Pretty Things discography
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| Pretty Things discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 14 |
| Live albums | 14 |
| Compilation albums | 32 |
| EPs | 7 |
| Singles | 34 |
| Collaborative albums | 4 |
| Stock music albums | 5 |
The English rock group The Pretty Things have released 13 studio albums, 14 live albums, 33 compilation albums, 7 extended play singles, and 34 singles.
Studio albums[edit]
| Year | Album details | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | AUS [1] |
UK | ||
| 1965 | The Pretty Things
|
— | — | 6 |
Get the Picture?
|
— | — | — | |
| 1967 | Emotions
|
— | — | — |
| 1968 | S.F. Sorrow
|
— | — | — |
| 1970 | Parachute
|
— | — | 43 |
| 1972 | Freeway Madness
|
— | 51 | — |
| 1974 | Silk Torpedo
|
104 | — | — |
| 1976 | Savage Eye
|
163 | — | — |
| 1980 | Cross Talk
|
— | — | — |
| 1987 | Out of the Island
|
— | — | — |
| 1999 | ... Rage Before Beauty
|
— | — | — |
| 2007 | Balboa Island[2]
|
— | — | — |
| 2015 | The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, of Course...)
|
— | — | — |
| 2020 | Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood
|
— | — | — |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | ||||
Live albums[edit]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1984 | Live at Heartbreak Hotel
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| 1992 | On Air: Original BBC Recordings
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| 1998 | Resurrection
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| 2003 | The BBC Sessions
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| 2006 | 40th Anniversary – Live in Brighton
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| 2014 | Live at the 100 Club
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Live at Rockpalast
| |
| 2015 | Live at the BBC
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| 2016 | Live at the BBC
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| 2018 | BBC 1964-1967
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Singapore Silk Torpedo Live at the BBC & Other Broadcasts
| |
Live at the BBC Paris Theatre – 1974
| |
| 2019 | The Final Bow
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| 2021 | Live at the BBC
|
Electric Banana[edit]
Electric Banana was a pseudonymous 1967 album of the band. When the album was released, the stage name the Electric Banana was used to hide the band's identity. The band recorded this album and four subsequent ones for the De Wolfe Music Library. De Wolfe provided stock music for film soundtracks. The Electric Banana music wound up on various horror and soft-porn films of the late 1960s. Films which have used their music include What's Good for the Goose (1969). The song "It'll Never Be Me" featured in the 1973 Doctor Who story The Green Death. The song "Cause I'm a Man" appeared in George A. Romero's horror classic Dawn of the Dead (1978) and was reissued on Trunk Records' 2004 compilation album Dawn of the Dead: The Unreleased Incidental Music.[3]
Stock music albums[edit]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1967 | Electric Banana (with Tilsley Orchestral)
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| 1968 | More Electric Banana
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| 1969 | Even More Electric Banana
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| 1973 | Hot Licks
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| 1978 | The Return of the Electric Banana
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Compilation albums[edit]
Other compilation albums of these recordings have been released under "The Pretty Things" name, see below.
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1978 | The Seventies
|
| 1978 | The Sixties
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| 1997 | Blows Your Mind
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| 2004 | Rave Up with...
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| 2011 | Psychedelic Essentials
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| 2019 | The Complete DeWolfe Sessions
|
Collaborative albums[edit]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| as Pretty Things & the Yardbird Blues Band (May and Taylor with Jim McCarty of the Yardbirds) | |
| 1991 | The Chicago Blues Tapes 1991
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| 1993 | Wine, Women & Whiskey
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| as Pretty Things 'N Mates (May and Taylor with members of the Inmates and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum) | |
| 1994 | A Whiter Shade of Dirty Water
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| As Pretty Things & Philippe Debarge | |
| 2009 | The Pretty Things/Philippe DeBarge
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Compilation albums[edit]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Greatest Hits 1964–1967
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| 1976 | Real Pretty
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The Vintage Years
| |
| 1977 | The Singles As & Bs
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| 1982 | 1967–1971
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| 1984 | Let Me Hear the Choir Sing
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| 1985 | Closed Restaurant Blues
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| 1986 | Cries From the Midnight Circus – The Best of 1968–1971
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| 1990 | Electric Banana
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More Electric Banana
| |
The Pretty Things Collection
| |
| 1991 | Greatest Hits
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| 1992 | Get a Buzz: The Best of the Fontana Years
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| 1994 | Midnight to 6
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| 1995 | Unrepentant – The Anthology
