The Pretty Things-Savage Eye (1975)

In 1973, Led Zeppelin, along with their manager Peter Grant, founded their own record label, Swan Song Records, signing some of the most popular bands of the 1970s, such as Bad Company and The Pretty Things, who released several albums under their auspices. Focusing on the latter, The Pretty Things had maintained a very stable career since the mid-1960s with a style that navigated between psychedelic pop and proto-progressive rock. Albums like "S.F. Sorrow" (1968) and "Parachute" (1970) are considered two of the great masterpieces of the era. Even after their heyday, they continued to release commendable works focused on classic rock, such as "Freeway Madness" (1972), "Silk Torpedo" (1974), and the album we're discussing today, "Savage Eye", released in 1975 and, like the previous album, published under the aforementioned Swan Song Records. In this release, the band, comprised of Phil May (vocals), Jack Green (bass, vocals, and guitars), Peter Tolson (guitars and bass), Gordon Edwards (guitars, keyboards, and vocals), John Povey (keyboards), and Skip Alan (drums), focused on a repertoire primarily oriented towards conventional rock and the typical rock 'n' roll of the 1970s. Tracks like the monolithic, Zeppelin-esque "Under the Volcano", or the melancholic folk-pop-rock "Sad Eye", along with the grandiose "My Song", are more than enough to qualify this as a magnificent album. The rest, while not reaching the heights of the previous tracks, maintains a high level of compositional and instrumental quality, as demonstrated by the upbeat rock 'n' roll "It Isn't Rock 'n' Roll", the energetic rock of "I'm Keeping", and the relaxed pop-rock of "It's Been So Long".