Happy anniversary to Pretenders eponymous debut album. Released this week in the US in 1980. #thepretenders #chrissiehynde #brassinpocket #stopyoursobbing #kid #tattoodloveboys

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1000 Day Album Challenge (#76) Pretenders: Pretenders (1980) [16.03.24]

you asked me for advice I said use the door /
but you're still clinging to somebody you deplore…

this was not part of the plan at all. on the first when I posted Marcus Garvey I decided to to create a file with 30+ album covers for the month of March. I even planned out the first 15 in advance. so I didn’t have a specific album chosen for today but I had more than 15 from which to choose. then earlier today I was cleaning up a generic 1980s rock playlist that I created ages ago. I came upon a chunk of this album in the playlist and started listening and was immediately drawn in. so here we are.

I have memories of listening to Pretenders on cassette in my friend Jeff Cohen’s car in the senior parking lot at Newark Academy. I don’t know if I actually bought the LP while I was in college or later. I’m pretty sure the first Pretenders album I bought was their third, Learning to Crawl which came out during my junior year of college. still this was the album that got me into the band.

not an all-time great debut. maybe just a notch below. still this rocks quite hard, harder than most New Wave bands of the era.Chrissie Hynde’s got more tough sexy swagger than just about any Mick Jagger wannabe I can come up with off the top of my head.

great song writer. great band. charismatic singer. as a great modern philosopher once said, “it’s only rock & roll, but I like it.”

added bonus: a great cover of a song written by her future Baby Daddy.

#1000DayAlbumChallenge #Pretenders #StopYourSobbing