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    140g Black Vinyl, 3mm Spined Cardboard Sleeve With Printed Inner Sleeve Notes by Wally + Lyrics. Ships out April 14, 2023.

    Tracklist:

    A1. Turn My Head A2. Cries From The Midnight Circus A3. Over The Moon A4. The Good Mr. Square (She Was Tall, She Was High) A5. The Sun

    B1. Walking Through My Dreams B2. Miss Fay Regrets B3. Sickle Clowns B4. The Rain Trilogy

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1.
Turn My Head 03:17
Turn my head and don’t know why Turn my head back to the sky I know This I know Sit down bending on my knees People is there nothing left To please Nothing to please Drive my car along the sidewalk Turn my cartwheels When the people talk They talk too loud Turn my mind away from pain Change the colours of my thoughts Again Change them again We will fight With so many people dying We were blessed By the people on the moon What moon ? … What moon ?
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There’s a pain I cannot kill And I guess I never will Bluebird of love has let me down Sang her songs and then left town Oh the lady sang so sweet Had the kids upon their feet Playing the town hall she took her bow Left me this message I’m reading now I was over the moon But my poor heart came back soon And there was only a rainbow left see Oh she said it gets so tough Airline schedules can be rough Wanted to stay here and live with me One more show and she was free So I waited there at home Played some ‘Stills’ and got real stoned And as I lay in my empty bed Bluebird of love flew above my head Stay with me, stay with me Lay your head upon my shoulder
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Slow Down 02:52
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Down by the river Three sickle mounted souls, Lay wined on the green leaf, Digging their rock'n'roll. Hey hey, digging their rock’n'roll. Slashed by the wild geese, The silence it did tear, Sticks swung in violence, Young America murdered there Hey hey, Young America murdered there. As one soul lay dying, Only two were there to care. On through the valleys, Sad sickle clowns they ride. Pressed tight against the morning, Beneath the blackened sky, Hey hey, beneath the blackened sky. There on a hill of gold Wild children play. They bend to pick the flowers. The sun dissolves the day. Hey hey, the sun dissolves the day. If you can't close one eye, Just turn the other way. Faces bark in anger, With savage bitter words, Twist against the friendship, With rapid shots they're blurred, Hey hey, with rapid shots they're blurred. There by the highway Two sickles melt in flames. They burn without the knowledge Of why their lives were claimed. Hey hey, of why their lives were claimed. As the smoke drifts skywards We search for those to blame .....
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In the concrete valleys the electric storm We members of the midnight circus, Our bodies so brightly adorn. In your long sedans and your Oldsmobiles, Through the slit in your face, you ask me, How it feels. Can you hear me, can you hear me, I ain't telling you again. Daughters of Satan, all stand in line Faces greased and a mouth full of shine. With iron hand you bruise the flesh, Through a closing door you ask, Pray why the distress. Hear me, can you hear me, can you. Midnight sailors can stay, We won't send you away, See me here on my knees. You lie in the alley, with blood on your clothes. As fingers round your throat they close. Your cries of murder, splash on the walls. And as you die, you think about the injustice of it all. Can you hear me ... Hear me .... See Satan's daughters red lights, They have such good appetites, Another clown packs his drag .... Hear me, can you hear me, can you.
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The good Mr. Square, he doesn't have any hang-ups He spends his time, Looking through other people's eyes. The good Mr. Square, he doesn't have any hang-ups He spends his time, Looking through other people's lives. Oh and how, inside, He likes the things that they've done. The good Mr. Square, he doesn't have any hang-ups He spends his time ..... And as she weaves her way through city streets, The dawn arrives. In concrete glades of metal of metal grass, Steel cords are woven tight. But she is free, F ... R ...double E. She was tall, she was high, Lord she almost made me cry, Today, I said today "She was tall, she was high, Lord she almost touched the sky Today, she spends her time ....." Beside grey lakes of lead she's harnessed to A kneeling form. Before the storm subsides, she's flown And leaves the body torn. But she is free, F ... R ...double E She was tall, she was high ..
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The Sun 04:18
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In the square, she came running I was lucky to be there In her hair, she wore flowers The scent it filled the air She must leave, not returning I was sadness, standing there A silent square, bus of silver With my vision disappears She wrote me a letter, From the green fields it came. She wrote me a letter, Trying to explain. Now living came easy, In velvet valleys of sun. She wrote me a letter ..... She wrote me a letter, So many questions she asked, She knew I just couldn't answer, For they were all in the past, City life was too heavy, So she had run for the hills, She wrote me a letter, in the rain ..... When I got, to our meeting place I stared into empty space, Nobody here for me, Oh no no no ....... Here in the rain feeling uptight ......
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October 26th 03:01
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Grass 05:11
As silver tears they weave and lace, Sad patterns upon her face, She Waits for you. So low below a laser sun, Through velvet fields she runs, Reaching for you. And so you bleed now, Your hand holds the knife That is tearing your life apart. Why don't you leave now, The city's too heavy And your dreams they melt in the sun. On mellow blue, birds curve and glide. Through shadows of grief she slides, She waits for you. There on a hill before the dawn, In silence a promise torn, She turns from you. And so you bleed now ... As silver tears, they weave and lace, She waits for you. So low below a laser sun. Reaching for you. On mellow blue, birds curve and glide. She waits for you. There on a hill before the dawn, She turns from you .....
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Check Out 05:18

