- Audio CD (Feb 22 2011)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: FAB DISTRIBUTION
- ASIN: B00006ALRK
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #66,616 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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UK reissue of the underappreciated British Invasion act's 1972 release in a digipak. Featuring personal comments from the band and related artists. Includes 6 bonus tracks of which 4 are recorded live at The Lyceum, London, Summer of 1973, 'Religion's Dead', 'Havana Bound', 'Love Is Good' & 'Onion Soup', plus single edits 'Over The Moon' & 'Havana Bound'. 2002.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty Things Enter the 70's,
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This review is from: Freeway Madness (Audio CD)
More than two years had gone since Pretty Things released their previous album, the highly acclaimed "Parachute". In the meantime there had been a split-up, a change of label, Peter Tolson was new on guitar and Stuart Brooks had replaced Wally Allen, who still contributed in producing the "new" album.Whereas "Parachute" had been greatly inspired by the Beatles, "Freeway Madness" is much more a progressive 1970's album - a change they persecuted with the next two albums "Silk Torpedo" and "Savage Eye" The album sets off quietly with "Love is Good". With "Havana Bound" they enter the main-stream hard-rocking sound of the seventies. Both opening tracks have been added in fine live performances as bonus-tracks. Peter Tolson's autobiographical "Peter" is a great acoustic song, which has been put together with the equally strong "Rip Off Train". The May/Waller ballad "Over the Moon" is for me the outstanding track; fine melody and great vocals. Second half of the album has its highlight in the uplifting "Country Road" . The four live-tracks are great additions to a solid album.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews) 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A prog rocker should have.,
By Dick Palmer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Freeway Madness (Audio CD)
Yep, the moments of impressive skills here are too many to be neglected. A well produced rock album ranging from hard to soft. Maybe i choose song #1 as the favourite. The young guitarist Peter Tolsen (b.51) was indeed a gifted player with a clear tonal range, steady bending and a solid blues rock bottom withmusicality. (The car seen on the album was actually David Gilmour's car! (guitarist of Pink Floyd) ). 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Freeway Madness ****,
By rick hoffman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Freeway Madness (Audio CD)
Yes this is not the Pretty Things best album. Yes It is not unlike other albums of its time. But This is one of the bands key pieces that shows how after spending about a year in the next studio from the Beatles that the band had absorbed their influences and perhaps had more successfully than any other band of this era combined the biting style of the Stones with the vocazl harmonic stylizations of the Beatles. At least one side of this album is great as a whole. The other side gets a little too much out there which is why it is not a *****. This is a band that has a catalog of 30 albums which are for the mostpart great albums. Not a stinker in the batch. Freeway Madness certainly is a fine moment!
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Pretty Things Enter the 70s,
By Morten Vindberg - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Freeway Madness (Audio CD)
More than two years had gone since Pretty Things released their previous album, the highly acclaimed "Parachute". In the meantime there had been a split-up, a change of label, Peter Tolson was new on guitar and Stuart Brooks had replaced Wally Allen, who still contributed in producing the "new" album.Whereas "Parachute" had been greatly inspired by the Beatles, "Freeway Madness" is much more a progressive 1970`s album - a change they persecuted with the next two albums "Silk Torpedo" and "Savage Eye" The album sets off quietly with "Love is Good". With "Havana Bound" they enter the main-stream hard-rocking sound of the seventies. Both opening tracks have been added in fine live performances as bonus-tracks. Peter Tolson`s autobiographical ""Peter" is a fine acoustic song, which has been put together with "Rip Off Train". "Over the Moon" is for me the outstanding track; fine melody and great vocals. Second half of the album has its highlight in the uplifting "Country Road" . The four live-tracks are great additions to a solid album. |
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