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The Pretenders — Stop Your Sobbing
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alanthecowboy
(Lakefield)
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 15:40
 
 richlister wrote:
OK Patti, I'll stop sobbing, if you stop singing gotta stop sobbing, OK? Good.
 
Patti?  Who's Patti?  Anyway, she's not singing, so stop sobbing...

richlister
Posted: Oct 30, 2012 - 07:29
 
OK Patti, I'll stop sobbing, if you stop singing gotta stop sobbing, OK? Good.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 07:14
 
 ecyfoto wrote:
Sounds like Ray and Phil had a baby.
 
No, but Ray and Chrissie had a baby.

WayUpNorth
Posted: Aug 28, 2012 - 07:11
 
Wow, just gotta say that after Shawn Colvin this is sooooooo refreshing ...

GawgaBoy
(State of Confusion)
Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:23
 
 treatment_bound wrote:
 
yep... Bill's playing them next.  Love this place !

 nigelr wrote:

And a little Dusty Springfield..........

 is it Dusty?  I'm old, but just barely not old enuf to know... but there is a riff that is definitely a 60's girls group.  I remeber hearing it on the radio as a kid.
 

BKardon
(Louisville, CO)
Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 21:21
 
 mbelge wrote:
Exellent song! I believe it was penned by Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Really nice seque to this song from Smithereens Wall of Sleep.
Bill, you are too good! 
 
I'm just perusing the board after seeing The Smithereens earlier tonight.  They played Wall of Sleep and totally rocked!

hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 10:58
 
Chrissie's sound is sublime...

went to wikipedia for some background:

Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, attended Kent State University at the time of the Kent State shootings in 1970. She moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper NME<1> and at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothes store. She was involved with early versions of The Clash and The Damned and played in short-lived bands such as Masters of the Backside and The Moors Murderers.<2> The Pretenders formed in 1978 after Dave Hill at Anchor Records heard some demos of Hynde's music.

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 10:57
 
 tom-kenna wrote:
Splendid production. I hear Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and George Martin.
 
This particular track was produced by Nick Lowe in some demo sessions. The rest of the album was produced by Chris Thomas. FWIW.

BikeCoachDave
(Columbia, Ky.)
Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 10:53
 
Love the Pretenders, but this chorus has never worked for me. Its just crammed into the space the song gives it, though it clearly doesnt fit. Every time Ive heard it over the years it just stopped the song dead in its tracks for me.

iTuner
Posted: Dec 18, 2011 - 22:55
 
Suddenly I'm back in Harvard Square in the early 80s listening to WFNX

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Nov 17, 2011 - 05:26
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Me, too... Their early work is so amazing.  Dammit, why do the good ones have to self-destruct?! Maybe Ol' Neil was right - it's better to burn out than to fade away...

 

No.  It is much better to fade away.  Dying young is a tragedy.

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 14, 2011 - 17:44
 
 vandal wrote:

Man, I miss James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. . .

 
Me, too... Their early work is so amazing.  Dammit, why do the good ones have to self-destruct?! Maybe Ol' Neil was right - it's better to burn out than to fade away...


fran_tarkenton
(Kamloops, British Columbia)
Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 08:53
 
Stop this horrible song!

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 08:52
 
okay, so the last two sounded like my playlist circa '87 (pre-playlists)... {#Lol}

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Jun 22, 2011 - 04:31
 
Nice!

bachbeet
Posted: Apr 19, 2011 - 22:48
 
This may not be their best but it still beats so much of the current pop fluff.

mbelge
(Lincoln, MA USA)
Posted: Apr 10, 2011 - 11:52
 
Exellent song! I believe it was penned by Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Really nice seque to this song from Smithereens Wall of Sleep.
Bill, you are too good! 

maxgruv
(Vancouver, Canada)
Posted: Mar 19, 2011 - 10:30
 
Not a bad song, but probably better listened to *without* headphones on. I'm finding the panning echo effect on the drums to be utterly distracting.

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Jan 06, 2011 - 08:27
 


EssexTex
(Above and Beyond)
Posted: Dec 15, 2010 - 09:37
 
Love her voice and the fact she never sold out...

ecyfoto
(Tampa)
Posted: Oct 03, 2010 - 09:59
 
Sounds like Ray and Phil had a baby.

cousinkill
(Kokomo, IN)
Posted: Sep 11, 2010 - 04:13
 
Love the Pretenders, but gotta give the Kinks the edge on this one. Still nice to hear.

tulfan
(One of the last ones in SE MI)
Posted: Jul 09, 2010 - 06:52
 
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
It's songs like this that make my overall RP song ratings worthless. For this album, the scale is different. Compared with most stuff on RP, this is a 10. I don't give out a lot of 10s in general, so I might leave it at a 9. But great as it is it's nothing compared to the rest of the record, so I can't give it more than an 8, and I should probably go with a  6 or 7 to get a truer separation from Space Invaders/The Wait. So you might look at my other 8s and think I like this song about the same as those songs and that's not close to true. Looking at it myself, I think I should go in and downgrade my ratings on most of those to more accurately reflect where they fall on my suddenly-capricious scale. But then people would look at my ratings and say "if you don't like the music any more than that, why listen?" and so you see this song just confounds the whole system. I guess that's why I haven't rated it before now. Hmm.
 
8.
 


