Pretenders, The - Learning to Crawl - Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)

Pretenders, The - Learning to Crawl - Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)This is where Chrissie Hynde matured into a top class songwriter; every track is good and many are brilliant. With Robbie McIntosh having joined the band, this is first and foremost a guitar rock record; his jangly, grungy riffs drive every song. Great songs and great guitar work what more do you need in a rock record? Think of "Middle of the Road" everything thats good about this band on this album is there in that song: its uptempo, with a driving

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each of them clearly laid out across the stage

" another favorite track for testing

One of the best-sounding tracks on the album is the awesome cover of Al Green's "Take Me to the River

(You will hear plenty of sounds that defy description

*NOTE: There is a mark that plays 12 times at a light to moderate level and intermittently at the end of track 1 on side 1

this record scores fairly high

Next:transparency -- the quality that allows you to hear deep into the soundfield

Some made Neil sound like he was singing from the back of the studio

where there's no way to know how a any given side of a record sounds until you play it

This is where the band really hit their stride

so there will likely never be a vintage pressing of the album that will get that opening to play like a CD