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Sf Sorrow by: Pretty Things List Price: £8.99 CD-Charts Price: £7.98 You Save: £1.01 (11%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0636551610926 Label: Snapper Classics Manufacturer: Snapper Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Snapper Classics Release Date: February 03, 2003 Studio: Snapper Classics Sales Rank: 4502 MPN: 109 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - A Milestone!The Pretty Things' 1968 album "S.F. Sorrow" did not cause much attention when it was originally released. The band had already shown, with their previous album "Emotions", that they wanted to explore new grounds, and that they felt that the r&b concept was too limited for them. "Emotions" showed that the band possesed excellent songwriters in Wally Allen, Phil May and Dick Taylor. Unfortunately the production of that album was not too successful; at least at the time it was considered as some kind of a "disaster". This is not the case with the follow-up album "S.F. Sorrow". The sound is great and Norman Smith's production captured the new psychedelic sounds and trends of the late 1960's perfectly. Read More: Rating: - Lost psychedelic classic from 1968...'SF Sorrow', as many have noted is one of the great lost-albums of the era - it deserves to be ranked alongside such albums as 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' & 'Sgt Pepper'- & belongs to a wider range of psychedelic-classics such as 'Odessey & Oracle' (The Zombies),'Surrealistic Pillow' (Jefferson Airplane)& 'Younger Than Yesterday' (The Byrds). It's also one of the first concept-albums - without it, I'm not sure if any of the following would exist: 'Tommy', 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway', 'The Dark Side of the Moon', 'Diamond Dogs', 'The Wall' etc (this may or may not be a good thing for some...). 'SF Sorrow' seems to completely define that British-take on psychedelia - producer Norman Smith ('Arnold Layne', 'See Emily ... Read More: Rating: - norman smith touches. yet again, it turns out gold.oh, to be mincing around abbey road, summer of '67. 'sgt pepper', 'piper at the gates of dawn' (my personal favourite, out of the big three) and 'sf sorrow', all on the go. did i say "big three"? whilst the first two are indeed legendary, 'sf sorrow' has (somehow) managed to remain all 'man with no name', keeing itself to itself, only revealing itself when you listen to it. the budget was tiny, compared to the other two, even the sleeve design created 'in house'. maybe it's because 'the pretty things' didn't have a john, paul, george, ringo or syd. maybe the fabs and floyd took precedent? i dunno. i wasn't around and i haven't really read up, but hearing 'defecting grey' on a music monthly freebie, i needed, at some point, to get this album. Read More: Rating: - Arguably the first concept album ever.Arguably the first concept album ever, released in 1967, featuring love traumatised and socially alienated Sebastian F Sorrow wandering around New York in a bizarre nightmare, this predates Tommy & Lamb Lies down and The Wall by years. Up there with The Stone, The Beatles and The Floyd, The Pretty Things are probably the biggest missing link in rock history, and certainly the most under-rated. Tightly plotted, extraordinarily powerful, perfectly arranged and beautifully concise, this might be the band's "psychedelic" phase, but we're talking SONGS here, great tunes, played brilliantly with real emotion. And it really rocks with guitars all over the place. A quick plug for their follow up album too: "Parachute" (1970), the only Rolling Stone ... Read More: Rating: - Fantastic!Let's talk about concept albums. No, better still, let's talk about narrative concept albums, where having a theme isn't enough, the whole album has to read like a musical book. There are tons to choose from - Home's The Alchemist, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Genesis's The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Jon Anderson's Olias Of Sunhillow, Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage...and so on and so on (nausea prevents me from mentioning Jeff Wayne or Rick Wakeman). The best known is probably The Who's Tommy, but which was the first? Sgt Pepper doesn't really count (unless you think of it as a performance from entrance to encore, in which case it's really no more than a mock live album, is it?), neither does The Moody Blues' Days Of Future Passed (a whole day from midnight ... Read More: |
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