Learning to Crawl (2018 Remaster) Pretenders

Album info

Album-Release:
1984

HRA-Release:
20.11.2020

Label: Rhino

Genre: Pop

Subgenre: Pop Rock

Artist: Pretenders

Album including Album cover

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  • 1 Middle of the Road (2018 Remaster) 04:13
  • 2 Back on the Chain Gang (2018 Remaster) 03:50
  • 3 Time the Avenger (2018 Remaster) 04:55
  • 4 Watching the Clothes (2018 Remaster) 02:52
  • 5 Show Me (2018 Remaster) 04:09
  • 6 Thumbelina (2018 Remaster) 03:17
  • 7 My City Was Gone (2018 Remaster) 05:25
  • 8 Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2018 Remaster) 03:40
  • 9 I Hurt You (2018 Remaster) 04:37
  • 10 2000 Miles (2018 Remaster) 03:39
  • Total Runtime 40:37

Info for Learning to Crawl (2018 Remaster)

Eine der bekanntesten Frauen der Rockmusik, Chrissie Hynde, auf einem der erfolgreichsten Alben ihrer Band The Pretenders. Die 1984 veröffentlichte LP Learning To Crawl klingt, als sei sie nicht einen Tag gealtert. Rockig, emotional fesselnd and kraftvoll. Musik einer Band, die persönliche Tragödien verkraften musste, bedeutende Veränderungen bewältigen und in diesem Schmerz neue Entschlusskraft fand. Nach dem Tod des für den Pretenders-Sound so bedeutenden Gitarristen James Honeyman-Scott und dem Rausschmiss des Bassisten Peter Fardon, der ein Jahr danach ebenfalls starb, sortierte sich Bandgründerin Hynde neu, suchte sich Studiomusiker und veröffentlichte mit Learning To Crawl ein überwältigendes „Ja“ als Antwort auf die veränderte Situation.

Chart-orientierter, aber ohne die bekannte Rohheit zu verlieren, zwischen Punk und New Wave pendelnd, mit gefühlvollen Balladen und eingängigen Melodien, so präsentieren sich die neuen Pretenders. Mit „Back on the chein gang“, der kommerziell erfolgreichsten Singleauskopplung der Band, schrieb Hynde eine bittersüße Hymne für ihre beiden verlorenen Bandkollegen. Das weihnachtliche „2000 miles“ ist eines der schönsten Liebeslieder der Sängerin.

Chrissie Hynde, Gesang, Gitarre, Harmonika
Robbie McIntosh, Gitarre, Hintergrundgesang
Malcolm Foster, Bass, Hintergrundgesang
Martin Chambers, Schlagzeug, Hintergrundgesang, Gesang (11), Percussion

Recorded Mid-1982 to late 1983 at AIR Studios, London
Produced by Chris Thomas

Digitally remastered




Pretenders
were formed in 1978 with singer Chrissie Hynde on vocals, Pete Farndon on bass, James Honeyman-Scott on guitar and Martin Chambers on drums.

They released two LP’s, Pretenders – which charted at #1 in the UK and #9 in the States - and Pretenders II, and one EP, Extended Play. The band enjoyed worldwide chart success with singles including Stop Your Sobbing, Kid, Brass In Pocket, Talk of The Town and I Go To Sleep. The band was constantly on the road and enjoyed heavy MTV rotation.

In 1982 they were dealt a difficult year: a parting of ways with Pete Farndon being swiftly followed by the death of James Honeyman-Scott. Pete’s death came a year later.

Subsequently the band’s line-up remained fluid and the band went on to release the albums Learning to Crawl, Get Close and Packed! between 1984 and 1990.

After a 4-year hiatus came the band’s next release Last of the Independents, followed in 1995 by Isle of View, a live acoustic album recorded over two nights in London with the Duke String Quartet.

1999 saw the release of Viva El Amor, the last album to be released on longtime label Warner Records, and their next album Loose Screw was released on Artemis Records in 2002.

Neil Young inducted the Pretenders into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, and their next release, Break Up The Concrete, came in 2008.

The band have toured the world and performed in front of over 4 million people. Pretenders continue to play together.

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