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{{Infobox album|
| Name = ... Rage Before Beauty
| name = ... Rage Before Beauty
| Type = [[Album]]
| type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[The Pretty Things]]
| artist = [[Pretty Things]]
| Cover = Pretty Things Rage Before Beauty.png
| cover = Pretty Things Rage Before Beauty.png
| Released = 9 March 1999
| alt =
| released = 9 March 1999
| Recorded = 145 [[Wardour Street]], [[Soho]], [[London]] 1998 to 1999
| recorded = 1998–99
| Genre = [[Rock 'n' roll]], [[art rock]]
| Length = 64:27
| venue =
| Label = [[Snapper Music]]
| studio = 145 [[Wardour Street]], [[Soho]], [[London]]
| Producer = [[Mark St. John]], Dave Garland
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]]
| length = 64:27
| Last album = ''[[Resurrection (The Pretty Things album)|Resurrection]]''<br />(1999)
| label = [[Snapper Music]]<ref name=WP/>
| This album = '''''... Rage Before Beauty'''''<br />(1999)
| producer = Mark St. John, Dave Garland
⚫
| Next album = ''[[Balboa Island (The Pretty Things album)|Balboa Island]]''<br />(2007)
| prev_title = Resurrection
| prev_year = 1999
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| next_title = [[Balboa Island (album)|Balboa Island]]
| next_year = 2007
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/ragebefore-beauty-mw0000602976 Rage...Before Beauty - The Pretty Things | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/ragebefore-beauty-mw0000602976|title=Rage...Before Beauty – The Pretty Things &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| noprose = yes
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=RA47-PA2005|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|first=Colin|last=Larkin|date=May 27, 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=9780857125958 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Fricke |first1=David |title=Favorite Things |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=Apr 1, 1999 |issue=809 |page=100}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]''
|rev4score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="SD">{{cite news |last1=Coddon |first1=David L. |title=RAGE BEFORE BEAUTY THE PRETTY THINGS Snapper Music |work=The San Diego Union-Tribune |date=April 1, 1999 |location=Entertainment |page=22}}</ref>
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'''''... Rage Before Beauty''''' is a studio [[album]] by the English rock band [[Pretty Things]], released in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-pretty-things-mn0000489676/biography|title=The Pretty Things Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}</ref>


==Production==
'''''... Rage Before Beauty''''', released in 1999, is [[The Pretty Things]]' tenth studio album. It marks the return of original lead guitarist [[Dick Taylor]], absent from the group since [[S.F. Sorrow]] in 1968.
[[Ronnie Spector]] provided backing vocals on the band's cover of "[[Mony Mony]]".<ref name="WP">{{cite news |title=THE PRETTY THINGS 'Rage Before Beauty' Snapper |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/09/17/the-pretty-things-rage-before-beauty-snapper/e379a9af-7e61-4f57-a3da-e4ef36fffa30/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=17 September 2021}}</ref> [[David Gilmour]] guested on "Love Keeps Hanging On".<ref name=BG/> The album was produced by Mark St. John and Dave Garland.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Christman |first1=Ed |title=Pretty Things rage on in new set |magazine=Billboard |date=Mar 13, 1999 |volume=111 |issue=11 |page=15}}</ref> ''... Rage Before Beauty'' was recorded by the 1966 lineup of the band.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Riegel |first1=Richard |title=Die old stay pretty |journal=The Village Voice |date=6 Apr 1999 |volume=44 |issue=13 |pages=72–73}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
''[[Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)|Perfect Sound Forever]]'' called the album "a testament to the brand of sweaty, guitar-driven, R&B garage rock which never really seems to go out of fashion."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.furious.com/perfect/prettythings.html|title=Pretty Things interview|work=Perfect Sound Forever}}</ref> ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' wrote that "vocalist Phil May's gravelly voice is stupefying on the Pretty's cover of 'Play With Fire', virtually besting Mick Jagger's own icy interpretation."<ref name="BG">{{cite news |last1=Reed |first1=John |title=Pretty Things RAGE BEFORE BEAUTY |work=The Boston Globe |date=16 Sep 1999 |location=Calendar |page=8}}</ref> The ''[[Orange County Register]]'' thought that "from the rollicking 'Passion of Love' to anthemic, reflective ballads like 'Love Keeps Hanging On' ... the album is a summation of almost every style the Pretties ever attempted, while still retaining some middle-age maturity."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wener |first1=Ben |title=POP LIFE – The best band you've never heard |work=Orange County Register |date=September 3, 1999 |page=F51}}</ref>

