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Nah it should be Wishbone Ash, start with either Lady Whiskey or The King Will Come you will totally hate it (trying reverse psychology)
The whole first album except for Brass and Kid are half punk/half metal slam jobs!!
Mystery Achievement is also from this (their best album) and is a great showcase of their more rocking side.
@@andyb7942 I’m a tad bitter that Mystery Achievement wasn’t even on the poll. That’s my vote for the next song.
Tattooed Love Boys...The Wait is great too.
"brass in pocket" is a British slang term for having money.
Cool....finally that makes sense. Lol i did see that someone wrote pennies...coins/brass/copper.
never knew that, I just thought Crissy was a bad ass!!
I believe James Honeyman-Scott was British, so I am sure that was an influence.
you guys should think harder lol in my opinion u could guess it's coins. slow down on the booze. or not lol keep on rockin', these videos are fun
Ooooh. Ok.
One of the best debut albums of the past 50 years, and made #155 on Rolling Stones Greatest albums of all-time. "Mystery Achievement" is the banger!
The singer, Chrissy Hynde, is the pride of Northeast Ohio.
Another hometown rocker...🎸
How about "Ohio Players".
Fire, Rollercoaster!!!!!
BTW I'm from, Boston
We got Aerosmith, J Geils, The Cars, Extreme, and of course Boston.
Met and seen all in club appearances throughout the years.
@@jgsrhythm100 Aerosmith is from NH!!! a nitpick, but it matters to some of us :)
@@loosilu Ha, true Lake Winnipesaukee. Though they refer to themselves as
" The Bad Boys From Boston.
And have lived in Ma since the 70's but no doubt their roots were at the Barn in NH😃
Richard Ocasek and Benjamin Orr of THE CARS were both from Cleveland.
This album must be heard in it's entirety. Brass In Pocket is a good song but the album is one of the best debuts ever
Absolutely! This is definitely one of the weaker tracks on this fantastic album! Try Mystery Achievement.
@@chuckmeyers1153 there are no weak tracks on this album
Fully agree!
That's a fact! 40 some years later and it still makes all the best debut albums list every year.
You people are insane, saying 'Brass in Pocket' is one of the weaker songs on the album. It's the best song. The album, despite some great songs, is overrated. The denigrated second album is BETTER! BETTER!
The Cult- 'She sells sanctuary' great song!
Best indie song ever...ever.
Sanctuary...By J. GEILS BAND is true rock magic as well. Especially with Magic Dick playing harmonica like a madman
‘Love removal machine’ live version is a bigger banger!
@@ricks8390 they did an in house live version on hot fx(?) radio that was awesome, too. Plus they were ridiculously good when I saw them live in '87
YES!
Ballroom Blitz by Sweet is an ultimate 70s banger. There’s a call out to Andy in the intro! I’m not kidding.
Agreed great track though
" Fox on the Run " just wreaks of 70's!! In a good way,lol!!
True!
Or Love Is Like Oxygen. They are so underrated and overlooked
@@eileendobbs8574 Yes. Smacks my 10 year old memories!!!!!
Ballroom Blitz is a banger for sure but Little Willy is a definite knocker.
"Message of Love" is their best song if you're into groove, and really want to hear the whole band's ability on their instruments. It just kicks ass.
True. Still love that song!
Way better song but again top 40 girly wimps never hear the good stuff cause they ve got loust taste
Agree. It a powerhouse
Pretenders are equal parts rock and pop. And they do both as good as anyone else. No reason to choose a side. "Talk of the Town" would be an example of a perfect pop song. You'd love it.
✔agree
You forgot to mention the punk part. I’m not into punk and found some of their earlier songs hard to take. Thank goodness for the ability to skip songs on a CD. On the other hand, they even have a cool reggae song, “How Do I Miss You” !
No plop music ...they do rock and alternative and rock
Chrissie Hynde has such a distinct voice. I love it!
It's very emotive. You can hear the yearning in her voice which is what the song is about.
I always loved the way she started lines. Not being a musician, only years later, watching violin music, did I realize what she was doing had a name. She does glissando, sliding up between two notes at the start of of lines or words. I always loved it.
