Just wish they were more easily available at a reasonable price.
Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. LEARNING TO CRAWL, their stellar third album, debuted in 1984 and hit #5 on the Billboardr 200 allmusic.com calls it, one of the best rock & roll records of the early `80s. I can only conclude that this is a bad pressing.
The best sounding album in my collection is, to this day, a MOFI pressing of Abbey Road that I got way back around 1980. Hynde noted in the booklet for the expanded edition of "2000 Miles" became a popular Christmas song in the UK. 10 tracks (39:29). The bonus tracks include B-Sides, Live tracks and outtakes. This remaster blows them all away, as it should. This was the album that catapulted the Pretenders into the mainstream. Thorough and mindful research is crucial to making sure you get your hands on the best-possible Pretenders Learning To Crawl.
After losing guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon to drug-related deaths, a sobered Pretenders returned to the spotlight with Learning to Crawl.Chrissie Hynde turned her distinctive contralto to sentimental songs, both romantic and reflective, that … Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. a near-prefect album made better w the addition of several bonus tracks, including a live version of My City Was Gone." A must-have for any serious record collector Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. Sadly it is so good that it also reveals the limitations of the original recording/engineering (which is at times a tad bright, [intentional for radio airplay] but only noticeable a few times). onestamente ho comprato questo SACD della MFSL per testare la qualità di questo Album.A dirla tutta non è dei miai album preferiti , ne avrei fatto volentieri a meno sia per incisione che per musica contenuta.Oltre al SACD non sarei andato ad acquistare il gemello in LP , visto che per alcuni album li ho in entrambi i formati. However this set is great and I think you will agree. Learning to Crawl is the Pretenders' third album, released in 1984, after a hiatus, during which time James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon died of drug overdoses.. After Farndon's dismissal from the band and Honeyman-Scott's death, Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers initially recruited Rockpile's Billy Bremner and Big Country's Tony Butler to fill in a caretaker line-up of the band in 1982. Hynde was inspired to write the song after a close friend had died.CD booklet, "Learning to Crawl" expanded edition, 2007, Rhino Records J'ai suivi Pretenders depuis le début, et s'il y a un album que je peux écouter comme au premier jour, avec toujours autant de plaisir: c'est celui-là. All good stuff! Such a great album, i can't imagine how i missed it when it first came out. It was this line-up that recorded the rest of the tracks featured on The album's title of "Learning to Crawl" was given in honor of Chrissie Hynde's then-infant daughter, Natalie Rae Hynde. Often interpreted as a tale of two lovers apart during the holidays, it is a song written by Hynde for her former bandmate James Honeyman-Scott after he died prio Too bad it skips on three different songs. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Questo cd ha per me lo stesso fascino che aveva l'album all'epoca, belle canzoni, qualcuna bellissima, il mio preferito dei Pretenders. Not only is the packaging great and the booklet kind of nice, a quite good helping of bonus tracks. Learning To Crawl Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. 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.