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| 1997 | The EP Collection... Plus
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| 1998 | Greatest Hits
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| 2000 | Latest Writs The Best Of... Greatest Hits
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Midnight to Six Man
| |
| 2001 | The Rhythm & Blues Years
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The Psychedelic Years 1966–1970[2]
| |
| 2002 | Singles As & Bs
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| 2003 | The Very Best of the Pretty Things
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| 2004 | Still Unrepentant
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Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things
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Midnight to Six Man
| |
| 2008 | Singles '64-68
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| 2011 | The Electric Banana Sessions
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| 2013 | Introducing the Pretty Things
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| 2015 | Bouquets From a Cloudy Sky
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| 2017 | The French EPs 1964-69
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Greatest Hits
|
EPs[edit]
| Release date | Title | Label | Chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK | NL | |||
| December 1964 | The Pretty Things | Fontana (TE 17434) | 6 | – |
| October 1965 | Rainin' in My Heart | Fontana (TE 17442) | 12 | – |
| 1965 | Road Runner | Fontana (465 279 TE) | – | 11 |
| August 1966 | The Pretty Things on Film | Fontana (TE 17472) | – | – |
| 13 August 2012 | SF Sorrow Live in London | Fruits De Mer (CRUSTACEAN 31) | – | – |
| 2 January 2018 | The Same Sun | Fruits De Mer (CRUSTACEAN 83) | – | – |
| 21 April 2018 | Live in Europe 1966-67 | 1960s (REP 016) | – | – |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | ||||
Singles[edit]
| Release date | Title (A-side/B-side) |
Label | Chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK[4] | AU | CA | NL | |||
| 8 May 1964 | "Rosalyn" "Big Boss Man" |
Fontana (TF 469) | 41 | 67 | – | – |
| October 1964 | "Don't Bring Me Down" "We'll Be Together" |
Fontana (TF 503) | 10 | 65 | 34 | – |
| 3 March 1965 | "Honey I Need" "I Can Never Say" |
Fontana (TF 537) | 13 | 54 | – | – |
| March 1965 | "Roadrunner" "Big City" (Netherlands) |
Fontana (267 451 TF) | – | – | – | 11 |
| 25 June 1965 | "Cry to Me" "Get a Buzz" |
Fontana (TF 585) | 28 | – | – | 13 |
| 20 January 1966 | "Midnight to Six Man" "Can't Stand The Pain" |
Fontana (TF 647) | 46 | 62 | – | 19 |
| April 1966 | "Come See Me" "£. s. d" |
Fontana (TF 688) | 43 | 92 | – | 36 |
| July 1966 | "A House in the Country" "Me Needing You" |
Fontana (TF 722) | 50 | 63 | – | 31 |
| December 1966 | "Progress" "Buzz the Jerk" |
Fontana (TF 773) | 55[A] | – | – | – |
| April 1967 | "Children" "My Time" |
Fontana (TF 829) | – | – | – | – |
| 10 November 1967 | "Defecting Grey" "Mr. Evasion" |
Columbia (DB 8300) | – | – | – | – |
| 4 December 1967 | "Trippin'" "My Time"(Netherlands) |
Fontana (267 786 TF) | – | – | – | – |
| February 1968 | "Death of a Socialite" "Photographer" (Germany) |
Star-Club (148 596 STF) | – | – | – | – |
| 16 February 1968 | "Talkin' About the Good Times" "Walking Through My Dreams" |
Columbia (DB 8353) | – | – | – | – |
| 1 November 1968 | "Private Sorrow" "Balloon Burning" |
Columbia (DB 8494) | – | – | – | – |
| 1969 | "Baron Saturday" "Loneliest Person" (France) |
Columbia (2C 006-04.067 M) | – | – | – | – |
| 17 April 1970 | "The Good Mr. Square" "Blue Serge Blues" |
Harvest (HAR 5016) | – | – | – | – |
| 20 November 1970 | "October 26" "Cold Stone" |
Harvest (HAR 5031) | – | – | – | 35 |
| 7 May 1971 | "Stone-Hearted Mama" "Summertime" & "Circus Mind" |
Harvest (HAR 5037) | – | – | – | – |
| 8 December 1972 | "Over the Moon" "Havana Bound" |
Warner Bros. (K 16225) | – | – | – | – |
| 6 December 1974 | "Is It Only Love?" "Joey" |
Swan Song (SSK 19401) | – | – | – | – |
| 13 June 1975 | "I'm Keeping..." "Atlanta" |
Swan Song (SSK 19403) | – | – | – | – |
| 25 July 1975 | "Joey" "Bridge of God" |
Swan Song (SSK 19404) | – | – | – | – |
| 20 February 1976 | "Sad Eye" "Remember That Boy" |
Swan Song (SSK 19405) | – | – | – | – |
| 28 May 1976 | "Tonight" "It Isn't Rock 'n' Roll" |
Swan Song (SSK 19406) | – | – | – | – |
| 1978 | "Do My Stuff" "Take Me Home" (as Electric Banana) |
Rouge (RMS 1111) | – | – | – | – |
| 1 August 1980 | "I'm Calling" "Sea of Blue" |
Warner Bros. (K 17670) | – | – | – | – |
| 10 October 1980 | "Falling Again" "She Don't" |
Warner Bros. (K 17702) | – | – | – | – |
| 1984 | "Take Me Home" "James Marshall" (as Zac Zolar & Electric Banana) |
Butt (Fun 5) | – | – | – | – |
| September 1989 | "Eve of Destruction" "Goin' Downhill" |
Trax (7TX 12) | – | – | – | – |
| 1999 | "All Light Up" "Love Keeps Hanging On", "Goin' Downhill", & "Pretty Beat" |
Madfish (121082) | – | – | – | – |
| June 2012 | "Honey, I Need" (Live at the 100 Club, December 2010) "I Can Never Say" (Demo) |
Fruits De Mer (CRUSTACEAN 29) | – | – | – | – |
| 22 May 2020 | "To Build a Wall" "The Devil Had a Hold of Me" |
Madfish | – | – | – | – |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart. | ||||||
Other releases[edit]
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Parachute Reborn
|
Notes[edit]
- ^ Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".
References[edit]
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 238. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ a b c Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 769–770. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
- ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "The Pretty Things | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 437–438. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ "XPTS – Parachute Revisited 180G 2LP".
External links[edit]
- Pretty Things discography discography at Discogs