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What hijacked my world that night
To a place in the past
We've been cast out of? oh oh oh oh
Now we're back in the fight
We're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh oh
The phone, the tv and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh oh oh oh
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies
Put us back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When I see what they've done to you
But I'll die as I stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They'll fall to ruin one day
For making us part
I found a picture of you, oh oh oh oh
Those were the happiest days of my life
Like a break in the battle was your part, oh oh oh oh
In the wretched life of a lonely heart
Now we're back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
I wish every radio broadcaster would give this song a 10 year break. Then I might appreciate it again. I'm so tired of hearing it.
There has to be other Pretender songs to play, isn't there?
Your ten years are up
She really does sing “like a pigeon from hell”.
Great song. Those were the happiest days of my life too.
Rock on my friend.
Great song. Those were the happiest days of my life too.
Jennifer Aniston doesn't answer any of my letters
Saw these back in 1976 (I think) at Loughborough University co-billed with UB40. I used to think she was sooooo sexy but at such a small venue you get very close and she had a bit of a tizzy about flashlights – I decided that she was not the girl for me after that; even though she was wearing leather pants.
Yes but Norah Jones is still on the table...
I know better than to respond to this, but: What is the point of this comment? Apparently the performer was not who you imagined her to be. That seems to be the totality of your silly observation. We are not impressed.
Saw these back in 1976 (I think) at Loughborough University co-billed with UB40. I used to think she was sooooo sexy but at such a small venue you get very close and she had a bit of a tizzy about flashlights – I decided that she was not the girl for me after that; even though she was wearing leather pants.
Hannio wrote:
Yes but Norah Jones is still on the table...
I always liked that they put in those "oohs" and "ahs" as a reference to Sam Cooke's 1960 classic" Chain Gang".
Their band name actually comes from Sam Cooke's "The Great Pretender."
Now we're back on the train,
Oh, oh, back on the Schengen
I always liked that they put in those "oohs" and "ahs" as a reference to Sam Cooke's 1960 classic" Chain Gang".
I don't care that it was overplayed either, but I don't like it much to start. The good news is, I rarely dislike two songs in a row with RP!
The chorus effect can be pretty annoying sometimes but I don't know if I'd compare it to a "de-tuned honky-tonk piano", maybe more of a electric keyboard effect. It never bothered me much in this song, maybe because it was pretty common in the late '70s and early '80s.
Ooo.
Ahh.
Indeed.
Yeah, what he said!
Agreed
Amen.
I for one really enjoyed this, reminds me of the movie "Cadence" with a very young Charlie Sheen, and the Sam Cooke song "Chain Gang."
Frank Ifield?
I disagree, he sounded like a yodelling duck, or perhaps, loon.
Frank Ifield?
In plenty people like you makes he his call.
And, so was his plan
my feelings exactly, coffee and Chrissie go good together
Everybody in my galactic presidential campaigns loves this song... we love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... hope life is grand for you right this minute on the planet Earth, ScottishWillie...
Yes it does. I was thinking the same thing, but you beat me to it!
I was driving to work at a job I did not enjoy (to describe it euphemistically) when I heard this song on the car radio... this song made me smile, and gave me a perspective that helped me endure that job as long as I had to...
soon afterwards, I became a professional stripper for drunk women, and life was grand from there on...
this song really cheered me up when I first heard it... now it makes me smile every time I hear it...
I hope life is grand for you right now, treatment_bound...
Hope you still enjoying this excellent song on whatever planet your currently inhabiting Lazarus!
All good stuff.
Chrissie Hynde gets to musical heaven for her beautiful singing of:
But I'll die as I stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They'll fall to ruin one day
For making us part
Like yourself, this song immediately makes me think of wage-slavery, particularly on a Sunday when I'll have to drive to a caravan park to travel to my crappy job in the UK's crappiest city on Monday, for absolutely no point other than to get enough money to pay the bills. Like millions of other wage-slaves across the nation and the world.
