There are a couple more songs I want to add to it, but they're very rare and I haven't found them yet. This album is rather short at 35 minutes. But I'll be mixing the two together, because there's so little difference between the Pretenders and Hynde solo. But on all future Pretenders stray tracks albums, there will be plenty of those, sometimes more than actual Pretenders songs. I think it's also the first commercially significant Hynde solo song. It's a duet between Chrissie Hynde and UB40, and it's a cover of a 1960s hit by Sonny and Cher. The last song, "I Got You Babe," deserves a special mention because it was a hit in 1985. Note that a version of the Jimi Hendrix song "Room Full of Mirrors" would appear on the next Pretenders album "Get Close." But that album has some typical 1980s production issues, so I prefer the live version here. Two of the songs are still officially unreleased, a medley of "Wild Thing" and "Whatcha Gonna Do about it," and "Room Full of Mirrors." The sound of these two live songs are pretty good, though I don't think they come from soundboard bootlegs. Four of the songs are bonus tracks from that album. This album basically covers the "Learning to Crawl" era, so it's pretty good too. However, despite these losses, the band's 1984 album "Learning to Crawl" was a huge hit and is arguably the band's best album ever (or maybe tied with the debut album). The first four songs on this album come from before the two deaths. The Pretenders were never really a real band after that. But in mid-1982, bassist Pete Farndon was kicked out of the band and died of a drug overdose a short time thereafter, then lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott also died of a drug overdose. In 1981, the Pretenders were a "real" band, meaning it wasn't just Chrissie Hynde and a bunch of people backing her up. I've already posted one album of stray tracks from the Pretenders.
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