Emotions (The Pretty Things album)

Emotions
Studio album by Pretty Things
Released	April 1967
Recorded	Philips Studios, London
Genre	Psychedelia blues R&B
Length	32:14
Label	Fontana
Producer	Steve Rowland
Pretty Things chronology
Get the Picture? (1965) Emotions (1967) S. F. Sorrow (1968)

Emotions is the third album by the English rock band Pretty Things. Released in 1967, the album demonstrated a shift in the band's style, reflecting a fusion of psychedelia and blues.

Composition

Uncut, in a review of the band's studio albums box set The Complete Studio Albums 1965-2020, said that Emotions married "hard blues with psychedelia". AllMusic said that songs such as "There Will Never Be Another Day" demonstrated the band's R&B leanings, while Mojo said that "the West Coast guitar on One Long Glance, the wigged-out Growing In My Mind and the knowing Tripping nodded hopefully towards the boot-boy psychedelia of the Small Faces."

Release

A compact disc reissue included 7 bonus tracks. In 2023, all 13 of the band's studio albums were included in the box set The Complete Studio Albums 1965-2020.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

Uncut wrote that "Emotions was evidence they were better at marrying hard blues with psychedelia than almost any of their peers other than the Who".

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Death of a Socialite"	Ian Stirling Phil May Dick Taylor	2:44
2.	"Children"	Wally Waller May Taylor	3:05
3.	"The Sun"	May Waller	3:06
4.	"There Will Never Be Another Day"	Taylor May Waller	2:22
5.	"House of Ten"	Waller May Taylor	2:54
6.	"Out in the Night"	Stirling Taylor	2:44
Total length:			16:48

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"One Long Glance"	Waller May Taylor	2:54
8.	"Growing in My Mind"	May Taylor	2:21
9.	"Photographer"	May Stirling Taylor	2:07
10.	"Bright Lights of the City"	Waller May	3:02
11.	"Tripping"	May Taylor	3:26
12.	"My Time"	Taylor May Waller	3:09
Total length:			16:57

Personnel

The Pretty Things

• Phil May – vocals
• Dick Taylor – guitar
• Skip Alan – drums
• Jon Povey – vocals, keyboards
• Wally Waller – bass, guitars, vocals
• Brian Pendleton – rhythm guitar
• John Stax – bass

with:

• Johnnie Gray – alto, tenor and soprano saxophone
• J. Collier – double bass
• G. Wallace – bass trombone
• John Shinebourne, Lionel Ross, R. Kok, William de Mont – cello
• Reg Tilsley – orchestra conductor
• Marie Goossens – harp
• Keith Christie – trombone
• Albert Hall, Bert Ezzard, Greg Bowen – trumpet
• Johnny Edwards – valve trombone

Note – Brian Pendleton and John Stax were present when sessions began for the album, but it is still unknown precisely which tracks on which they played.