1979–1999 - Pretenders

1979–1999

Compilation by Pretenders

Released 16 February 2015

hard rock new wave pop rock

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CD 1: Pretenders
1
Precious
3:35
4.5 ★
2
The Phone Call
2:29
3.0 ★
3
Up the Neck
4:26
4.0 ★
4
Tatooed Love Boys
2:59
5.0 ★
5
Space Invader
3:27
4.0 ★
6
The Wait
3:35
4.5 ★
7
Stop Your Sobbing
2:38
4.0 ★
8
Kid
3:05
5.0 ★
9
Private Life
6:25
3.5 ★
10
Brass in Pocket
3:02
4.1 ★
11
Lovers of Today
5:49
4.0 ★
12
Mystery Achievement
5:25
5.0 ★
13
Swinging London
1:53
14
Nervous but Shy
1:43
15
Cuban Slide
4:31
16
Porcelain
3:52
17
Precious (live)
3:25
18
Kid (1987 extended remix)
5:19
CD 2: Pretenders
1
The Phone Call (late 1977)
2:21
2
Brass in Pocket (February 1978)
3:46
3
Precious (April 1978)
3:43
4
The Wait (April 1978)
3:07
5
Stop Your Sobbing (April 1978)
2:22
6
I Can’t Control Myself (April 1978)
4:22
7
Tequila (April 1978)
5:20
8
Kid (December 1978)
4:04
9
Sabre Dance (The Marquee, April 1979)
3:51
10
I Need Somebody (The Kid Jensen Show, July 1979)
4:04
11
Mystery Achievement (The Kid Jensen Show, July 1979)
4:52
12
Precious (The Paradise Theatre, March 1980)
3:25
13
Tatooed Love Boys (The Paradise Theatre, March 1980)
3:04
DVD-Video 3: Pretenders
1
Stop Your Sobbing
2
Kid
3
Brass in Pocket
4
Stop Your Sobbing (TOTP, February 1979)
5
Kid (TOTP, July 1979)
6
Brass in Pocket (TOTP, November 1979)
7
Brass in Pocket (TOTP, December 1979)
8
Kid (Swap Shop, December 1979)
9
Brass in Pocket (TOTP, January 1980)
CD 4: Pretenders II
1
The Adultress
3:58
5.0 ★
2
Bad Boys Get Spanked
4:06
3
Message of Love
3:25
4.0 ★
4
I Go to Sleep
2:56
5
Birds of Paradise
4:16
6
Talk of the Town
2:43
7
Pack It Up
3:51
4.0 ★
8
Waste Not Want Not
3:44
9
Day After Day
3:46
10
Jealous Dogs
5:35
11
The English Roses
4:29
12
Louie Louie
3:29
CD 5: Pretenders II
1
Talk of the Town (demo)
2:46
2
I Go to Sleep (guitar version – outtake)
2:58
3
Pack It Up (radio mix – outtake)
3:51
4
In the Sticks
2:39
5
What You Gonna Do About It
2:44
6
The Wait
3:22
7
The Adultress
4:05
8
Message of Love
3:28
9
Louie Louie
3:42
10
Talk of the Town
3:17
11
Birds of Paradise
4:17
12
The English Roses
4:51
13
Up the Neck
5:57
14
Bad Boys Get Spanked
3:02
15
Stop Your Sobbing
3:26
16
Private Life
7:04
17
Kid
3:48
18
Day After Day
4:41
19
Brass in Pocket
3:11
20
Higher and Higher
4:17
DVD-Video 6: Pretenders II
1
Talk of the Town
2
Message of Love
3
Day After Day
4
I Go to Sleep
5
Message of Love (TOTP, February 1981)
6
I Go to Sleep (TOTP, November 1981)
CD 7: Learning to Crawl
1
Middle of the Road
4:14
4.8 ★
2
Back on the Chain Gang
3:51
4.5 ★
3
Time the Avenger
4:55
3.0 ★
4
Watching the Clothes
2:52
3.0 ★
5
Show Me
4:08
6
Thumbelina
3:17
3.0 ★
7
My City Was Gone
5:24
3.0 ★
8
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
3:44
4.0 ★
9
I Hurt You
4:35
3.0 ★
10
2000 Miles
3:37
3.0 ★
CD 8: Learning to Crawl
1
Fast or Slow (The Law’s the Law)
