The Pretenders - Greatest Hits

Starring:The Pretenders
Studio: Warner Strat. Mkt.
Product Type: DVD

Description

The Pretenders Greatest Hits captures the band from their early days on Sire through their last album on Warner Bros. Records, Viva El Amor. It's the band's only career-spanning video collection, featuring such early nuggets as "Brass in Pocket," "Kid," and Stop Your sobbing," through "Don't Get Me Wrong" to a Tin Tin Out remix of "Human" from Viva El Amor. Also included is an excellent 45-minute documentary called No Turn Left Unstoned, with interviews from Chrissie Hynde, Nick Lowe, U2's Bono, Kate Pierson of the B-52's, Motorhead's Lemmy, and video director Don Letts. Track Listings: Introduction, Brass in Pocket, Message of Love, Don't Get Me Wrong, Kid, Human, I Go To Sleep, I Got You Babe, Night in My Veins, Spiritual High, Talk of the Town, Stop Your Sobbing, Hymn To Her, 2000 Miles, Breakfast in Bed, Popstar, Sense of Purpose, Middle of the Road, Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Back on the Chain Gang, I'll Stand By You, Closing Credits

Customer Reviews:

No Pretenders Here.......2007-05-08

The Pretenders and the Cars were almost the only two new, exciting sounds to Rock in the mediocrity of the late 1970's and 80's. Chrissie Hynde is a tough, yet vulnerable lady, that lets both sides show in her music. This DVD illustrates both points. The DVD is a mix of MTV videos and live cuts. All are excellent. I would pay the full price just for the live version of Middle of the Road. I can't watch it just once, and you want to crank it up all the way. Only bad thing I can say about this DVD is that is that it doesn't include My City Was Gone. If you love Rock with a snarl, and a soft
spot....buy this!

One of the greats.......2006-07-19

I love some of the songs, usually the early ones, though not exclusively. My favorite song on this dvd might be I'll Stand By You. I wouldn't have chosen to make the video about a great looking guy. We're not all great looking guys, and none of us will be that forever, so it's a bit of a shame that she'll just stand by some sexy guy who is better looking than she is. But besides that important point, the sentiment is beautiful, though it makes me wonder what happened to the father of her child, and if it was a question of her losing interest in him. All she says about him is that she managed to lose him. Anyway, this video is enough to bring tears to someone's eyes, because we all want somebody to be as loyal to us as a mom would be, and we wish for that in a spouse, though we don't generally get it.

One of my favorite Pretenders songs, perhaps my very favorite, is Kid. What an astonishingly beautiful song that is. That one goes in my all time Hall of Fame.

Some of the later videos seem confusing. What the hell are you trying to say? The one where Martin Luther King shows up after a while. Huh? It's not really clear to me what the video is doing. It's too scattered.

It's a bit disconcerting seeing her playing with 3 white guys, and then in the next song there's 1 white guy and 3 black guys, and then in the next song the black guys are gone. She deals with that issue in the accompanying 45 minute bio interview, when she explains that one of the original Pretenders was fired for being a junkie and a load, another died, and a new producer decided to try a different direction. Excuse me for not being a Pretenders expert, but I do have a life. Even so, the Pretenders is one of my favorite bands of all time, though I don't make a fetish out of studying bands.

One of her newer songs has a pretty awful video accompanying it. It shows Chrissie looking hostile, then laughing, alternately. It shows a really ugly side of her, when she is looking hostile. I don't know what she's angry about. Later she snaps at someone for asking about Ray Davies, and some people describe her as a loudmouth. So you get the feeling that she can be pretty hard to be around.

I don't mind her passion about animal rights. I'm fine with it, though I don't share it. I like people with a passion that is rooted in their sense of right and wrong. I have my own.

Chrissie Hynde is one of the greatest singers ever. She's up there with Cyndi Lauper, Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, Sade, Joni Mitchell, Elvis. They all have that amazing instrument and unique style. They all have range, power, accuracy, and individuality.

HO-HUM.......2005-08-17

Is Chrissie embarassed of her past? Why was so much early material omitted? The dead guys were GREAT!!! This could have been great too if it were more complete.

The music's good, but Chrissie Hynde is a pompous gasbag!.......2005-07-28

It's too bad "Tatooed Love Boys" didn't make it to this DVD, along with some of the earlier songs on the first two LP's. That stuff was great, but the stuff on this collection you can hear being pumped into grocery stores as MUZAK every day.

Anyway, the cuts on this DVD compilation is okay, especially if you discount the idea that Chrissie Hynde is an intellectual, which she isn't.

Entertaining and informative...but incomplete........2005-06-30

I've been waiting for a DVD of Pretenders videos for a long time and am very happy to see this come available. For the most part, it's great. Picture quality and sound are both remastered beautifully. However, I can't help but be disappointed in the overall track selection. I don't know why the two UB40 collaborations were chosen for inclusion over far more interesting videos like "Tattooed Love Boys" and "Show Me". During the documentary that's on this disc, about a minute of "Tattooed Love Boys" is shown but that just makes me want to see the full video that much more.
I enjoyed the documentary but found the camera angles during some of the interviews annoying. And while I applaud Chrissie Hynde's efforts to bring attention to the plight of defenseless animals and to the work of PETA, again I have to say I would rather see the entire "Tattooed Love Boys" video or even more of the original "2000 Miles" clip than to watch graphic animal abuse footage. It goes without saying that I will never want to view that particular part of the documentary again.

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