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| Peace_tode (Atlanta) | Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 07:52 ruthless wrote: Be on the lookout for new Cyndi Lauper release, "Memphis Blues". Raw & gritty, I am told. REAL. Many nice guests, Musselwhite, BB King, etc. Supposed to come out this month, I believe. I have heard her really sing without the little girl schtick and I am here to tell you, she really does have some strong pipes. I was very pleasantly surprised. Looking forward to hearing what she puts out. | ||||||
| richrosen | Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 07:48 Love the grit. | ||||||
| k_trout (Dream State) | Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 14:42 RadioDoc wrote: Janis Joplin without the smell... WonderLizard wrote: I met Janis Joplin. Never noticed anything peculiar about her odor. Drank a lot. Otherwise nice. Either you met a different Janis, or you're just being nasty. My money's on the latter. Well said Lizard! | ||||||
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Jul 28, 2010 - 07:11 RadioDoc wrote: Janis Joplin without the smell... I met Janis Joplin. Never noticed anything peculiar about her odor. Drank a lot. Otherwise nice. Either you met a different Janis, or you're just being nasty. My money's on the latter. | ||||||
| ruthless (Midtown Memphis) | Posted: Jun 26, 2010 - 10:16 Be on the lookout for new Cyndi Lauper release, "Memphis Blues". Raw & gritty, I am told. REAL. Many nice guests, Musselwhite, BB King, etc. Supposed to come out this month, I believe. | ||||||
| nerakdon (Colorado) | Posted: Jun 26, 2010 - 10:14 Giselle62 wrote: okay, we're going in a different direction now—-segueing from the blues maybe? Is still blues, don't care who's singing it. | ||||||
| Barman (Milan, Italy) | Posted: May 25, 2010 - 14:24 phlattop wrote: I mute it too. Seems like this one, Message of Love, and Middle of the Road are played A LOT on RP. How about Mystery Achievement or Back on the Chain Gang? And how about Birds of Paradise or Lovers of Today? Too slow? Then what the hell, let's hear Clothes. | ||||||
| Giselle62 (California's Cental Coast) | Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 21:15 RadioDoc wrote: Janis Joplin without the smell... Hahaha...jerk. | ||||||
| Giselle62 (California's Cental Coast) | Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 21:13 okay, we're going in a different direction now—-segueing from the blues maybe? | ||||||
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Mar 23, 2010 - 06:22 1wolfy wrote: sounds too unfinished Wasn't that the charm of the blues? | ||||||
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 16:12 sounds too unfinished | ||||||
| LastChance | Posted: Feb 19, 2010 - 16:10 I kinda like this song. | ||||||
| michaelgmitchell (near Earth) | Posted: Dec 18, 2009 - 20:34 No, not "again". | ||||||
| Otomi (La orilla de la civilización) | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:55 dedawson wrote: Is the only cut on the album? Its not bad, but surely there's more. I bought the album on the strength of this song. I didn't care much for the rest of it. At any rate this song is in a different style than the rest. | ||||||
| h8rhater | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:40 floydoftherocks wrote: concrete proof that even elite musical outlets such as RP can overplay a song.. regardless, the song itself sounds like like typical corporate-engineered rock. what's really sad is that the song sounds like the pretenders trying to imitate the white stripes' coarse style by artificially "roughing up" the song.. the result seems contrived at best, particularly with the overdubbed-in "stop" and "again" which just sounds DUMB DUMB DUMB.. "again" i say DUMB DUMB DUMB... a solid "5" Yes you are. | ||||||
| buzmaggie (AZ, US) | Posted: Nov 17, 2009 - 10:39 chrissy was cool when women werent hangin as cool as she is. this woman will never lose it. | ||||||
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: May 11, 2009 - 17:31 Mandible wrote: Chrissie Hynde reminds me of my chain smoking, overweight aunts from back east. Except chrissie is not fat. And she can sing. Janis Joplin without the smell... | ||||||
