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Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky: The Complete Pretty Things Collection [Box Set] Image
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5.8

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  • Summary: The box set set of the 1960s British rock band led by Phil May that included influences from R&B and psychedelia features all of their studio albums release between 1965-2007, two CDs of demos, live recordings, outtakes, two DVDs with a two-hour documentary, a live video of its 1968 S.FThe box set set of the 1960s British rock band led by Phil May that included influences from R&B and psychedelia features all of their studio albums release between 1965-2007, two CDs of demos, live recordings, outtakes, two DVDs with a two-hour documentary, a live video of its 1968 S.F Sorrow album at Abbey Road, and a 100-page book by Mike Stax. Expand
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  • Record Label: Snapper UK
  • Genre(s): Blues, Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Rock & Roll, Psychedelic/Garage, Regional Blues, British Psychedelia, Prog-Rock, British Blues, British Invasion, Freakbeat
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  1. Mojo
    Mar 20, 2015
    100
    Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky is a fitting celebration of a band that, 50 years after the release of their debut, remain utterly unrepentant. [Mar 2015, p.107]
  2. Magnet
    Mar 20, 2015
    90
    The whole bloody history of England's greatest cult act unfolds, rendering obscurity ultimately noble and rewarding. [No. 118, p.61]
  3. Mar 20, 2015
    90
    Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky vividly illustrates what a wild ride those 50 years were.
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 20, 2015
    90
    Their story is one of the great oversights of rock'n'roll and it's a joy to see it curated with such care. [Apr 2015, p.106]
  5. Mar 20, 2015
    80
    The Pretties were impatient modernists, carrying that blues zeal to psychedelia (1967's "Defecting Grey"), rock opera (ahead of the Who, on 1968's S.F. Sorrow) and progressive rock (1970's Parachute) with spectacular if commercially dire results. This grand box takes that tale, across 11 studio albums and a feast of extras, up to the present day.
  6. Mar 20, 2015
    80
    It’s astonishing that they managed to come up with several of the most thrilling pieces of primal UK R’n’B, before going on to invent the rock opera, following one of the more creatively intriguing examples of ’60s pop’s transition from mod to psychedelia.
  7. Mar 20, 2015
    80
    The acid test for long-term fans is how good the two bonus discs are. They shouldn’t be disappointed.
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