" Back on the Chain Gang " is the one to do. My favorite from them and I think both of you will like it more than the others you heard from them.
Back on the chain gang, Don't get me wrong, and the ballad I'll stand by you.
and also My City Was Gone
Do MESSAGE OF LOVE!
Do MYSTERY ACHIEVEMENT!
Do BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG!
Do PRECIOUS!
Do MY CITY WAS GONE!
Message of Love is good, good, good...
TIME THE AVENGER
"Day After Day"! So great!
@@mikesimonian484 Yesssss....
I agree with all these choices except not in all caps. LOL
How many vote for Chain Gang?
It wasn't one of the choices in the poll
It's a great song. Deserves a hearing.
Sad song but I like it. Melancholy and retro. Gosh that takes me back. I was not a big fan of theirs but her voice was new and diff and certainly stood out back then and now. Back then there was so much new music, almost every week new bands, new songs, new sounds. I rem one day saying to myself... how can they keep comjng up with all these new sounds in music? It was getting hard to keep up with all the new music, new and ongoing.
yeah.
Overplayed. Check my list
Still gonna ask you to do Rick Derringer ....Rock n Roll Hootchie Koo. Guaranteed smile on faces and head bobbin. It will be on your Road Trip list.
Definitely!
It would be great to use the live video (I believe it was in 2011) with the Ringo Starr All Star Band where Rick blisters the guitar with his ending solo! Edgar Winter is also in the band along with Gary Wright and others!
Oh Yes 😊
An all time classic by another Ohio rocker, Great choice.
No too top 40 trash
When this came out, Chrissy was like the coolest female rocker. Stevie Nicks, the Wilson sisters, some cool girls writing and playing as good as the guys.
You guys missed the boat . The “kick-ass” song on that album is the first song “Precious” you have to give it a listen!!
Agreed
And turn it up!
It's actually from 1979 but it does sound 80'ish. "My city was gone" was always their S tier song for me.
When I used to sing in a local band here in the Detroit area way back in the 80's, we used to perform "Brass in Pocket" and "Middle of the Road" and the crowd just loved it! I also saw Chrissie Hynde recently when she toured with Stevie Nicks, and she was just incredible... Perfection!
Kool, I'm in the same area 🧡🤚
I think what makes this song so epic is the attitude/pose that Hynde gives -- no woman has ever sounded sexier and confident to that degree.
Brass In Pocket is a fine song but you REALLY need to react to Middle of The Road!
Or Back in the Chain Gang! I’m very interested in their reaction to BIP. For some reason that song has always really annoyed me.
They already did react to it in their live stream.
"Tattoed Love Boys" far better though.
In fact hands down their best and most hard edged. Check the music video.
I love when she plays the harmonica!
you forgot their best single, My City Was Gone
Chrissie loved the expression "brass in my pockets" so she wrote about it. Brass is a slang for money, coins. Cheers!🍻
Chrissie and Her Pretenders are AMAZING))) " Mystery Achievement " NEXT or " Up the Neck " )))
“Kid” is easily one of James Honeyman Scott’s best solos. It’s just a great song, and delivers what Alex was looking for after the chorus. Such a good song.
Precious or The Wait are more like Tattooed Love Boys or song crafting with Kid from Pretenders II. James Honeyman Scott was such a loss, his guitar work is second to none
In Northern England "Brass" is money, and although Chrissie Hynde is American she lived in England when she wrote this song. keep up the good work and i love what you do.
I could be confused, but didn't she date one of the Kinks' Davies brothers for a while? I know they covered 'I go to sleep' which is a Ray Davies song.
Where there's muck, there's brass...Yorkshire saying
@@barrycohen311 yes she dated Ray Davies. But I'm not sure for how long.
@@barrycohen311 Chrissie and Ray have a daughter Natalie. They were never actually married, they got as far as the registry office, but the registrar refused to marry them, as they were bickering so much.
I seem to remember that the band were touring clubs in the north, I think it was Wakefield where Chrissie was asked if she had 'brass in pocket' to pay for drinks at the bar - she liked the phrase.
Precious...now that's a song. It's the first song on their first album and kicks butt.
