This record, signed by all four band members, is one of the most prized pieces in my vinyl collection. Hard to believe it's coming up on 40 years since the passing of James and Pete. Chrissie has always been my favorite female voice. What could've been....
man, what an incredible song, even after all these years, it's stood the test of time... the instrumentation, tone, phrasing, lyrics...everything so perfect...
He's appreciated. Quite a bit. John Mgceogh on the other hand is not. He was the chill down your spine with Magazine and the guy that made Happy House magic.
some say he didn't have enough material to be judged. Seems like the second album would have been better if there more guitar breaks from Honeycutt. Very inventive guitarist.
love the pretenders & all of there work, i have to mention as an older semi pro guitar player and having loved all the greats, jimi, srv, eric, george harrison, the guitar break in this song has to be one of the best if not the best for me by james honeyman scott, it lifts the song to another level rather than being a filler as in many songs they are, god bless you james.
Fantastic song. Great vocals, guitar and structure. James Honeymoon Scott was phenomenal and very missed, but who isn't still impressed by Martin Chambers' drumming?
I grew up in an abusive household. My sisters were much older than I was so when they were teenagers, they were able to somewhat escape the house by doing high school activities. Because I was much younger, I was stuck in the house, most of the time in the crosshairs. I used to sneak into my sister's room and play this record when I was able to. Sitting in their room listening to this music is the only good memories I have from childhood.
Hello Kid.!, I'm happy that you're still here. Please, can / will you stick-around for the next 50= years please, to help . I don't need need this world, but this world does need people like me and you. x.
Hey deez, you paint an evocative picture there. I could tell a parallel story to yours, although for sure it'd be quite different in the detail, and a grand mix of the horrible and the beautiful. This song just now popped up on Alexa. Honestly, I can't handle too much nostalgia-thru-music -- I couldn't become a nostalgia junky like some old school friends I've bumped into -- but wow does that unique quality of Chrissie's voice take me back there.
Listening in front of my job. Been loving the pretenders since I was a youngster. 42, 3 in a month. Good music has always motivated me. This song takes me back to when I was young and innocent. Clean and sober and not, many times over. Finding motivation for day 1 today. Thankfully this time I didn’t lose everything, except my pride. Wish me luck. I’m blessed. 🙏🏻
Right now, I'm thinking this is the most perfect song I've ever heard for all its parts. I spent some time in Akron last month in the spirit of taking a trip down memory lane and nearly cried a few times I was so happy to be there. I hiked in the woods, drove through the quaint neighborhoods, re-explored Highlands and downtown, and visited that old Akron cemetery that I also used to like to walk through. Your music will always be part of my Akron nostalgia, my teenage years in L.A. (yours was the first concert I ever picked to attend,) and now I have even more appreciation for your music as if I'm hearing it for the first time all over again. Thank you! Thank you!
There wasn't much that the 17 year old me was right about, but my love of that guitar solo was spot on. Endlessly rewinding the cassette just to hear that bit.
I played this album to death. Precious, Tattooed Love Boys, Up The Neck, Brass In Pocket, Stop Your Sobbing and this song. It was on vinyl. Played the whole album. These are the ones I remember.
Ok, so after listening to this lots of times just to make an assessment: this is extremely hard to challenge as being one of the most important vocal performances in the entire popular music canon. Yes, Chrissie Hynde makes extensive use of that unmistakably distinctive signature vibrato vocal quivering effect in just about everything she sings, but this one is nothing less than a complete tour de force. There's arguably nothing that comes close, not just in her back catalogue, but in the whole of singing. It delivers a totally overwhelming emotional punch, each and every time you listen. Incomparable.
Such a beautiful song, such a sad story for some of the band members who died so young from drug abuse (including the talented founding member Honeyman-Scott (died age 25) who plays the iconic guitar solo in the middle of this song)
@@saraliza3137 haha good question. I never minded but I think maybe my mother did because she ended up divorcing him and he went on to find a girlfriend who kinda looked liked Chrissie but he'd rather it was actually Chrissie 😂
@@cyclinggirl3212 That's so sad and heartbreaking for your mother. I hope she's happier now! I've seen dudes make comments like that over the years and even under videos like this where they married their wives because she looked like a singer he had a crush on. I would never want to be married to somebody who wanted to be married to me because I looked like someone they had a crush on that they couldn't get. Since they couldn't have her they would settle for whoever looks like her instead.
