Pretty Things... Wow.... Still bloody amazing.. Top Drawer Act.... Like Roy Harper Part of the Crown Jewels Collection.... Hidden away from sight and overlooked! Long may the arias of Phil and Dick live on....
my mum was ex hippy and used to listen to the pretty things as a toddler in early 70s. i listened to sf sorrow a few years back for first time in like 30 odd years and knew all the words off by heart. i am dance music fan but pretty things are among the best.
Love The Pretty Things & Very Sad that Phil May has Died, saw them twice, Theatre Royal in Norwich with Billy Fury & Dave Berry in '65 & at the University of East Anglia in 1967, got all their Autographs before the Show & put them in my Leather Coat & hung it in the Cloakroom, when we came out it had gone...I was only 16 then & wasn't aware of Thieves ....but they were So Great! Funny tho how they Always Put The Stones Down......
Don't ever recall hearing about this band. Doesn't sound like the typical British Invasion sounds of the early/mid sixties. This is definitely Garage Rock.
@@barnabyaprobert5159 They later reminisced that it was hepped up R&B, soul, whatever...first punk prototype along with The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Stones, The Beatles...They seem to be the prototype.
The early punk / psych / garage tunes were the best; ie : Pretty things , The Eyes , The Seeds , 13th Floor Elevators , The Standels , The Chocolate Watch Band , Castaways , The Beatles , The Who , The Yard Birds , The Baytovens , The Hangmen , The Fugitive 5 , The Kinks , The Human Expression , The Moody Blues , The Ides , Mystic Tide , Pretty Things , The Music Machine , The Missing Links , just to name a few .
Mark E. Smith probably for the only time in his life suggesting a healthier, more natural alternative. Ha ha! By the way, I'm still astounded that The Pretty Things were singing about LSD this early, (I think this is '66) and even more stunned that the record company agreed to release it.
@@anonyarena actually the song refers to money. In pre-decimal currency it was listed as £Sd for pounds, shillings and pence. It actually goes back centuries. Of course the double meaning always added some drama.
Been having a bit of an "argment" with a 19 year old who know's sooooooooooooo much more than me. I mean, "he's seen them on TV" . I saw them probably before they ever got on TV. (I never saw a TV until I was 10) Couldn't see them on the BBC unless on the NEWS. I prefered them over the Stone's and all other London Band's. Better to have "Lived through the Period & apreciated them in a small dance / club venue with maybe a crowd of 200 people than on TV after they became popular. At least that way, "we saw them in colour"...... FANTASIC BAND..... I walked most of the 25 mile's to see them. {RICKY TIC, WINDSOR) >>> My thumb wasn't working that day ! (Luckily it did on the return trip.)
@@roberts.5136 Hmm, thimk the PrettyThings were a bit better than his outfit. Saw both, Things were always amazing, Led Zeppeling played the first album like it was on the turntable. Yawn.
This song is about money and not the drug. Actually it is £sd (pound shilling dime) and the text of this great song is very clear about it, but ofcourse in general people think it is about the drug. Phil May and Dick Taylor wrote it very cleverly in 1965, so it could not be banned on the radio back then.
Einmal vergeblich damit auf den Himmel gewartet und einmal über alle Köpfe geflogen. Was hat man nicht alles mitgemacht und lebt immer noch. Das man das damals auf ner Scheibe pressen und rausbringen durfte, war schon irre. Nur echt gebraucht habe ich es zum Glück nie!
Sans oublier la région de san francisco avec les greatful dead , quicksilver messenger service, jefferson airplaine Iron butterfly et j'en passe...le bon temps des "acid graduation test" en californie
Everybody's talking about my L.S.D. I say talk is easy and moneys never free, L.S.D., L.S.D But I always tell them life it ain't so black For everything I'm given, something's taken back L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D. Yes, I need L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D. Yes, I need L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D. Yes, I need L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D. Mercy is in his deed I find He hasn't got a care, he might not be going fast But is he going anywhere L.S.D., L.S.D., L.S.D.
