That said, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of consensus on the last few records. Wondering what you all think of them.
And for the record:
Search: "Precious," "The Wait," "Kid," "Brass in Pocket," "Talk of the Town," "Pack It Up," "2000 Miles," "Back on the Chain Gang," "Don't Get Me Wrong," "I'll Stand by You"
Destroy (gently, with no malice aforethought): "Louie, Louie," "Middle of the Road," "Thin Line Between Love and Hate," "Hymn to Her," "Sense of Purpose," that live album, "Night in My Veins"
Destroy destroy destroy: "Phone Call," wherein Chrissie has the opportunity to write a nice vocal melody atop an unusual time signature and demurs
??: "Human"
― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 4 January 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
...Destroy: "I'll Stand by You" -- It's bad enough in the first place, but knowing it's the Pretenders makes it even worse.
― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 4 January 2003 07:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
DESTROY: everything else they did.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 January 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 4 January 2003 07:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 January 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 4 January 2003 23:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Sunday, 5 January 2003 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 5 January 2003 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
sxxx
― stevie (stevie), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
They're great live, too... They play a lot of crowd-pleasers ... they won't be playing "Jealous Dogs" or "Pack it Up!", which is too bad ..
Pretenders is one of the few bands that have stayed consistently great throughout their (her) career. (Except "I'll Stand By You" , which is unbearable..)
.. Best song since "Cruel to be Kind": "Kid"
..Still munching on the new record... no opinion yet ...
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
I like "I'll Stand by You," but this is admittedly based on memories now somewhat dim. I'll have to revisit it and see if I think it holds up.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Search: "Pack it Up" and "Waste Not Want Not"
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:25 (two years ago) link
Chrissie will always have a special place in my heart. I saw the band (in its original configuration) on my 16th birthday. They had opened for the Kinks the night before, and Ray Davies came out for "Stop Your Sobbing." You can hear an almost identical show from the same tour as bonus material to Pretenders II."
Search: "Tattooed Love Boys," "Talk of the Town," "The Wait."
Destroy: "I'll Stand by You," "The Adultress."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
Can hardly imagine how incendiary that lineup must have been live.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 9 April 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
They were pretty spectacular. It was stunning how soon after that both Jim and Pete were dead.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 9 April 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LzRab8uFYg
The Pretenders live Germany 1981 Recorded by me from digital satellite onto VHS HiFi VCR. Few people in the UK could receive this station, but at this time I had two satellite dishes and two receivers, one for standard SKY channels, the other for stations in France, Germany etc.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 22 December 2023 04:20 (four months ago) link
nice. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 December 2023 05:41 (four months ago) link