Albums by The Pretty Things
ALBUMBare as Bone, Bright as BloodThe Pretty Things
ALBUMThe Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, Of Course...)The Pretty Things
ALBUMBalboa IslandThe Pretty Things
ALBUMRage Before BeautyThe Pretty Things
ALBUMCross TalkThe Pretty Things
ALBUMSavage EyeThe Pretty Things
ALBUMSilk TorpedoThe Pretty Things
ALBUMFreeway MadnessThe Pretty Things
ALBUMEmotionsThe Pretty Things
ALBUMGet the Picture?The Pretty Things
Artist Playlists
The Pretty Things Essentials
Rough-and-ready Brit rockers were longtime underdogs but critical favorites.
The Pretty Things: Deep Cuts
These tough British rockers didn't get trapped in the ‘60s.
Artist Biography
The Pretty Things were one of the toughest and most celebrated artists to rise from the British Invasion era, and among the very best British R&B bands of the '60s. Taking their name from a Bo Diddley song, they were intentionally ugly: their sound was brutish, their hair longer than any of their contemporaries, their look unkempt. The high points of their R&B period are 1965's The Pretty Things and Get the Picture?; 1968's S.F. Sorrow is their psychedelic touchstone; and 1970's Parachute is an ambitious mix of psychedelia, pop, and hard rock. Their cult was drawn to either their vicious early records, where they sounded like a meaner version of the Rolling Stones, or to S.F. Sorrow, which inspired Pete Townshend to write Tommy for the Who.
Hometown
Kent, England
Genre
Rock