3:11
2
Money (live)
4:36
3
Time the Avenger (live)
4:22
4
Bad Boys Get Spanked (live)
3:10
5
My City Was Gone (live)
4:40
6
Tequila
3:33
7
I Hurt You (August 1982)
4:05
8
When I Change My Life (August 1982)
4:42
9
Ramblin’ Rob (August 1982)
3:31
10
Watching the Clothes (August 1982)
2:50
DVD-Video 9: Learning to Crawl
1
Back on the Chain Gang
2
2000 Miles
3
Middle of the Road
4
Show Me
5
Thin Line Between Love and Hate
6
2000 Miles (rehearsal and interview, Breakfast Time, December 1983)
7
2000 Miles (TOTP, December 1983)
CD 10: Get Close
1
My Baby
The Pretenders
4:07
2.0 ★
2
When I Change My Life
The Pretenders
3:37
2.0 ★
3
Light of the Moon
The Pretenders
3:57
3.0 ★
4
Dance!
The Pretenders
4:43
5
Tradition of Love
The Pretenders
5:19
6
Don’t Get Me Wrong
The Pretenders
3:47
4.2 ★
7
I Remember You
The Pretenders
2:37
8
How Much Did You Get for Your Soul?
The Pretenders
3:47
9
Chill Factor
The Pretenders
3:26
10
Hymn to Her
The Pretenders
4:54
3.0 ★
11
Room Full of Mirrors
The Pretenders
4:35
CD 11: Get Close
1
Dance (full length version)
The Pretenders
6:48
2
Room Full of Mirrors (extended version)
The Pretenders
9:48
3
Tradition of Love (extended remix)
The Pretenders
6:11
4
Thumbelina (live)
The Pretenders
5:02
5
Middle of the Road (live)
The Pretenders
4:29
6
Private Life (live)
The Pretenders
7:16
7
Dance (take 1)
The Pretenders
5:06
8
Don’t Get Me Wrong (live in Austin, 1987)
The Pretenders
3:50
9
Hold a Candle to This (alternate version)
The Pretenders
3:42
10
World Within Worlds
The Pretenders
3:46
11
When I Change My Life (alternate version)
The Pretenders
3:59
12
Reconsider Me (Monitor mix)
The Pretenders
3:18
13
Where Has Everybody Gone (from “The Living Daylights”)
The Pretenders
3:37
14
If There Was a Man (from “The Living Daylights”)
The Pretenders
2:51
15
Windows of the World (from “1969”)
The Pretenders
3:00
16
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
The Pretenders
4:37
DVD-Video 12: Get Close
1
Don’t Get Me Wrong
2
Hymn to Her
3
My Baby
4
Don’t Get Me Wrong (Wogan, October 1986)
5
Don’t Get Me Wrong (TOTP, October 1986)
CD 13: Packed!
1
Never Do That
The Pretenders
3:19
2
Let’s Make a Pact
The Pretenders
3:18
3
Millionaires
The Pretenders
3:04
4
May This Be Love
The Pretenders
2:43
2.0 ★
5
No Guarantee
The Pretenders
3:46
6
When Will I See You
The Pretenders
4:54
7
Sense of Purpose
The Pretenders
3:02
8
Downtown (Akron)
The Pretenders
2:43
9
How Do I Miss You
The Pretenders
4:22
10
Hold a Candle to This
The Pretenders
3:39
11
Criminal
The Pretenders
3:50
12
Not a Second Time
2:13
13
Spirit of Life
4:05
DVD-Video 14: Packed!
1
Never Do That
2
Sense of Purpose
3
Never Do That (Wogan, June 1990)
4
Millionaires (The Late Show, June 1990)
5
Criminal (The Late Show, June 1990)
CD 15: Last of the Independents
1
Hollywood Perfume
3:55
2
Night in My Veins
3:16
5.0 ★
3
Money Talk
3:39
4
977
3:53
5
Revolution
4:32
6
All My Dreams
