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― scott seward, Saturday, 28 April 2007 21:10 (eleven years ago) Permalink
Anybody else out there think that Parachute is vastly superior to SF Sorrow?
― Davey D, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 23:02 (eleven years ago) Permalink
there are a lot of wrong people in the world.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 05:04 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I like Parachute more than SF Sorrow, but I wouldn't call it "vastly" better.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 17:47 (eleven years ago) Permalink
I like parts of Parachute more than parts of SF Sorrow, and vice versa.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 18:23 (eleven years ago) Permalink
got the unreleased pretty things/philippe debarge album yesterday. some very cool stuff on it, but the band definitely kept their best material for parachute which they would record the next year. still, this is the prettys post-sf sorrow and pre-parachute (but also post-dick taylor) and hearing 4 or 5 may/waller songs that i've never heard (along with a couple of re-worked electric banana tunes and some stuff they used to do live and which you can hear on bbc sessions) recorded during that period is enough to keep me excited for awhile. and french dude philippe does a credible enough job on vocals. they had the luxury of a cool modern studio and lots of time and money for this album, which is cool, but part of me actually likes the quickness/cheapness of the banana/dewolfe tracks better. they were crazier and they may have been dashed off in record time, but they are just so exciting in a way that these tracks aren't. still, this has my vote for reissue/excavation of the year! so far...
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 March 2009 18:24 (nine years ago) Permalink
what he said. it sounds soooooooooo much better than the mp3s that were floating around a few years back!
― WEREWOLF CONGRESS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 8 March 2009 06:00 (nine years ago) Permalink
Ashamed to admit I'm not that familiar with their stuff, but I should be seeing 'em do SF Sorrow live at Easter.
― Soukesian, Sunday, 8 March 2009 10:31 (nine years ago) Permalink
really enjoying this
― beauty of grunge = abandon (CaptainLorax), Friday, 25 September 2009 19:58 (nine years ago) Permalink
They were great live - a particular highlight was seeing the guitarist cracking out amazing lead breaks while nonchalantly chatting to one of the backup singers over his shoulder.
― Soukesian, Friday, 25 September 2009 20:08 (nine years ago) Permalink
triptriptriptriptriptriptriptriptrippinnnn
― Trip Maker, Friday, 25 September 2009 20:09 (nine years ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXbD5EuUFu8
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Friday, 25 September 2009 21:57 (nine years ago) Permalink
I heard a song from SF Sorrow playing as muzak at Powell's books today. (not a muzak version but y'know)
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 26 September 2009 01:13 (nine years ago) Permalink
It was "She Says Good Morning".
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 26 September 2009 01:18 (nine years ago) Permalink
first time listening to s.f. sorrow, this is awesome
― am0n, Friday, 12 February 2010 02:14 (nine years ago) Permalink
dude! i remember that feeling!
― international slackness (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 12 February 2010 04:01 (nine years ago) Permalink
can't believe i slept on this band so long
― am0n, Friday, 12 February 2010 04:36 (nine years ago) Permalink
'parachute' and 'emotions' too. fuck
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 15:35 (eight years ago) Permalink
this comp
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/1906b06da2e30debc0e3fd85a69ae6de/78483.jpg
awesome start to finish. also there's a "the fontana years" comp that shares some tunes with this one that is really really storming
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 March 2010 15:43 (eight years ago) Permalink
"this comp" refers to "the ep collection...plus"
img didn't work out
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 March 2010 15:44 (eight years ago) Permalink
and now it appears. nevermind.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 2 March 2010 15:45 (eight years ago) Permalink
can't see it :3
― am0n, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 15:55 (eight years ago) Permalink
There are times when Parachute can't be beat - and those times usually fall in February or March. Bleak grey days are built for melancholy British psyche.
But the neanderthal in me loves the punk R&B stomping Pretty Things best.
― Brio, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 15:58 (eight years ago) Permalink
Been rocking my Vintage Years 2lp in the last week.http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/6544507eec81e9181430dfc7069f856e/105516.jpgLOVE these fucking Sire Vintage Years sets. The Troggs one is indispensable.But you're right about Parachute. Will have to spin that soon.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:02 (eight years ago) Permalink
i downloaded s f sorrow after reading this thread and although i like it fine my stepfather is totally in love with it. thanks on his behalf yall.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:32 (eight years ago) Permalink
It's funny how divisive SF Sorrow is, some people really hate it.I wish I hadn't lost my copy of the Mono Snapper reissue, I prefer that mix to the stereo one. I think an old roommate stole it or something.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:38 (eight years ago) Permalink
I liked SF right off the bat - Parachute was more of a grower but it's the one I ended up listening to more over the years.
― Brio, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:57 (eight years ago) Permalink
Parachute took me forever to get into, S.F. Sorrow I liked from day one. I got into the early stuff after those two, I p. much celebrate their entire catalog.
― Gorgeous Ladies Of Curling (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 2 March 2010 17:48 (eight years ago) Permalink
"The Troggs one is indispensable."
for real. sounds so great and its just one amazing song after another.
i guess i don't get the not getting parachute thing. especially if you like sf sorrow. and i really don't get not liking sf sorrow. that just seems crazy to me. but parachute to me is just as fun to listen to as sorrow. they're both great. i first heard them when i bought the rare earth twofer of both albums years ago, so maybe that has something to do with how i feel. i played one and then the other and my life kinda changed. i needed MORE like it immediately. haven't looked back since.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:04 (eight years ago) Permalink
I dunno - it's all dependent on the listener I guess - I heard the earlier stuff first and I have to admit I was a bit of a garage-rock "I hate the beatles" knucklehead for awhile there so probably wasn't the coolest listener out there when I first heard the psychedelic records. SF Sorrow seemed like it had more hooks, more (relatively) straight-ahead rock n roll to it whereas Parachute is a bit sadder, older, and proggier. In any case, both records helped me on the journey away from knuckleheadedness and for that I thank them.
