this is a am pop band who was trying too make it w/ wat was popular at the time the"re no velvet underground thats forsure (heroin), i bet these guys never ate a tab in there lives...they sound like the monkees singing bout there many acid trips, c"mon now
I wonder how many people here did not knew z existance of Pretty Things until they arrived here...attracted by their search of videos about lsd...431 922 people in nearly 5 years... i think a majority did not knew the pretty things before... from 1967 to 1976 (10 years) they made some real interesting records...
The other day i was listening to their Freeway Madness lp of 1972...if people like early70s rolling stones , early70s led zep, early70s faces... so this album surely is made for them...
@BohemianConspiracy Their Rosalyn was pretty popular when I was kid, but not much else do I remember about them, for sure not this song. Never would be played on the AM.
artificial establishments and materialistic objects via man made government economy, banks, new cars, your job as a wage slave, and green pieces of paper take control of most peoples lives as we know it, LSD simply opens the door into a more concentrated sense of your actual reality with the absence of what man and the human race has led you to believe:
IMAGINE: life in the present with the absence of what you normaly worry about...there is no bad trip there's people that can't do new reality
Youth culture of today is 89% corporate and SUCKS!
I prefer US stuff from this era mostly, but; this could very well be the coolest UK 60s punk ever!!!...and ever...and ever...and ever...and ever...and ever...
This is a really dirty, and a genuine rock band. The music is raw, intense and has a bloody swing. An incredibly nice contrast to all the sampled shit done today.
There were so many great bands during the 60s. Listen to (youtube) a completely unknown band called THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". It's incredible! The recordings were made in 1965.
@Rush1013 Er...I think these guys had probably at least heard of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, I mean look at them, its The Pretty Things, swinging London and all that. I expect they were hoping to made some good old £.s.d out of it though.
but, just like this, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was not about LSD. It wasn't even meant to stand for LSD, it was just a coincidence. I dont think Julian Lennon knew what LSD was when he was like 5
@Rush1013 It is claimed it didn't stand for lsd, the same with this song. Maybe they did know but used/found another meaning (Lucy in the sky with diamonds and pound,shillings pence)! Too much of a coincidence! The Beatles certainly took drugs, so Im sure their song writing wasn't that innocent, neither free from the influence of! x
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was written about a painting Julian Lennon made in school of his friend named lucky flying in space, and he titled it Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. It was not an abbreviation for LSD. Its no secret Lennon and The Beatles did LSD, if it was about the drug they wouldnt have needed to lie about it.
@Rush1013 Mmmm, a bit of artistic licence I think. I don't dispute that story at all, however, they were aware of the abbreviation (being bright lads).And don't get me wrong, I absolute LOVE the Beatles. And when you were a popular music artist in those days they didn't admit until later on about drug use, this would have been extremely frowned upon seeing as a majority of their fans were children and teenagers. Everybody, inc the parents loved the fab four. They wouldn't have jeapordised this.
Thats where you are wrong, The Beatles were generally very open about there use of Marijuana and LSD during there career, Paul was asked in an interview in the mid 60's if he cares if kids are influenced to do drugs because of The Beatles, and he replied that he was not going to lie to the public about what they have done, and that its up to the media if they want to print it or not. They did not keep there drug use a secret, even in the 60's.
@Rush1013 - don't know about that, it was a lot of English people that were introducing LSD into culture.
read or look up Flashbacks by Leary for example, there was a movement to get influential peoples minds out of the frequency-control trap before 1963, cause they managed to get JFK turned onto it.
what we need again is that same resurgence of - actual British Intelligence, when iIntelligence actually did what is said on the tin.
You'd have to be pretty narrow-minded to think this song is only about money, maybe disguised as that at the time to get it on the airwaves, which i doubt it got played much because of the lyrics, cuz this wouldn't even fool a hip 8-year old.
Billy Saturday - why don't you go to a Pretty Things gig and ask Phil May and Dick Taylor what it was about? The Pretty Things were the vanguard of UK Psychedelia that turned out so much variable, but at times truly inspired, music that still has value today. How laughable to deny that the song was about acid! They still perform this song, everybody sings along and nobody, even in their right mind, thinks it's about money.
@Nofixedabodetube Thank god, a sane mind that has a true believers point of view, i voted your comment up and so should the entire internet (invented by Al Gore)
At least you agree that i am correct. I mean I am always right, not what people like you or anyone else tells me, i am always right. I am my own authority.
I saw the Pretty Things in April '98 at The Pier, Morecambe (since burned down) Great band! They had a very good, very tall drummer at the time, who resembled Mick Fleetwood. I remember standing right next to the stage 'groving' to the music...where these days, can you do that?
