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Артист: The Pretty Things Альбом: The Pretty Things 1965 (1998), Жанр: Rock, R & B Формат файла: cue-log-flac-scans Ссылка 1: CD 1 8 clicks Ссылка 2: CD 2 Нахождение: eDonkey/Torrent Примечание: Образ собран из потрекового релиза CueTools'ом

The Pretty Things - одна из первых групп British Invasion. Это их дебютный альбом. Манера исполнения, стиль (и даже вокал) очень напрминают ранних Роллинг Стоунз, что неудивительно - гитарист Dick Taylor в своё время начинал басс-гитаристом у Стоунз (да и сам подбор вещей - в духе Стоунз).
Ограничусь короткой цитатой George Starostin из его "Only Solitaire" rock review page:

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If you like this album [речь идёт о самом первом диске Роллинг Стоунз]: You will definitely want to get all the other early albums by the Stones (particularly "Now!" and "Out Of Our Heads"), as well as those other early Sixties' bands that preferred to follow in the Stones' "dirty" footsteps rather than in the Beatles' "clean" ones - among them, the Animals and the Pretty Things, or even the Kinks ...

TRACKLIST :
1. Roadrunner (Diddley)
2. Judgement Day (Morrison)
3. 13 Chester Street (Pretty Things)
4. Big City (Duncan, Klein)
5. Unknown Blues (Pretty Things)
6. Mama, Keep You Big Mouth Shut (Diddley)
7. Honey, I Need (Button, Smithling, Taylor)
8. Oh Baby Doll (Berry)
9. She's Fine She's Mine (Diddley)
10. Don't Lie to Me (Berry)
11. The Moon Is Rising (Reed)
12. Pretty Thing (Diddley)
13. Rosalyn (Duncan, Farley)
14. Big Boss Man (Dixon, Smith)
15. Don't Bring Me Down (Dee)
16. We'll Be Together (May, Stax, Taylor)
17. I Can Never Say (Pretty Things)
18. Get Yourself Home (Pretty Things)

Line-up:
Phil May - vocals, harmonica
Brian Pendleton - guitar
John Stax - bass
Dick Taylor - guitar
Skip Allan - drums

BIOGRAPHY :
Of all the original British Invasion groups, perhaps none are as underappreciated in the United States as the Pretty Things. Featuring the hoarse vocals of Mick Jagger-lookalike Phil May and the stinging leads of guitarist Dick Taylor (who actually played in early versions of the Rolling Stones with Jagger and Keith Richards), the Pretties recorded a clutch of raunchy R&B rockers in the mid-'60s that offer a punkier, rawer version of the early Stones sound. Their first two albums, as well as a brace of fine major and minor British hits (of which "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Honey I Need" were the biggest), feature first-rate original material and covers, and remain the group's most exciting and influential recordings. Unfortunately, the band remained virtually unknown to American audiences, most of whom would first hear "Don't Bring Me Down" on David Bowie's Pin Ups album (which also included a version of the Pretties' "Rosalyn").
After their initial run of success, the group took a sharp left turn into psychedelia with the orchestrated album Emotions (1967), impressive singles that owed more to Pink Floyd than Bo Diddley, and, most significantly, "S.F. Sorrow" (1968). The first rock opera, "S.F. Sorrow" was a major influence on Pete Townshend, who released his much more successful opera, "Tommy", with the Who the following year. Founding member Taylor left shortly after "S.F. Sorrow", and the group continued to record progressive rock and hard rock with less impressive results through the mid-'70s, although Parachute (1970) was named album of the year by Rolling Stone. The group reunited sporadically for occasional gigs and recordings in their early R&B vein before officially reforming to release Rage...Before Beauty in 1999.
~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide


ALBUM REVIEW :
The Pretty Things' debut LP was a legendary exercise in anarchy - 30 minutes into the two days' worth of sessions, their original producer, Jack Baverstock (the head of the label, no less), walked out, and was eventually replaced by a slightly more sympathetic personality in the hopes of salvaging something from the efforts of the band, who, whatever their shortcomings in decorum or sobriety, were on their third successive charting single. The resulting album, made under the coordination (if not control) of drummer-turned-producer Bobby Graham, made the early work of the Rolling Stones - rivals and one-time bandmates to the Pretty Things' Dick Taylor - sound more like the work of the Beatles: very calculated, lightweight, and...genteel. The Pretty Things is recorded with practically every song and instrument pushing the needle into the red (i.e., overload). Normally, that would be a problem, except for the fact that a third of the repertory was written by Bo Diddley and most of the other two-thirds was inspired by him (even their version of Chuck Berry's "Oh Baby Doll" sounds like it was lifted from the Two Great Guitars sessions where the two legends crossed swords) - and Bo spent most of his career with his amplifiers set on "11" in a world where ten was the max.
"Roadrunner" is about as raw and loud as British rock & roll ever got up to that time, and it's just the beginning - "Judgement Day" has a lead guitar buried somewhere in there, beneath rhythm instruments that sound like metal being ground up, and "13 Chester Street" is, strangely enough, an homage to the house the band once shared with the Stones' Brian Jones; appropriately enough, it mixes the band's crunchy rhythm guitar-centered sound with a Slim Harpo-style lead (all of the stuff that Jones was identified with musically), in a group "composition" that shimmers and pulses around Phil May's dissolute vocals. "Big City" takes them back to Chess Records territory, from which they never stray - "Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut" even sounds like a Chess outtake, what Leonard Chess would've said needed one more pass to get right (and he'd have been wrong). And just to show that there is some justice in the world, The Pretty Things did reach number ten on the U.K. charts, bewildering all of the more "professional" hands at Fontana Records by grabbing the ears of that harder, more intense part of the Stones' larger audience and throwing them the sonic equivalent of raw meat to chew on. Phil May reveals himself as a fairly powerful singer, though lacking some of the charisma that Mick Jagger projected, but the group's own raw power made for quirky appeal all of its own that would carry them for many years beyond this roaring start. And in the meantime, records like this would point the way not only toward the work of such American garage band icons as the MC5, but blast a path through the wilderness that the likes of Billy Childish and his band the Milkshakes and their successors would traverse.
~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide



Прошу заранее строго не судить - первый блин

This post has been edited by Dinos on 29-03-2007, 22:34

TRACKLIST :
1. Roadrunner (Diddley)
2. Judgement Day (Morrison)
3. 13 Chester Street (Pretty Things)
4. Big City (Duncan, Klein)
5. Unknown Blues (Pretty Things)
6. Mama, Keep You Big Mouth Shut (Diddley)
7. Honey, I Need (Button, Smithling, Taylor)
8. Oh Baby Doll (Berry)
9. She's Fine She's Mine (Diddley)
10. Don't Lie to Me (Berry)
11. The Moon Is Rising (Reed)
12. Pretty Thing (Diddley)
13. Rosalyn (Duncan, Farley)
14. Big Boss Man (Dixon, Smith)
15. Don't Bring Me Down (Dee)
16. We'll Be Together (May, Stax, Taylor)
17. I Can Never Say (Pretty Things)
18. Get Yourself Home (Pretty Things)

Line-up:
Phil May - vocals, harmonica
Brian Pendleton - guitar
John Stax - bass
Dick Taylor - guitar
Skip Allan - drums

BIOGRAPHY :
Of all the original British Invasion groups, perhaps none are as underappreciated in the United States as the Pretty Things. Featuring the hoarse vocals of Mick Jagger-lookalike Phil May and the stinging leads of guitarist Dick Taylor (who actually played in early versions of the Rolling Stones with Jagger and Keith Richards), the Pretties recorded a clutch of raunchy R&B rockers in the mid-'60s that offer a punkier, rawer version of the early Stones sound. Their first two albums, as well as a brace of fine major and minor British hits (of which "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Honey I Need" were the biggest), feature first-rate original material and covers, and remain the group's most exciting and influential recordings. Unfortunately, the band remained virtually unknown to American audiences, most of whom would first hear "Don't Bring Me Down" on David Bowie's Pin Ups album (which also included a version of the Pretties' "Rosalyn").
After their initial run of success, the group took a sharp left turn into psychedelia with the orchestrated album Emotions (1967), impressive singles that owed more to Pink Floyd than Bo Diddley, and, most significantly, "S.F. Sorrow" (1968). The first rock opera, "S.F. Sorrow" was a major influence on Pete Townshend, who released his much more successful opera, "Tommy", with the Who the following year. Founding member Taylor left shortly after "S.F. Sorrow", and the group continued to record progressive rock and hard rock with less impressive results through the mid-'70s, although Parachute (1970) was named album of the year by Rolling Stone. The group reunited sporadically for occasional gigs and recordings in their early R&B vein before officially reforming to release Rage...Before Beauty in 1999.
~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide


ALBUM REVIEW :
The Pretty Things' debut LP was a legendary exercise in anarchy - 30 minutes into the two days' worth of sessions, their original producer, Jack Baverstock (the head of the label, no less), walked out, and was eventually replaced by a slightly more sympathetic personality in the hopes of salvaging something from the efforts of the band, who, whatever their shortcomings in decorum or sobriety, were on their third successive charting single. The resulting album, made under the coordination (if not control) of drummer-turned-producer Bobby Graham, made the early work of the Rolling Stones - rivals and one-time bandmates to the Pretty Things' Dick Taylor - sound more like the work of the Beatles: very calculated, lightweight, and...genteel. The Pretty Things is recorded with practically every song and instrument pushing the needle into the red (i.e., overload). Normally, that would be a problem, except for the fact that a third of the repertory was written by Bo Diddley and most of the other two-thirds was inspired by him (even their version of Chuck Berry's "Oh Baby Doll" sounds like it was lifted from the Two Great Guitars sessions where the two legends crossed swords) - and Bo spent most of his career with his amplifiers set on "11" in a world where ten was the max.
"Roadrunner" is about as raw and loud as British rock & roll ever got up to that time, and it's just the beginning - "Judgement Day" has a lead guitar buried somewhere in there, beneath rhythm instruments that sound like metal being ground up, and "13 Chester Street" is, strangely enough, an homage to the house the band once shared with the Stones' Brian Jones; appropriately enough, it mixes the band's crunchy rhythm guitar-centered sound with a Slim Harpo-style lead (all of the stuff that Jones was identified with musically), in a group "composition" that shimmers and pulses around Phil May's dissolute vocals. "Big City" takes them back to Chess Records territory, from which they never stray - "Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut" even sounds like a Chess outtake, what Leonard Chess would've said needed one more pass to get right (and he'd have been wrong). And just to show that there is some justice in the world, The Pretty Things did reach number ten on the U.K. charts, bewildering all of the more "professional" hands at Fontana Records by grabbing the ears of that harder, more intense part of the Stones' larger audience and throwing them the sonic equivalent of raw meat to chew on. Phil May reveals himself as a fairly powerful singer, though lacking some of the charisma that Mick Jagger projected, but the group's own raw power made for quirky appeal all of its own that would carry them for many years beyond this roaring start. And in the meantime, records like this would point the way not only toward the work of such American garage band icons as the MC5, but blast a path through the wilderness that the likes of Billy Childish and his band the Milkshakes and their successors would traverse.
~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide



Прошу заранее строго не судить - первый блин

вона скаока первых блинов напек... вспотел пока удалял...

санбо, помоги челу.. он теперь не может пост отредактировать, чтобы ссылки подправитьь на трекер

так вроде все работает...
тока не совсем понятно: 18 песен, а обьем -160 мб...

неа... сидов нет...

а как помочь я не понял...

This post has been edited by sanbo on 29-03-2007, 20:47

Во-первых, сильное сжатие (флак по максимуму), а во-вторых, в те годы песни были по 2-2.5 минуты

This post has been edited by Dinos on 29-03-2007, 22:32

маю этот диск в оригинале

И что? Неужели же не нравится, что ты релизить не стал? По мне так классный диск

А может, у тебя случайно есть Chicago Blues Tapes 1991 (94 года) - The Pretty Things вместе с Yardbird Blues? А то он у меня в mp3.

This post has been edited by Dinos on 30-03-2007, 00:52

нек, такого альбома нет у меня, но есть Emotions и был реализован уже Topic Link: The Pretty Things - 1965 Get the Picture

музыка у них очень даже неплохая, но не могу сказать, что моя любимая группа. а на диске, кстати есть еще 2х минутный клип

Get the Picture ,естественно, давно скачан. А вот "Emotions" - было бы инересно. А ты всё бамбук куришь

я не бамбук, я цыгарки курю

EMOTIONS нужно выкладывать однозначно, а я бы в свою очередь мог бы выложить их последний студийный альбом CROSS TALK (1981). также в инете уже проходили: (1974) SILK TORPEDO, сборники: (1989) 1967-1971, (1990) ELECTRIC BANANA и (1990) MORE ELECTRIC BANANA. еще был замечен в сети (1968) S.F. SORROW, но скачать его не удалось

Только Electric Banana - 1967 года

а пока клип ed2k://|file|The.Pretty.Things.MOVIES.rar|6398721|84AD4EB40DE0E8431AD59359979BE116|/