― Brio, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 18:33 (eight years ago) Permalink
Just hearing Emotions for the first time and I'm really digging it. Parts of it sound like Between the Buttons era Stones or the Kinks. The Sun is stunningly beautiful...
― ColinO, Sunday, 11 April 2010 01:49 (eight years ago) Permalink
I had no idea that this band kept going. Released an album in 2007! How is the post-Parachute stuff (all NINE albums of it)?
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 11 April 2010 02:01 (eight years ago) Permalink
Page signed them up to Swan Song for a couple albums in the mid-Seventies, Silk Torpedo and Savage Eye, may have had something to do with wanting to compete for the audience Status Quo was drawing.
I like the latter of the two more. Savage Eye has two great songs, Remember That Boy and It's Only Rock 'n' Roll.
― Gorge, Sunday, 11 April 2010 19:13 (eight years ago) Permalink
That 2007 album _Balboa Island_ is pretty good actually. They still play pretty regularly, & at a London show last year they said they were going to be going to the US & doing their SF Sorrow show this year (although things don't always run to plan in the world of the Pretties, & I've heard nothing more about this since).
― Wandering Boy Poet, Monday, 12 April 2010 12:56 (eight years ago) Permalink
I rather liked the Swan Song releases, pretty much all the way through. The one after that [circa 1979] was kinda crappy, and I also think Balboa Island is a decent record.
― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:45 (eight years ago) Permalink
listening to S.F. Sorrow & Parachute for the last couple of days...man those were two awesome LPs! Sorrow is prolley top 10 of the decade at least...
― Ned Rag & the Evil Olive Gardens (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 20:54 (eight years ago) Permalink
I need the Electric Banana stuff, the stray tracks I've heard here and there are awesome.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 20:57 (eight years ago) Permalink
Yeah it's about time they reissue the EB stuff again. Parachute has totally grown on me over the years, but apparently the new issue may either have original demos (if they can find them) or, cough, rerecordings of those demos and some of the songs from the album?
― (are you sure you want to) exit the wizard (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:05 (eight years ago) Permalink
I have located a copy of The Electric Banana: The Seventies in a used shop.Is it worth thirty-five bones, though? I love Love LOVE the Pretties up through Parachute, think the stuff after that is very spotty, though. I did notice that Dick Taylor is NOT on the record.Any opinions?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:01 (seven years ago) Permalink
i never listened to these dudes much before and haven't been listening to much old psych stuff recently but i'm jamming sf sorrow right now and i'm digging it
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 11 July 2013 20:48 (five years ago) Permalink
Always liked SF Sorrow but then grew to love Parachute. Now Parachute and a '68-'71 singles comp are all I own/feel the need to have.
― chromecassettes, Thursday, 11 July 2013 23:24 (five years ago) Permalink
I really like the album they did with the French playboy Philippe Debarge, who put them up & paid them to record an album with him. Picked up the cleaned-up reissue from a couple of years ago. As you’d expect, the vocals aren’t the strongest but Phil May & the others sing harmony on quite a bit of it, and the band themselves are on fire, great versions of ‘Alexander’ and ‘It’ll never be me’ as well.
― Gouty_Ted, Friday, 12 July 2013 07:47 (five years ago) Permalink
Also, I only realised recently the Pretty Things are on the 'Dawn of the Dead' soundtrack! The part near the beginning where the hillbillies are shooting the zombies
― Gouty_Ted, Friday, 12 July 2013 07:48 (five years ago) Permalink
^^That's one of their "Electric Banana" library recordings!
Snapper repackaged the first two Pretties albums + bonus tracks in a little bound set a couple years ago that retails stateside for about $12 and is worth every penny.
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 12 July 2013 07:59 (five years ago) Permalink
SF Sorrow feels epochal to me, like it just feels like the zenith of large swaths of the art-school blues rock acid psych trajectory that made up a huge portion of classic rock.
Like it's amazing that classic rock stations aren't just bumping Good Morning or Trust or I See You on the reg
― the gospel of meth (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 13 July 2013 01:49 (five years ago) Permalink
Some Social Media Maven I've Never Heard Of Did A Sorta SFW Shoot For Playboy, And This Happened...
https://images.contentbody.com/7a1UB77tW8Usso2QeicC2g/embeds/13/w695_h576
― Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 21:24 (two years ago) Permalink
Surprised nobody mentioned Get The Picture by name since it's a great lp. First one that's mainly them writing and seems like a snapshot of the time.Do love the roughness of 1st lp and all the stuff up to Parachute. Would love a physical copy of the box set.
&if people are into the 1st 2lps, the Dutch band Q65 are worth seeking out.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 28 July 2016 00:24 (two years ago) Permalink
Doing a "farewell" concert in London next week with David Gilmour and Van Morrison guesting.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 10:09 (two months ago) Permalink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YYIc2RSf9Y1966
and a 1970 appearance on German tv that I just saw being circulatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FvlfVDFRU
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 11:23 (two months ago) Permalink