I had the pleasure of Touring with Phil May in the South of England in late 69 ..The band had gone through some changes but the mystery was still there ..They were the first i can remember to actually have hair longer than the rollin stones ..but we had some laughs and they introduced me to that famous welsh drink called Scrumpy made from cider totally physcedelic ...Even the hangovers were exciting in those days ..sort of gives another meaning to Acid -Reflux ..Peace Bro .......<3
I had the pleasure of Touring with Phil May in the South of England in late 69 ..The band had gone through some changes but the mystery was still there ..They were the first i can remember to actually have hair longer than the rollin stones ..but we had some laughs and they introduced me to that famous welsh drink called Scrumpy made from cider totally physcedelic ...Even the hangovers were exciting in those days ..sort of gives another meaning to Acid -Reflux ..Peace Bro .......<3
To all the people who are questioning the money/drugs thing, I'm sure its only about money. At this time in British drug history speed and amphetamines was the thing (and is pretty evident in the music), Acid didn't catch on until a bit later and even then it started amongst a pretty select group. Manfred Mann also had a song called LSD around this time, and I doubt the were taking Acid. So, its possible there was some play with Acid references, I think its only about money.
The sleeve for the 45 had the title as pounds/shilling/pence... The drugs thing was just starting to make the media, so while there was a bit of a whispered concern over the song (hey, 60s Britain!), the fact that it wasn't a major hit likely prevented it from getting banned. Ironically, the Byrds' '8 Miles High' was banned by the BBC. Indeed, if a song had the word 'high' in it, beware. Meanwhile the suits making the rules were smoking, drinking, shagging young boys and girls... Lsd, indeed.
@gamester57 untill someone realised it was bloody wicked and put a stop to it like most brilliant drugs , just the same as they tried in the 90,s to stop xtc !!!!, best not to dwell on the stopping and just take and enjoy real pure proper drugs !!!
I just found The Pretty Things, and I love them! I don't know that much about them yet though, so would someone tell me how many cds they have, what those CDs are called...and where I can find out more about them?
@Photonzos yeah think the drummer ate too many brit money. besides, drinking coke and smoking fags... olny the ones who are experienced know what that mean muffucka! peace
@blunted333 lol i second your comment. In my experience weed is something you use on LSD (You see what i mean??) Budz can help kick in the trip, or calm you down a level when your really rockin', or to boost it the acid back up after 7 hours of "fulfillment"
great bass line- these guys were like the Nirvana of the sixties, shocking!and they clearly believed in what they did!so far ahead of their time no- one was ready for them
I also remember reading that British Currency was refered to as LSD. The L, S, and D symbolizing Shillings, Pounds, and Pence
Funny thing...I learned this from Alice in Wonderland. That square of paper tucked into the mad hatters hat has 10/6 written on it that is a number in the old English currency of Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, often abrevieated as L S D
Funny how the mad hatter carried a sheet of paper with writing that many people would recongnize as reading L S D
@dirtdemon6 Right. They're talking about how money is described in UK. Americans thought they were talking about acid. Stoner yanks sent song to #1 on the charts along with "Strawberry Fields". Great song.
@BillySaturday The reference to LSD is most likely a double entendre, for I doubt they were so ignorant that they were unaware of the psychedelic allusion.
@BillySaturday Seriously go suck Satan's cock you conservative twat, it was the fucking 60's and he is screaming LSD on top of psychedelic tunes, you must have brain damage.
@Silvamedalist What is it with Youtube that people think they can be rude to people like they would never dare to be in person? I see that A) you are American & B) 27 years old. What do you know about London in the early 60's? This clip is towards the end of the Mod era (Mods were into speed and RnB), before the Hippies & Acid (the very first ones - such as the Beatles were just starting to experiment at this time but it would be a while before it caught on), but I guess you know it all.. sigh.
@BillySaturday Well you see after i ate LSD myself I started to mindwarp through various dimensions until i arrived back into the U.K. of the 1960's. I asked "The Pretty Things" about your comment of the future. They said you are a square bro, laughed out of you, then offered me a joint.
@BillySaturday quit making clone accounts to give yourself thumbs up everytime i make new ones to thumbs it back down to 20, you pedo-cultists trying to ruin this world by denying drug influences in music, go burn your albums you dirty little christian
@znubzz188 Yes and znubzz who the hell are these idiots voting him up i wonder??? I wonder if he is making bot accounts or if it is just Republicans that accidentally stumbled upon the song and also somehow figured out how to read
Actually LSD the drug not the chicago's lakefront highway "Lake Shore Drive" Is something I refuse to ever try Marijuana is something I would prefer and stick to I rather get high they do something that will make me turn dead be careful with drugs while using bros.
