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Title: Don't believe the hype
Review: The Pretty Things were always a second tier outfit, and this dated, overhyped dud shows why. Yes, it was an early rock "opera" and no doubt influential as a result, but looked at dispassionately as a piece of music, it's crap. The songwriting is silly and instantly forgettable, and the gritty, tough sound of earlier Pretty Things that generally mitigated their songwriting limitations is absent from this dull museum piece of 60s pretension. Save your pennies for remastered editions of The Who Sell Out and the great Kinks triumvirate of Face to Face, Something Else and Village Green Preservation Society. The Pretty Things are for barrel scrapers.
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