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i really love 'my baby' off 'get close'. lovely 12 string guitar motif, and a great hook, towards the end, where Chrissie sings, 'could this really happen, in this day and age... like i'm walking onstage' and the music cuts out and crowd sounds swell up and fade away and the riff chimes in again. its sweet.

sxxx

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 6 January 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Phone Call" is great .. The first record is one of the best records ever made...

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

Yes, "Kid" really is beautiful.

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

two years pass...

Search: Don't Get Me Wrong

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (three months ago) link

nice. Thanks

― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 December 2023 05:41 (three months ago) link

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