Unlike yourself, at my advanced age, the stripper option isn't open (and probably never was), which is rather a shame :(
It is not easy for me to let women use me for my body... I'm not getting any younger either...
hope life is grand for you right now in the middle of the week, fredriley...
still love this song as much as ever...
Yeah. Timeless !
I was driving to work at a job I did not enjoy (to describe it euphemistically) when I heard this song on the car radio... this song made me smile, and gave me a perspective that helped me endure that job as long as I had to...
soon afterwards, I became a professional stripper for drunk women, and life was grand from there on...
this song really cheered me up when I first heard it... now it makes me smile every time I hear it...
I hope life is grand for you right now, treatment_bound...
Like yourself, this song immediately makes me think of wage-slavery, particularly on a Sunday when I'll have to drive to a caravan park to travel to my crappy job in the UK's crappiest city on Monday, for absolutely no point other than to get enough money to pay the bills. Like millions of other wage-slaves across the nation and the world.
Unlike yourself, at my advanced age, the stripper option isn't open (and probably never was), which is rather a shame :(
Jessssuzzzzz
I was driving to work at a job I did not enjoy (to describe it euphemistically) when I heard this song on the car radio... this song made me smile, and gave me a perspective that helped me endure that job as long as I had to...
soon afterwards, I became a professional stripper for drunk women, and life was grand from there on...
Laz., I just looked up Nov. 12, 1982, and found out it was a Friday. So hopefully you had the weekend coming up to rest and also work on those abs for your impending "beefcake gig" as you first heard Chrissie's touching and everlasting song about the sad demise of her ace guitarist.
I can't remember it very well my on my end, other than I had just gotten married, was living living in that notorious hell-hole known as Grand Forks, No. Dakota, and was most-likely looking for a better job.
I was driving to work at a job I did not enjoy (to describe it euphemistically) when I heard this song on the car radio... this song made me smile, and gave me a perspective that helped me endure that job as long as I had to...
soon afterwards, I became a professional stripper for drunk women, and life was grand from there on...
this song really cheered me up when I first heard it... now it makes me smile every time I hear it...
I hope life is grand for you right now, treatment_bound...
I can't remember it very well my on my end, other than I had just gotten married, was living living in that notorious hell-hole known as Grand Forks, No. Dakota, and was most-likely looking for a better job.
Grand Forks ... I spent two years there, too. At least there was Whitey's Wonderbar across the river.
A great summary albeit with a tinge of sadness for me regarding the topic...
Agreed. This song is always bittersweet for me, having been a fan when James and Pete were still living.
A great summary albeit with a tinge of sadness for me regarding the topic...
Agreed
I remember the day this song was first released like it was last week...
Single by The Pretendersfrom the album Learning to Crawl
B-side"My City Was Gone
Released--November 12, 1982
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 20 July 1982, AIR Studios, London
GenreRock
Length3:51
LabelSire
Writer(s)Chrissie Hynde
Producer(s)Chris ThomasThe Pretenders
Lazarus, please describe in detail what happened in your day on Nov. 12, 1982.
I can't remember it very well my on my end, other than I had just gotten married, was living living in that notorious hell-hole known as Grand Forks, No. Dakota, and was most-likely looking for a better job.
To comment on the PSD button:
I have used the button twice since I realized it was there -- six months ago, maybe? One time was just to experiment; to see what happened when it was pushed. The second was because I didn't want to listen to ... whatever it was.
And I felt bad about PSD'ing. Not because of the "holistic" view of Bill's marvelous website, although he has a mean playlist, but because I feel that the PSD button (and its cultural equivalents outside RP) allow us to avoid all the little unpleasantries that are a part of life.
A society functions because all of its members must tolerate other people's (sometimes unpleasant) points of view. Many, many so many of the world's problems are due to intolerance! And I see the PSD button as an opportunity to be intolerant.