The Pretty Things > The Rolling Stones (Mais largement ma poule ! et dans tous les compartiments : beat, guitare fuzz, attitude, charisme, etc. Sans parler de Phil May qui relègue cette traviole de Jagger au fin fond des tteuchios' de la teuboî, tavu !? ^^)
In my opinion, one of the best British bands of all times! They made life better to live. Thanks forever!
Everything the Rolling Stones pretended to be. A shame these guys didn't blow up big.
From this to S.F. Sorrow, they had quite a range.
Yes Bryan Jones took acid with Phil may on a plane With Bryan having a psychedelic smile
Pretty Things... Wow.... Still bloody amazing.. Top Drawer Act.... Like Roy Harper Part of the Crown Jewels Collection.... Hidden away from sight and overlooked!
Long may the arias of Phil and Dick live on....
That's a bit of a musical jump from the Pretties to Roy Harper, but I get it!
The ultimate greatest band to remain in England and not get discovered through the British Invasion. Americans missed out.
i agree 100%....
Still very popular here in North-West Europe, seen them a few times over the past 10 years.
my mum was ex hippy and used to listen to the pretty things as a toddler in early 70s. i listened to sf sorrow a few years back for first time in like 30 odd years and knew all the words off by heart. i am dance music fan but pretty things are among the best.
They did miss out on the British invasion but The Move, who were even more successful, did likewise...
Americans heard them. Plenty American garage bands did covers of them.
What a little gem. Pounds, shillings and pence LOL! Excellent British band. Way ahead of their more popular contemporaries.
Love The Pretty Things & Very Sad that Phil May has Died, saw them twice, Theatre Royal in Norwich with Billy Fury & Dave Berry in '65 & at the University of East Anglia in 1967, got all their Autographs before the Show & put them in my Leather Coat & hung it in the Cloakroom, when we came out it had gone...I was only 16 then & wasn't aware of Thieves ....but they were So Great! Funny tho how they Always Put The Stones Down......
The Bags used the opening riff on “Survive” (1978 punk, Dangerhouse Records)
WOW!
Outstanding, yes !!
Don't ever recall hearing about this band. Doesn't sound like the typical British Invasion sounds of the early/mid sixties. This is definitely Garage Rock.
They covered many of the same American R&B songs which the Stones did.
@@barnabyaprobert5159 They later reminisced that it was hepped up R&B, soul, whatever...first punk prototype along with The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Stones, The Beatles...They seem to be the prototype.
The early punk / psych / garage tunes were the best; ie : Pretty things , The Eyes , The Seeds , 13th Floor Elevators , The Standels , The Chocolate Watch Band , Castaways , The Beatles , The Who , The Yard Birds , The Baytovens , The Hangmen , The Fugitive 5 , The Kinks , The Human Expression , The Moody Blues , The Ides , Mystic Tide , Pretty Things , The Music Machine , The Missing Links , just to name a few .
@@johnceglick8714 errr, me 'tink's' you have some American band's in their. LOL Yardbird's is won word ! "The Beatles" They were a "POP" band. LOL.
They didn't breakthrough across the pond, but David Bowie had Phil May's contact info filed under "God" in his rolodex. He was master lyricist.
I dont need no acid factory , ive got mushrooms in the fields...
Mark E. Smith probably for the only time in his life suggesting a healthier, more natural alternative. Ha ha! By the way, I'm still astounded that The Pretty Things were singing about LSD this early, (I think this is '66) and even more stunned that the record company agreed to release it.
@@anonyarena actually the song refers to money. In pre-decimal currency it was listed as £Sd for pounds, shillings and pence. It actually goes back centuries. Of course the double meaning always added some drama.
Great lyric by the great MES
The drummer makes the band, with his ferocious energy and dynamic stage presence.. 🤣
That’s Skip Alan, he was only 18 years old here, he was there Keith Moon
great band of the 60's saw them many times in se london allways a great show !!