I really missed out on them. One mark of a great garage band like them (and van morrison's "Them" was another great but not-so-garage sounding band) is it's really hard to find a bad song by this band.
@VECTIZ largley spooky disorder...i just took 2blackstars an a blue planet,had a quick look there is a fox in the cupborad smokeing my sisters neck, while my ghastly mother sits upon a table of skulls screaming non~toughts to the well wishers of a forgoten tribe...i miss good music an real lsd...
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll.
Used to play that in my band in the late 60s (I think) in Germany . MUCH to my chagrin was informed that LSD actually stood for the symbols for Pounds, Shillings and Pence, ergo cold hard mammon. Comments ?
Cool! we get to provide our own colours! Let's have the International Roll-call of LSDroppers and their many contributions to world peace, love and understanding (sound of crickets in the dark...) Timothy Leary? Uh, Ram Dass? Ken Kesey? Augustus Owsley Stanley III? John Lennon? ?? C'mon, people: help me here! I'm losing...conTr0L
Cool! we get to provide our own colours! Let's have the International Roll-call of LSDroppers and their many contributions to world peace, love and understanding (sound of crickets in the dark...) Timothy Leary? Uh, R
I have a few friends who would agree with you. I have nothing negative to say about lsd at all. You should give pot a chance though. Most likely you just need to let yourself relax and enjoy being stoned. Psilocybin is the best way to go though because you know what you are getting. I know people many people who took what they thought was acid and had a really bad time. Anyway psychedelic drugs are super great. wooo hooo.
@bananiolo2 The only thing I don't like is the risk of having a bad trip - you never know 'til it's too late when it happened to me. If you plan on taking it soon, don't think about this or you will have a bad trip. Good thoughts ~ peace and love.
you got ripped off man... Or you just plain have no fuckin clue what you're talking about.. I'm not knocking either substance, but comparing the two is like comparing ketamine & coffee.. get a grip dummy...
So what was this song about... pounds shillings and pence I guess?
RubbaDubbaDubba 1 day ago
@RubbaDubbaDubba :..you are right...:)
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ArlingtonArtsNewbury 6 days ago
this is a am pop band who was trying too make it w/ wat was popular at the time the"re no velvet underground thats forsure (heroin), i bet these guys never ate a tab in there lives...they sound like the monkees singing bout there many acid trips, c"mon now
800fhearts 1 week ago
@800fhearts You obviously don't know anything about the Prety Things. I feel nothing but S.F. Sorrow for you my friend.
petiedink 4 days ago
they have an Eric Burton and the Animals sound--- or the other way around?
MrsClippit 3 weeks ago in playlist 60's contd
@MrsClippit --it's Eric Burdon-----
crazypainter56 1 week ago
@crazypainter56 yeah lol i figured it out after i left the comment. thanks :)
MrsClippit 1 week ago
I wonder how many people here did not knew z existance of Pretty Things until they arrived here...attracted by their search of videos about lsd...431 922 people in nearly 5 years... i think a majority did not knew the pretty things before... from 1967 to 1976 (10 years) they made some real interesting records...
The other day i was listening to their Freeway Madness lp of 1972...if people like early70s rolling stones , early70s led zep, early70s faces... so this album surely is made for them...
BohemianConspiracy 3 weeks ago
@BohemianConspiracy Their Rosalyn was pretty popular when I was kid, but not much else do I remember about them, for sure not this song. Never would be played on the AM.
mlong1954 1 week ago
I need ♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪♪ all the time.
Khultan 1 month ago
I don't get it. Jim Morrison couldn't say "higher" on TV, 8 miles high was banned on British radio but these guys can sing "I need LSD?!"
fazole 1 month ago
Moneys never free LSD Skip Allen is the shit a true zombie on drums his style is similar to john henry bonham if you noticed.
soulcensus2011 1 month ago
drop acid not bombs
clueDrumandBass 1 month ago 5
This times are sht why why music has gone so sht
diegosandvrs 2 months ago
I lost my mind on the dancefloor last night - not sure I want it back ;-)
CalvinDilbert 2 months ago 3
LSD
Yes I need LSD
Yes I need LSD
Yes I need LSD
Yes I need LSD
Yes I need LSD
Yes I need LSD
Antraxto 2 months ago 10
I've lost my mind and I was checking if it was here. If anyone see's my mind please tell me thx
youdevil6 2 months ago
I thought the singer was cute until I realized that he's now old enough to be my grandfather. :/
IAMADUELLIST 2 months ago
@IAMADUELLIST You're aging too. Dumbshit.
