The Pretty Things - Balboa Island reviews
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 These grizzled British Invasion-era vets may no longer be pretty, but there's a weird beauty in the matter-of-fact way The Pretty Things rip through Balboa Island's 13 blues, jazz, and R&B-inflected tunes. True, the dearth of to-die-for hooks assures that erstwhile rivals the Rolling Stones still don't have much to worry about. But the overall feel of the set, from the Who-like bashfest ''Buried Alive'' to the gritty cover of Bob Dylan's ''Ballad of Hollis Brown,'' is undeniably galvanizing in all the right ways....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| “The Stones, Van, The Who—none of the class of ’64 has enough gas left in the tank to make a record like this,” Pretty Things manager (and occasional drummer) Mark St. John boldly declares in his liner notes to Balboa Island, their first album in seven years. True enough—the Who haven’t done anything worth a damn since Keith Moon died, Van Morrison is just another boring rock critics’ pet, and the Stones’ current stadium tours are embarrassing....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| A problem with bands that have been on the scene for over 40 years (count 'em) is that they can sometimes still write songs with titles like "The Beat Goes On" and "Buried Alive," as if those tropes hadn't lost their edge several decades ago. On the other hand, when a band has played together for four decades its members have often learned one of rock & roll's great lessons: how to create maximum groove with minimal ingredients. So when the Pretty Things lay down a song as thunderous as "Livin' in My Skin," they do so with the ponderous grace and inexorable momentum of an elephant walking to water....full text |
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