THE PRETTY THINGS Cross Talk LP
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1980 USA WARNER BROTHERS BSK 3466
This is one of the truly under rated Pretty Things and it is right up there with their best. Phil May's lyrics and vocals are exceptional, REAL adult rock 'n' roll and the combination of Pete Tolson & Dick Taylor on guitars is lethal. Skip Allen, Wally Waller & John Povey didn't just hang in there with the rest of them - they pushed it to the brink. Maybe the Things peaked right here !
All music says this: "Who would have thought it? Reunited after splitting in the mid-'70s, the Pretty Things return with a new wave album. It's not what anyone might have expected, but it's very far from a disaster. The stop-on-a-dime arrangements and natural power show them to be well-seasoned, and Phil May, with an extremely mannered voice, comes across as a taunting frontman. In fact, you tend to feel that if Thin Lizzy had eased up on the metal, they might have made an album very much like this — great, catchy songs based in R&B and old rock & roll ("Lost That Girl") — but with the tongue firmly in cheek (check the Sting imitation on "No Future") while pandering to fashion. But when the results are as good as the jangly "Office Love" or "I'm Calling," you really don't care where the tongue's residing. There's a sense of history about the '50s drums on "Falling Again" that no young bucks could ever match, nor could they come close to the band's overall professionalism or stinging guitar work of Peter Tolson. Any of these ten tracks would have made a great single and by rights should have returned the band to major-name status. But justice is thin on the ground in music and instead it became one of the lost Pretties albums — a shame, since in its own lighter way, it's every bit as good as their classic albums of a decade earlier. Some reunions don't work; this one just roars."
Tracks: I'm Calling (May, Tolson), Edge of the Night (May, Waller), Sea of Blue (May, Tolson), Lost That Girl (May), Bitter End (May, Povey), Office Love (May, Tolson), Falling Again (May, Waller), It's So Hard (May, Tolson), She Don't (May, Tolson), No Future (May, Tolson) - and there is not a dud amongst them.
The sleeve has a small circular stain on the top right front where a sticker has been. The printed inner sleeve with all of the lyrics is there.
Minor surface marks on the record do not affect play
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