I’ve taken some songs off and added a few more to the holiday spotify playlist. Have been listening to it on repeat to try and conjure some season’s spirit.
Tag: The Pretenders
The Pretenders — 2000 Miles
This is an edited repost from 2019 Per wikipedia: “2000 Miles” is a song by The Pretenders that was released in 1983 as the preceding single to their 1984 album Learning to Crawl. It was most popular in the UK, where it peaked at No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1983. In…
#SLS — I Go To Sleep by The Pretenders
Jim Adams is the ever-gracious and reliable host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: find a song that fits the prompt Dream/Lullaby/Sleep. Here are the “rules”: Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme or not. If it does not fit, then please explain why you chose this song. Please…
Coloring Club Plus — 6/18/19
Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band The Pretenders, released on 7 January 1980 under Real Records in the UK, and Sire Records in the United States. A combination of rock, punk and pop music, this album made the band famous. The album features the singles “Stop Your Sobbing”, “Kid” and “Brass in…
Coloring Club Plus — 3/1/19
The Singles is The Pretenders’ 1987 compilation album and features all the band’s UK single hits to that date. “Day After Day”, written by Hynde/James Honeyman-Scott and is from their 1981 album Pretenders II, which is their second studio album. In my research I discovered that Chrissie had a relationship with The Kinks’ frontman, Ray…
Coloring Club Plus — 2/26/19
per wikipedia: Last of the Independents is the sixth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1994. For this album, the band is officially credited as being Chrissie Hynde (vocals, guitar), Adam Seymour (guitar), Andy Hobson (bass) and Martin Chambers (drums). However, this line-up only plays together on one track (“All My Dreams”); the…
