PRETTY THINGS - S.F. SORROW 68 BRIT PSYCH ROCK CONCEPT REMAST GFC MADFISH SLD LP
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PRETTY THINGS – S.F. Sorrow. Madfish SMALP 1053. German Pressing, British release. FACTORY SEALED NEW VINYL RECORD ALBUM. Originally issued in 1968. This edition issued in 2016. Remastered from the original Abbey Road session tapes and comes in a gatefold cover pressed on 180g vinyl. Produced by Norman Smith (engineer on all of the EMI studio recordings by The Beatles until the autumn of 1965 when he was promoted to producer and eventually assigned to Pink Floyd, their 1st two albums, which leads us back to this album; one of the first rock concept albums).
MEMBERS: Phil May (vocals), Wally Allen (bass, guitar, vocals, wind instruments, piano), Dick Taylor (lead guitar, vocals), John Povey (organ, sitar, percussion, vocals), and Twink (drums, vocals)
TRACKS,
SIDE ONE:
01) S.F. Sorrow Is Born
02) Bracelets Of Fingers
03) She Says Good Morning
04) Private Sorrow
05) Balloon Burning
06) Death
SIDE TWO:
07) Baron Saturday
08) The Journey
09) I See You
10) Well Of Destiny
11) Trust
12) Old Man Going
13) Loneliest Person
DESCRIPTION: One of the greatest albums of the psychedelic era. “A psychedelic masterpiece,” says the Guardian. Re-mastered from the original Abbey Road tapes. Who could ever have thought, going back to the Pretty Things' first recording session in 1965, which started out so disastrously that their original producer quit in frustration, that it would come to this in just three years? The Pretty Things' early history in the studio featured the band with its amps seemingly turned up to 11, but for much of S.F. Sorrow the band is turned down to seven or four, or even two, or not amplified at all, and they're doing all kinds of folkish things here that are still bluesy enough so you never forget who they are, amid weird little digressions on percussion and chorus; harmony vocals that are spooky, trippy, strange, and delightful; sitars included in the array of stringed instruments; and an organ trying hard to sound like a Mellotron. Sometimes one gets an echo of Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn or A Saucerful Of Secrets (Norman’s previous production project; which adds an interesting dimension to this album), and it all straddles the worlds of British blues and British psychedelia better than almost any record you can name. The album, for those unfamiliar, tells the story of S.F. Sorrow, a sort of British Everyman -- think of a working-class, luckless equivalent to the Kinks' Arthur, from cradle to grave. And it does show a pathway between blues and psychedelia that the Rolling Stones missed entirely.
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