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The Pretty Things

The Pretty Things is a group from the UK, active since 1963.

Group GB since 1963 psychedelic rock garage rock rock
TOTAL PLAYS
484
SONGS PLAYED
94
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-03-02 10:11 · 6 Music — "Midnight To Six Man (BBC session)"
LAST PLAYED
4 months ago · 6 Music — "Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut"
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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2025
60 45 30 15 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 444 92%
Radio 2 39 8%
Radio 1 1 0%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 03:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Don't Bring Me Down 137 2023-06-29
2 Midnight to Six Man 57 2022-01-20
3 Rosalyn 38 2025-09-11
4 Love Is Good - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 22 2019-08-20
5 Havana Bound - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 22 2019-08-20
6 Route 66 - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 21 2019-08-20
7 Religion's Dead - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 20 2019-08-20
8 Onion Soup - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 18 2019-08-20
9 S.F. Sorrow Is Born 11 2021-04-20
10 Come Home Mama - BBC Session 17/12/974 6 2015-03-27
11 Rosalyn (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) 5 2024-11-27
12 Honey I Need You 4 2017-07-03
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-12-23 21:51 Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut 6 Music
2025-09-15 20:37 Judgement Day 6 Music
2025-09-11 14:28 Rosalyn 6 Music
2025-04-20 15:04 Buzz the Jerk 6 Music
2024-11-27 21:19 Rosalyn (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) 6 Music
2024-11-25 22:25 Midnight To Six (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) 6 Music
2024-09-12 21:02 Summertime 6 Music
2023-07-12 21:25 She Says Good Morning (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) 6 Music
2023-07-10 21:26 The Same Sun (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) 6 Music
2023-06-29 13:58 Don't Bring Me Down 6 Music
2023-05-04 20:55 Rosalyn 6 Music
2023-02-15 02:58 Don't Bring Me Down 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

94 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
13 Chester Street — 1 ▶
Balloon Burning — 2 ▶
Balloon Burning (Top Gear session 21.10.68) — 1 ▶
Baron Saturday — 1 ▶
Big Boss Man (BBC session October 1964) — 2 ▶
Big City — 1 ▶
Big City (BBC session October 1964) — 1 ▶
Bridge Of God (Radio 1 Session, 17th Dec 1974) — 1 ▶
Bridge Of God - BBC Session 17/12/974 — 3 ▶
Buzz the Jerk — 1 ▶
Buzz The Jerk (BBC session May 1966) — 1 ▶
Can't Judge A Book (6 Music session 160718) — 1 ▶
Come Home Mama (Radio 1 Session, 17th Dec 1974) — 1 ▶
Come Home Mama - BBC Session 17/12/974 — 6 ▶
Come Home Mama - BBC Session 1974 — 2 ▶
Come See Me — 3 ▶
Cries From The Midnight Circus — 1 ▶
Cry to Me — 3 ▶
Defected Grey — 1 ▶
Defecting Grey — 3 ▶
Defecting Grey (Top Gear session 3rd Dec 1967) — 1 ▶
Don't Bring Me Down — 137 ▶
Don't Bring Me Down (BBC session October 1964) — 1 ▶
Don't Bring Me Down (BBC session) — 2 ▶
Don't Bring Me Down (Saturday Club Session, Oct 1964) — 1 ▶
Dream/Joey - BBC Session 17/12/1974 — 2 ▶
Dream/Joey - BBC Session 1974 — 1 ▶
Get a Buzz — 1 ▶
Grass — 3 ▶
Havana Bound - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 — 22 ▶
Hey Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut — 1 ▶
Honey I Need — 4 ▶
Honey I Need You — 4 ▶
Is It Only Love — 1 ▶
Judgement Day — 2 ▶
Love Is Good - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 — 22 ▶
LSD — 2 ▶
LSD (BBC session May 1966) — 1 ▶
Mama Keep Your BIg Mouth Shut (BBC session October 1964) — 1 ▶
Mama, Keep Your Big Mouth Shut — 1 ▶
Maybe We Tried — 1 ▶
Me Needing You — 1 ▶
Midnight to six — 1 ▶
Midnight To Six (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) — 3 ▶
Midnight to Six Man — 57 ▶
Midnight To Six Man (BBC 6 session May 1966) — 1 ▶
Midnight To Six Man (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Mister Evasion (6 Music session 160718) — 1 ▶
Mr Evasion (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) — 1 ▶
October 26 — 3 ▶
Onion Soup (Radio 1 Session, 15 Aug 1973) — 1 ▶
Onion Soup - BBC Session 15/08/1973 — 1 ▶
Onion Soup - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 — 18 ▶
Onion Soup 1973 - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 — 3 ▶
Over the Moon — 1 ▶
Parachute — 1 ▶
Private Sorrow — 2 ▶
Private Sorrow Balloon Burning — 1 ▶
Religion's Dead - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 — 20 ▶
Renaissance Fair — 1 ▶
Roadrunner — 1 ▶
Rosalyn — 38 ▶
Rosalyn (6 Music session 160718) — 1 ▶
Rosalyn (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) — 5 ▶
Rosalyn (BBC Radio 6Music live session 170718) — 1 ▶
Route 66 (Radio 1, Sound Of The 70s, 27 Aug 1973) — 1 ▶
Route 66 - BBC Session 15/08/1973 — 1 ▶
Route 66 - Golders Green Hippodrome 1973 — 21 ▶
S.F Sorrow Is Born — 3 ▶
S.F. Sorrow Is Born — 11 ▶
S.F.Sorrow Is Born — 1 ▶
Sad Eye — 1 ▶
Sf Sorrow Is Born — 3 ▶
SF Sorrow is Born (Top Gear session 21.10.68) — 1 ▶
She Says Good Morning (6 Music session 160718) — 1 ▶
She Says Good Morning (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) — 1 ▶
She's Fine, She's Mine — 2 ▶
Silk Torpedo (Radio 1 Session, 17th Dec 1974) — 1 ▶
Silk Torpedo - BBC Session 17/12/974 — 2 ▶
Sittin' All Alone — 1 ▶
Sitting All Alone (BBC session May 1966) — 1 ▶
Summer Time — 1 ▶
Summertime — 1 ▶
The Good Mr Square — 3 ▶
The Good Mr. Square — 3 ▶
The Same Sun (6 Music session 160718) — 1 ▶
The Same Sun (6 Music Session, 17 July 2018) — 2 ▶
Tripping — 1 ▶
Turn My Head — 2 ▶
Turn My Head (Top Gear session 3rd Dec 1967) — 1 ▶
Vivian Prince — 1 ▶
Walking Through My Dreams — 1 ▶
Walking Through My Dreams (Top Gear session 3rd Dec 1967) — 1 ▶
What's The Use — 1 ▶