"The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" is a song written by David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 and Reeves Gabrels

Reeves Gabrels

Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...

 for the album 'hours...' in 1999

1999 in music

-Events:*January 7**After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.**Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia....

. The first single release from the album in Australia and Japan, while the rest of the world got "Thursday's Child" as their first single. The first appearance of the song was on the soundtrack of the film Stigmata

Stigmata (film)

Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as a hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomena...

in 1999. It charted and peaked at #30 in Japan.

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1. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" - 4:40
2. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (edit)" - 3:59
3. "We Shall Go to Town
   We Shall Go to Town
   "We Shall Go to Town" is a song written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels in 1999 during the sessions for the album hours.... The song never made it to the album, but was released on the single "Thursday's Child."-Other releases:...
   
   " - 3:56
4. "1917" - 3:27

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1. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (edit)" - 3:59
2. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (Call out hook #1)" - 0:11
3. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell (Call out hook #1)" - 0:11
4. "Thursday's Child (Radio edit)" - 4:25
5. "Thursday's Child (Call out hook #1)" - 0:12
6. "Thursday's Child (Call out hook #2)" - 0:12

Production credits

Producers

• David Bowie
• Reeves Gabrels

Musicians

• David Bowie
  David Bowie
  David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
  
  : vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels
  Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
  
  : Electric guitar
• Mark Plati
  Mark Plati
  Mark Plati is a New York-based musician, record producer, and songwriter, widely acclaimed for his work in the 1990s with David Bowie. An in-demand producer, Plati also has worked with Spookey Ruben, The Cure, Duncan Sheik, Hooverphonic, Robbie Williams, Joe McIntyre, and Natalie Imbruglia...
  
  : Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Mike Levesque: drums
  Drum kit
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Live versions

• A live version recorded at Kit Kat Klub, New York City
  The 'hours...' Tour
  The Hours... Tour was a small-scale promotional concert tour by David Bowie comprising eight live performances and numerous television appearances in support of the album Hours......
  
  , November 19, 1999 was released on the single "Seven" in July 2000.

Other releases

• It was released in a slightly different mix on the soundtrack of the film Stigmata
  Stigmata (film)
  Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as a hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomena...
  
  in 1999. This version was also released on the single "Survive
  Survive (David Bowie song)
  "Survive" is a song and single written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album hours... in 1999.-UK CD version 1:# "Survive " - 4:18# "Survive " - 4:11...
  
  ".
• The edited version, "Stigmata film version" and "Stigmata film only version" was released on the bonus disc that followed the 2004 reissue of 'hours...' .
• In April 2000, a remixable version of the song was released to the Web as a Beatnik eMix. http://www.davidbowie.com/users/susans/2000april.html