I keep sayin', start with the 1st song on the 1st album to find out what this band is all about.
Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler/ James Taylor.
An absolute classic.
Give the people what they want
"My Sharona" by The Knack
"Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider
"Keep Your Hands To Yourself" by Georgia Satellites
"Jim Dandy"(to the rescue) by Black Oak Arkansas
"The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby & the Range
"Hold Your Head Up" by Argent
"Silent Lucidity" by Queensryche
"Come on Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners
"Just Between You & Me" by April Wine
All one-hit wonders you need to hear. Also, you should consider doing some Journey and REO Speedwagon.
As much as the guys like Pink Floyd, they should love Lunatic Fringe.
Speaking of female singers - Pat Benatar please! The biggest female rocker of the late 70s-early 80s. Three albums in a row hit the Billboard top 4. Six straight albums went platinum. Heartbreaker, Hell Is For Children, Promises In The Dark, You Better Run, Invincible. Andy & Alex I think you'd like all of these - they are all bangers!
Yeah, just because it was a radio hit, doesn’t mean it’s not still a great song.
It was also a huge MTV video hit where her vignette as a waitress called out a then modern Cinderella story.
Yeah, I always get a lil irritated that just cuz something was a big radio hit.. it wasn’t a great , so to speak-
@@kimberlinibambini1988 I agree, there are some people who will discount a song just because it was a hit. For some of us (me), this song is not representative of the album overall and wanted them to listen to a song that would knock their socks off. A hard rocking tune, which this isn't, even though it is a really good song.
There was a time when if it WASN’T a radio hit you would never hear it. Radio is why we oldies know songs we never bought and how ‘stars’ made it.
@@burmajones803 yes-
38 Special, song:”Hold on Loosely “
Chrissie was a part of both the British and American Punk Eras. Love her!
"Mystery Achievement," "Precious," "The Adultress," or "The Wait." I think you'll both like these more.
"Don't Get Me Wrong" and "Middle of the Road" over "Chain Gang" .... but that one's cool too.
You would do those songs before "Precious"? If these guys like Tattoed Love Boys they would die over Precious
Oh yeah, David -- "Don't get me wrong" - !!
All great songs David!!
over all those is My City Was Gone
@@dunhill1 Hey, ho - way to go, Ohio!
2000 Miles by Pretenders....The best original Christmas song of the last 40 years. Come on guys Christmas time is here do this song....
Bras In Pocket, great song......
And she HATED how it was the "signature" song everyone made it. And rightly so, they have a AMAZING grouping of songs from their studio collection of albums.
yep... it wasn't tuff enough...Chrissy was raised on the punk rock scene and that song is anything but.
A very boring song
Because it sucked
And then she and Martin recorded 2000 Miles and she had a new song to hate every year around Christmas. Some days you just can't win.
@@jasperdevries1726 🤣🤣🤣, 100% true!
The thing to know about Pretenders is that only the first two albums had the original lineup of Hynde, Honeyman-Scott, Farndon, and Chambers. After the second album Farndon was fired and then Honeyman-Scott died two days later (Farndon died the next year). Since then the only constant has been Chrissie Hynde, although Martin Chambers has been with them most of the time. In my opinion no one has truly replaced Honeyman-Scott's guitar so I will always be partial to the first two albums.
This song was pretty much an introduction for many to the Pretenders, and this song was released in 1979! I thing Chain Gang and Cuban Slide are some of their best Bangers!
Love Chain Gang.
This wasn’t the 80’s, Alex. This was good ol’ 1979.
True but definitely had the 80s sound and Nov 79 is pretty close to being in the 80s lol.
@@terised exactly
Gotta hear "The Wait". Best song on the album.
There's a lot of great music from the late '70s that might be hard to dig if you're looking for "the sauce" because, in large part, it was often made, in part, in reaction to that kind of music. Punk's the obvious, but this strain of punk-pop New Wave - Pretenders, early Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, the Cars, later Clash, etc. - where the songwriters and musicians were sort of tired of . . . um . . . "saucy" music. So they often under-accentuated things like hooks (I think you guys might have had a similar reaction to The Cars a while back). If you're looking for long jams and killer hooks where the musicianship is flaunted, this stuff might let you down. But at the time it was so fresh, and I still find it so much fun to listen to.
