TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Pretenders
Pretenders
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2570
Pretenders Album Rankings
1
Few rock & roll records rock as hard or with as much originality as the Pretenders' eponymous debut album.
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2
[Adapted from a review that first appeared inOn The Townmagazine 5/28/96]So what do you do when, three years down the road from your massively successful debut album, half your band OD's at the same t
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3
Is there a singer in rock & roll whose voice is more expressive, more emotionally alert, than Chrissie Hynde's? Listening to the Pretenders' Last of the Independents (Sire/Warner Bros.
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4
The Pretenders burst on the scene in the early '80s with one of the most compelling presentations of rock & roll ever seen.
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5
The Pretenders,Learning to Crawland the overlookedPacked!were all pretty terrific, but Chrissie Hynde's legend is built more on her memorable singles output than classic LPs. Until now, that is.
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6
The Pretenders' debut album was such a powerful, monumental record that its sequel was bound to be a bit of a disappointment, andPretenders IIis.
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7
Loose Screw captures the group's classic mix of grit and sentiment, illustrating how to make a good album that neither ignores the past nor shamelessly apes the present.
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8
Drummer Martin Chambers once remarked that his Pretenders boss Chrissie Hynde was easy to get along with...as long as you did what she said.
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9
The punch line of "Precious," which opens the Pretenders' 1980 debut album, is technically "I had to fuck off," but Chrissie Hynde swallows the first three words before delivering the F-bomb with a fe
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10
In the first edition of the Pretenders,Chrissie Hyndewas a smart and streetwise rock & roller with just enough maturity to make something of what life had shown her by her mid-twenties -- and she had
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11
You'll hear a whole new Chrissie Hynde on her first-ever live acoustic album.
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12
Even rock stars grow older, and what's most compelling on Packed! , Chrissie Hynde's first album since Get Close in 1986 is her air — partly resigned, partly hopeful — of battered maturity.
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16
The Pretenders' 1987 collection, The Singles, did a fine job of assembling most of the group's finest tracks up to that point in their career, so after another decade passed, their record company fel
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