I can commiserate completely. This is one of my favorite debut efforts of all time but within that context this is not one of the strongest cuts. Within almost any RP playlist, it is nonetheless, outstanding.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Jun 29, 2010 - 12:46
 

Man, I miss James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. . .


More_Cowbell
(Northern IL)
Posted: Jun 07, 2010 - 10:15
 
stop stop stop snobbing

Nuque
(North of Paradise, across the border, then north some more)
Posted: Dec 21, 2009 - 23:30
 
Nice multi-level segue, following the Smithereens... "Now I lie in bed and think of her, sometimes I even weep".


ArchwayMelissa
Posted: Oct 12, 2009 - 06:30
 
kinks version is a better one as this is more like pop. the original was more rock and roll. Like pretenders though they are quite underrated really.

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 03:03
 
It's songs like this that make my overall RP song ratings worthless. For this album, the scale is different. Compared with most stuff on RP, this is a 10. I don't give out a lot of 10s in general, so I might leave it at a 9. But great as it is it's nothing compared to the rest of the record, so I can't give it more than an 8, and I should probably go with a  6 or 7 to get a truer separation from Space Invaders/The Wait. So you might look at my other 8s and think I like this song about the same as those songs and that's not close to true. Looking at it myself, I think I should go in and downgrade my ratings on most of those to more accurately reflect where they fall on my suddenly-capricious scale. But then people would look at my ratings and say "if you don't like the music any more than that, why listen?" and so you see this song just confounds the whole system. I guess that's why I haven't rated it before now. Hmm.
 
8.

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 02:45
 
Nice!

nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Sep 28, 2009 - 02:44
 
 tom-kenna wrote:
Splendid production. I hear Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and George Martin.
 
And a little Dusty Springfield..........



tom-kenna
(pompano beach)
Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 13:12
 
Splendid production. I hear Phil Spector, Brian Wilson and George Martin.

rkread
Posted: Aug 27, 2009 - 14:38
 
{#Cheers}

more please!

Shuji
(KYOTO,JAPAN)
Posted: Aug 18, 2009 - 01:26
 
japanese rock band has stolen this melody

orpheus
(pacific northwest, finally!!!)
Posted: Jul 27, 2009 - 01:01
 
 tclodes wrote:
Gotta stop your sobbing.

Stop.

Dumbass.
 

well aren't you mr. funnyman?{#Lol}

Tim_in_N_FL
(Florida)
Posted: Jul 17, 2009 - 10:32
 
 kazuma wrote:
RP could play every track from this LP and I wouldn't mind a bit.
 
Bill,
Like others here, I too would enjoy hearing an "album hour" format added to RP even if it is late in the evening or early in the a.m.  I'd tune in because you've introduced me to such much GOOD music in the past 9 months.  Keep up the good work!
Cheers {#Good-vibes}



andrewimft
(North Californie)
Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 05:31
 
 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
I spent 25 years of life convinced CH was English... .. the things you learn at RP.
 
Well, she started the band in England with mostly Brits, so that might have thrown you. She hung out with all the new wave and punk bands of the time, the Pistols, the Jam, etc. Then she and the band came back to the US and conquered it.


cathenley
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 22:16
 
Do you remember where you were when this song came out?

It was such a throw back into the past, and yet was so ahead of it's time.

I remember...
tclodes
(Oklahoma City)
Posted: Jul 02, 2008 - 22:16
 
Gotta stop your sobbing.

Stop.

Dumbass.


nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Jan 27, 2008 - 13:11
 
NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:
I spent 25 years of life convinced CH was English...

.. the things you learn at RP.

Her "My City Was Gone" should have clued you in, with its reference to Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (a suburb of Akron).
Jazz1
(Des Moines, IA)
Posted: Jan 27, 2008 - 13:06
 
Love that Chrissie!
rbigelo
(Spanish Town)
Posted: Nov 25, 2007 - 17:10
 
Chrissie Hynde and the band did one of the best Kink's covers, ever.
jenakle
(Tallahassee, FL)
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 - 07:07
 
...Leader of the Pack...
NoEnzLefttoSplit
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 - 07:06
 
I spent 25 years of life convinced CH was English...

.. the things you learn at RP.
prickelpit96
(Hannover, Germany)
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 - 07:05
 
Wimpy wrote:
I won't stop sobbing until you marry me Chrisse..


Ok for me if she keeps loving me.
crinky
(New England)
Posted: Aug 23, 2007 - 11:47
 
treatment_bound wrote:
probably the best Kinks cover out there (if not the most played---sorry Eddie V.H.!)


siandbeth
(Santa Cruz California)
Posted: Aug 23, 2007 - 11:46
 
kazuma wrote:
RP could play every track from this LP and I wouldn't mind a bit.

I agree. Do it, Bill! Freak us out!
treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Jun 21, 2007 - 14:11
 
probably the best Kinks cover out there (if not the most played---sorry Eddie V.H.!)


Wimpy
(Ohio USA)
Posted: Jun 21, 2007 - 14:09
 
I won't stop sobbing until you marry me Chrisse..
luminousjune
(a windy location)
Posted: Jun 21, 2007 - 14:09
 
they are so great.
Drunkenlilacwine
(between darkness and light)
Posted: May 21, 2007 - 05:27
 
BigPete wrote:
Perfect pop.


Good description. Exact.