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You've gone all sad so I feel sad too
I think I know some things we never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to
Kid my only kid
You look so small you've gone so quiet
I know you know what I'm about
I won't deny it
But you forgive though you don't understand
You've turned your head
You've dropped by hand
All my sorrow, all my blues
All my sorrow
Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, you cover your face
Kid gracious kid
Your eyes are blue but you won't cry
I know angry tears are too dear
You won't let them go
I said 'officer Obie, i don't think i can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on',
he said...
'shut up, kid'
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Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant
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I'm really pretending I am Chrissie Hynde
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Then go listen to iHeartRadio
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Wow.
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Certainly be interesting to revisit for an evening or two but not sure I'd survive a full 2nd time around.
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Yeah, Nick produced the debut single "Stop Your Sobbing", which was used on the 1st album.
Famed U.K. producer Chris Thomas helmed the other eleven songs on the debut.
Legend has it that Nick dumped out early because he thought this band was D.O.A.
Kid, what changed your mood
You've gone all sad, so I feel sad too
I think I know some things we never outgrow
You think it's wrong
I can tell you do
How can I explain
When you don't want me to
Kid, my only kid
You look so small, you've gone so quiet
I know you know what I'm about
I won't deny it
But you forgive though you don't understand
You've turned your head
You've dropped my hand
All my sorrow, all my blues
All my sorrow
Shut the light, go away
Full of grace, you cover your face
Kid, gracious kid
Your eyes are blue but you won't cry
I know, angry tears are too dear
You won't let them go
I think Nick Lowe produced one or two tunes on this album, not this one though.
Ditto
Well worth a listen.
What a great album !!!
Lived in a big house in Carlisle, there was no furniture and no heating. But I had this on stereo and a new significant other. At a distance of almost 40 years the flood of memories triggered by this song are not about my squalid, 'working poor' existence but are mostly about a bohemian and romantic life.
I hold myself lucky that my subconscious tends to remember things this way round.
"CLINK!!!" cheers young man, that's a splendid remembrance, many more!
Phenomenal debut Album. Was 19 and brought it with me to Seattle, (on cassette) from NYC January of 1980.
Incredible Band. Pete Farndon (bass) and James Honeyman-Scott were just too good to be true ~
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I hold myself lucky that my subconscious tends to remember things this way round.
Hmmmm
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E_e_e_e_e_e_e_e_xa_a_a_A_a_actl_y_y_y!
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This album was the soundtrack for the early 80s for me and I thought Chrissie would never reach these heights again but I have to say Stockholm comes very very close.
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I guess it's a hate-it-or-love-it kind of thing...
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Love this album but also put Learning to Crawl right up there with it, better than Pretender's II IMHO. Also more recent highlight was Breaking Up the Concrete. You should check it out.
Ohhhh - I've heard some stuff from Breaking Up the Concrete, and it's awesome! Hard, harsh, trite, and true. So typical of Chrissie and the ghosts of the Pretenders. I know it isn't fair to compare the new band with the original. Things change. People change. Ideas and ideals change. I think I'll embrace the Pretenders as they were in the beginning, and apart from what might have been some soul-searching in the middle of the mess, I'll embrace them as they are now - a new band, with their roots where they always were - in brutal truth, sharp observation of the world around them, and a glimpse into the tenderness that can still be found, if one looks in the right place at just the right moment.
And that read just like a critical review... GUH. Shutting up now.
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Totally agree. I wish drugs hadn't taken their toll - this is one band that could have withstood the test of time with no effort - they just melded. I love the early Pretenders stuff... I miss them. I'd love it if Chrissie would come back with a really close replica of the original Pretenders. It wouldn't replace the long-lamented Honeyman-Scott and Farndon, but....
Oh, crap. I just miss the old days of "Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," and this one.....
Love this album but also put Learning to Crawl right up there with it, better than Pretender's II IMHO. Also more recent highlight was Breaking Up the Concrete. You should check it out. AMG on Learning to Crawl:
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.
Agree with you EXCEPT your EXCEPT - some of us are not sick of Brass in Pocket, or Mystery Achievment, since we don't listen to terrestial radio and only hear them when we want to hear them and as a surprise on the most eclectic rock radio station in the world, RP.
Makes you wonder what Pretenders might have done had Honeyman-Scott and Farndon stayed around.
It rocks end to end, that's for sure.
And a lot in the middle, too.
I echo your sentiments. It's amazing to listen to the Pretenders now and compare them to what's currently popular. They still sound as fresh as ever and walk all over a lot of the stuff that is being pushed as "edgy." Go to the source...
Makes you wonder what Pretenders might have done had Honeyman-Scott and Farndon stayed around.
Totally agree. I wish drugs hadn't taken their toll - this is one band that could have withstood the test of time with no effort - they just melded. I love the early Pretenders stuff... I miss them. I'd love it if Chrissie would come back with a really close replica of the original Pretenders. It wouldn't replace the long-lamented Honeyman-Scott and Farndon, but....
Oh, crap. I just miss the old days of "Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," and this one.....
Then I'm glad you heard it here, because you certainly won't hear it there.
Whyever not?
Makes you wonder what Pretenders might have done had Honeyman-Scott and Farndon stayed around.
It's chords and melody are fleetingly reminiscent of a few classic, instrumental tunes: "Telstar", "Perfidia", "Theme From A Summer Place" - which was probably intentional. I'm not sure about why you hear a Christmas sound though, but I do hear a distinct Fender® sound in the solo.
Maybe it's that lush, gorgeous, ringing guitar solo... Dang, I love the early Pretenders stuff SO much!
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Then I'm glad you heard it here, because you certainly won't hear it there.
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She had a relationship with Pete Farndon, the bass player. He died of a heroin overdose in the bathtub. One year before his death, the guitarist James Honeyman Scott died of a heart attack due to cocaine intolerance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Farndon
Thanks for the information Miafost. Hope you and TravelRat (here on RP) are doing well in the former soviet union...
Love this song. I think this was the only track on the 1st album not written by Chrissy. If memory serves, Ray Davies wrote it.
chyk5,
Nice retort on the Rush cut today. Believe me, I hear them all the time, whether my ears are plugged or not, and I'm not even trying to listen for them. And I'm not dissing the fact that you like them, I'm just a little sad they crop up on RP occasionally.
I just had to fire back on your Pretenders comment here . Ray Davies wrote Stop Your Sobbing (it was on the first Kinks album), and Hynde either wrote or co-wrote every other song on Pretenders except Space Invader.
Amen...hail to Chrissie! Love early Pretenders work, especially. So sad re: the guitar player losses in this band, however. Wasn't she married (or seriously involved with) one of these fellows?
She had a relationship with Pete Farndon, the bass player. He died of a heroin overdose in the bathtub. One year before his death, the guitarist James Honeyman Scott died of a heart attack due to cocaine intolerance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Farndon
Sort of a Spinal Tap kind of thing
Love this song. I think this was the only track on the 1st album not written by Chrissy. If memory serves, Ray Davies wrote it.
Amen...hail to Chrissie! Love early Pretenders work, especially. So sad re: the guitar player losses in this band, however. Wasn't she married (or seriously involved with) one of these fellows?
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I believe I read that this song deals with a young boy finding out what his Mom did for a living (a prostitute)...lyrics take on a whole new meaning
True or not, it's undeniable that as much as Chrissie is the epitome of a badass rocker - her songs are full of emotional lyrics. Kinda like how Cat Stevens has that gruff voice, but writes about deep important ideas.