SONG OF THE DAY
“Mystery Achievement” by The Pretenders (Pretenders, Real (UK)/ Sire (US), 1980). Written by Chrissie Hynde.
INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)
– Pretenders is the debut studio album by the British New Wave band The Pretenders.
– This album, their first, compiles several previously-released tracks from their 1979 singles “Stop Your Sobbing”/”The Wait”, “Kid”/”Tattooed Love Boys”, and “Brass in Pocket”/”Swinging London”/”Nervous but Shy”, as well as seven new tracks (and a re-recorded version of “The Wait”).
– A combination of rock, punk, and pop music, Pretenders made the band famous.
– Nick Lowe produced the Pretenders’ first single, “Stop Your Sobbing”, but decided not to work with them again as he thought the band “wasn’t going anywhere”.
– Pretenders scored the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum during 1982 by the RIAA.
– Pretenders has been named one of the best albums of all time by VH1 (#52).
– In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked the album number 155 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and, in 1989, ranked it the 20th best album of the 1980’s.
– Pretenders was remastered and re-released in 2006 and included a bonus disc of demos, B-sides, and live cuts, many previously unreleased.”