James Honeyman-Scott's death was a true loss for rock-and-roll music. He had Johnny Marr's style before The Smiths, but he could also bring the crunch on tracks like Precious and Tatooed Love Boys.
This and Stop Sobbing were my favourites by The Pretenders. Her curious phrasing added a little mystery, and the music was so punchy and dynamic. An amazing time with a surfeit of great new acts popping up every few months. Where did the years go?
One of the great guitar solos ever...so sad that Jimmy Scott's life was so short. Chrissie Hynde is without a doubt the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll...and DAMN does she look good here!! Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, Television, The B-52's, Blondie...new wave sure produced some damn fine music.
Kid, what changed your mood You've gone all sad, so I feel sad too I think I know some things we never outgrow You think it's wrong I can tell you do How can I explain When you don't want me to Kid, my only kid You look so small, you've gone so quiet I know you know what I'm about I won't deny it But you forgive though you don't understand You've turned your head You've dropped my hand All my sorrow, all my blues All my sorrow Shut the light, go away Full of grace, you cover your face Kid, gracious kid Your eyes are blue but you won't cry I know, angry tears are too dear You won't let them go
What a great song. Pete’s bass really makes that song come alive. And James solo (what can I say) shear genius. When you look up perfect guitar solo it shows a pic of Jimmy with this song. And praise for Chrissy writing it.
Incredible song, incredible guitar playing, and with the inimitable ever-so-unique voice of Chrissie Hynde on top of it--it doesn't get better than this. Wow, this brings back such good memories!
I'm a "heavy metal" guy, but the Pretenders was one of the few "non" heavy metal bands that appealed to me. When I first saw this video in the early 80s, it stopped me dead in my tracks! Okay, this is something different---but I like it! And when I told my friends who liked AC/DC and Van Halen that I liked the Pretenders---they called me "gay"! Why---just because I want to hear something different on occasion?
I flipped it on em. Most of the idie stuff I really like is very alternative and has female singer/writers. They put it down as "feminine". I say "You don't like feminine? Are you gay?"
Ah, early 80s MTV, so many great tunes, this, "Message of Love," "Talk of the Town," "Brass in Pocket." I'm partial to the Honeyman-Scott era but "Chain Gang" later was great too.
This song always made me sad and then when I heard the story behind the song it made me feel even sadder. I also have a kid of my own now, so that can change one's perspective. Beautiful song.
right then. i was in high school when the Pretenders first album broke and i was already trying to be the next Eddie Van Halen - anyway, when this album came out every single girly in my school showed up the very next day with a Chrissie Hynde haircut and a leather jacket, every one of them suddenly smoking a cigarette trying to be a cool bad-girl. damnit that was 44 years ago
That's amazing! I never realised when this lovely song came out. One of my dad's favourite bands. I just realised - I've been angry with my dad for too long over his lifestyle but it didn't mean he doesn't love me.
@@cyclinggirl3212 thats cool! im listening to it again, and some of her little vocal choruses sound a little like modern retro, like Chromatics. im gonna have to dive deeper, go back and listen to more of her stuff. cus i listen to alot of new retro stuff, Chromatics, Cannons and Wolf Alice, bands like that. it's like, Chromatics has a track called THE PAGE, and it has lot of guitar riffs sounds like The Cure. and one of Cannons newer songs: TUNNEL OF YOU, sounds a lot like Chris Isaak. i love that stuff.. it's fun to go back in time! ☮
@@somejackballHello 👋🏼 I'm back again. I had a listen to the songs - thank you for that, I love discovering music that was unknown to me. For you, I have Anathema Thin air, the video is also lovely and Anathema a natural disaster.
This original line up was something very special. I love the later stuff too, but without Jame and Pete there was a magic lost forever. I get kind of sad when i listen to these early songs.
I can't believe my hip hop ass dad sampled this back in the early 2000s. With the help of A.I sample finding i was able to find out that he sampled this lol he pitched it up tho by 600 cents and chopped the sample making it hard to find it very interesting.
