Release: 1986Genre: Pop, RockFormat: LPLabel: WEA RecordsCatalog# 240976-1Prijs: €10,00Get Close is the fourth album by group, released in 1986. The album contains the band's two biggest chart hits, ' and ', both of which reached #1.Get Close was recorded during a particularly transitional period of the band's career, featuring a variety of sessions and multiple personnel.
The first of its recording sessions, produced by, featured the Learning to Crawl lineup put together by and (following the deaths of fellow founding Pretenders and ) which featured guitarist and bass guitarist Malcolm Foster (plus the band's touring keyboard player Rupert Black). This resulted in a cover version of 's 'Room Full of Mirrors'. Shortly after the session Hynde decided that Chambers' playing had deteriorated. 'Martin was playing crap. Martin just fucking lost it. And to think about it, why shouldn’t he have lost it?
He’d just lost his two best friends. I was insane. I was traumatised. But you don’t know it at the time. I was trying to keep my shit together.
To be honest Martin was playing crap and I knew musically I was losing my inspiration. But I’d tried too hard and come too far to let it all go, so Martin went instead.'
Having fired Chambers from the band, Hynde was left as the only remaining original member. With Foster's departure shortly afterwards, this left the band without a rhythm section. With and taking over production duties, about half of the album was recorded by Hynde and McIntosh with high-profile session players. Bass guitar was provided by (of ), and John McKenzie, and drums by, and of, with assorted keyboards and synthesizers provided by, 's, Bruce Brody (ex- Band). Made further contributions on percussion and synthesizer programming.The later album sessions featured contributions from two further musicians - former bass guitarist and ex- drummer. Towards the end of the sessions, Stevens and Cunningham were recruited into the band full-time.
On release, Get Close was credited to a formal Pretenders lineup of Hynde, McIntosh, Stevens and Cunningham, despite the latter two members only having played on half of the album. All four musicians appeared on the album cover art, as had been the case with previous Pretenders albums. Unlike previous albums, however, this time Hynde was the only member pictured on the front cover, emphasizing her dominance of the band (as would be the case with all subsequent Pretenders album art).In comparison to the stylings of the first three Pretenders albums, Get Close had a strong funk element (partially due to the substantial session contributions from American funk, soul and rhythm and blues players).The album also featured Pretenders' first power ballad: 'Hymn to Her', a paean to femaleness written by Hynde's former schoolfriend Meg Keene.
The band also recorded a Carlos Alomar song, 'Light of the Moon'.Side one1. My Baby (4:07)2. When I Change My Life (3:38)3. Light of the Moon (3:57)4. Tradition of Love (5:27)Side two1. Don’t Get Me Wrong (3:46)2.
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I Remember You (2:38)3. How Much Did You Get for Your Soul? Chill Factor (3:27)5. Hymn to Her (4:58)6. Room Full of Mirrors (4:44)Vinyl: goedCover: goed.
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The Pretenders – Learning To Crawl (1984/2013)FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz Time – 1:09:18 minutes 1,79 GB Genre: Rock, PopStudio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks.com Front cover © WM UKLearning To Crawl is Pretenders’ 1984 Platinum-selling masterpiece. The album is widely considered one of Rock N’ Roll’s greatest classics.
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Reaching the Billboard Top Five, the recording includes the astounding tunes “Middle Of The Road,” “Back On The Chain Gang,” “2000 Miles” and “My City Was Gone.” Learning To Crawl remains one of the band’s finest albums.Chrissie Hynde took a long, hard road to rock & roll stardom, but when her band, the Pretenders, finally broke through in 1979, they wasted no time, growing from promising newcomers on the British music scene to major international stardom with a pair of smash albums to their credit in a mere three years. But the Pretenders’ meteoric rise came to a crashing halt in 1982, when drug abuse claimed the life of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and forced Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers to dump bassist Pete Farndon, who would also succumb to an OD in April 1983. 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. As a guitarist, Robbie McIntosh brought a simpler and more elemental style to the Pretenders than James Honeyman-Scott, but his tough, muscular leads fit these songs well, and bassist Malcolm Foster’s solid punch fits Chambers’ drumming perfectly.