The “bookends” of the eponymous first album “Precious and Mystery Achievement” are stellar and absolute bangers! Love the bass in MA too!
I’d go with Precious or Mystery Achievement from this album. You really get her attitude a lot more in those tunes.
Agreed
Listen to "Middle of the Road" or "My City Was Gone" or almost anything from "Learning to Crawl"
Heyyyy hoooo way to goooooo
If you want a deep cut from this album, try "Kid"
"I'll Stand By You" is a great song.
The MTV video was cool help the song along. So when hearing it.. I see the video and takes me back to that moment of first visual of the band. Rock on 80's , a powerful time of music.
"My City Was Gone" has to be next. Followed by "Back on the Chain Gang".
"Time The Avenger" is a killer Pretenders track.
Absolutely right.
Yeah, that's the reason I bought the album.
@@michaelgarcia2050 The DJs on my local radio station played almost every track on Learning To Crawl, with the exception of Thin Line Between Love And Hate. Every song on that album is cool...I still giggle at Watching The Clothes!
Night in my veins
Brass in pocket is British slang which essentially means "I have no money, but I have confidence". As in brass balls
Bold as brass...
Wrong
No it really doesn't mean that at all. It literally just means you have money in your pocket.
@@macelven correct
Two different meanings of 'brass' in these comments. The song is about having brass as in coins/money. The phrases 'he/she having a lot of brass'', 'brassing it out' and 'bold as brass', are to do with confidence often with overtones of foolhardiness. eg 'He jumped off that bridge as bold as brass', 'She came in the pub as bold as brass - the trollop'. Having 'brass balls' is a different but related meaning. Then there's 'Brassed-Off', which is pissed-off, fed-up. And for god's sake NEVER call a woman a 'brass' in a pub, you'll probably get a glass in your face - it means loud mouthed/slut/prostitiute. In the military the 'brass' are the officers. It's a funny language English, that's from a pom, now living in Australia 🤣
I roadied for these guys a few times in the eighties. Chrissy was a doll...super smart lady. Glad you are finally hitting this band
Which tours?
I'm throwing in for some Three Dog Night. I feel like it's time. Mama Told Me Not to Come is a good place to start. Joy to the World and Shambala are great ones to hit as follow - ups.
Great Classic 70s pop. "Old Fashioned Love Song", "Out in the Country" and a personal favorite... "The Show Must Go On". They have a very nice little catalogue.
Don't forget: "Out in the Country".
The song was from 1979 so, technically, it’s 70’s production. #TodaysPedant 😆
I'm curious to see how you two react to this. I recall it as a nice song but nowhere near the banger that is Middle of the Road.
@Paul - Agreed, agreed, agreed!
I think Chrissy Hynde's voice is at its sultry best in this song though...
Middle of the Road or Time the Avenger
yeah! Middle of the road is the best!
@@marie-anneguibereau7344 I heard that A&A did Middle of the Road in a livestream. I kinda wish they would reserve livestreams for chats and questions and maybe full live concert reactions, reserving single song reactions for this format here. I feel bummed that they tucked such a banger in to some long livestream I might never watch, and now will react to a bunch of nonbangers in the form factor more of us probably follow.
When released, it was Ear Candy on FM Radio, very fresh sound.
"Brass in Pocket" means acting with extreme confidence with no reserve!! Bold...BRASSY!
Next Up? PRECIOUS!
PRECIOUS! PRECIOUS!
"Because you're so...
PRECIOUS!!" ✌🍁✌
No it doesn't. Brass is a Northern English slang word, from way back, for money.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour yes, the origin of the term is Northern slang for money. But in this context, there is more than one meaning.
To quote Chrissie Hynde:
"And the other thing about 'Brass in Pocket', the tradition of it is you're supposed to be kind of cocky and sure of yourself. You're not supposed to go on stage and say ' I'm small and have no confidence and I think I am a shit'. Bevause you just can't do that on stage. You're not supposed to, and probably you don't have too much confidence, and you do think you are a little piece of shit or else you wouldnt have gotten a Rock Band together in the first place".
