Pretenders “Pretenders II”

sfilzen — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:56:43 +0000

Pretenders “Pretenders II” released 40 years ago today, August 15th, 1981. Pretenders II is the Pretenders second LP. It hit no. 7 in the UK and went to no. 10 in the US. It includes the previously UK-release singles “Talk of the Town” from 1980 and “Message of Love” (one of my favorite Pretenders songs) from early ‘81; those two songs were also on the March ‘81 EP Extended Play. Other singles from Pretenders II were “Day After Day” (a UK-only single), “Louie Louie” (a US-only single and NOT a cover song), and “I Go to Sleep.” “I Go to Sleep” was written by Ray Davies in ‘67 – Chrissie Hynde was dating him at the time. Pretenders’ version went to #7 in the US; Davies never recorded it with The Kinks but an unreleased version does exist here.

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Pretenders “Extended Play”

sfilzen — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:25:17 +0000

Pretenders “Extended Play” released 40 years ago today, March 30th, 1981. The US-only EP came out between the Pretenders’ first and second albums (Pretenders, 1980 and Pretenders II, 1981) and includes singles released in both the UK and the US: “Message of Love” (#11 UK, #5 US Mainstream Rock chart) and “Talk of the Town” (#8 UK); both songs also appeared on Pretenders II. The EP has the B-sides to both of those singles – “Porcelain” and the Bo Diddley-esque “Cuban Slide” as well as a live version of “Precious” that they recorded at Central Park on August 30th, 1980. “Precious” originally appeared on Pretenders and was a single in some European countries.

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