Chrissie Hynde took a long, hard road to rock & roll stardom, but when her … Read Full Bio ↴Chrissie Hynde took a long, hard road to rock & roll stardom, but when her band, the Pretenders, finally broke through in 1979, they wasted no time, growing from promising newcomers on the British music scene to major international stardom with a pair of smash albums to their credit in a mere three years. But the Pretenders' meteoric rise came to a crashing halt in 1982, when drug abuse claimed the life of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and forced Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers to dump bassist Pete Farndon, who would also succumb to an OD in April 1983.
Hynde was forced by circumstance to reinvent the Pretenders for their third album, 1984's Learning to Crawl, but if the new edition of the group lacked some of the spark of the band that made the first two LPs, through sheer force of will Hynde created a masterpiece. While Hynde hardly held back in her emotionally potent songwriting in the Pretenders' early work, on Learning to Crawl there's a gravity to her lyrics that blended with her tough but wiry melodic sense and streetwise intelligence to create a set of truly remarkable tunes.
Back on the Chain Gang is a touching tribute to her fallen comrades that still sounds bitterly rueful, Middle of the Road is a furious rocker that explores the emotional and physical toll of a musician's life, Time the Avenger is a taut, literate examination of a businessman's adulterous relationship, My City Was Gone deals with the economic and cultural decay of the Midwest in a manner both pithy and genuinely heartfelt, and 2000 Miles is a Christmas number that demonstrates Hynde can be warm without getting sappy.
As a guitarist, Robbie McIntosh brought a simpler and more elemental style to the Pretenders than James Honeyman-Scott, but his tough, muscular leads fit these songs well, and bassist Malcolm Foster's solid punch fits Chambers' drumming perfectly.
Three albums into her recording career, Chrissie Hynde found herself having to put the past to bed and carve out a new beginning for herself with Learning to Crawl, but she pulled it off with a striking mixture of courage, strength, and great rock & roll; with the exception of the instant-classic debut album, it's the Pretenders' finest work. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Hynde was forced by circumstance to reinvent the Pretenders for their third album, 1984's Learning to Crawl, but if the new edition of the group lacked some of the spark of the band that made the first two LPs, through sheer force of will Hynde created a masterpiece. While Hynde hardly held back in her emotionally potent songwriting in the Pretenders' early work, on Learning to Crawl there's a gravity to her lyrics that blended with her tough but wiry melodic sense and streetwise intelligence to create a set of truly remarkable tunes.
Back on the Chain Gang is a touching tribute to her fallen comrades that still sounds bitterly rueful, Middle of the Road is a furious rocker that explores the emotional and physical toll of a musician's life, Time the Avenger is a taut, literate examination of a businessman's adulterous relationship, My City Was Gone deals with the economic and cultural decay of the Midwest in a manner both pithy and genuinely heartfelt, and 2000 Miles is a Christmas number that demonstrates Hynde can be warm without getting sappy.
As a guitarist, Robbie McIntosh brought a simpler and more elemental style to the Pretenders than James Honeyman-Scott, but his tough, muscular leads fit these songs well, and bassist Malcolm Foster's solid punch fits Chambers' drumming perfectly.
Three albums into her recording career, Chrissie Hynde found herself having to put the past to bed and carve out a new beginning for herself with Learning to Crawl, but she pulled it off with a striking mixture of courage, strength, and great rock & roll; with the exception of the instant-classic debut album, it's the Pretenders' finest work. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Learning to Crawl
The Pretenders Lyrics
2000 Miles He's gone two thousand miles It's very far The snow is falli…
Back On The Chain Gang I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh What…
I Hurt You See how she enters The room like a diva If you said…
Middle of the Road The middle of the road is trying to find me I'm…
My City Was Gone I went back to Ohio But my city was gone…
Show Me Show me the meaning of the word Show me the meaning…
Thin Line Between Love and Hate It's a thin line between love and hate It's a thin…
Thumbelina Hush little baby, don't you cry When we get to…
Time the Avenger Nobody's perfect Not even a perfect stranger But oh what…
Watching The Clothes Oh, Saturday night Mmm, everyone's having fun I'm down at…
Tommy Wells
on Get Out of London
I don't think this song will do for a studio album.
It's because of the producer, George Acogny. He's the song producer of the movie.