3:14
7
I’ll Stand by You
3:58
3.5 ★
8
I’m a Mother
5:17
9
Tequila
1:04
10
Every Mother’s Son
3:35
11
Rebel Rock Me
3:07
12
Colours
4:32
13
Forever Young
5:04
CD 16: Last of the Independents
1
Angel of the Morning (from “Friends”)
4:06
2
Bold as Love
3:24
3.0 ★
3
Hollywood Perfume (live)
4:13
4
Kid (live)
3:56
5
I’ll Stand by You (live)
4:04
6
Back on the Chain Gang (live)
4:19
7
Night on My Veins (live)
3:40
8
Precious (live)
4:26
9
Angel of the Morning (original version)
3:31
10
Every Mother’s Son (demo)
3:46
11
I’m Not in Love (from “Indecent Proposal”)
3:51
12
Everyday Is Like Sunday (from “Boys on the Side”)
3:38
DVD-Video 17: Last of the Independents
1
I’ll Stand by You
2
Night in My Veins
3
I’ll Stand by You (TOTP, April 1994)
4
Night in My Veins (Later, May 1994)
5
977 (Later, May 1994)
6
Hollywood Perfume (Later, May 1994)
7
Night in My Veins (TOTP, July 1994)
8
Don’t Get Me Wrong (Danny Baker Show, October 1994)
9
977 (Danny Baker Show, October 1994)
CD 18: The Isle of View
1
Sense of Purpose
The Pretenders
3:49
2
Chill Factor
The Pretenders
4:00
3
Private Life
The Pretenders
4:42
4
Back on the Chain Gang
The Pretenders
4:17
5
Kid
The Pretenders
3:58
6
I Hurt You
The Pretenders
4:21
7
Criminal
The Pretenders
4:17
8
Brass in Pocket
The Pretenders
3:23
9
2000 Miles
The Pretenders
3:32
10
Hymn to Her
The Pretenders
3:52
11
Lovers of Today
The Pretenders
5:20
12
The Phone Call
The Pretenders
2:55
13
I Go to Sleep
The Pretenders
2:57
14
Revolution
The Pretenders
6:02
15
The Isle of View
The Pretenders
0:42
16
Creep
4:03
17
Happy Christmas
4:53
18
Night of My Veins
3:47
19
Tequila (acoustic live)
3:10
DVD-Video 19: The Isle of View
1
Sense of Purpose
2
Chill Factor
3
I Hurt You
4
Back on the Chain Gang
5
Thumbelina
6
Kid
7
Private Life
8
Creep
9
Criminal
10
Brass in Pocket
11
2000 Miles
12
Hymn to Her
13
Blue Sun
14
Lovers of Today
15
The Phone Call
16
I Go to Sleep
17
Revolution
18
Night in My Veins
19
Kid (TOTP, September 1995)
20
Criminal (Pebble Mill, November 1995)
21
2000 Miles (Pebble Mill, November 1995)
CD 20: ¡Viva el Amor!
1
Popstar
3:32
2
Human
3:55
3
From the Heart Down
3:31
4
Nails in the Road
3:24
5
Who’s Who
4:10
6
Dragway 42
5:20
7
Baby’s Breath
3:15
8
One More Time
3:15
9
Legalise Me
3:50
10
Samurai
4:43
11
Rabo de Nube
1:25
12
Biker
4:40
CD 21: ¡Viva el Amor!
1
The Homecoming (Street version)
4:16
2
Human (Class mix)
3:57
3
The Needle and the Damage Done
3:46
4
Samurai (Street mix)
5:47
5
Back Down
4:16
6
California
4:32
7
From the Heart Down (alternate version)
3:41
8
Goin’ Back (from “Fever Pitch”)
4:06
9
Goodbye (from “G.I. Jane”)
4:34
10
The Homecoming (from “G.I. Jane”)
4:22
DVD-Video 22: ¡Viva el Amor!
1
Human
2
Popstar
3
From the Heart Down (Later, May 1999)
4
Human (Later, May 1999)
5
Talk of the Town (Songwriters’ Circle, July 1999)
6
Kid (Songwriters’ Circle, July 1999)
7
Back on the Chain Gang (Songwriters’ Circle, July 1999)

