Title: Best Pretenders Album
Product review: I'm a great fan of Chrissie Hynde and this one is her best. One of the more important rock albums of the 80s. Don't fool yourself into thinking that Hynde is some sort of working-class hero. She's a literate American expat who hit the London puck scene in the late 70s with a vengeance, working odd jobs to get her rock & roll career off the ground. The earlier Pretenders albums, before bassist Pete Farndon and guitarist James Honeyman-Scott OD'ed, were raw and beautiful with songs evoking the drugging and whoring mayhem of the punk scene in which Hynde evidently indulged liberally. The stuff on "Crawl" is more reflective of Hynde's maturity, as she looks back on the heroin wreckage in her past and toward the future with her child. Great stuff. "Back on the Chain Gang," "My City Was Gone" and "Time the Avenger" are priceless.
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