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The Pretty Things - Emotions (Repertoire) (1967)

Track listing:
  1. Death Of A Socialite 2:43
  2. Children 3:03
  3. The Sun 3:04
  4. There Will Never Be Another Day 2:18
  5. House Of Ten 2:51
  6. Out In The Night 2:40
  7. One Long Glance 2:53
  8. Growing In My Mind 2:20
  9. Photographer 2:06
  10. Bright Lights Of The City 3:02
  11. Tripping 3:23
  12. My Time 3:06
  13. A House In The Country 2:59
  14. Progress 2:40
  15. Children 2:59
  16. My Time 2:57
  17. Death Of A Socialite 2:41
  18. Photographer 2:06
  19. There Will Be Another Day 2:25
  20. My Time 3:11
  21. The Sun 3:09
  22. Progress 2:53
  23. Photographer 2:14

Notes

In accordance with their label's (and not the band's) wishes, the Pretties were teamed with a middle-aged orchestra directed by Reg Tilsley on this album, which saw the Phil May-Dick Taylor songwriting team making an effort to move beyond R&B knockoffs into more sophisticated territory. Sometimes the arrangements (dubbed onto tracks without much involvement from the group) worked; more often, they were an unnecessary hindrance. An interesting failure, it contained some genuinely top-rank originals that saw the group expanding their vision into social observation and tentative psychedelia, including "My Time," "The Sun," and especially the moody, folk-rock-ish "Death of a Socialite."