My take on it is that she was so confident she would get the guy, because she was going to use everything in her toolbox to succeed. He would be unable to resist her, and she knows this, giving her extreme confidence to express her affection without fear of rejection. She went in to the conversation fully confident...she had BRASS IN POCKET!
This is a classic example of a band who’s number one hit is not representative of what they’re capable of. ‘Brass in Pocket’ is a good song but it’s way down the list of their best songs. My choice would’ve been ‘Back on the Chain Gang’ or ‘Precious’.
"Brass in pocket" refers to having brass knuckles in your pocket, ready for a fight with someone.
Another Pretenders song to react to is "My City Was Gone", then "Back On The Chain Gang", "Middle Of The Road", "Don't Get Me Wrong". But by far their best quality song is "Thin Line Between Love And Hate".
Pretenders - "Message of Love" is my pick, lets rally !
From one of the greatest albums EVER! First half is pure raw energy and second half is pop brilliance. Debut albums don’t get any better.
“In the middle of the road”is my personal favorite.That song rocks!
Even though Andy has heard it Alex should hear "Tattooed Love Boys", yeah it rocks, "Precious" too 🙂
Check out “Talk of the Town”.
Also "Message Of Love".
No dont its forgettable
From the first Pretenders album you could do "Precious", "Tattooed Love Boys", "The Wait" and "Mystery Achievement" then on Pretenders II you could try "The Adultress", "Bad Boys Get Spanked", "Pack It Up" and "Louie Louie".
Great band. Thanks for giving props to the lady rockers. How about some Bonnie Raitt, shes a killer slide player with the soulful voice of an angel. Peace.
@Bodhi Satvtva - YES! Bonnie!
Everyone plays a mean slide guitar, even you and me. Just sayin...
I nominate Mighty Tight Woman from her debut.
Love Bonnie Raitt, definitely up for that if they shine a light on her.
@@Tijuanabill Not everyone is voted to 50-something on the Rolling Stone Magazine list of Top 100 Guitarists of All Time.
Hi guys.. Brass in Pocket is a British slang phrase meaning the you having money in your pocket.
Next up could be: "MIDDLE OF THE ROAD", "PRECIOUS", "MYSTERY ACHIEVEMENT, "UP THE NECK" and of course for a Christmas special it will have to be "2000 MILES"
Cherry Bomb by the Runaways would be an interesting old school comparison to this
Great song..
No way! 🚫 But ....
⚡John Mellencamp's ⚡ song 🍒 Cherry Bomb 💣 oh yes! Especially with the video. Groovy and jamming. Outside the Club The Cherry Bomb, our hearts were really pumpin', say yeah yeah yeah....17 has turned 35, Im surprised we're still livinx. If we've done any wrong, i hope were forgiven. That's when a smoke was a smoke and groovin was groovvin ...we were young and improvin' ..and laughin', laughin' with our friends !🎵 🎵🎵🎵🎵
Yessssssssssssssssssss
Please do the runaways cherry bomb
I will request DEVO every time this style of music from this time period is played. And I will receive much hatred. And I will be prepared for that hatred!
Q: Are we not men?
While I'm not a "DEVO"tee... But, DEVO is a great suggestion! Never fear backlash. lol. :) Later!
@@scotthorbal7325 A: We Are DEVO!
Hatred? From squares, maybe, but Devo just keeps sounding better with each passing year!
@@lisaw5604 Thanks my friend!
I'd say try Mystery Achievement and/or Cuban Slide (Pretenders).
Agreed
YES!!!! They played this song on the radio non stop when it come out. Good pick!!!❤️❤️❤️
Forgot how good this was. Brought a tear😂
Try Middle of the Road! Banger!
They did Middle of the Road on one of their live streams.
In November 1979, "Brass In Pocket" was released; it rose to the top in January 1980, and stayed at #1 for two weeks"
#BrassInPocket➖
Got brass in pocket
Got bottle I'm gonna use it
Intention I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Got motion restrained emotion
Been driving Detroit leaning
No reason just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention give it to me
Got rhythm I can't miss a beat
Got new skank it's so reet
Got something I'm winking at you
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
✴Lead singer
Chrissie Hynde grew up in Akron, Ohio.
