Pretty Things discography

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.

Pretty Things discography
Studio albums14
EPs7
Live albums14
Compilation albums32
Singles34
Collaborative albums4
Stock music albums5

Studio albums

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Year Album details Chart positions
US AUS
[1]
UK
1965 The Pretty Things
  • Released: March 1965
  • Label: Fontana (TL 5239)
  • Format: LP
6
Get the Picture?
  • Released: December 1965
  • Label: Fontana (TL 5280)
  • Format: LP
1967 Emotions
  • Released: 18 April 1967
  • Label: Fontana (TL 5425)
  • Format: LP
1968 S.F. Sorrow
  • Released: December 1968
  • Label: Columbia (SCX 6306)
  • Format: LP
1970 Parachute
  • Released: June 1970
  • Label: Harvest (SHVL 774)
  • Formats: LP, cassette
43
1972 Freeway Madness
  • Released: December 1972
  • Label: Warner Bros. (K 46190)
  • Formats: LP, 8-track
51
1974 Silk Torpedo
  • Released: 1 November 1974
  • Label: Swan Song (SSK 59400)
  • Formats: LP, cassette, 8-track
104
1976 Savage Eye
  • Released: January 1976
  • Label: Swan Song (SSK 59401)
  • Formats: LP, cassette, 8-track
163
1980 Cross Talk
  • Released: August 1980
  • Label: Warner Bros. (K56842)
  • Formats: LP, cassette
1987 Out of the Island
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: in-akustik (inak 8708 CD)
  • Format: CD
1999 ... Rage Before Beauty
  • Released: 9 March 1999
  • Label: Snapper Music (SMACD 814)
  • Format: CD
2007 Balboa Island[2]
  • Released: May 2007
  • Label: Zoho (SMACD 814)
  • Format: CD
2015 The Sweet Pretty Things (Are in Bed Now, of Course...)
  • Released: 10 July 2015
  • Label: Repertoire (V 166) [LP] (REPUK 1265) [CD]
  • Formats: LP, CD
2020 Bare as Bone, Bright as Blood
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Live albums

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Year Album details
1984 Live at Heartbreak Hotel
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Big Beat (WIK 24)
  • Format: LP
1992 On Air: Original BBC Recordings
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Band of Joy (boj cd 003)
  • Format: CD
1998 Resurrection
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: World Wide Tribe (160042)
  • Format: CD
2003 The BBC Sessions
  • Released: 25 November 2003
  • Label: Repertoire (REP 4938)
  • Format: 2xCD
2006 40th Anniversary – Live in Brighton
  • Released 21 November 2006
  • Label: Snapper (SDVD520)
  • Format: DVD/CD
2014 Live at the 100 Club
Live at Rockpalast
  • Released: 23 December 2014
  • Label: Repertoire (REPUK 1204)
  • Format: 2xDVD/CD, 2xLP
2015 Live at the BBC
  • Released: 18 May 2015
  • Label: Repertoire (REPUK 1205)
  • Format: 4xCD
2016 Live at the BBC
  • Released: 30 September 2016
  • Label: Repertoire (REP 2297)
  • Format: 2xLP
2018 BBC 1964-1967
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: No Kidding (NK201803)
  • Format: LP
Singapore Silk Torpedo Live at the BBC & Other Broadcasts
  • Released: 28 September 2018
  • Label: Repertoire (REPUK1327)
  • Format: 2xCD/DVD, FLAC
Live at the BBC Paris Theatre – 1974
  • Released: 21 December 2018
  • Label: Repertoire (V305)
  • Format: LP, FLAC
2019 The Final Bow
  • Released: 1 November 2019
  • Label: Madfish (SMABX1139)
  • Formats: 2xCD/2xDVD/10" vinyl, 2xLP
2021 Live at the BBC
  • Released: 28 May 2021 DD, 25 June 2021 LP, 2 July 2021 CD
  • Label: Repertoire (REPUK1373) [CD], (V342) [LP]
  • Format: 6xCD, 3xLP, DD

Electric Banana

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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

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Year Album details
1967 Electric Banana (with Tilsley Orchestral)
  • Released: 1967
  • Label: De Wolfe (DW/LP 3040)
  • Formats: LP, 10"
1968 More Electric Banana
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: De Wolfe (DW/LP 3069)
  • Formats: LP
1969 Even More Electric Banana
  • Released: 1969
  • Label: De Wolfe (DW/LP 3123)
  • Formats: LP
1973 Hot Licks
  • Released: 1973
  • Label: De Wolfe (DWS/LP 3284)
  • Formats: LP
1978 The Return of the Electric Banana
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: De Wolfe (DWS/LP 3381)
  • Formats: LP

Compilation albums

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Other compilation albums of these recordings have been released under "The Pretty Things" name, see below.

