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Pretty Things - Parachute (Harvest 1970) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

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Pretty Things - Parachute (Harvest 1970) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

Pretty Things - Parachute (1970)
Vinyl rip @ 24/96 | FLAC | Artwork | 833Mb inc. 5% recovery
Rapidshare | Rock, Psych-Rock | Original 1970 UK Harvest pressing / SHVL 774

Pretty Things - Parachute (Harvest 1970) 24-bit/96kHz Vinyl Rip

If S.F. Sorrow is the Pretty Things' Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, and Yellow Submarine wrapped in one, then Parachute is their more succinct White Album and Abbey Road. It's not just a time line comparison. The Pretties made this fascinating LP in the same studio as the Fab Four, London's Abbey Road, with Beatles engineer Norman Smith producing. "The Good Mr. Square" replicates the three-part harmony the Beatles were so proud of on "Because." Two songs later, the group assembles a brief, interconnected three-song suite like the famous ones on side two of Abbey Road. Bassist Wally Allen's vocals on tracks such as "Sickle Clowns" have the same throaty, mad anguish that John Lennon exhibited on "Yer Blues" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun." If S.F. Sorrow is hard rock grandeur, then Parachute is its more bitter twist, the dream dying and the witching hour upon us. Yet, if this isn't as much of a triumph, the creative neurons are still firing throughout a multi-varied, cohesive LP. Like S.F. Sorrow, it's a surprisingly palatable concept LP. This time the topic is a generation caught between the conflicting calls of (rural) peace, love, and boredom, and (urban) sophistication, sex, and squalor in a harsh world. Somehow the departure of the band's main creative force, Dick Taylor, didn't diminish the writing and inspired variety. Allen stepped up big time into the collaborator role with singer Phil May. The harmonies remain a strong point on an otherwise rock-inclined record, and the nasty edge of perfectly balanced bombast in the best songs have been a lost art ever since – it's not hard to see why Rolling Stone rated Parachute the best LP of 1970. Jack Rabid AMG.

Tracklisting:

A1. Scene One

A2. The Good Mr. Square

A3. She Was Tall, She Was High

A4. In The Square

A5. The Letter

A6. Rain

A7. Miss Fay Regrets

A8. Cries From The Midnight Circus

B1. Grass

B2. Sickle Clowns

B3. She's A Lover

B4. What's The Use

B5. Parachute

Produced by Norman Smith
Recorded at E.M.I. Studios, Abbey Road, London.

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