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Balboa Island
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0880956070827
Label: Zoho Music
Manufacturer: Zoho Music
MPN: 200708
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Zoho Music
Release Date: August 07, 2007
Studio: Zoho Music
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"One of the greatest R&B bands of all time--real wild!" -- Van Morrison "The Pretty Things always made the Stones look tame, and the time has definitely come for their renaissance." -- Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd "The Pretties were great on stage--always far more rebellious than The Stones. You could like The Stones, but if you were a real rebel, it was always The Pretties." -- Gary Brooker, Procol Harum
Balboa Island is legendary British rock group The Pretty Things' long-awaited eleventh studio album in a forty-three-year recording career! Their first CD release in over eight years, many already regard it as on par with the band's very greatest '60s and '70s recordings. From the stadium-sized rock of "All Light Up" to the raw acoustic guitar blues of "Feel Like Going Home" and the Beatles/Abbey Road style of "Dearly Beloved," The Pretty Things have crafted a dark album--brooding, powerful, mysterious, and edgy. These thirteen new songs--mostly originals, but also including an acoustic cover of early Bob Dylan song "The Ballad of Hollis Brown"--have a rawness, intensity, depth, and passion unmatched by any of the band's contemporaries: the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, or The Who. None of the class of '64 has enough gas left in the tank to make an album like this! Founded in 1964 by lead vocalist Phil May and lead guitarist Dick Taylor--who was the Rolling Stones' original bass guitarist prior to starting The Pretty Things--the band has always followed its own fiercely independent path. Although the huge international breakthrough of the Rolling Stones or The Who has eluded the group, the members' uncompromising musical integrity has given them a cult following around the world.
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Rating: - Pretty Things - 'Balboa Island' (Zoho Music)
Many of you know about the connection between the Stones and the Pretty Things. Guitarist Dick Taylor left Mick Jagger and crew just prior to the Stone's first record release. The rest as they say, is history. I thought 'Balboa Island' was way better than their 1999 comeback 'Rage...Before Beauty' disc. I listened to this CD plenty of times before reviewing it. About every track here has something to offer the old school fans. Some cuts that actually sound as though they might've been recorded in ... Read More
Rating: - reviews are all over the place
I too have followed the Pretty Things since their first release. The one thing consistent about this band was their inconsistency in musical paths. That's what made them , and still makes them , so darned interesting. The first couple albums sounded nothing like the middle few . S.F. Sorrow was unlike anything at the time , Pretty Things or no Pretty Things. And their sparse but great late career discs sound refreshingly new. I enjoyed this album alot. It finds it's way into the changer monthly , ... Read More
Rating:  - Payoff for being a Long Time Pretty Things Fan!
After reading some of the reviews around here I like an idiot stalled getting it. Then I read the feature about it in The New Ugly Things magazine and how they knew they had a Classic in the making. I then had to get it immediately. Were one of my top 5 greatest bands of all time getting senile or something. The New York Dolls had alrady proved themselves with a fantastic comeback album(who woulda thought??)But after reading the article of the making of this they seemed just as cool and knowledgable ... Read More
Rating: - This sums it up
This is an autobiographical album that covers all phases of their career from the proto-punk/garage rock of their first two albums,the psychedelia of "S F Sorrow", the Beatles meets Hendrix pre-glam rock of "Parachute", "Freeway Madness", and "Silk Torpedo", the new wave of "Cross Talk", and finally the retrun to their roots of "Rage Before Beauty". Phil May reflects on the history of the himself and the Pretties making statements such as "...your day is done". He refers to the Dartford Delta and ... Read More
Rating: - grows on you
Wow- some surprisingly negative reviews here.
I've listened six or seven times and, other than the "Robert Johnson" song which is so-so but goes on way too long,or the boring Dylan cover which I skip, it's great. Yes, quite a somber mood overall, but lots of great stuff here and beautifully done. I do miss the harmonies and more pop oriented stuff because these guys can do anything, but I guess they just weren't feeling it. A shiny pop song or two would feel out of place here anyway, the mood ... Read More
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