So what if I truly believe the 'Steve Nicks' version of Fleetwood Mac is nauseating? Is it really so bad that I can't listen to ONE THREE-MINUTE SONG? If I hit the PSD button, I am practicing intolerance, and I don't want to.
END OF OFF TOPIC RANT
That may be true that I'm practicing "intolerance" with my frequent use of the PSD. BUT, I'm a "Button Pusher." If this was a car radio, I would be changing the station like some people click through the TV stations. I'm always listening for the ultimate favorite songs.
Besides I work the night shift, I need as few irritating things as possible and as many "stop what I"m doing, get up and dance songs" as I can find!
I remember the day this song was first released like it was last week... time flies when we're having fun... love this song...
Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all over the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love this song soooo much... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
To comment on the PSD button:
I have used the button twice since I realized it was there -- six months ago, maybe? One time was just to experiment; to see what happened when it was pushed. The second was because I didn't want to listen to ... whatever it was.
And I felt bad about PSD'ing. Not because of the "holistic" view of Bill's marvelous website, although he has a mean playlist, but because I feel that the PSD button (and its cultural equivalents outside RP) allow us to avoid all the little unpleasantries that are a part of life.
A society functions because all of its members must tolerate other people's (sometimes unpleasant) points of view. Many, many so many of the world's problems are due to intolerance! And I see the PSD button as an opportunity to be intolerant.
So what if I truly believe the 'Steve Nicks' version of Fleetwood Mac is nauseating? Is it really so bad that I can't listen to ONE THREE-MINUTE SONG? If I hit the PSD button, I am practicing intolerance, and I don't want to.
END OF OFF TOPIC RANT
I generally agree with your opinion however I'd much prefer some to make extensive use of the PSD button rather than subject the rest of us to all the infantile "MAKE IT STOP!!!" or "SOMEBODY KILL ME NOW!!!" remarks.
By the way I periodically make use of this option myself and I don't feel any more guilty about it than those occasions where I choose to leave the peppers and onions off my cheesesteak. Sometimes I just don't want to taste them.
There has to be other Pretender songs to play, isn't there?
Ooo.
Ahh.
To comment on the PSD button:
I have used the button twice since I realized it was there -- six months ago, maybe? One time was just to experiment; to see what happened when it was pushed. The second was because I didn't want to listen to ... whatever it was.
And I felt bad about PSD'ing. Not because of the "holistic" view of Bill's marvelous website, although he has a mean playlist, but because I feel that the PSD button (and its cultural equivalents outside RP) allow us to avoid all the little unpleasantries that are a part of life.
A society functions because all of its members must tolerate other people's (sometimes unpleasant) points of view. Many, many so many of the world's problems are due to intolerance! And I see the PSD button as an opportunity to be intolerant.
So what if I truly believe the 'Steve Nicks' version of Fleetwood Mac is nauseating? Is it really so bad that I can't listen to ONE THREE-MINUTE SONG? If I hit the PSD button, I am practicing intolerance, and I don't want to.
END OF OFF TOPIC RANT
"PSD button" - Feedback
"PSD button" may initially seem like a good innovative idea, but analyzing best, I am not completely in agreement, because the programming of airplay in RP should be understood as a whole, and therein lies its greatest strength and expression, not to be tempted to distort, mutilate and subvert the "true spirit" of RP as conceived.
The purpose of the implementation of the "PSD button", may have the good intention of satisfying the various sensibilities of listeners simultaneously, but can detract - the receiver - and create a false sense of what is "the receiver" (the listener) that influences and modifies programming at your pleasure, when we know that is not, nor should it be.
For me, generally I do not use the "PSD button", do not even think to use it, because what really interests me is the global perspective programming, the expectation, the surprise factor, the changes of pace, changes of style, and the conjunction, the "intertwining" of the songs together, but this is the true spirit RP Station. And it works, whether we like it more or less like, this or that moment of RP-airplay.
