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  • Steve Savicki
    • Jan 2004
    • 3937
    #1

    The Pretenders

    Got into the first 3 albums, lost interest when '86s "Get Close" came out. "My baby and me" was too mellow for old school Pretenders Fans.

    Originally posted by Roguesgirl what are your favorite tunes?
    "the phone call" from debut, can't remember anything from 2, "my city was gone" from "learning to crawl".

    What do these extended versions sound like?
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    • Roguesgirl
      Veteran
      • Jan 2005
      • 1702
      #2
      Re: The Pretenders

      Originally posted by Steve Savicki
      Got into the first 3 albums, lost interest when '86s "Get Close" came out. "My baby and me" was too mellow for old school Pretenders Fans.


      "the phone call" from debut, can't remember anything from 2, "my city was gone" from "learning to crawl".

      What do these extended versions sound like?
      hey...just caught this...

      The album I had called "Extended play" got more play than any of my other albums (besides VH) mostly for the version of Precious. It is a great live version and Chrissie sounds mint, she's got a killer attitude on it. The rest of the album is great too. I have not yet been able to find it on CD. I had it on vinyl and cassette. I do a lot of "used music shopping" and haven't found it. I am going to have to poke around on line.

      I am not really into a lot of the songs that made them successful commercially. I like their oldest stuff.

      I love the tune "Bad Boys get spanked"

      I'm not all that keen on Chrissie's political views but man can she rock, or what?


      TLC
      You KNOW I got the blues.
      Can you dig it?
      Welcome to Massachusetts. Now get the FUCK out of my way!

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        • FORD
          ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

          • Jan 2004
          • 58783
          #3
          Re: The Pretenders

          Originally posted by Steve Savicki
          Got into the first 3 albums, lost interest when '86s "Get Close" came out. "My baby and me" was too mellow for old school Pretenders Fans.
          Exactly. Chrissie should have dropped the "Pretenders" name after the third album. At least that one still sounded like the Pretenders, even though it was recorded after half the band was dead. Chrissie Hynde is talented enough to make it as a solo artist, and that's the name that should have been used on the poppy "My Baby"/"Don't Get Me Wrong" type of stuff.
          Eat Us And Smile

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          "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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            • Terry
              TOASTMASTER GENERAL
              • Jan 2004
              • 11957
              #4
              Pretenders with Hynde, Pete F, Martin Chambers and James Honeyman-Scott totally fucking rocked.

              After James died, not so much. Learning To Crawl was decent enough, I suppose, if only because Robbie was doing his best Honeyman impression/trying to recreate the style.
              Scramby eggs and bacon.

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                • Jérôme Frenchise
                  ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                  • Nov 2004
                  • 7174
                  #5
                  I'm fond of Chrissie Hynde's voice. She could ask me whatever she likes...

                  I dig many Pretenders tunes. There's one particular song on "Viva el amor!" that's still sticking on my mind 4 years after, with Jeff Beck playing an amazing solo on it, called "Legalise me". Jeff just wound up in the studio, on Chrissie's invitation, and did only one take, the one that's on the record... and he left as quick as he'd come in!
                  posted by Ellyllions Men say, "I'll never understand women." That's a very lonely place to be if you're a woman because we don't understand half of what we do either.
                  posted by ALinChainz Katy, Pipe down, pump off, and fly back to your cave you old bat.

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                    • Steve Savicki
                      • Jan 2004
                      • 3937
                      #6
                      Re: Re: The Pretenders

                      The thing about Chrissie is that she looks SO MUCH like Christine Amphlett of the Divinyls.
                      I had a D CD over once and when I played it, someone asked why it wasn't Pretenders music.
                      Both look alike and have the feminine name of Chris.

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                        • Roguesgirl
                          Veteran
                          • Jan 2005
                          • 1702
                          #7
                          Never thought about it, but yeah they do look alike and both have sexy voices, IMO.
                          TLC
                          You KNOW I got the blues.
                          Can you dig it?
                          Welcome to Massachusetts. Now get the FUCK out of my way!

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                            • Steve Savicki
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 3937
                              #8
                              Do you have any Divinyls albums?
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                                • FORD
                                  ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

                                  • Jan 2004
                                  • 58783
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by Steve Savicki
                                  Do you have any Divinyls albums?
                                  I have the "big huge hit" self titled album they did in 1990 or whenever it was. Haven't listened to it in years. Let's just say there's a lot of memories tied up in that album. Mostly good ones though.

                                  Of course most people thought that was the first Divinyls album, which of course it wasn't. I remember hearing their stuff in the early 80's on the "new wave" radio station. INXS was a big hit then, so they thought they would try another Aussie band.
                                  Eat Us And Smile

                                  Cenk For America 2024!!

                                  Justice Democrats


                                  "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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                                    • Panamark
                                      DIAMOND STATUS
                                      • Jan 2004
                                      • 17160
                                      #10
                                      Divinyls Rocked..

                                      Well worth checking out. I was dissapointed in the "Essentials" album,
                                      it was one of those greatest hits albums that should have had another
                                      six songs on it at least.
                                      BABY PANA 2 IS Coming !! All across the land, let the love and beer flow !
                                      Love ya Mary Frances!

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                                        • Steve Savicki
                                          • Jan 2004
                                          • 3937
                                          #11
                                          FORD, what about the "I touch myself" album has alot of good memories? That was their only hit, wasn't it?

                                          Mark, for a single CD, Divinyls yse the entire 80 minute maximum length on this compilation of 20 song:

                                          http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?style=music&bab=E&pid=1135325&cart=244665897
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