Friday, May 12, 2006

The Pretenders - Pirate Radio 1979-2005 [2006]


To say that Warner/Rhino/Sire's 2006 four-CD, one-DVD box set Pirate Radio is for the die-hard Pretenders fan may be stating the obvious -- after all, career-spanning multi-disc sets heavy on rarities are by definition for diehards. But die-hard Pretenders fans are different than other die-hard fans, since they can be easily split into two separate camps: those who followed Chrissie Hynde throughout her career, and those who lost interest somewhere after 1983's Learning to Crawl, the triumphant third album that proved Hynde was above all a survivor. After that, Pretenders records were notoriously hit-or-miss affairs, sometimes holding together a little better than others, but patchy enough to whittle down their audience to just the dedicated, while still indicating that a killer comp could be pieced together from these records.
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3 COMMENTS:

Jeffrey Siegel on 1:49 pm said...

wow - thanks for the real good stuff!

Anonymous said...

Any chance on a repost? Love your site cause lots of good music that I haven't heard before.

Anonymous said...

^ HAHA

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