Pretty Things* – Parachute
Tracklist
| Scene One | |||
| A1.1 | The Good Mr. Square | ||
| A1.2 | She Was Tall, She Was High | ||
| A2.1 | In The Square | ||
| A2.2 | The Letter | ||
| A2.3 | Rain | ||
| A3 | Miss Fay Regrets | ||
| A4 | Cries From The Midnight Circus | ||
| B1 | Grass | ||
| B2 | Sickle Clowns | ||
| B3 | She's A Lover | ||
| B4 | What's The Use | ||
| B5 | Parachute |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – E.M.I. Records
- Record Company – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
- Recorded At – EMI Studios
- Pressed By – The Gramophone Co. Ltd.
- Published By – Lupus Music Co. Ltd.
- Published By – Initial Music
Credits
- Cover [Design], Photography By [Photographs] – Hipgnosis (2)
- Engineer – Tony Clark
- Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Nick Webb
- Producer [Produced By] – Norman Smith
- Written-By – Waller* (tracks: A1 to B4)
Notes
Released in an outside laminated gatefold cover with HARVEST / EMI avertising polylined inner sleeve.
Rimtext on labels starts with: THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD.
First pressings do not have the boxed EMI logo anywhere on the labels.
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SHVL 774
(1E 062 ○ 04406)
stereo
[Inside gatefold]
Recorded at E.M.I. Studios Abbey Road.
℗ 1970
Made and Printed in Great Britain
[Labels]
℗ 1970
Lupus Music Co. Ltd. [tracks: A1 to B4]
Initial Music [tracks: B5]
MADE IN GT. BRITAIN
Runouts are stamped except of these etched parts:
- 1 on side A, variant 3
- 1 on side B, variant 3
Rimtext on labels starts with: THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD.
First pressings do not have the boxed EMI logo anywhere on the labels.
[Back]
File under POPULAR : Pop Groups
SHVL 774
(1E 062 ○ 04406)
stereo
[Inside gatefold]
Recorded at E.M.I. Studios Abbey Road.
℗ 1970
Made and Printed in Great Britain
[Labels]
℗ 1970
Lupus Music Co. Ltd. [tracks: A1 to B4]
Initial Music [tracks: B5]
MADE IN GT. BRITAIN
Runouts are stamped except of these etched parts:
- 1 on side A, variant 3
- 1 on side B, variant 3
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A in brackets): SHVL.774A
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B in brackets): SHVL.774B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): SHVL 774 A-2 G 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): SHVL 774 B-2 GO 2
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): SHVL 774 A-2 H 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): SHVL 774 B-2 P 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): SHVL 774 A-2 G 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): SHVL 774 B-2 GO 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): SHVL 774 A-2 O 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): SHVL 774 B-2 B 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): SHVL 774 A-2 O 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 5): SHVL 774 B-2 R 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): SHVL 774 A-2 O 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): SHVL 774 B-2 GO 2
Other Versions (5 of 46)
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Parachute (LP, Album, Hollywood Pressing) | Rare Earth | RS 515, RS515 | US | 1970 | ||
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Parachute (LP, Album, Stereo) | Harvest | 1 C 062-04 406 | 1970 | |||
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Parachute (LP, Album, Promo) | Rare Earth | RS 515 DJ, RS 515, RS515 | US | 1970 | ||
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Parachute (LP, Album) | Rare Earth | RS515 | Canada | 1970 | ||
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Parachute (LP, Album, Promo, Red ) | Harvest | OP-80058 | Japan | 1970 |
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Reviews
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The 1975 double on Harvest Heritage coupled with S.F. Sorrow, uses 1st UK lacquers and sounds excellent.
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Fabulous pressing of a truly amazing album. This album demands to be listened to end to end. As a previous comment says, mesmerising
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Personally, I think this is one of the finest records every made. Stunningly underappreciated.
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Almost as good as their previous masterpiece, S.F. Sorrow that was released in 1968, years before this one. For me, this one takes some getting used to. It's not as catchy as S.F., as I immediately fell in love with it when I first heard it but this record takes some getting used to it for me. -
Certainly one of the most criminally underrated psych-pop masterpieces of all time................. -
This lp is so good it's annoying. I'm annoyed at all of the legal squabbling over the Pretty Things' drug use. This lp is inspired pop rock on the level of the Beatles, and yet the Pretty Things were forever stuck in Britain due to drug arrests. That's the story I've heard anyway.
There's a "Lennonesque" feel to "Sickle Clowns" and "Grass" in the music and in Phil May's vocal. The first side of the album moves in musical themes very quickly, a la side two of "Abbey Road".
"Cries From the Midnight Circus" is as rude a riff as the Stones ever came up with, and Pete Tolson's lead guitar is amazing.
The whole album is fun to listen to and dare I say....commercial? Which makes me think the Pretty Things could have been pretty big here in the states had it not been for drug busts. One of the best albums of the year.
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