Year Album details
1978 The Seventies
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Butt (NOTT 001)
  • Format: LP
1978 The Sixties
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: Butt (NOTT 003)
  • Format: LP
1997 Blows Your Mind
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Tenth Planet (TP031)
  • Formats: LP, CD
2004 Rave Up with...
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: Guerssen (GUESS018; GUPEN02)
  • Format: LP
2011 Psychedelic Essentials
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Purple Pyramid (886788171640)
  • Format: CD-R
2019 The Complete DeWolfe Sessions
  • Released: 27 September 2019
  • Label: Grapefruit (CRSEGBOX058)
  • Format:3xCD

Collaborative albums

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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
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Demon (FIEND CD 708)
  • Format: CD
1993 Wine, Women & Whiskey
  • Released: 1993[2]
  • Label: Demon (FIENDCD748)
  • Format: CD
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
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Kingdom Records (CDKVL 9031)
  • Format: CD
  • Note: Reissued as Rockin' the Garage
As Pretty Things & Philippe Debarge
2009 The Pretty Things/Philippe DeBarge
  • Released: 18 February 2009
  • Label: Ugly Things (UTCD-2207)
  • Formats: CD, LP
  • Note: Reissued as Rock St. Trop

Compilation albums

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Year Album details
1975 Greatest Hits 1964–1967
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Philips (6625 015)
  • Format: 2xLP
1976 Real Pretty
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Rare Earth (R7-549R2)
  • Format: 2xLP
The Vintage Years
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Sire (SASH-3713-2)
  • Format: 2xLP
1977 The Singles As & Bs
  • Released: 1977
  • Label: Harvest (SHSM 2022)
  • Format: LP, Cassette
1982 1967–1971
  • Released: 1982
  • Label See For Miles (CM 103)
  • Format: Cassette, LP, CD
1984 Let Me Hear the Choir Sing
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Edsel (ED 139)
  • Format: LP
1985 Closed Restaurant Blues
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Bam-Caruso (KIRI 032)
  • Format: LP
1986 Cries From the Midnight Circus – The Best of 1968–1971
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Harvest (EMS 1119)
  • Format: LP
1990 Electric Banana
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Repertoire (RR 4088-WZ)
  • Format: CD
More Electric Banana
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Repertoire (RR 4089-WZ)
  • Format: CD
The Pretty Things Collection
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Impact (IMCD 9.00986 O)
  • Format: CD
1991 Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Carnaby (CD 552024)
  • Format: CD, cassette
1992 Get a Buzz: The Best of the Fontana Years
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Fontana (314 512 446-2)
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1994 Midnight to 6
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Spectrum (550 186-2)
  • Format: CD, cassette
1995 Unrepentant – The Anthology
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: SPV (SPV 094-89692)
  • Format: 2xCD
1997 The EP Collection... Plus
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: See For Miles (SEECD 476)
  • Format: CD
1998 Greatest Hits
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Universe (UN 3 122)
  • Format: CD
2000 Latest Writs The Best Of... Greatest Hits
  • Released: 21 February 2000
  • Label: Snapper (SMACD823)
  • Format: CD
Midnight to Six Man
  • Released: 29 December 2000
  • Label: Norton (ED-284)
  • Format: LP
2001 The Rhythm & Blues Years
  • Released: 20 July 2001
  • Label: Recall 2 cd (SMDCD343)
  • Format: 2xCD
The Psychedelic Years 1966–1970[2]
  • Released: 29 October 2001
  • Label: Recall 2 cd (SMDCD344)
  • Format: 2xCD
2002 Singles As & Bs
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Repertoire (REP 4937)
  • Format: 3xCD
2003 The Very Best of the Pretty Things
  • Released 2003
  • Label: Repertoire (REP 4990)
  • Format: CD
2004 Still Unrepentant
  • Released 2004
  • Label: Snapper (SMADD888); Repertoire (REP 4937)
  • Format: 2xCD/DVD
Come See Me: The Very Best of the Pretty Things
Midnight to Six Man
  • Released: 13 December 2004
  • Label: Magic (3 700139 304426)
  • Format: 7xCD
2008 Singles '64-68
  • Released: 27 May 2008
  • Label: Sundazed (LP 5234)
  • Format: 2xLP
2011 The Electric Banana Sessions
  • Released 2011
  • Label: Enigmatic (ENICD 08)
  • Format: CD
2013 Introducing the Pretty Things
  • Released: 22 April 2013
  • Labels: Snapper, Recall 2 cd (SMDCD905)
  • Format: 2xCD
2015 Bouquets From a Cloudy Sky
  • Released: 23 February 2015
  • Label: Snapper (SMABX1029)
  • Format: 13xCD/2xDVD/10" vinyl
2017 The French EPs 1964-69
  • Released: 22 April 2017
  • Label: Madfish (SMACD1079)
  • Formats: 5x7" vinyl
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 13 October 2017
  • Label: Madfish (SMACD1082)
  • Formats: 2xCD, 2xLP
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

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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

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Year Album details
2012 Parachute Reborn
  • Released: 30 April 2012
  • Label: Esoteric Antenna (EANTCD 100)
  • Format: CD, 2-LP
  • Re-recording of Parachute by ex Pretty Things members Wally Waller, Jonathon Povey, Skip Alan, and Pete Tolson under the group name "xPTs"
  • Reissued on 2-LP by Renaissance Records under the title Parachute Revisited with one extra track 19 October 2021[5]

Notes

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  1. ^ Chart position is from the official UK "Breakers List".

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 769–770. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
  3. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "The Pretty Things | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 437–438. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  5. ^ "XPTS – Parachute Revisited 180G 2LP".
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