Extended Play | ||||
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Released | 30 March 1981 | |||
Recorded | 1980–81 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 17:45 | |||
Label | Sire | |||
Producer | Chris Thomas | |||
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1981 PRETENDERS 'EXTENDED PLAY' VINYL RECORD ALBUM. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Shipping and handling. This item will ship to United States, but the seller has not specified shipping options.
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AllMusic | [1] |
Robert Christgau | B+[2] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
Extended Play is a 1981 EP released by new wave band Pretenders. 'Message of Love' and 'Talk of the Town' featured on this EP were also included on their second album Pretenders II released later the same year. 'Porcelain' and 'Cuban Slide', outtakes from their Pretenders debut album, were included on Disc Two of the 2006 remastered edition of their debut album and on the Pirate Radio box set. The live version of 'Precious' on this EP, recorded at their New York Central Park performance on 30 August 1980, has not yet been released on CD. The booklet for Disc One of the Pretenders debut album from the 2015 UK Edsel / Rhino Records box set 1979–1999 incorrectly states 'Precious' (track 17) is from that Central Park performance. Instead, the box set version is from their Boston performance of 23 March 1980; it also features on Disc Two of the 2006 remastered edition of Pretenders.
This EP was released in the US but not in the UK. In the UK, the tracks were released as the singles 'Message of Love' b/w 'Porcelain' and 'Talk of the Town' b/w 'Cuban Slide'. 'Precious' is unique to this release.
'Message of Love' contains the line: 'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars' from the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere's Fan.[4]
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Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Chrissie Hynde except where noted.
Side one[edit]
- 'Message of Love' – 3:24
- 'Talk of the Town' – 3:13
- 'Porcelain' 3:53
Side two[edit]
- 'Cuban Slide' (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott) – 4:29
- 'Precious' – 3:17 (Live in Central Park, 30 August 1980)
Personnel[edit]
- The Pretenders
- Chrissie Hynde – rhythm guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals
- Pete Farndon – bass guitar, backing vocals
- Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals
- James Honeyman-Scott – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Charts[edit]
Chart (1981) | Peak position |
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US Billboard Top LPs[citation needed] | 27 |
References[edit]
- ^AllMusic review
- ^Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
- ^Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 653. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
- ^'The Quotations Page: Quote from Oscar Wilde'. The Quotations Page. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Extended_Play_(Pretenders_EP)&oldid=921604950'
The five-track EP approriately named Extended Play was a marketing tool released because of the differences between the U.S. and British approaches to record-making. The Pretenders scored on both sides of the Atlantic with their debut album in January 1980, then released two successful singles in Britain, 'Talk of the Town' (March 1980), which made the U.K. Top Ten, and 'Message of Love' (January 1981), which also was a substantial hit. But one-off singles are a rarity in the U.S., and since the band did not have a full-length album ready yet, Sire Record put the singles on this EP to forestall imports. They then appeared again on Pretenders II five months later. But the other three tracks, 'Porcelain,' 'Cuban Slide,' and a live version of 'Precious' from the first album, did not, making this a necessary purchase for completists. (And they're not bad songs, either.)
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1 | Amazon | ||
2 | Amazon | ||
3 | Amazon | ||
4 | James Honeyman-Scott / Chrissie Hynde | Amazon | |
5 | Amazon |