The Pretty Things - Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things
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Artist: The Pretty ThingsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-20
Music Label: Shout Factory
Soundtracks:
- Rosalyn
- Honey, I Need
- Road Runner
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Judgement Day
- Rainin' In My Heart
- Midnight To Six Man
- Buzz The Jerk
- You Don't Believe Me
- Can't Stand The Pain
- Come See Me
- Get The Picture?
- L.S.D.
- Progress
- The Sun
- Death Of A Socialite
- Defecting Grey
- Walking Through My Dreams
- Balloon Burning
- Talkin' About The Good Times
- Mr. Evasion
- Loneliest Person
- Grass
- Dream/Joey
- Singapore Silk Torpedo
Free Music Notes for Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things
Free Music Review: Justifiable obscure
Hit: 2 Stars
There's a reason Pretty Things aren't household names -- their music is sub-par. Most of the early stuff sticks to the basic three-chord blues rock pattern; it's nothing special. Their attempt at a ballad, "Raining In My Heart" is a rip-off of the classic R&B tune "Honest I Do," which the Rolling Stones recorded on their "England's Newest Hit Makers The Rolling Stones" LP. And it isn't until halfway into this CD that I actually heard a song that wasn't based on three chords. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But the Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, The Yardbirds and other British Invasion bands raised the musical bar too high for us to settle for this.
And for all the trash talk in the liner notes about how the Stones are now "respectable" and that the Pretty Things have always been "filthier and less reedeming than the Stones could ever be," this band has about as much an edge as the average '90s boy band. Their supposedly "raw" early songs are rather tame; their attempts at psychedelia are laughable; other songs, like "Walking Through My Dreams," evoke The Beatles -- a derivative, colorless version of The Beatles, but The Beatles nonetheless. It's like they have no identity of their own, going from an early-Stones/Animals/Them howl directly to a late-Beatles freak-out.
The last couple of songs, however, break away that sound, though no more successfully: "Grass" is a dull trip into soft-rock Steely Dan/Doobie Brothers territory (minus the grit); "Dream/Joey" is a little catchier, but seems to borrow Steven Tyler's voice and Ray Manzarek's keyboards, though I don't think they're consciously trying to imitate either Aerosmith or The Doors. The song, however, at almost seven minutes, goes on and on and on and...
On the last track, they return to their imitative ways with the very Who-ish "Singapore Silk Torpedo." All-in-all, I think a better title for this CD would be "DON'T Come See Me."
Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things Poster
An equal love for rock 'n' roll and rhythm & blues is what guided The Pretty Things in 1963 when they first formed. Guitarist Dick Taylor, previously a member of Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys with pals Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, met Phil May at art school and quickly joined forces. They recruited the rest of the original Things over the next year and went on to sign a record deal with Fontana. While U.S. audiences didn't embrace these British invaders, European audiences did. In fact, it was David Bowie who first enlightened America about the Pretty Things phenomenon with covers of both "Rosalyn" and "Don't Bring Me Down" in 1973. Another milestone for the band was 1968's S. F. Sorrow. The first rock opera was a huge influence for Pete Townshend, who went on to create Tommy a year later.Long overdue, Come See Me: The Very Best Of The Pretty Things is the band's first comprehensive best-of package in the U.S. It focuses on the band's initial decade, starting with a heavily R&B-influenced garage sound, passing through their late-'60s conceptual operetta and into psychedelia and standard classic '70s rock. Its 25 tracks include the hits "Don't Bring Me Down," "Defecting Grey" and "Honey, I Need." The Pretties reunited a few years back to re-record their operetta and continue to record and tour sporadically.
• This is The Pretty Things' first comprehensive "Best-of," packed with 25 tracks.
• The contemporary garage rock movement, led by The White Stripes, The Vines, The Strokes...has brought renewed interest to The Pretty Things, one of the pioneering groups of the genre.
• Sixties garage rock's popularity is evidenced by the strong sales of Rhino's Nuggets boxed sets (which featured The Pretty Things).
• The Pretty Things' Parachutes was Rolling Stone magazine's 1970 Album of the Year.
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