Is that the "PSD button" like be harmless, but as its use allows use private constantly by each receiver, I think the loser is the receiver.
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There is no One True Playlist. If RP's a cool house party, PSD is just a way to move to a different room with different music.
God will not cast you out of Eden if you use the PSD button, and no salesmen will call at your door.
No need to over-think this issue or my mixed metaphors.
This song is brilliant— both lyrically and musically... love it...
Chrissie...
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I FOUND A PICTURE OF YOU, OH OH OH OH
WHAT HIJACKED MY WORLD THAT NIGHT
TO A PLACE IN THE PAST
WE'VE BEEN CAST OUT OF? OH OH OH OH
NOW WE'RE BACK IN THE FIGHT
WE'RE BACK ON THE TRAIN
OH, BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG
A CIRCUMSTANCE BEYOND OUR CONTROL, OH OH OH OH
THE PHONE, THE TV AND THE NEWS OF THE WORLD
GOT IN THE HOUSE LIKE A PIGEON FROM HELL, OH OH OH OH
THREW SAND IN OUR EYES AND DESCENDED LIKE FLIES
PUT US BACK ON THE TRAIN
OH, BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG
THE POWERS THAT BE
THAT FORCE US TO LIVE LIKE WE DO
BRING ME TO MY KNEES
WHEN I SEE WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO YOU
BUT I'LL DIE AS I STAND HERE TODAY
KNOWING THAT DEEP IN MY HEART
THEY'LL FALL TO RUIN ONE DAY
FOR MAKING US PART
I FOUND A PICTURE OF YOU, OH OH OH OH
THOSE WERE THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF MY LIFE
LIKE A BREAK IN THE BATTLE WAS YOUR PART, OH OH OH OH
IN THE WRETCHED LIFE OF A LONELY HEART
NOW WE'RE BACK ON THE TRAIN
OH, BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG
Some good news at last!—
Too-Big-to-Fail Takes Another Body Blow
by Matt Taibbi
RollingStone
May 1, 2013
Minds are changing on Too Big to Fail. A month ago, it was just something in the air. Now, it looks like we're headed for a real legislative confrontation. And man, is the finance sector freaking...
Love this song soooo much!!
Do I already have it at 10? No? Well, let's get that fixed, shall we?
Volume is wayyyy up... love this song...
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
by Matt Taibbi
from RollingStone a few days ago
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.
You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history – MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it "dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets."
That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps...
Everybody in my church be dancing... this is one of the best songs ever... love it... love Radio Paradise...
marvelous song... love you, man... you know it... thanks for everything...
btw this was an excellent set to listen to IMveryHO
josh ritter
mazzy star
neil young
the pretenders
good stuff
This could possibly be the best song that will ever be written and recorded in human history... well, number two to John Lennon's Imagine...
love it...
I would have to agree with that. Great hook, great lyrics, Chrissy's voice is amazing - it's as GOOD as the sum of it's parts.
Well said... this song is awesome...
"PSD button" - Feedback
"PSD button" may initially seem like a good innovative idea, but analyzing best, I am not completely in agreement, because the programming of airplay in RP should be understood as a whole, and therein lies its greatest strength and expression, not to be tempted to distort, mutilate and subvert the "true spirit" of RP as conceived.
The purpose of the implementation of the "PSD button", may have the good intention of satisfying the various sensibilities of listeners simultaneously, but can detract - the receiver - and create a false sense of what is "the receiver" (the listener) that influences and modifies programming at your pleasure, when we know that is not, nor should it be.
For me, generally I do not use the "PSD button", do not even think to use it, because what really interests me is the global perspective programming, the expectation, the surprise factor, the changes of pace, changes of style, and the conjunction, the "intertwining" of the songs together, but this is the true spirit RP Station. And it works, whether we like it more or less like, this or that moment of RP-airplay.
Is that the "PSD button" like be harmless, but as its use allows use private constantly by each receiver, I think the loser is the receiver.
