I can't express it, but she somehow captures better than anyone that lost weekend, lost summer, bittersweet mysterious poetic late-night movie feeling where everything is poignant and beautiful and yet your soul is slowing bleeding out of you...
Watching her since late 70's and I still think no woman has ever had a rock moxie more than she. She's the whole package. Amazing tunes and when she sings them she takes it to a higher level. I like the celeste speaker (or out of phase) on the guitar. Really worked well.
'When I see you sitting there It sends a shock right through me I never thought an ordinary chair Could have such poetry I don't deserve your time I haven't got the tact I live above my means in fact Oh no I'd never do that' 💜
Her makeup, her fashion, her attitude, her voice .. everything about Chrissie Hynde is original and one of a kind. She was an accidental trailblazer in the music biz. Said she didn't want to be anyone's roll model .. too late now.
I can't believe I hadn't seen this video before. I'm a huge pretenders fan. Underrated song -- very beautiful. Chrissie in top form. And she looks like a fashion model in this video. Wow!
Chrissie sure can put the right words together with the right music....my favorite line cause its true comes from her song Show Me......welcome to the human race...with its wars disease and brutality.... but in the end LOVE conquers all!
Her record company didn't promote "Packed", and they certainly didn't spend much money on this video, but I have always thought this one of Chrissie's most poignant songs. She's a "slave to love", but unlike Mr. Ferry, she has a certain degree of pain and self loathing about it. "I'll sit where the last one sat. But, oh no, I'd never do that" Yes, she will. Any wonder she covered "Creep" so well? That song's regret, self disgust, and resignation are all here.
slickest rock chick ever.! so scorchin hot.🔥 those eyes are killer..! one of my all time favorite bands... saw them for the first time at "CB GB's" in NYC in 1979. awesome show..! " UM FUG "
Let me stay One more day It would mean so much to me I won't make a sound I'll just hang around I'll sit where the last one sat But oh no I'd never do that Take my mouth as far as you can see It stretches father than I care to think Put me out of my misery If I could keep it shut I wouldn't be in this rut With less chance than a laboratory rat Oh no I'd never do that You're a master of illusion You say you do - but you don't You think I will - I know I won't When I see you sitting there It sends a shock right through me I never thought an ordinary chair Could have such poetry I don't deserve your time I haven't got the tact I live above my means in fact Oh no I'd never do that I'd never do that I'd never do that I'd never do that
*Music is my Life" "Never Do That" Let me stay One more day It would mean so much to me I won't make a sound I'll just hang around I'll sit where the last one sat But oh no I'd never do that Take my mouth as far as you can see It stretches farther than I care to think Put me out of my misery If I could keep it shut I wouldn't be in this rut With less chance than a laboratory rat Oh no I'd never do that You're a master of illusion You say you do - but you don't You think I will - I know I won'tt When I see you sitting there It sends a shock right through me I never thought an ordinary chair Could have such poetry I don't deserve your time I haven't got the tact I live above my means in fact Oh no I'd never do that I'd never do that I'd never do that I'd never do that
I have all their albums up to and including "Get Close". Now I see this song is from "Packed" - never heard it before. It's great! So much like something they would have recorded for the "Learning To Crawl" album - back to their roots.
Me encanta este tema. Llevaba años con la canción en la cabeza y no había manera de encontrarla...muchas gracias vertex10a, por reivindicar una canción sencilla y maravillosa, me encanta la voz de Chrissie y la melodía...
One of My Absolutely Favourite songs&tune by&of Chrissie, just s-o Stunning Beautyfull, Each little word She sings, And, the Way She Really Sings them...mmm...
@berettadreams You are so right that this song is very reminiscent of "Chain Gang". I especially like the b/w video in Paris and the band in a cavern-like tiny hall. I had lost track of the band after their mega-success in the mid-80s but was relieved that this album showed Chrissie still had a lot to share with us. And she still does!
@@danielesteve8359 Since then (from 12 years ago, when I originally made the comment), I have. My comment was actually more of a compliment on her lyricism than a criticism of my own expression.😎
Style, Class and the Voice of an Angel, this Band should have gone so much farther! Love their sound and she is the perfect front Lady, with Classic origin of my favorite songs!🎸🍃🌹🎶🌷🙅💝🎤✌🌻💕
Even though the album that this song is featured on ("Packed!") is officially a Pretenders album, it is really a Chrissie Hynde solo album. Chrissie used a bunch of studio musicians to record the album and called them The Pretenders so that they could tour and promote the album. Similarly, this video, even though it's officially a Pretenders video, is really a Chrissie Hynde video. The video has plenty of closeups of Chrissie as she's singing, but the only other member of the band who appears in the video is the drummer, and he's always in the background. We don't even see the guitar player during the guitar solos; whenever Chrissie isn't singing, the director cuts to scenes showing Chrissie walking around on the street somewhere, some buidlings or a carousel in an amusement park. Luckily, Chrissie Hynde is so attractive and is such a great singer that her presence alone makes the video worth watching.
Never understood why so little love has been given to Packed. It contains "How do I miss you" and "Criminal" which are 2 of her best songs, IMO. If you have not heard them, you must! People who dismiss Chrissie Hynde after her 3rd LP are small minded and unable to change with artists. When Randy Newman tells you that you are one of the best pop rock songwriters he's heard, it must mean you have some talent.
Where did you find this video. Chrisse was always my rock and roll babe but she looks unreal in this video. What a time to grow up, live life, and achieve your dreams. Great find!
To my ear, a nice tight vibrato is best, more natural sounding, but her loose vibrato, while on other singers it sounds like crap, with her voice it sounds perfect, smooth and natural, sensational.
Brilliant song and the album Packed still holds up. Not sure why people thought this was awful. Got great reviews in Europe. Charles Shaar Murray gave it **** in Q!
It was banal compared to the first two original albums - full of session musicians. Fine when compared on its own. One thing can be said, a hell of lot better than GET CLOSE.
Not the most interesting video... yet it's effective Not a complicated composition... yet it's soul stirring... Not very deep lyrically... yet it's arresting... This is what I always saw as that average Pretenders single from 1990 that humbly followed a decade of glory.. the less-interesting twin sister of 'Back On The Chain Gang'... However, 25 years after I recorded this video clip off the television set on some ordinary Saturday night in 1990 and now remains encapsulated on an old fuzzy VHS tape, my appreciation for this has increased. It's lady-like, it's lonely, it's pale and forgotten by most... and that's the way I like it
no sabia la existencia de este video, ya que el disco Packed! fue un autentico fiasco para la buena de Chrissie. Ahora ya entiendo como oculta en el video a su guitarrista y bajista. Menos mal que rectificar es de sabios (en este caso una autentica genia) y los 4 discos siguientes sin ser una maravilla, al menos fueron dignos de una banda de rock. En cuanto a la cancion Never do that, muy flojita, muy sencilla, muy facil para lo buena compositora que es Chrissie.
"People who dismiss Chrissie Hynde after her 3rd LP are small minded and unable to change with artists." No, not "unable" but unwilling. I listen to all Hynde's stuff right up to the present except for this... and "Get Close". This for the reasons I gave in my other post and "Get Close" for Hynde's diabolical embrace of the revolting 'style' and (lack of) substance of the whole 80s aesthetic.
