S/D: Pretenders

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Is there really anything to destroy? Even their most uneven album ("Get Close") has three or four wonderful songs. Her consistency is impressive; the "Viva el Amor" album, released just a few years ago, was one of her very best.
What's most remarkable about Hynde is that she proves the continued relevance of the auteur theory in music: no matter who cowrote the songs or who's in the band, they always sound like "the Pretenders."

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I still haven't warmed too much to Packed, although it has a few good tunes on it. But all of the others, i still listen to pretty regularly.

diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Packed is uneven, but more rewarding than Last of the Independents (wherein she tries too hard to be a mutha).

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

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

one year passes...

!!!!

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


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