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On the 26th of March 2020 England went into ‘Lockdown’ ! In all my years, I’d never experienced anything quite like that before. And like most people, I began to go slightly crazy. To relieve the boredom, I started to produce videos of past Pretty Things' songs and others besides, for posting onto my social media outlets. I sang along with my acoustic guitar, and recorded the video and audio directly into my iPad - the audio output from a 10-year-old iPad is definitely not 'professional audio", so it wasn't a great place to start from, but that's where all these tracks began. It soon became apparent that the room with the best acoustics in my apartment for doing this was the kitchen - hence the idea of Kitchen Rock was born.

I managed to devise a way of adding to the audio with other instruments and voices. I have a rudimentary recording set-up, I hesitate to call it a ‘studio’ - (it was certainly a far cry from Abbey Road, where I used to work as a producer for E.M.I. back in the 70’s). And after my labours in the music-room, I was able to ‘sew’ the new augmented audio back together with the original video. It’s not a great way of doing things - it’s much better to interact with other musicians, and play everything together ‘live’, but right then (in lockdown), it wasn’t an option. A few of these tracks are simply untouched and un-enhanced recordings (of me singing with my acoustic guitar) direct from my iPad ... and those tracks were "Slow Down", "October 26th" & "Can't Judge A Book By The Cover".

It has to be said that this is not ’Home Recording’s’ finest hour. I am definitely not the most talented sound engineer who ever drew breath, but anyway, there was only me there, so I was ‘chief cook and bottle washer’ rolled into one. As a musician, there were a few minor ‘fluffs’ that would have been corrected if I was in studio making a proper album, but for this project, I developed a mentality of ‘near enough is good enough’, and bearing in mind that all these tracks began life as just me and my acoustic guitar being recorded into an ancient iPad, the results weren’t too bad. I didn’t use any kind of metronome or 'click track', so over-dubbing other things later was a trifle tricky at times. But to my surprise it became quite a popular series, and I was asked by quite a few people if I could collect all the recordings together, and publish them as an album. So Hey Presto … here it is !

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released July 13, 2022

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Wally Waller - Beyond The Pretty Things London, UK

Wally Waller was a long-time member of The Pretty Things rock band - & lifelong friend of ‘Mr Pretty Things’ himself: Phil May. He had a big influence on all the most important PT's albums, that were all made while he was a member of the band: “Emotions”, “S. F. Sorrow”, “Parachute” (written entirely by Phil & Wally), “Freeway Madness” (produced by Wally), also the much acclaimed "Cross Talk" ! ... more

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