Shout Factory
2004
Come See Me: The Very Best Of The Pretty Things
About This Album
Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things is a lovingly packaged, mostly well-chosen collection of one of the best bands of the British Invasion that never quite managed to invade. Their lack of success in the States was certainly not due to a lack of great songs. The songs taken from the group's first three albums on Fontana bear this out. The stomping "Rosalyn," the mad take on Bo Diddley's "Roadrunner," the shuddering "Don't Bring Me Down," "Midnight to Six Man," and the snarling folk-rocker "You Don't Believe Me" are all beat group classics, revered by garage revivalists and lovers of tough R&B-influenced rock. The Pretty Things were tougher than the Stones, probably tougher than anyone in the U.K. In fact, stack up the murderously rough and tumble "Come See Me" or "Get the Picture" against any band that ever thought it was tough and you'll have a real fight on your hands. By its third album the group was showing signs of expanding its musical horizon. The string-laden pysch-pop ballad "The Sun" and acoustic guitar-based big pop tune "Death of a Socialite" bear this out.
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