''[[Record Collector]]'' deemed it one of the band's "best ever recordings."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/oh-you-pretty-things|title=OH YOU PRETTY THINGS – Record Collector Magazine}}</ref>


== Track listing ==
== Track listing ==
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# "Everlasting Flame" (May, Holland, St. John) – 3:46
# "Everlasting Flame" (May, Holland, St. John) – 3:46
# "Love Keeps Hanging On" (May) – 8:55
# "Love Keeps Hanging On" (May) – 8:55
# "[[Eve of Destruction (song)|Eve of Destruction]]" ([[P.F. Sloan]]) – 3:03
# "[[Eve of Destruction (song)|Eve of Destruction]]" ([[P. F. Sloan]]) – 3:03
# "Not Givin' In" (May) – 4:02
# "Not Givin' In" (May) – 4:02
# "Pure Cold Stone" (May, [[Dick Taylor]]) – 5:47
# "Pure Cold Stone" (May, [[Dick Taylor]]) – 5:47
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# "Goodbye, Goodbye" (May, Povey) – 2:45
# "Goodbye, Goodbye" (May, Povey) – 2:45
# "Goin' Downhill" (May, Pete Tolson) – 4:12
# "Goin' Downhill" (May, Pete Tolson) – 4:12
# "[[Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song)|Play with Fire]]" ([[Nanker Phelge]]) - 4:07
# "[[Play with Fire (Rolling Stones song)|Play with Fire]]" ([[Nanker Phelge]]) – 4:07
# "Fly Away" (May) - 4:30
# "Fly Away" (May) – 4:30
# "[[Mony Mony|Mony, Mony]]" ([[Tommy James]], Bo Gentry, [[Ritchie Cordell]], [[Bobby Bloom]]) - 4:45
# "[[Mony Mony|Mony, Mony]]" ([[Tommy James]], Bo Gentry, [[Ritchie Cordell]], [[Bobby Bloom]]) – 4:45
# "God, Give Me the Strength (To Carry On)" (May, St. John) - 6:03
# "God, Give Me the Strength (To Carry On)" (May, St. John) – 6:03


==Personnel==
==Personnel==
'''Pretty Things'''
*[[Phil May (singer)|Phil May]] – Vocals, Harmonica
*[[Phil May (singer)|Phil May]] – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
*[[Dick Taylor]] – Lead Guitars
*[[Dick Taylor]] – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
*Frank Holland - Guitars, Vocals
*Frank Holland – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
*Wally Waller – Bass, Guitars, Vocals
*[[Wally Waller]] – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
*Jon Povey – Keyboards, Vocals
*Skip Alan – Drums, Percussion
*Jon Povey – keyboards, vocals
*Skip Alan – drums, percussion


==Studio Musicians==
'''Studio musicians'''
*[[Mark St. John]]
* Mark St. John – drums
*Nick Brockway – Hammond organ
*Nick Broadway
*Steve Browning
*Steve Browning
*Bob Webb
*Robert Webb – keyboards
*Nigel Ross-Scott
*Nigel Ross-Scott – bass
*[[David Gilmour]] - Guitar
*[[David Gilmour]] – lead guitar on "Love Keeps Hangin' On"
*[[Ronnie Spector]] - Vocals
*[[Ronnie Spector]] – vocals on "Mony Mony"


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 20:42, 29 May 2024

... Rage Before Beauty
Studio album by
Pretty Things
Released9 March 1999
Recorded1998–99
Studio145 Wardour Street, Soho, London
GenreRock
Length64:27
LabelSnapper Music[1]
ProducerMark St. John, Dave Garland
Pretty Things chronology
Resurrection
(1999) 		... Rage Before Beauty
(1999) 		Balboa Island
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
The San Diego Union-Tribune[5]

