Pretenders - Pretenders (35th anniversary)

Today (January 19th) marks the thirty fifth anniversary of the 1980 self-titled debut album from the British new-wave band the Pretenders. The record went to number 24 in Norway, number 14 in the Netherlands, number 9 on the US Billboard Album chart (it has a seventy-eight week total run on the chart), number 2 in New Zealand and Sweden, and number 1 in the UK.

For my full review, click here.

Pretenders - Pretenders

The 1980 debut album by the British new-wave band the Pretenders was a main-staple of the album rock stations growing up and rightly so. Chrissie Hynde and company came out of the gate with guitars a blazing, kick-starting the decade in just the right way. The album appears on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and their 100 Greatest Albums of the Eighties. It also appears on "the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" list.