1962).

May and Taylor are the only original members left but they have added young Jack Greenwood on drums and George Woosey on bass and rhythm guitar alongside Frank Holland who supplies 2nd guitar and Mellotron and their sound in 2015 has many links back to the classic PT albums such as ‘SF Sorrow’. ‘Silk Torpedo’ or ‘Parachute’ with stirring harmonies, pounding drums and Taylor’s guitar switching between psych solos and hard riffs. This is music that is both anchored in the sixties but as powerful and fresh as the best of the 21st century.

Thanks To DaWolf..

The Sweet Pretty Things (are in bed now, of course.)

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