Thursday 18 January 2024

Pretenders - Learning To Crawl [7 bonus tracks] (1984)

Year: 13 January 1984 (CD 2017)
Label: Sire / Real / Rhino Records (Europe), R2 101058
Style: Punk Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Hereford, England
Time: 79:44
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 478 Mb

Charts: UK #11, AUS #18, CAN #4, GER #38, NLD #11, NOR #18, NZ #19, SWE #3, SWI #30, US #5. UK: Gold; US: Platinum.
Hynde noted in the booklet for the expanded edition of Learning to Crawl that guitarist Robbie McIntosh came up with the opening guitar riff for "2000 Miles". She stated that she probably should have credited McIntosh as co-writer of the song.
"2000 Miles" became a popular Christmas song in the UK. The lyrics are a tale of two lovers apart during Christmastime.
In "I Hurt You", dubbing was used to overlap two lead vocal parts with conflicting melodies and emotional pitches in order to express the narrator's tangled emotions.
"My City Was Gone" is largely an autobiographical song written about the changes that Hynde observed when she went back to her native city of Akron, Ohio. The instrumental introduction of the song would later be adopted as the theme of the EIB Network radio brand, originally Rush Limbaugh and later Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
"Thumbelina" is a country rock song about a mother and daughter traveling across America, with the last line suggesting that the mother is leaving her husband.
"Watching the Clothes" was an older song written before the band's debut album. Hynde was inspired to write the song after a close friend died.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_Crawl)

01. Middle Of The Road (04:14)
02. Back On The Chain Gang (03:51)
03. Time The Avenger (04:56)
04. Watching The Clothes (02:52)
05. Show Me (04:16)
06. Thumbelina (03:17)
07. My City Was Gone (05:25)
08. Thin Line Between Love & Hate (03:40)
09. I Hurt You (04:37)
10. 2000 Miles (03:46)
11. Fast Or Slow (The Law's The Law) (Bonus Track) (03:15)
12. Tequila (Bonus Track) (03:35)
13. I Hurt You (Denmark Street Demo) (04:06)
14. When I Change My Life (Denmark Street Demo) (04:43)
15. Ramblin' Rob (Denmark Street Demo) (03:32)
16. My City Was Gone (Live) (04:53)
17. Money (Live) (04:39)

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