Pretenders - Pretenders II (Expanded & Remastered) (2006)

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Artist: Pretenders
Title: Pretenders II (Expanded & Remastered)
Year Of Release: 1981/2006
Label: Rhino/Warner Records
Genre: Pop Rock, New Wave
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:58:43
Total Size: 273 mb | 823 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Pretenders - The Adultress (2006 Remaster)
02. Pretenders - Bad Boys Get Spanked (2006 Remaster)
03. Pretenders - Message of Love (2006 Remaster)
04. Pretenders - I Go to Sleep (2006 Remaster)
05. Pretenders - Birds of Paradise (2006 Remaster)
06. Pretenders - Talk of the Town (2006 Remaster)
07. Pretenders - Pack It Up (2006 Remaster)
08. Pretenders - Waste Not Want Not (2006 Remaster)
09. Pretenders - Day After Day (2006 Remaster)
10. Pretenders - Jealous Dogs (2006 Remaster)
11. Pretenders - The English Roses (2006 Remaster)
12. Pretenders - Louie Louie (2006 Remaster)
13. Pretenders - The Wait (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
14. Pretenders - The Adultress (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
15. Pretenders - Message of Love (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
16. Pretenders - Louie Louie (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
17. Pretenders - Talk of the Town (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
18. Pretenders - Birds of Paradise (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
19. Pretenders - The English Roses (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
20. Pretenders - Up the Neck (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
21. Pretenders - Bad Boys Get Spanked (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
22. Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
23. Pretenders - Private Life (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
24. Pretenders - Kid (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
25. Pretenders - Day After Day (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
26. Pretenders - Brass in Pocket (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
27. Pretenders - Higher and Higher (Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, CA, 1981)
28. Pretenders - Talk of the Town (Demo)
29. Pretenders - I Go to Sleep (Guitar Version; Outtake)
30. The Pretenders - Pack It Up (Radio Mix; Outtake)

The Pretenders' debut album was such a powerful, monumental record that its sequel was bound to be a bit of a disappointment, and Pretenders II is. Essentially, this album is an unabashed sequel, offering more of the same sound, attitude, and swagger, including titles that seem like rips on their predecessors and another Ray Davies cover. This gives the record a bit too much of a pat feeling, especially since the band seems to have a lost a bit of momentum they don't rock as hard, Chrissie Hynde's songwriting isn't as consistent, James Honeyman-Scott isn't as inventive or clever. These all are disappointments, yet this first incarnation of the Pretenders was a tremendous band, and even if they offer diminished returns, it's still diminished returns on good material, and much of Pretenders II is quite enjoyable. Yes, it's a little slicker and more stylized than its predecessor, and, yes, there's a little bit of filler, yet any album where rockers as tough as "Message of Love" and "The Adultress" are balanced by a pop tune as lovely as "Talk of the Town" is hard to resist. And when you realize that this fantastic band only recorded two albums, you take that second album, warts and all, because the teaming of Hynde and Honeyman-Scott was one of the great pairs, and it's utterly thrilling to hear them together, even when the material isn't quite up to the high standards they set the first time around.

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