Only saw them once at the "Ricky Tic" Windsor. Looked everywhere to see if P Charles or P's Anne were their. LOL
The chocolate watch band was good as well .This riff sounds so clean !
Been having a bit of an "argment" with a 19 year old who know's sooooooooooooo much more than me. I mean, "he's seen them on TV" . I saw them probably before they ever got on TV. (I never saw a TV until I was 10) Couldn't see them on the BBC unless on the NEWS. I prefered them over the Stone's and all other London Band's. Better to have "Lived through the Period & apreciated them in a small dance / club venue with maybe a crowd of 200 people than on TV after they became popular. At least that way, "we saw them in colour"...... FANTASIC BAND..... I walked most of the 25 mile's to see them. {RICKY TIC, WINDSOR) >>> My thumb wasn't working that day ! (Luckily it did on the return trip.)
Oh, this is rockin.
A buddy turned me onto this group. Rocking me.
Really god looking guy! ThE singer is awesome
+LuSandoz That is the one and only Phil May!
I loved him so much!
He showed me a new kind of being a man, that I didn't know before this way. It was relieving for me. Love him for ever. RIP.
Loving the Attitude!!!...
X
Garage music! The best \m/
great early single
Do the hair.
Album,SF Sorrow❤❤
love this band.....
Guitar riff reminds me of The Yardbirds' Heart Full of Soul.
I think heart full of soul was later.
Jimmy Page actually said he liked this band
@@roberts.5136 Hmm, thimk the PrettyThings were a bit better than his outfit. Saw both, Things were always amazing, Led Zeppeling played the first album like it was on the turntable. Yawn.
Surely , Heart full of soul sounds like this song played on a sitar sounding guitar
@@neapolismusic Heart Full of Soul released 1965. L.S.D., B-side for Come See Me, released 1966.
Thank you for the upload :)
@ninyae LSD meant money in England not drugs.
In the late 60s, wasn't there a double meaning?
I could go for a few hits of LSD right about now in the flip flopped world.
Actually the song is about British money L (pounds) S (shillings) D (pence)
Why a few surely one s enough.
@@waynesilverman3048 What about the following days? Surely one isn't enough, that said, i found what i was looking for & i found more than one!
I hear ya maybe i can make some sense of whats going on with the new generation
@DaeraLord42 i managed to track two hits down along with 2G shrooms, just trying to find the time to fit it in.
Robert McCammon’s “The Five” brought me here and I don’t regret it ✌️
Drag racing from from Tennessee and I'm high on LSD don't you see ☠️☠️☠️☠️🪓🪦
Rest in peace Phil may
Where's the goat from the Come See Me promo filmed at the same place and time?
This song is about money and not the drug. Actually it is £sd (pound shilling dime) and the text of this great song is very clear about it, but ofcourse in general people think it is about the drug. Phil May and Dick Taylor wrote it very cleverly in 1965, so it could not be banned on the radio back then.
Pounds shillings and pence...
Yeah,£.s.d...that was their excuse,when papers accused them of drug promotion.
But why stood 'd' for 'pence' ?
***** Although it means Pounds, Shillings and Pence it comes from the Latin currency denominations Librae, Solidi and denarii.
LSD LSD AMPHETS POPERS SUPER NOS ANNEES SIXTIES !!!super groupe !!!
Charles Dupont It was about money not drugs, you muppet.
Maria Lowe
thank you maria i like it the pretty things lol!!!!
yo rob whatcha doin here?
dad
badass beat lol
timeless unique. .
Should have been bigger than the stones and the beatles
Mai comment was top dawg on the old upload of this with like 1.000000000000,0 views R.I.P. to that vidya
L.S.D.-Legalise Sikerdelik Drugs.
ya no hay musica de calidad como esa
This is the type of song you play when you’re on a bad date.