| phlattop | Posted: Apr 03, 2009 - 21:34 TeleFrank wrote: Had to move from 5 to 3, sorry for that  Everytime she starts with Rrrrrooosaleee I turn down the volume... I mute it too. Seems like this one, Message of Love, and Middle of the Road are played A LOT on RP. How about Mystery Achievement or Back on the Chain Gang? | ||||||
| floydoftherocks (Frisco) | Posted: Mar 09, 2009 - 15:32 concrete proof that even elite musical outlets such as RP can overplay a song.. regardless, the song itself sounds like like typical corporate-engineered rock. what's really sad is that the song sounds like the pretenders trying to imitate the white stripes' coarse style by artificially "roughing up" the song.. the result seems contrived at best, particularly with the overdubbed-in "stop" and "again" which just sounds DUMB DUMB DUMB.. "again" i say DUMB DUMB DUMB... a solid "5" | ||||||
| Mandible | Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 09:00 Chrissie Hynde reminds me of my chain smoking, overweight aunts from back east. Except chrissie is not fat. And she can sing. | ||||||
| ThePoose | Posted: Mar 03, 2009 - 08:59 I keep hearing Sonny Landreth on slide | ||||||
| TeleFrank (Allgäu, Germany) | Posted: Feb 28, 2009 - 06:06 frednic wrote: Had to move 8 to 9. Had to move from 5 to 3, sorry for that Everytime she starts with Rrrrrooosaleee I turn down the volume... | ||||||
| frednic (Santee, CA) | Posted: Feb 25, 2009 - 18:07 Had to move 8 to 9. | ||||||
| radiojunkie (Don't get out much) | Posted: Feb 14, 2009 - 19:25 Wo! When Chrissie commands "AGAIN!" I sit up and take notice. | ||||||
| dedawson (You never know where you're going til you get there (TOaks, CA)) | Posted: Feb 14, 2009 - 19:19 Is the only cut on the album? Its not bad, but surely there's more. | ||||||
| Marley (Portland, Or) | Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 16:15 bluemoon88 wrote: Thank you, thank you, thank you! The Pretenders, and this song in particular, are why we need something lower than a 1 - Sucko-Barfo rating!!! Whoo hoo! For once someone agrees with me. :-) Usually I just get slammed for having an opinion. And yes, I have heard their albums, not just the radio hits. My ex loved the Pretenders and would play them quite often. I never cared for any of it, and the few songs that got overplayed on the radio didn't help. Sorry anyone who's a fan...just my two cents. | ||||||
| whtahtefcuk (Flagstaff, AZ, USA) | Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 16:12 Sounds like... Lucinda Williams. Not bad... This is the best pretenders I have heard. | ||||||
| raewah (Somewhere where the mountains meet the plains) | Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 16:09 ENOUGH, ENOUGH, ENOUGH ALREADY!!! | ||||||
| HarrO (Just Down the Hill from Paradise) | Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 16:09 Good effort, so-so production. 7 | ||||||
| Quixmundi (on the banks of Eagle Creek, Indiana) | Posted: Feb 04, 2009 - 19:58 Chrissie, chicky baby, where's that swagger, where's your cruel vocal edge? This feels more like a sound check than anything else. Way weak effort from Ms. Hynde. Stumbles and never gets up. | ||||||
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Feb 02, 2009 - 16:10
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| lixy (Sverige) | Posted: Feb 02, 2009 - 16:10 I can't remember the last time I cringed listening to RP. But this is just horrible. 2/10. | ||||||
| fatcatjb (Sunny Sacramento) | Posted: Jan 30, 2009 - 19:24 Jeepers! I thought this was purty good.. guess I was wrong, according to my RP collegues Tired, battered-down intoxicated Lucinda Williamslike vocals, tattered slide guitar...still think it was purty good I hate being wrong | ||||||
| mikexican | Posted: Jan 27, 2009 - 16:12 There are some really good songs on this new Pretenders album. This is NOT one of them. This one is just... wrong. And overplayed already. | ||||||
| etwilson (Pittsburgh, PA) | Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 10:41 Jungle_Jim wrote: I don't know, but there's something a little false about sounding like good-ol' farting-amps rock'n'roll when you're at Chrissie Hynde's stage of her career. Feh! You're never too old to rock'n'roll! Chrissie will give up her amps right after Neil Young does, which is to say, never. | ||||||