Khultan 1 month ago
artificial establishments and materialistic objects via man made government economy, banks, new cars, your job as a wage slave, and green pieces of paper take control of most peoples lives as we know it, LSD simply opens the door into a more concentrated sense of your actual reality with the absence of what man and the human race has led you to believe:
IMAGINE: life in the present with the absence of what you normaly worry about...there is no bad trip there's people that can't do new reality
joey6121 3 months ago
hah, got the anti-LSD comment voted down, owned. poor fool thought it had something to do with currency
Silvamedalist 3 months ago
I can't elieve LSD is ilegal.... i bet my kids will laugh at that in the future...
KKCvids 3 months ago
on lsd is best
Peddrovalium 3 months ago
dick taylor the best
francescocusato 3 months ago
Youth culture of today is 89% corporate and SUCKS!
I prefer US stuff from this era mostly, but; this could very well be the coolest UK 60s punk ever!!!...and ever...and ever...and ever...and ever...and ever...
OffandOn13 3 months ago
@OffandOn13
Wow, you took the words out of my mouth. I couldn't agree more!
dahur 3 months ago
.☮.¸.♪(¯`♥♫(♥♪(♥♫d(♥‿♥)b♫♥)♪♥)♫♥´¯)♪.¸.☮.
Calun3 3 months ago
This tune is the same as "ESP" which was recorded by both Rain and Big Brother; however, Big Brother's version is slower like this one.
HarvestmanMan 4 months ago
This is a really dirty, and a genuine rock band. The music is raw, intense and has a bloody swing. An incredibly nice contrast to all the sampled shit done today.
There were so many great bands during the 60s. Listen to (youtube) a completely unknown band called THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". It's incredible! The recordings were made in 1965.
TheSunbau 4 months ago
...Beaky...Mick...and Fuckface.
ChrisYonts 4 months ago
* oops i mean 'when Intelligence actually did what it said on the tin'.
spelt it wrong..
DracOverLordHaton 4 months ago
Too funny!!!
siouxie921 5 months ago
this is fucking amazing
0PERAT0RPLEASE 5 months ago
Its likely they didnt even know what LSD was when this was made. It was just being introduced to the public in 66
Rush1013 5 months ago
@Rush1013 Er...I think these guys had probably at least heard of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, I mean look at them, its The Pretty Things, swinging London and all that. I expect they were hoping to made some good old £.s.d out of it though.
barflyer40 5 months ago
@barflyer40
Doubt it, if they did they probably didn't know what it was called. In this song has nothing to do with acid, sounds like a complete coincidence.
Rush1013 5 months ago
@Rush1013 Double entendre. Like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, abbreviated, also LSD!
MOOCHSNOOP 4 months ago
@MOOCHSNOOP
but, just like this, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was not about LSD. It wasn't even meant to stand for LSD, it was just a coincidence. I dont think Julian Lennon knew what LSD was when he was like 5
Rush1013 4 months ago
@Rush1013 It is claimed it didn't stand for lsd, the same with this song. Maybe they did know but used/found another meaning (Lucy in the sky with diamonds and pound,shillings pence)! Too much of a coincidence! The Beatles certainly took drugs, so Im sure their song writing wasn't that innocent, neither free from the influence of! x
MOOCHSNOOP 4 months ago
@MOOCHSNOOP
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was written about a painting Julian Lennon made in school of his friend named lucky flying in space, and he titled it Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. It was not an abbreviation for LSD. Its no secret Lennon and The Beatles did LSD, if it was about the drug they wouldnt have needed to lie about it.
Rush1013 4 months ago
@Rush1013 Mmmm, a bit of artistic licence I think. I don't dispute that story at all, however, they were aware of the abbreviation (being bright lads).And don't get me wrong, I absolute LOVE the Beatles. And when you were a popular music artist in those days they didn't admit until later on about drug use, this would have been extremely frowned upon seeing as a majority of their fans were children and teenagers. Everybody, inc the parents loved the fab four. They wouldn't have jeapordised this.
MOOCHSNOOP 4 months ago
@MOOCHSNOOP
Thats where you are wrong, The Beatles were generally very open about there use of Marijuana and LSD during there career, Paul was asked in an interview in the mid 60's if he cares if kids are influenced to do drugs because of The Beatles, and he replied that he was not going to lie to the public about what they have done, and that its up to the media if they want to print it or not. They did not keep there drug use a secret, even in the 60's.
