Rage Before Beauty

The Pretty Things | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Madfish Records UK
• ASIN: B00000I5H5
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,882 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Passion Of Love

2. Vivian Prince

3. Everlasting Flame

4. Love Keeps Handing On

5. Eve Of Destruction

6. Not Givin' In

7. Pure Cold Stone

8. Blue Turns To Red

9. Goodbye, Goodbye

10. Goin' Downhill

11. Play With Fire

12. Fly Away

13. Mony Mony

14. God Give Me The Stength (To Carry On)

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grumpy old men telling it as it is, May 9, 1999

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[e-mail] (Broome Western Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rage Before Beauty (Audio CD)

I was 26 when I discovered The Pretty Things. Director of a major company and on top of the world. My fellow directors were all young, we listened to Brubeck, played monopoly with real money and raved to The Pretty Things. They were ours nobody else knew about them. Then we could do anything but time passed and nobody wanted to hear my Pretty Things records. Nobody believed I was once vital and in charge. In 1996 I spent hours at Virgin Oxford St trying to find those albums on CD but no luck. Then while browsing Amazon there they were. They are back and so I am. Grumpy old men telling it as it is and F.... Oasis. This is a real rock album with feeling and attitude, no formulas, no patterns Just raw heart!! Listen to Love Keeps Hanging On and read the notes. If that's not enough try God Give Me Strength it could be my story maybe its yours. What do I do now? well I lecture in Corporate Strategy but in side I am still wild. Thank you Pretty Things you came back just in time. If your fifty plus and think your twenty-five you will love it.

Dr Bill Watts

PS if you know were to get Parachute and Free Way Madness on CD let me know.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars they got the reunion thing right this time, September 20, 1999

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jack lippold (st. louis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rage Before Beauty (Audio CD)

Answers the question "how good an album can middle aged rockers make that haven't yet been spoiled by success?". Much better than 1980's reunion disaster "Cross Talk". According to the liner notes, some of this record's material dates back to sessions immediately after "Cross Talk". If it takes 18 years to make an album this good, other artists should take note.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If this were a perfect world ..., January 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Rage Before Beauty (Audio CD)

... then the incredibly rocking, high-energy "Everlasting Flame" were somewhere on top of the charts, the cover version of "Eve of Destruction", having new relevance these days, would be giving food for thought for millions of people, the defiant "Not Givin' In" would be a youth anthem, and the heart-wrenching ballads "Love Keeps Hanging On" and "God Give Me the Strength" were all over the airwaves on this planet.

As this is NO perfect world, not many people will ever come across this album "Rage Before Beauty", and they won't know what they miss. To my mind, this is one of the best 300 rock albums ever made, and remember, they're have been many, many thousands (incidentally, I'd regard the Pretties' "S.F.Sorrow" right there in the all-time top 50). The PTs kick more ... here than all those new hype bands, such as the Strokes, the Vines, or what have you these days. This is the real thing - rock'n'roll played from the heart (or guts), by weathered men who have seen it all, fame and defeat. And, boy, do the kick up a fuss in the process!

Go for it. Hearing is believing. Rock on!