✴Hynde was a freshman at Kent State University in 1970, and was protesting when members of the US National Guard killed four students.
She never went back.
✴Chrissir Hynde left for England in 1973, where she formed the group with three guys from Hereford.
Good song, but not really representative of the band’s true sound.
A deeper dive is definitely in order.
Try “Precious”, “Tattooed Love Boys” or “ Mystery Achievement”.
Those are all solid tracks from The Pretenders’ first album.
Keep up the good work, fellas!
Love your channel. Would really like to see you dive into some 80's bangers that have punk roots. Some suggestions:
"Love Removal Machine" by The Cult
"Strength" by The Alarm
Time for some early Robert Palmer-"Sailin' shoes-Hey Julia-Sneaking Sally through the alley". No one has touched this yet and it is a hidden Gem in his catalog.
and him singing lead on Get It On Bang A Gong with Power Station
I hope you two had a great Thanksgiving. I am a 68 year old man and this song reminds me that I can still be "all that" - it's about attitude. I always took this song to be that she is a waitress in a bar, brass in pockets her tips, and her just being smooth and confident hitting on a guy.
Stay safe!
"Hynde got the idea for the song's title when, during an after-show dinner, she overheard someone enquiring if anyone had, "Picked up dry cleaning? Any brass in pocket?""
Fun fact about Chrissy, she was married to and has a daughter with Ray Davies of The Kinks.
She was also married to and has a kid with Jim Kerr of Simple Minds. I wonder if that's ever played into any sibling rivalry? "Oh yeah, well my dad wrote Waterloo Sunset, You Really Got Me, Lola..."
from this album, "precious" is precious. for me, the best album is "learning to crawl", which includes 3 gems: "middle of the road", "back on the chain gang" and "my city was gone".
I got to see Pretenders twice, unfortunately Pete Farndon and James "Honeyman" Scott had already passed away, Drugs, but Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers took up the mantle a carried on very well with replacements. I saw them with Iggy Pop and The Stooges and later they opened for Neil Young at an outdoor show, Chrissy was hyped to be playing with Neil, ad the show was awesome, as you might expect.
Actually they go back and forth with "The Pretenders" and just "Pretenders". Their website is thepretenders.com, some albums have The Pretenders and just Pretenders on different regional covers of same album.
Yeah, when they first came out with this album my buddy and me made it a point to refer to them as Pretenders. But by their third album, they had The Pretenders on the cover.
For me, the James Honeyman-Scott / Pete Farndon era, short as it was, will always be Pretenders.
@@Drummingvulture Yeah...with exceptions: www.discogs.com/The-Pretenders-Learning-To-Crawl/release/1983591
Same on the 4th album.
Same with Eagles/The Eagles
Yes, Brass In Pocket sold a boatload of records, but what you're looking for is Message of Love and crank it up...
I’ll just keep saying that you need to do Genesis “Domino.” Then, once you’ve done that, go to their opus “Supper’s Ready” - but the Phil Collins’ live version from the LP “ Seconds Out.”
Echo you on Domino.
"Need to do"? Don't need to do anything but "pay taxes and die."
Yes, Andy. PLEASE show Alex "Tattooed Love Boys."❤
First... how do you think he would rate it?
@@extracaliber432 probably better than Brass In My Pockets.
Yes, tattooed love boys is a nasty banger. Andy, I know you've heard it once and I've heard it 100 times over the years but, lyrically, the tease line is cute. "I shot my mouth off and he showed me what that hole was for." That got the attention of a young man in his late 20's. It sounds abusive in cold text but she was bragging.
Sorry but “Brass in Pocket” was the breakthrough song for them.
I never heard of “Tattoed Love Boys” until today. I just played it on YT. I do recall the riff and it’s good but it’s a mere album track IMO.
I owned a copy of Pretenders II back in the day...killer album.
Middle of the Road and Back on the Chain Gang are much better songs than this.
Day After Day, Private Life, Mystery Achievement
Yes, and My City Was Gone is much better than these two.
That's my girl. Chrissie and the Pretenders were awesome in concert. Chrissie can rip a guitar and mesmerize with her voice.