Rush1013 4 months ago
@Rush1013 he just drew the picture and Lennon came up to this. the song is about lsd
MforMetalhead66 4 months ago
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@Rush1013 - don't know about that, it was a lot of English people that were introducing LSD into culture.
read or look up Flashbacks by Leary for example, there was a movement to get influential peoples minds out of the frequency-control trap before 1963, cause they managed to get JFK turned onto it.
what we need again is that same resurgence of - actual British Intelligence, when iIntelligence actually did what is said on the tin.
DracOverLordHaton 4 months ago
WOW LOL I'm stoned n couldnt care less what its all about
sunra3000 5 months ago
You'd have to be pretty narrow-minded to think this song is only about money, maybe disguised as that at the time to get it on the airwaves, which i doubt it got played much because of the lyrics, cuz this wouldn't even fool a hip 8-year old.
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
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@Silvamedalist - ha-hah! hope you like it..
DracOverLordHaton 4 months ago
IT'S ABOUT THE DOUBLE ENTENDRE. MY GOD.
Dandyincursive 5 months ago
Billy Saturday - why don't you go to a Pretty Things gig and ask Phil May and Dick Taylor what it was about? The Pretty Things were the vanguard of UK Psychedelia that turned out so much variable, but at times truly inspired, music that still has value today. How laughable to deny that the song was about acid! They still perform this song, everybody sings along and nobody, even in their right mind, thinks it's about money.
Nofixedabodetube 5 months ago
@Nofixedabodetube Thank god, a sane mind that has a true believers point of view, i voted your comment up and so should the entire internet (invented by Al Gore)
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
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At least you agree that i am correct. I mean I am always right, not what people like you or anyone else tells me, i am always right. I am my own authority.
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
I implore you to type in the search bar at the top of this youtube page: Bill Hicks drugs and music.
Watch this first video, the one with 997,000 views or whatevre it is now and do as he says.
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
A bit more up front than Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds...I can see why it didn't get played on the radio.
CurtisMateer 6 months ago
theyre so similar to the yardbirds,but the yardbirds made it 100 times bigger than these guys did. I like this band.
Abz90L 6 months ago
That is an awesome lookin' bass he's rocking there.
voivittujen 6 months ago
The bassist is even grovier than Flea!
salutbobs 6 months ago
wow the drummer is getting a real good sound out of that barrel, lol. pretty damn good song for its time.
gregbutcher1 6 months ago
Lsd!
diegosandvrs 6 months ago
I saw the Pretty Things in April '98 at The Pier, Morecambe (since burned down) Great band! They had a very good, very tall drummer at the time, who resembled Mick Fleetwood. I remember standing right next to the stage 'groving' to the music...where these days, can you do that?
Straker1923 6 months ago
I had the pleasure of Touring with Phil May in the South of England in late 69 ..The band had gone through some changes but the mystery was still there ..They were the first i can remember to actually have hair longer than the rollin stones ..but we had some laughs and they introduced me to that famous welsh drink called Scrumpy made from cider totally physcedelic ...Even the hangovers were exciting in those days ..sort of gives another meaning to Acid -Reflux ..Peace Bro .......<3
1945kelly
1945kelly 7 months ago
I had the pleasure of Touring with Phil May in the South of England in late 69 ..The band had gone through some changes but the mystery was still there ..They were the first i can remember to actually have hair longer than the rollin stones ..but we had some laughs and they introduced me to that famous welsh drink called Scrumpy made from cider totally physcedelic ...Even the hangovers were exciting in those days ..sort of gives another meaning to Acid -Reflux ..Peace Bro .......<3
1945kelly 7 months ago 2
To all the people who are questioning the money/drugs thing, I'm sure its only about money. At this time in British drug history speed and amphetamines was the thing (and is pretty evident in the music), Acid didn't catch on until a bit later and even then it started amongst a pretty select group. Manfred Mann also had a song called LSD around this time, and I doubt the were taking Acid. So, its possible there was some play with Acid references, I think its only about money.
BillySaturday 7 months ago
How did this group not make it big?????
Beowulfcam 7 months ago
The Pretties should have been as big as The Stones, without doubt!!
debiedog1 7 months ago
The sleeve for the 45 had the title as pounds/shilling/pence... The drugs thing was just starting to make the media, so while there was a bit of a whispered concern over the song (hey, 60s Britain!), the fact that it wasn't a major hit likely prevented it from getting banned. Ironically, the Byrds' '8 Miles High' was banned by the BBC. Indeed, if a song had the word 'high' in it, beware. Meanwhile the suits making the rules were smoking, drinking, shagging young boys and girls... Lsd, indeed.
MrCherryJuice 7 months ago
Didn't Jimmy Page play in the band ?
essertpitay 7 months ago
@essertpitay - No. The lead player was (and remains, I believe) Dick Taylor, who was in the earliest version of the Rolling Stones.
