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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
^^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 (ten years ago) link
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 (ten years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (seven years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
LATE PASS PLZ
https://www.discogs.com/The-Pretty-Things-Real-Pretty/release/1587217
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 27 June 2019 04:09 (four years ago) link
so great
I imagine at least one member of the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 was a big fan of "Balloons Burning"
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Thursday, 27 June 2019 04:26 (four years ago) link
october 26 is all time for me
and parachute a pretty incredible example of a band making a killer LP after the loss of a key contributor
― umsworth (emsworth), Thursday, 27 June 2019 07:02 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/KkwoYWFuN6A
Stooges, before Stooges.
Pretty Things are ao fucking underrated.
― nostormo, Monday, 23 December 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
budo jeru wrote this on thread In your view, who were the greatest rock band of all time? on board I Love Music on Mar 1, 2018it's the pretty things
it's the pretty things
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
sick video, thanks for sharing !
You welcome.
How can a band, who was quite mediocre before 67 and pretty awful after 1970, made such a great, versatile music between 67-70, including singles and the Electric Banana stuff?
― nostormo, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
HI DERE!Good question.
― Runcible Spoonman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
I don't agree with that pre 67 thing 1st lp is great as are next 2 even with the added strings on the 3rd.Love that first lp and I thought it was a major influence on a lot of US and Dutch garage stuff. Probably antipodean too.Get The Picture seems to catch the atmosphere of the mid 60s quite wonderfully and Emotions has songs on.it I love. Especially The Sun.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
yes
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
"mediocre before 67" is a weird take for a band that gave us "rosalyn" in 19 fucking 64
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
Christ, Dick Taylor's playing on "Why" is in the same league with Steve Howe's playing on Tomorrow's version.
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 05:44 (four years ago) link
are you referring to live hyde park '68 or live in amsterdam '69 ? haven't heard either, those recordings are hard to come by, or perhaps you're referring to something else
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Wednesday, 25 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
― budo jeru
this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9G9fKq6i90
it was linked on the sidebar of the "reincarnation" vid. so the pretty things never recorded "reincarnation"? that's a shame, it's a good number!
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Wednesday, 25 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Wally Waller was one of their secret weapons during 67-70. his songwriting and husky voice are great. Sounds somewhat like David Gilmour.
― nostormo, Friday, 27 December 2019 08:25 (four years ago) link
https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/pretty-things-frontman-phil-may-has-died-aged-75-126634/
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 May 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
dang, RIP phil
― budo jeru, Friday, 15 May 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
Oh no! RIP Phil, such a cool frontman.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 15 May 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
aw hell, RIP Phil May
― Brad C., Friday, 15 May 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
Ah damn. I was really looking forward to this new acoustic project that Mark St. John talked about in the regular PT column in Ugly Things -- but very glad they were able to do the Final Bow shows.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 May 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Bike accident..
WtR.I.P
Talented man, great band.The man with the thousand voices.
― nostormo, Friday, 15 May 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Aw shit
I think they were the best 60s-era band I’ve ever seen live - small club, didn’t take anything for granted, worked hard to put on a brilliant show
much as I love Dick Taylor I think the era when he stepped away from the band is my favourite? Parachute rules, and October 26 is just a brilliant brilliant single, what a vocal and what a vocalist
RIP
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 15 May 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
midnight to eternity man
― last updated a group of five done twelve times ago (geoffreyess), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link