However when it comes to music IMO, repitition is never good, repitition is never good, repitition is never good.........
"PSD button" - Feedback
"PSD button" may initially seem like a good innovative idea, but analyzing best, I am not completely in agreement, because the programming of airplay in RP should be understood as a whole, and therein lies its greatest strength and expression, not to be tempted to distort, mutilate and subvert the "true spirit" of RP as conceived.
The purpose of the implementation of the "PSD button", may have the good intention of satisfying the various sensibilities of listeners simultaneously, but can detract - the receiver - and create a false sense of what is "the receiver" (the listener) that influences and modifies programming at your pleasure, when we know that is not, nor should it be.
For me, generally I do not use the "PSD button", do not even think to use it, because what really interests me is the global perspective programming, the expectation, the surprise factor, the changes of pace, changes of style, and the conjunction, the "intertwining" of the songs together, but this is the true spirit RP Station. And it works, whether we like it more or less like, this or that moment of RP-airplay.
Is that the "PSD button" like be harmless, but as its use allows use private constantly by each receiver, I think the loser is the receiver.
This is one of the best songs in the history of humanity... love this soooo much... thank you...
I would have to agree with that. Great hook, great lyrics, Chrissy's voice is amazing - it's as GOOD as the sum of it's parts.
Wonderful song - Romeo is right!
How can it be already 30 years old?
Sounds 100% FRESH!
PS
Where are you, Chrissie?
PSD to the rescue. Wow right to Porcupine Tree (nice upgrade)
..^ everyone in yr hotel room?..
haha - funny!
This song is soooo good it makes us tear off our clothes and dance...
..^ everyone in yr hotel room?..
Let a huge mark on me in the early 1980s...breaking up with a woman.
there aren't too many songs that i just want to skip...instantly.
This is one of the best songs in the history of humanity... love this soooo much... thank you...
What humanity...? You're talking America?
And I love anyone in your Hotel room, Tuna!
Even you!
it's tuMa
I couldn't disagree more.
Unfortunately still a daily staple of the local KFOG in San Francisco......
Man is that station ever an insult to its own former greatness.
This song is soooo good my nipples get hard when I hear it...
I know what you mean I think I may be lactating
If you were alive in 1982 and listened to the radio at all, you have heard this song a million times. In the 80s and 90s, there were very few eclectic choices on the radio so if you listened to any commercial radio at all, you HAD to hear this song a million times or more. Now? Who knows? I have not disgraced the air that I breathe with any Clear channel station in 20 years or more so that may be the case now.
Unfortunately still a daily staple of the local KFOG in San Francisco......
Her answer: One hell of a f***.
I'm glad that one's cleared up.
LMAO and I bet she was glad to get it off her chest .....
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
And I love anyone in your Hotel room, Tuna!
Even you!
Her answer: One hell of a f***.
I'm glad that one's cleared up.
If you were alive in 1982 and listened to the radio at all, you have heard this song a million times. In the 80s and 90s, there were very few eclectic choices on the radio so if you listened to any commercial radio at all, you HAD to hear this song a million times or more. Now? Who knows? I have not disgraced the air that I breathe with any Clear channel station in 20 years or more so that may be the case now.
In my case, I was very-much alive, 20 years-old, and going to college in NYC in 1982. I heard a pretty eclectic variety of music on the radio there and then. If there were a Clear Channel station in NY, I didn't know of its existence. We had some fantastic radio stations in NY back then, which were - of course - outnumbered by lousy ones. I don't remember hearing this song too excessively back then - I heard DEVO,Tom Waits, U2, Lou Reed, Kraftwerk, The Ramones, The Cramps, Be-Bop Deluxe, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Psychedelic Furs, Lydia Lunch, The Clash, Gang of Four, INXS, etc. on the stations I listened to, in addition to a variety of songs by The Pretenders. You are right, though, that by the mid-to-late 1980's, radio had been strangled nation-wide.