Album Features
UPC:	636551281423
Artist:	Pretty Things (The)
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1999
Record Label:	Madfish
Genre:	Progressive Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Passion of Love
2. Vivian Prince
3. Everlasting Flame
4. Love Keeps Hanging On
5. Eve of Destruction
6. Not Givin' In
7. Pure Cold Stone
8. Blue Turns to Red
9. Goodbye, Goodbye
10. Goin' Downhill
11. Play With Fire
12. Fly Away
13. Mony Mony
14. God Give Me the Strength

Details
Playing Time:	64 min.
Contributing Artists:	David Gilmour, Ronnie Spector
Producer:	Mark St. John, Dave Garland
Distributor:	Navarre
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
The Pretty Things includes: Phil May.Additional personnel includes: David Gilmour, Ronnie Spector, The Bach Chorale.Personnel: Frank Holland (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar); Wally Allen Waller (vocals, acoustic guitar); Phil May (vocals, harp); John Povey (vocals, keyboards); Dick Taylor (guitar, acoustic guitar); Skip Alan (snare drum, percussion).Recording information: 145 Wardour Street, Soho London.The key to the success of the Pretty Things first studio recording in 19 years is that most of it sounds as if it were made during their mid-'60s heyday rather than at the time of their early '80s demise. It's downfall is overwrought, out-of-style songs like "Love Keeps Hanging On," which sounds like something the fictional band, Strange Fruit, would've come up with. Cover songs like "Eve of Destruction" and "Play with Fire" are completely redundant, yet the openers, the jangly guitar workout, "Passion of Love," and the Bo Diddley-beat tribute to an old bandmate, "Vivian Prince," make the disc worthwhile. ~ Denise Sullivan

Editorial Reviews
...garage punk R&B par excllence that would stand out as a classic even in the middle of a NUGGETS compilation.... delivered with this much passion, intelligence, integrity and musical intensity...
Mojo

3 Stars (out of 5) - ...The Pretty Things approach their fifth decade together with the same mix of truculence, idealism and thrilling extremism that saw them become the bad boys of 60's Britrock...
Q (19990501)