MrCherryJuice 7 months ago
.worked with brian1962 in london. went to great gig with them to leigh-on-sea.
ruth12338 8 months ago
Beaky, Mick and Titch...
yokai1968 8 months ago
lucy in the sky with diamonds wasnt anything to do with acid, it was a drawing julian lennon did.
shaftsbury94 8 months ago
@shaftsbury94 so they say.. the beatles hide so much stuff especially with the paul is dead shit.. theyre the best though
Deefanan666 7 months ago
how safe is LSD.
TranSOMfilms 9 months ago
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bDudrTsi 9 months ago
LSD for recreational use was legal in UK until sometime in1966, anyone know exactly when?
gamester57 9 months ago
@gamester57 It was shortly after they realized we were having fun on it !
hurcheon 8 months ago
@gamester57
It was shortly after they realized we were having fun on it !
hurcheon 8 months ago
@gamester57 untill someone realised it was bloody wicked and put a stop to it like most brilliant drugs , just the same as they tried in the 90,s to stop xtc !!!!, best not to dwell on the stopping and just take and enjoy real pure proper drugs !!!
haileysvomit 8 months ago
Would love to see this number perfomed live at Mods Mayday..Yes I need Pretty Things!!
MDProdTV 9 months ago
I just found The Pretty Things, and I love them! I don't know that much about them yet though, so would someone tell me how many cds they have, what those CDs are called...and where I can find out more about them?
starznsparklez 9 months ago
@starznsparklez try wikipedia
pandorawarhol 9 months ago
@pandorawarhol thanks
starznsparklez 9 months ago
tunee
sxxxyshaun 9 months ago
haha, this is what you look like to me, cool dudes
GangStalker 9 months ago
He looks like Glen Danzig
lukepc92 10 months ago
Maybe LSD was slang for money but they look like trippers to me!
ned666247 10 months ago
@ned666247 no coincidence about that
jerryg1964 10 months ago
Ohhhh he's so fine.
Dandyincursive 10 months ago 9
nice hair the singer!
Manug801 10 months ago
£SD
it really was about Pounds Shillings and Pence... i.e. money
£1 = 20s and 1s = 12d
but don't let me upset your nostalgia trip LOL
Photonzos 10 months ago
@Photonzos yeah think the drummer ate too many brit money. besides, drinking coke and smoking fags... olny the ones who are experienced know what that mean muffucka! peace
GripenZeus 9 months ago
Yea Pecka!
TheAlfonsz 10 months ago
I am the 666 th like on this video...
Nice song, never heard of them before.
One of the top psychedelics in the world, LSD.
dervishmadwhirler 10 months ago
damn how can "all light up" not be on youtube...
lpg8888 11 months ago
@blunted333 lol i second your comment. In my experience weed is something you use on LSD (You see what i mean??) Budz can help kick in the trip, or calm you down a level when your really rockin', or to boost it the acid back up after 7 hours of "fulfillment"
FLoYdInPink 11 months ago
cool! Music sounded so natural back than, not like the sampled over plastic shit now.
garagecrap 11 months ago 10
The guitar riff on this track sounds very similar to 'Heart of Stone" nevertheless The Pretty Things are legends.
shookrunner 11 months ago
Juhu,meine Gelbwurst hackt im Keller nach Rohöl!!!
salibtyukille 11 months ago
Bet the dummer ate lots of shillings..
sstaffords12 11 months ago
how many views this videos has got :)
FynnDynamite 11 months ago
great bass line- these guys were like the Nirvana of the sixties, shocking!and they clearly believed in what they did!so far ahead of their time no- one was ready for them
TheEDZEPPELINBAND 11 months ago
song is so badass lol learned it in 5 mins
JHSRV420 11 months ago
haha that dude in tha back is the the drummer lol
JHSRV420 11 months ago
Hell Yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
laurasnewlife 1 year ago
I also remember reading that British Currency was refered to as LSD. The L, S, and D symbolizing Shillings, Pounds, and Pence
Funny thing...I learned this from Alice in Wonderland. That square of paper tucked into the mad hatters hat has 10/6 written on it that is a number in the old English currency of Pounds, Shillings, and Pence, often abrevieated as L S D
Funny how the mad hatter carried a sheet of paper with writing that many people would recongnize as reading L S D
dirtdemon6 1 year ago
@dirtdemon6 Right. They're talking about how money is described in UK. Americans thought they were talking about acid. Stoner yanks sent song to #1 on the charts along with "Strawberry Fields". Great song.
clarkewi 1 year ago
@clarkewi pounds, shillings and pence (which was known as LSD) was how we used to describe currency back then, pre decimal days!
mlabofski 11 months ago
@dirtdemon6 i did not understand the point..would you please explain it to me?
san5a89 1 year ago
Bad Ass Song!
