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''Parachute'', released in 1970, is The Pretty Things' fifth studio album, following ''S.F. Sorrow'' and preceding ''Freeway Madness''. It is their first album without Dick Taylor. Reviews at the time of release were very positive, with ''Billboard'' calling it "another top-flight album" for the band.〔"Special Merit Picks," ''Billboard'', Jan. 23, 1971.〕 In 1975, ''Rolling Stone'' critic Steve Turner even wrote that it had been "a ''Rolling Stone'' 'album of the year',"〔Turner, Steve. "New Pretty Things Get a Led Zep Airlift," ''Rolling Stone'', Apr. 10, 1975.〕 though in fact ''Parachute'' did not place among the magazine's Albums of the Year for 1970〔"It Happened in 1970," ''Rolling Stone'', Feb. 4, 1971.〕 or 1971,〔"1971 Vanishes Under Innocuous Circumstances," ''Rolling Stone'', Feb. 3, 1972.〕 and indeed was not mentioned in ''Rolling Stone'' until Stephen Holden called it an "obscure underground classic" in his review of ''Freeway Madness''.〔Holden, Stephen. "Freeway Madness," ''Rolling Stone'', Sep. 13, 1973.〕 The musicians involved were Phil May, Wally Waller, John Povey, Vic Unitt, Skip Alan. The record was later packaged together with ''S.F. Sorrow'' as a double LP titled ''Real Pretty''. In Canada, this album was on Motown Records. Snapper Records released a 40th anniversary double CD in September 2010 which included acoustic reworkings of various tracks recorded in May 2010 by Wally Waller and Phil May. == Track listing == #"Scene One" (Phil May, Wally Waller) - 1:51 #"The Good Mr. Square" (May, Waller) - 1:27 #"She Was Tall, She Was High" (May, Waller) - 1:36 #"In the Square" (May, Waller) - 1:55 #"The Letter" (May, Waller) - 1:39 #"Rain" (May, Waller) - 2:29 #"Miss Fay Regrets" (May, Waller) - 3:38 #"Cries From the Midnight Circus" (May, Waller) - 6:29 #"Grass" (May, Waller) - 4:21 #"Sickle Clowns" (May, Waller) - 6:36 #"She's a Lover" (May, Waller) - 3:32 #"What's the Use" (May, Waller) - 1:46 #"Parachute" (May, Norman Smith) - 3:52 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parachute (The Pretty Things album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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