Einmal vergeblich damit auf den Himmel gewartet und einmal über alle Köpfe geflogen. Was hat man nicht alles mitgemacht und lebt immer noch. Das man das damals auf ner Scheibe pressen und rausbringen durfte, war schon irre. Nur echt gebraucht habe ich es zum Glück nie!
LSD AMPHETS I LIKE IT VERY GOODDDD THE PRETTY THINGS 66 !!!! REVISEZ VOS CLASSICS AVEC MC5 DEUX SUPER GROUPES ALTERNATIFS ROCK ANGLAIS SIXTIES !!!!!
+Charles Dupont LOUD NOISES!
From LSD to DDDBMT, some change. Doubt if DDDBMT knew what LSD was on about, but then again.............!!!!
RIP Phil May
maybe Owsley's got the money.
i got this song in my spotify playlist, that is why i'm here
pur rock sixties anglo-saxon avec pretty things et n'oublions pas MC5 excellent aussi pur et dur lol !!!! on aimes çà bordel !!!
Sans oublier la région de san francisco avec les greatful dead , quicksilver messenger service, jefferson airplaine
Iron butterfly et j'en passe...le bon temps des "acid graduation test" en californie
EXACT FRANCIS Francis Fournier
Super!
put this into my song rotation - cut 1:20 off my 5K run time....adrenaline rush!
rip phil 😭
@milka1538 JEJE .. THANKS MILKA!!!!!
Fantastic !
Thanks for the new loud....sowas von geil die musik.
66 VOUS Y ETIEZ ? ALORS PENSEZ A REVISEZ VOS CLASSICS SIXTIES THANKS" ecoutez ecoutez ecoutez LSD LSD LSD !!!!!!!hum c"est bon tout çà koko !!!!
Phil May here looks a lot like Marillion's Steve Hogarth, at least in younger years.
I love this vid phil may makes me laugh when he looks at the camera and says LSD
Better than the stones ....Nuff said
Old School
Невероятно.
Everybody's talking about my L.S.D.
I say talk is easy and moneys never free, L.S.D., L.S.D
But I always tell them life it ain't so black
For everything I'm given, something's taken back
L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D.
Yes, I need L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D.
Yes, I need L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D.
Yes, I need L.S.D., yes, I need L.S.D.
Mercy is in his deed I find
He hasn't got a care, he might not be going fast
But is he going anywhere
L.S.D., L.S.D., L.S.D.
Damn to hear this song now is so fuckin cool 😎 ☮🎼🎵🎶🤘🏽🤘🏽
Might sample and make into a psych trance remix but love it any how .
un de mes titres préférés des pretty j"adore LSD LSD YES YES YES SUPER PRETTY THINGS MAGIQUE SIXTIES !!!!
me too cher Charles Dupont
YES I NEED!!!!.........
Some of the rifts seem to be the fore runner to Satisfaction so it fits with the history of the pre-Stones :-)
The guitar melody line is the same as some other song. The Yardbirds, I think. I do not know which predates which.
@@cheerfulharmony Heart Full of Soul released in 1965, LSD, a B-side, 1966.
those long hairstyles and clothes......they could fit right in during the grunge era of the 1990's
catchy tune!
The Pretty Things > The Rolling Stones
(Mais largement ma poule ! et dans tous les compartiments : beat, guitare fuzz, attitude, charisme, etc. Sans parler de Phil May qui relègue cette traviole de Jagger au fin fond des tteuchios' de la teuboî, tavu !? ^^)
what does he says at the end of the song?
Got some; leave me message F/B johnny morys LOL LOL
top!
RI0 PHILL MAY
Rip
The Best !!!
Der Hammer! Danke fürs Video! Habe alle Platten von ihnen!
Magik
Very early Pretty Things when governments were passing out LSD.
LSD Riders
Just heard Phil May has passed away from complications following hip surgery after a cycling accident he was 76 Bugger!
i love id i marry it i die for it !its love&magic
NO!