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| Artist: Pretenders
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
Buy New: $7.73
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 2511
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 101058
UPC: 081227999872
EAN: 0081227999872
ASIN: B000NA2ALY
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Middle of the Road | | • | Back on the Chain Gang | | • | Time the Avenger | | • | Watching the Clothes | | • | Show Me | | • | Thumbelina | | • | My City Was Gone | | • | Thin Line Between Love and Hate - The Pretenders, Poindexter, Richard | | • | I Hurt You | | • | 2000 Miles | | • | Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law) - The Pretenders, Chambers, Martin | | • | Tequila | | • | I Hurt You | | • | When I Change My Life | | • | Ramblin' Rob - The Pretenders, McIntosh, Robbie | | • | My City Was Gone | | • | Money - The Pretenders, Gordy, Berry Jr. |
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| Customer Reviews:
What a voice........ November 21, 2008
Carol R. (Erie, PA)
Chrissie Hynde has a gorgeous-smokey-sexy voice -- it's unique and she's so cool. What makes "Learning to Crawl" so special for me is the bonus tracks ... "My City was Gone" rocks hard (twice) because of the bonus live track. They're cover song of "Money" (Beatles) is the best I've ever heard. If you're a Pretender's fan, you want this.
Good Got Better September 25, 2008
K. Ward (Spring Tx)
I'm sure Chrissie was proud to write the Rush Limbaugh theme song LOL, This album was good, BUT This remaster with added tracks is Terrific ! Very little filler most every song is vibrant and fun, classic Pretenders. Chrissie Hynde is for sure one of R&R's most powerful vocalists. (I almost wrote most powerful women but that wasn't good enough.)The sound quality is top notch and she always surrounds herself with excellent musicians. My only complaint is I keep thinking the Rush Limbaugh show is about to start when the studio version on MY CITY WAS GONE starts. . . .
One must CRAWL before one can WALK August 5, 2008
J. Gunning (Midst the Oaks of SRH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rattled and bitter about deaths around her, and relationship betrayals, CHRISSIE HYNDE now a star and recognized genius, reformed her band with only half the original four (herself and drummer MARTIN CHAMBERS) and forged the band's second best album, a personal and resolute self-examination, which is saying a lot!! Remembering her training at the School of Hard Knocks, CHRISSIE went back to Ohio but "[Her] City Was Gone..." And she advises in a ROCK context how all of that feels. When CHRISSIE gave birth to RAY DAVIES baby, but married JIM KERR of SIMPLE MINDS, she wrote about it on this album, her love for her child, her hope and disenchantment, and her own foundering: "Welcome to the human race... with its wars, disease, and brutality... You with your innocence and grace, there's still some pride and dignity to a world in decline.... Welcome to a special place and a heart of stone that's cold and grey, you with your Angel face... show me the meanin' of the Word... show me the meanin' of the Word... 'Cause I've heard so much about it, I don't want to live without it... I want Love! I want Love! I want... Love...!!" I think CHRISSIE might be talking about the Word of God, and the Word is LOVE. "2000 Miles" is not such a long way to go, afterall, for someone you love...
My, how time has changed things... July 18, 2008
Iowahawkeye "Warren" (Astoria, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For some reason when i was a teenager, i hated "Back on the Chain Gang", but as the years went by and my tastes evolved, i NEVER forgot that song or this album and had been anxiously awaiting a remaster after the 1st 2 LPs were redone. Since i opened this new edition, i haven't stopped playing this cd! Great memories, great guitar, and fantastic lyrics and singing from Christie! Not as punk-sounding as their earlier stuff. Highly recommended.
What can you say? They peaked right here February 26, 2008
Bill Board (God's Wrath, Ohio)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a comeback! Two original band memebrs dying within a year of each other, and - for my money, anyway - Chrissie & Martin just traded up with new guitarist Robbie McIntosh and new bassist Malcom Foster. The songs? Whew, right out of the chute, "Middle of the Road" followed right by "Back On The Chain Gang." there's not a duff track on the album, but two songs, especially, are worth of attention, "Thumbelina," about the only true Rock and Roll song released during the vile eighties, and "My City Was Gone," where Chrissie takes her disgust with her home state and turns it into a - (GASP!) - dance track, comensurate with, say, "Another One Bites The Dust," "Rapture," or, yes, "Billie Jean." (I deliberately didn't mention ANY of the Stones' attempts at "dance musak," "Miss You" being about #3 on the jukebox in hell...) But, dig...I moved to Ohio in 200, "where a band was waiting for me," and, sure enough, it didn't work out. So I "auditioned" about everywhere...and wouldn't you know, NOBODY, no potential "band member" even KNEW about "My City Was Gone" (or, for THAT matter, Neil Young's "Ohio") - except for a 20 year old guitarist in a "Praise Band" at a Church close to me. Maybe that says something about "priorities" - when a 20 year old (I'm not going to call him a "kid") Church Guitarist knows more about Rock and Roll than "guitarists," 10-25 years his elder, maybe albums like "Learning To Crawl" should be made mandatory listening. And before I get too far off, the live "My City Was Gone" is an absolute stomper. It'll make you involuntarily move...parts of your body. Get the CD and see what I mean...
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