CHURINFUNFLAIS 1 year ago
yeah this is def a stumble upon that i want to market more .....why do i want to do that? i think it must be the drugs not the lsd just me....
perniall 1 year ago
This song has nothing to do with drugs at all. English money at the time was L-Pounds (£), S- Shillings and D- Pence...
BillySaturday 1 year ago 32
@BillySaturday This man is correct.Its about money.
MrClearlight 1 year ago
@BillySaturday ha ha, nothing at all. thanks for pointing that out.
wireandwood 8 months ago
@BillySaturday Kinda funny because hippies are siging it so i think there talking about acid.
herendez420 8 months ago 2
@BillySaturday Not even a little, little, hidden reference? Find that hard to believe!
missphyllislevine 8 months ago
@BillySaturday in that case he should have called it DSL he would have been way ahed of his time
TheNickmercier 7 months ago
@BillySaturday Are you sure ???
zapspace 7 months ago
@BillySaturday The reference to LSD is most likely a double entendre, for I doubt they were so ignorant that they were unaware of the psychedelic allusion.
mushroomagical 7 months ago
@BillySaturday Seriously go suck Satan's cock you conservative twat, it was the fucking 60's and he is screaming LSD on top of psychedelic tunes, you must have brain damage.
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
@Silvamedalist What is it with Youtube that people think they can be rude to people like they would never dare to be in person? I see that A) you are American & B) 27 years old. What do you know about London in the early 60's? This clip is towards the end of the Mod era (Mods were into speed and RnB), before the Hippies & Acid (the very first ones - such as the Beatles were just starting to experiment at this time but it would be a while before it caught on), but I guess you know it all.. sigh.
BillySaturday 5 months ago
@BillySaturday Well you see after i ate LSD myself I started to mindwarp through various dimensions until i arrived back into the U.K. of the 1960's. I asked "The Pretty Things" about your comment of the future. They said you are a square bro, laughed out of you, then offered me a joint.
Silvamedalist 5 months ago 8
@BillySaturday quit making clone accounts to give yourself thumbs up everytime i make new ones to thumbs it back down to 20, you pedo-cultists trying to ruin this world by denying drug influences in music, go burn your albums you dirty little christian
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
@BillySaturday sure..... even if thats true it was probably related to the coming up of acid
znubzz188 5 months ago
@znubzz188 Yes and znubzz who the hell are these idiots voting him up i wonder??? I wonder if he is making bot accounts or if it is just Republicans that accidentally stumbled upon the song and also somehow figured out how to read
Silvamedalist 5 months ago
@BillySaturday yeah right
slimturnpike 5 months ago
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@BillySaturday - liar. of course it's about acid.
en.wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Michael_Hollingshead
MannySteinerBIeeky 4 months ago
the guy was so crazy on acid that the strings were just a form of reality for him
lsd keep us out from capitalist/stalinist system,the earth is just our home at the abyss of universe,you know that,right?
GabrielDhalaman2 1 year ago
Actually LSD the drug not the chicago's lakefront highway "Lake Shore Drive" Is something I refuse to ever try Marijuana is something I would prefer and stick to I rather get high they do something that will make me turn dead be careful with drugs while using bros.
Underdog123 1 year ago
Again for the yanks - Pounds, Shillings and Pence - the song is about Money not lsd.
treborif 1 year ago
funny how that that riff sounds like "for your love" by the yardbirds
ryanbrownnew 1 year ago
@ryanbrownnew right
skedi33 1 year ago
I took some paper a month ago while I was in methadone withdrawals,Big mistake that time.
bloodieduckies 1 year ago
how do i get some?
cesky69 1 year ago
@cesky69 you can get it in a biquera
vinnypimentel 1 year ago
great song. describes my situation accurately.
ElectricMusicNeed 1 year ago
Pounds , shillings, and pence (L.S.D.)
ttoille765 1 year ago
catchy tune!
f4ckutube 1 year ago
"E.S.P." anyone? Rain, Big Brother, etc...
HarvestmanMan 1 year ago
I really missed out on them. One mark of a great garage band like them (and van morrison's "Them" was another great but not-so-garage sounding band) is it's really hard to find a bad song by this band.