| bluemoon88 (deep in the coastal redwood forest of california) | Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 10:39 Marley wrote: I hate the Pretenders too.Never liked 'em. Always thought their crappy songs got too much radio airplay, especially Middle of the Road, Back on the Chain Gange and Brass in Pocket. Another band that I just don't see the appeal in and another reason to go running for mute button. Thank you, thank you, thank you! The Pretenders, and this song in particular, are why we need something lower than a 1 - Sucko-Barfo rating!!! | ||||||
| holborne (New York) | Posted: Jan 26, 2009 - 10:36 Ok, officially sick of this song now. | ||||||
| STEVIE1 (United Kingdom) | Posted: Jan 25, 2009 - 07:54 Not bad, almost back to their old form. | ||||||
| Jungle_Jim | Posted: Jan 22, 2009 - 20:19 I don't know, but there's something a little false about sounding like good-ol' farting-amps rock'n'roll when you're at Chrissie Hynde's stage of her career. | ||||||
| Jazz1 (Des Moines, IA) | Posted: Jan 18, 2009 - 20:02 Man, this sounded great on my headphones. | ||||||
| arsenault (long beach cali US and A) | Posted: Jan 15, 2009 - 21:10 much respect for chrissie. on first hearing...a little boring. still it may grow... will wait to rate. | ||||||
| bronorb (Wisconsin) | Posted: Jan 12, 2009 - 10:07 orpheus wrote: Ever heard any of their non-radio stuff, perchance? It's awesome, which is why they have so many thousands of fans worldwide. And even Chrissie hates "Brass in Pocket," her record label made her put that out as their "single."     Agreed. The best songs on the Pretenders albums (and most other artists, I believe) were the songs they did NOT play on the radio. In the days of itunes, however, people just buy songs, not albums. Sad. | ||||||
| SuzenJueL (Minneapolis) | Posted: Jan 07, 2009 - 15:40 Thought it was Lucinda Williams first time I heard it. I don't like the Pretenders But this.....I like! | ||||||
| stkman (Texas) | Posted: Dec 27, 2008 - 01:45 not sure why this song gets such a low rating would love to see it done live, that ia a nasty guitar lol | ||||||
| orpheus (pacific northwest, finally!!!) | Posted: Dec 25, 2008 - 20:18 Marley wrote: I hate the Pretenders too.Never liked 'em. Always thought their crappy songs got too much radio airplay, especially Middle of the Road, Back on the Chain Gange and Brass in Pocket. Another band that I just don't see the appeal in and another reason to go running for mute button. Ever heard any of their non-radio stuff, perchance? It's awesome, which is why they have so many thousands of fans worldwide. And even Chrissie hates "Brass in Pocket," her record label made her put that out as their "single." | ||||||
| Marley (Portland, Or) | Posted: Dec 25, 2008 - 20:03 I hate the Pretenders too.Never liked 'em. Always thought their crappy songs got too much radio airplay, especially Middle of the Road, Back on the Chain Gange and Brass in Pocket. Another band that I just don't see the appeal in and another reason to go running for mute button. | ||||||
| kingfish2004 (That GREAT country of Texas!) | Posted: Dec 24, 2008 - 13:35 HATE??? No hate here baby!!!!  | ||||||
| inindian (Sea of joy) | Posted: Dec 22, 2008 - 05:52 OmegaConcern wrote: Can someone please help me understand why I hate the Pretenders? I sincerely do, but can't put my finger on why. Sorry Ms. Hynde - nothing personal. Although that "Middle of the Road" tune is pretty cool. It was one of the few songs I actually liked playing w/my old band... Anyway (and seriously), any help would be appreciated. If it helps, I hate Stevie Nicks too (because she sounds like 2 cats being stapled together). No takers, eh?! Guess you're on your own! | ||||||
| OmegaConcern (Sunrise, FL) | Posted: Dec 17, 2008 - 13:48 Can someone please help me understand why I hate the Pretenders? I sincerely do, but can't put my finger on why. Sorry Ms. Hynde - nothing personal. Although that "Middle of the Road" tune is pretty cool. It was one of the few songs I actually liked playing w/my old band... Anyway (and seriously), any help would be appreciated. If it helps, I hate Stevie Nicks too (because she sounds like 2 cats being stapled together). | ||||||
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Dec 13, 2008 - 11:34 owwwww! back - and sounding pretty darn good! whoda thunk it? |