Pretenders

Great Albums of the 1980s (40 music items)

"Note: US release was December 27, 1979; UK release was January 7, 1980."

Best Albums of the 1980s (112 music items)

" Pretenders "

Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time (50 music items)

"Bad-news girl Chrissie Hynde flees Ohio, goes punk in London, becomes a rock star and tells Rolling Stone, "For every act of sodomy I was forced to perform, I'm getting paid £10,000 now." Essential moment: "Up the Neck," a painfully beautiful swirl of anger, lust, revenge and guitars."

Favorite Songs-1994 (20 music items)

""I'll Stand By You""

100 Memorable New Rock Hits Of The 70's & 80's (102 music items)

" Brass In Pocket (1979) (Live) The Pretenders __________ Song Or Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsatKLmm70 "

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)

"The word most often used to describe this debut — the crowning achievement of hard rock in the era of punk — is "perfect." Chrissie Hynde made it that way: Raised in the rock and roll wellspring of Cleveland, Ohio, she'd moved to London at age 22 and spent years studying British cool and American songcraft, forming a band that had enough flash to embody the former and enough chops to apply punk's furious mandates to the latter. The sound of Pretenders connects early R&B and rockabilly with t"

500 CDs You Must Own Before You Die! (500 music items)

"Ohio’s Chrissie Hynde was part of the same London circle as the Sex Pistols, but her band’s debut proved she was no punk. The Pretenders’ calling card was a new kind of classic rock: virtuosic, deeply commercial and full of Hynde’s alluring sass. Standout track: “Brass in Pocket”"

Favorite Songs of All Time: 1980-1981 (173 music items)

""Brass in Pocket" Runners up: "Stop Your Sobbing" "Precious""