Precious for sure. I like the instrumental Space Invader too.
This band is so capable and so good of so many different degrees that they can dial it up or down go punk or sappy love song… Just a fucking phenomenal group.
There is a genre of music that targets preteens and teenagers, called bubble gum music. This song would be more like an adult flavored bubble gum. Andy is more susceptible to it because he grew up with his mother listening to love songs by Chicago. None of this is intended to be a slam on the song OR Andy. It is what it is.
This song put the Pretenders on the map. Every garage band, at that time, was looking for a female singer just to play this song. It even showed up on the TV show "The Greatest American Hero" with high schoolers, in a band, playing this song.
Learn the history of the Pretenders and what happened to them after this album and that song was released. I'll give you a hint: The Eagles wrote a song called "Life in the Fast Lane."
The entire album is excellent and I think Precious is the radio hit. RIP James Honeyman Scott and Pete Farndon.
I am not surprised by this reaction. I thought this was the wrong song for you guys to be introduced to. Certainly Tattooed Love Boys is a better choice but so are Mystery Achievement, Precious, Up the Neck, or The Wait. Heck, do the whole 1st album on Patreon!
Alex, stop broad brush bagging on 80s production. This was recorded in 79 and, for instance, all of SRV's catalog was recorded in the 80s so....
It's definitely a hot take that is only accurate up to a point. The gated reverb drum sound and the use of more drum machines and synths can be found in a lot of 80s music, especially pop music, but I think it's kind of a lazy critique, especially on music that was recorded well before those elements became commonplace.
@@burmajones803 not gonna lie, some of those 80s synth sounds drive me straight up the wall, it ruined a lot of otherwise good 80s movies for me... like To Live and Die in LA and Legend. Gack!
@@bodhisattva3774 I agree, but I once heard a musician from that era talk about how this explosion of technology was so new and overwhelming, they ended up being the guinea pigs for learning how to use all of these new sounds. Still lots of great songs from that era, and when you get a veteran band like the Cars in the studio, all those new sounds make for great headphone tunes. But yes, some of those synth/drum sounds have aged poorly.
@@burmajones803 most of the classic syth sounds from Cars came from a good old Moog and those were around thru the 70s. I was a gigging musician in the early 80s (still am) and there was all this talk of syths putting guitar players and drummers out of work, thank god they were so wrong. Lol
@@bodhisattva3774 guitarists and drummers had their comeback in the 90s--which I will always point out, had its roots in the 80s American underground.
OK, let's dispense with the hits and get to the real Pretenders: The Phone Call, Up the Neck, The Wait, Message of Love. You're welcome
Day After Day from the Pretenders II album!
Prepare to be underwhelmed.
Thank you!!!! I’ve been saying the same thing for months.
Yes, this song is like being beaten to death by dandelions.
That’s funny. I was thinking hey I could grocery shop and fold laundry to this. So bland, ugh.
@@pentagrammaton6793: Dude, that's probably the funniest comment I've ever seen on RUclips! LMFAO!
@@pentagrammaton6793 You make that sound like a bad thing!
Looking forward to this introduction gentlemen 👍
Heroin - The Velvet Underground
Album reaction Velvet Underground and Nico!
One step at a time.
Seriously though...how these fine young men have managed to completely avoid the sweet sounds of Lou Reed is beyond me. If they wanted to do "Walk On The Wild Side" that would be fine at this point (though certainly not my choice).
@@hankscorpio1973 yeah good point. Heroin would be great as its so different.
And i agree, lou reed would be cool in general.
@@hankscorpio1973, I've been trying to get them to listen to the Rock n Roll Animal album, starting with, naturally, Intro/Sweet Jane.
I remember this song and album in 1979. They were huge then. Its sad that Pretenders dont get radio play much now days. Thanks for playing this.
Jethro Tull - Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day with lyrics close by......please.
actually boys, i'll have you know you can make rings from nickels OR quarters! My family has a tradition of doing that. You take a spoon and slowly tap the edges to smoothen them out, then push the center through when it's ready. it takes time but they look beautiful! :)
Also, yes: It's a brass ring. Rings are made from silver, Diamond and brass.