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
LIFE SEX DEATH
VECTIZ 1 year ago
@VECTIZ life sex carrots
zangeejoe 1 year ago
@zangeejoe Loosley Specified Dangleberry
VECTIZ 1 year ago
@VECTIZ largley spooky disorder...i just took 2blackstars an a blue planet,had a quick look there is a fox in the cupborad smokeing my sisters neck, while my ghastly mother sits upon a table of skulls screaming non~toughts to the well wishers of a forgoten tribe...i miss good music an real lsd...
zangeejoe 1 year ago
@VECTIZ long sausage dog....
zangeejoe 1 year ago
@zangeejoe Labia Sandwhich Distortion
VECTIZ 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
Used to play that in my band in the late 60s (I think) in Germany . MUCH to my chagrin was informed that LSD actually stood for the symbols for Pounds, Shillings and Pence, ergo cold hard mammon. Comments ?
dasschmittchen 1 year ago
Cool! we get to provide our own colours! Let's have the International Roll-call of LSDroppers and their many contributions to world peace, love and understanding (sound of crickets in the dark...) Timothy Leary? Uh, Ram Dass? Ken Kesey? Augustus Owsley Stanley III? John Lennon? ?? C'mon, people: help me here! I'm losing...conTr0L
radiootoo 1 year ago
Cool! we get to provide our own colours! Let's have the International Roll-call of LSDroppers and their many contributions to world peace, love and understanding (sound of crickets in the dark...) Timothy Leary? Uh, R
radiootoo 1 year ago
Depends whether you want to be in control...... or not. Beware of the blue moonie juice.... scarey!!!
malibumut 1 year ago
LSD really is a great experience if you pay attention to set and setting
jimjohnson1977 1 year ago
Hate to burst your bubble,but "Get the Picture" was released in 1965 and anyway this track (LSD) was not on "GET THE Picture",anyhow.
Bumbumawangis 1 year ago
For those that love this track......don't take the drugs - it was a SONG to get a reaction, and it did............
annewinwood 1 year ago
Whoo graceful partyy.
TrandomnesstwO 1 year ago
420 th comment!
rockwarlock 1 year ago 2
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this song is metal
WashingtonSmokedHemp 1 year ago
im takin lsd tonight woooooot
LushKush1 1 year ago 2
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LSD.......why not
DropkickFighter 1 year ago
LSD.......why not
DropkickFighter 1 year ago 2
LSD.......why not
DropkickFighter 1 year ago
The best drug ever... Safer/nicer trips than marijuana (for me).
bananiolo2 1 year ago 37
@bananiolo2 mary jane isnt a halucinogen, it doesnt make you trip.
XxninjaxXD 1 year ago
@bananiolo2
marijuana doesn't give you trips...
SlipAllCityToy 1 year ago
@SlipAllCityToy if you consume enough you'll trip for 12 hours easy.mj "is" psychedlic.
tehran21tir 1 year ago 2
@SlipAllCityToy if you smoke enough of the right weed... you can trip lol
YaroKior 1 year ago 3
@SlipAllCityToy sorry dude, I'm from Quebec so I may write the wrong term sometimes.
bananiolo2 1 year ago
@bananiolo2
I'm not blaming anyone for anything, there seems to be a handful of negative people here being mad at me =(
It's 'aight =)
SlipAllCityToy 1 year ago
@bananiolo2
I have a few friends who would agree with you. I have nothing negative to say about lsd at all. You should give pot a chance though. Most likely you just need to let yourself relax and enjoy being stoned. Psilocybin is the best way to go though because you know what you are getting. I know people many people who took what they thought was acid and had a really bad time. Anyway psychedelic drugs are super great. wooo hooo.
shelbyloveforever 1 year ago
@bananiolo2 , I think the best drug ever is the music.....
nicdreic 1 year ago
@bananiolo2 Im so with you on that one. i love lucy soooooo muuuuchhhhhhhhh.
rikochikoniko 11 months ago
@bananiolo2 you get no trip from marijuana..... obv your not on top of your acid nor weed game hahaha
smokinthatpiff420 11 months ago 2
@bananiolo2 No drug is " safe , nice " ...
sonor23 11 months ago
@bananiolo2 When mother nature gives you mushrooms, you don't need them drugs
MariosTsak 11 months ago
@bananiolo2 The only thing I don't like is the risk of having a bad trip - you never know 'til it's too late when it happened to me. If you plan on taking it soon, don't think about this or you will have a bad trip. Good thoughts ~ peace and love.
pucksterz12 11 months ago
@bananiolo2
you got ripped off man... Or you just plain have no fuckin clue what you're talking about.. I'm not knocking either substance, but comparing the two is like comparing ketamine & coffee.. get a grip dummy...
blunted333 11 months ago
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anomalousclouds 7 months ago
LOVE this!
thebjm1967 1 year ago
23 Justin Biber Pill takers. -.-
derfettenerd 1 year ago