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}} ''Pretenders'' is the debut studio album by the British-American band the Pretenders, released on 19 January 1980 under Real Records (Sire Records in the United States). A combination of rock, punk and pop music, this album made the band famous. The album features the singles "Stop Your Sobbing", "Kid" and "Brass in Pocket". Nick Lowe produced the Pretenders' first single, "Stop Your Sobbing", but decided not to work with them again as he thought the band was "not going anywhere". Chris Thomas took over on the subsequent recording sessions. ''Pretenders'' debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart in the week of its release and stayed there for four consecutive weeks. It also made the top 10 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and was certified Platinum during 1982 by the RIAA. ''Pretenders'' has been named one of the best albums of all time by VH1 (#52). In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked the album number 155 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and, in 1989, ranked it the 20th best album of the 1980s. In 2012, Slant Magazine listed the album at #64 on its list, "Best Albums of the 1980s".〔http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/feature/best-albums-of-the-1980s/308/page_4〕 ''Pretenders'' was remastered and re-released in 2006 and included a bonus disc of demos, B-sides and live cuts, many previously unreleased. "Cuban Slide" and "Porcelain" originally appeared as B-sides to "Talk of the Town" and "Message of Love", while "Swinging London" and "Nervous But Shy" both appeared on the flip side of "Brass in Pocket". The Regents Park Demo of "Stop Your Sobbing" was included initially as a flexi-single in the May 1981 edition of ''Flexipop'' magazine. The tracks "Message of Love", "Talk of the Town", "Porcelain" and "Cuban Slide" alongside a live version of the album's opening track, "Precious", were released on a follow-up EP entitled ''Extended Play'' soon after. ''Pretenders'' was also reissued in 2009 by Audio Fidelity as a limited edition, audiophile gold CD using the original master tapes. However, this remaster suffered from limiting supposedly applied ''after'' engineer Steve Hoffman's digital master was created and approved. The song "The Phone Call" is missing some of the sound effects on this release because they were flown in after the master was completed for the song and, as a result, weren't on the original master tape. There were no bonus tracks included. A shortened version of "Tequila" would be performed nearly fifteen years later on the ''Last of the Independents''. "Sabre Dance" features Chrissie Hynde singing portions of "Stop Your Sobbing" over lengthy solos by James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers' insistent drumming, making it a truly unique version. A cover version of "Brass in Pocket" and the master version of "Precious" are available as downloadable content for ''Rock Band''. ==Track listing== All songs written by Chrissie Hynde unless otherwise indicated. ;Side one # "Precious" – 3:36 # "The Phone Call" – 2:29 # "Up the Neck" – 4:27 # "Tattooed Love Boys" – 2:59 # "Space Invader" (Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott) – 3:26 # "The Wait" (Hynde, Farndon) – 3:35 # "Stop Your Sobbing" (Ray Davies) – 2:38 ;Side two # # "Private Life" – 6:25 # "Brass in Pocket" (Honeyman-Scott, Hynde) – 3:04 # "Lovers of Today" – 5:51 # "Mystery Achievement" – 5:23 ;Bonus disc, 2006 remastered CD edition #"Cuban Slide" (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott) – 4:33 # "Porcelain" – 3:54 # "The Phone Call" – 2:22 # * Demo, late 1977 # "The Wait" (Hynde, Farndon) – 3:08 # * Regents Park demo, 12 April 1978 # "I Can't Control Myself" (Reg Presley) – 4:24 # * Regents Park demo, 12 April 1978 # "Swinging London" (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott, Farndon, Martin Chambers) – 1:55 # "Brass in Pocket" (Honeyman-Scott, Hynde) – 3:48 # * AIR Studios demo, 6 February 1978 # "Kid" – 4:04 # * Olympic Studios demo, 7 December 1978 # "Stop Your Sobbing" (Ray Davies) – 2:22 # * Regents Park demo, 12 April 1978 # "Tequila" – 5:22 # * Regents Park demo, 12 April 1978 # "Nervous but Shy" (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott, Farndon, Chambers) – 1:45 # "I Need Somebody" (Rudy Martinez) – 4:04 # * Live on ''The Kid Jensen Show'', BBC Radio 1, first transmission 17 July 1979 # "Mystery Achievement" – 4:54 # * Live on ''The Kid Jensen Show'', BBC Radio 1, first transmission 17 July 1979 # "Precious" – 3:26 # * Live at the Paradise Theatre, Boston, 23 March 1980 # "Tattooed Love Boys" – 3:06 # * Live at the Paradise Theatre, Boston, 23 March 1980 # "Sabre Dance" (Aram Khachaturian) – 3:50 # * Live at the Marquee Club, London, 2 April 1979 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pretenders (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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