... Rage Before Beauty is a studio album by the English rock band Pretty Things, released in 1999.[6]

Production

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Ronnie Spector provided backing vocals on the band's cover of "Mony Mony".[1] David Gilmour guested on "Love Keeps Hanging On".[7] The album was produced by Mark St. John and Dave Garland.[8] ... Rage Before Beauty was recorded by the 1966 lineup of the band.[9]

Critical reception

[edit]

Perfect Sound Forever called the album "a testament to the brand of sweaty, guitar-driven, R&B garage rock which never really seems to go out of fashion."[10] The Boston Globe wrote that "vocalist Phil May's gravelly voice is stupefying on the Pretty's cover of 'Play With Fire', virtually besting Mick Jagger's own icy interpretation."[7] The Orange County Register thought that "from the rollicking 'Passion of Love' to anthemic, reflective ballads like 'Love Keeps Hanging On' ... the album is a summation of almost every style the Pretties ever attempted, while still retaining some middle-age maturity."[11]

Record Collector deemed it one of the band's "best ever recordings."[12]

Track listing

[edit]
  1. "Passion of Love" (Phil May, Mark St. John) – 3:22
  2. "Vivian Prince" (May, Frank Holland, Jon Povey) – 5:15
  3. "Everlasting Flame" (May, Holland, St. John) – 3:46
  4. "Love Keeps Hanging On" (May) – 8:55
  5. "Eve of Destruction" (P. F. Sloan) – 3:03
  6. "Not Givin' In" (May) – 4:02
  7. "Pure Cold Stone" (May, Dick Taylor) – 5:47
  8. "Blue Turns to Red" (May, Holland) – 4:01
  9. "Goodbye, Goodbye" (May, Povey) – 2:45
  10. "Goin' Downhill" (May, Pete Tolson) – 4:12
  11. "Play with Fire" (Nanker Phelge) – 4:07
  12. "Fly Away" (May) – 4:30
  13. "Mony, Mony" (Tommy James, Bo Gentry, Ritchie Cordell, Bobby Bloom) – 4:45
  14. "God, Give Me the Strength (To Carry On)" (May, St. John) – 6:03

Personnel

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Pretty Things

  • Phil May – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
  • Dick Taylor – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
  • Frank Holland – lead guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Wally Waller – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Jon Povey – keyboards, vocals
  • Skip Alan – drums, percussion

Studio musicians

  • Mark St. John – drums
  • Nick Brockway – Hammond organ
  • Steve Browning
  • Robert Webb – keyboards
  • Nigel Ross-Scott – bass
  • David Gilmour – lead guitar on "Love Keeps Hangin' On"
  • Ronnie Spector – vocals on "Mony Mony"

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b "THE PRETTY THINGS 'Rage Before Beauty' Snapper". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Rage...Before Beauty – The Pretty Things | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Fricke, David (1 April 1999). "Favorite Things". Rolling Stone. No. 809. p. 100.
  5. ^ Coddon, David L. (1 April 1999). "RAGE BEFORE BEAUTY THE PRETTY THINGS Snapper Music". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Entertainment. p. 22.
  6. ^ "The Pretty Things Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  7. ^ a b Reed, John (16 September 1999). "Pretty Things RAGE BEFORE BEAUTY". The Boston Globe. Calendar. p. 8.
  8. ^ Christman, Ed (13 March 1999). "Pretty Things rage on in new set". Billboard. Vol. 111, no. 11. p. 15.
  9. ^ Riegel, Richard (6 April 1999). "Die old stay pretty". The Village Voice. 44 (13): 72–73.
  10. ^ "Pretty Things interview". Perfect Sound Forever.
  11. ^ Wener, Ben (3 September 1999). "POP LIFE – The best band you've never heard". Orange County Register. p. F51.
  12. ^ "OH YOU PRETTY THINGS – Record Collector Magazine".
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