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Release credits

Adam Seymour
guitar [1-3, 5-13]
Andrew Bodner
bass guitar [8], vocal [8]
Andy Hobson
bass [1, 6, 13]
Andy Rourke
bass [2-3, 5, 9-12]
Bernie Worrell
keyboard [3, 8], organ [7, 9], synthesizer [10.1, 10.4, 10.7, 10.9, 11.1]
Bill Price
engineer [1-12], mix [1-9, 11-12]
Billy Bremner
guitar [2, 7-8], vocal [8]
Blair Cunningham
drums (drum set) [3, 7-8], membranophone [11.1, 11.16, 10.9], percussion [4]
Bob Clearmountain
mix [15.3-4, 15.6, 15.12, 11.1, 11.15-16, 16.2, 10.1-11], producer [10.1-10, 11.1, 11.16]
Bruce Body
organ [11.1, 10.4, 10.8]
Bruce Lampcov
engineer [10.1-10, 11.1], recording [16]
Bruce Thomas
bass [1]
Carlos Alomar
percussion [3], synthesizer [3]
Chris Thomas
producer [7.1-4, 7.6-10, 1.1-6, 1.8-12, 4.1-12]
Chrissie Hynde
background vocals [2], guitar [4.3, 7.1-4, 7.6-10, 11.1, 15.1-3, 15.5-13, 10.1-11], lead vocals [2], vocal [10.1-11, 11.1, 4.3, 15.1-13, 7.1, 7.3-4, 7.6-10]
Chucho Merchán
bass [10.2, 10.6, 10.10, 11.1], bass guitar [4], percussion [10.4, 11.1]
Howard Gray
engineer [11]
Ian Stanley
producer [1-2, 5, 7, 9-11, 13]
J.F.T. Hood
drums (drum set) [1, 7-8, 13]
James Honeyman‐Scott
guitar [3]
Jeremy Allom
assistant [8-9]
Jimmy Copley
drums (drum set) [2, 5-11]
Jimmy Iovine
producer [11.1, 11.16, 10.1-10]
John Barry
arranger [13-14], producer [13-14]
John McKenzie
bass [5]
Johnny Marr
guitar [15]
Julie Gardner
assistant [3-4, 6, 12]
Malcolm Foster
bass [11], bass guitar [1, 3-4, 6, 8-10], vocal [8-9]
Martin Chambers
background vocals [2], drums (drum set) [7.1-4, 7.6-10, 10.11, 4.3], instrument [3-4, 6, 12], vocal [8-9]
Mel Gaynor
drums (drum set) [1]
Michael Paul Stavrou
mix [10]
Nick Lowe
producer [1.7, 11.15]
Pat Seymour
keyboard [1]
Paul Carrack
piano [8], vocal [8]
Paul Staveley O’Duffy
producer [13-14]
Pete Farndon
bass guitar [3]
Pretenders
performer [13-14]
Robbie McIntosh
guitar [10.1-3, 10.5-11, 11.1, 11.16, 7.1, 7.3-4, 7.6, 7.8-10], vocal [8-9]
Rupert Black
keyboard [11]
Scott Litt
recording [16]
Shankar
violin [5]
Simon Phillips
drums (drum set) [2, 5, 10]
Stephen Street
engineer [16.2, 15.3-4, 15.6, 15.12], producer [16.2, 15.3-4, 15.6, 15.12]
Steve Boyer
assistant [16]
Steve Churchyard
engineer [1-4, 6-10]
Steve Jordan
drums (drum set) [6], percussion [6]
Steve Lillywhite
producer [11]
Steve Nye
additional [1-12]
Steve Williams
engineer [1-2, 5, 7, 9-11, 13]
T. M. Stevens
bass [10.3, 10.7-9, 11.16], bass guitar [4]
Tommy Mandel
synthesizer [10]
Tony Butler
background vocals [2], bass guitar [2, 7]
Wix
keyboard [2], piano [6], synthesizer [6]

Issues

P
Pretenders 1979–1999
14x CD, 8x DVD-Video
16 February 2015