Get Close Expanded & Remastered

The - product - rocks da' haus!"Room Full of Mirrors is a mediocre Hendrix cover," says one of the reviewers. Uh, really...?!Maybe the dude doesn't like rock & roll, doesn't play guitars, didn't have it turned-up loud enough; or is just kind of wuss'd out.I'm saying, purchase this product; if just for that cut alone.I mean, what do you want to do, listen to Hannah Montana...Carrie Clarkson...Kelly Underwood?No, you won't find this stuff on American Idol; it would scare the 12-year-olds away.Remember, you must turn-it-up; then, rock out!

Its the eighties. The White House goes Hollywood. Reagan , Iran -Contra, Olie North and good lord even Dylan is getting all Jesused up and Punk has gone god awful Madonna. All in all as good a decade as any to spend in a blackout. Yet shining through the coma is this glorious shimmering,pulsating tasty bit of aural reprieve. Miss Christie is here to save the day! Give it a close listen and maybe you'll even remember where you left the car.

Dealing with the disolving of a band can be a hard thing for anyone to deal with. Chrissie Hynde proved she was able to easily make some musical lemons and make some NICE tasty lemonade with the previous album  Learning to Crawl . Interesting part of this is that only guitar player Robbie McIntosh is present from that album and all the remaining members of the original band are gone. As if the previous album hadn't said as much this album is definately Chrissie Hynde as a solo artist. The songs are mostly written by her pen alone and the musical ideas are clearly hers. For the most part this album is only a mildly more glossy retread of what was done on the previous album."My Baby","When I Change My Life","Tradition Of Love","I Remember You" and "Chill Factor" basically all showcase the same jangly rhythm guitar driven pop/rock (very heavy on the pop side,by the way) that made up the bulk of the previous albums. These are songs that are well produced,possess great poetic lyrics and have pretty strong hooks but all are pretty laid back and don't possess much edgy rock power. I would'nt call it soft rock but basically run-of-the-mill 80's pop/rock in terms of sound. Because Hynde possess a deep,soulful voice different yet in the same vein as Debbie Harry she felt that perhaps she sound try out a new direction for a sound and in this case it turned out to be funk. It the funk that this albums finds it's energy,not in rock and there are many die hard rock n roll fans that will likely diss this album from that very reason. "Light Of The Moon" actually does a really great job of fusing funk and rock together with a bluesy twist,a quality the two genres have in common and the underrated "Dance!" is a great,afro-beat style jam that is a total departure for The Pretenders and would not have been a bad direction for a whole album. Carlos Alomar and Bernie Worrell are guests on these songs and bring a great deal of their personalities to these songs. That personality is even more evident on "How Much Did You Get For Your Soul",an out and out call-and-response JB styled funk jam that carries an important message to the record industry of the time forcing black artists to "sell their souls" for big profit. As strange as this may seem this was actually THE funk message song period piece of the era and,probably because it was Chrissie Hynde doing it the message was likely seen as either exploitive and/or cretan.It wasn't. "Hymn To Her" is a beautifully poetic gospel/soul piece dedicated to all mother and mother type figures. A lot of people don't seem to care for the dancable techno-funk styled cover of Hendrix's "Room Full Of Mirrors". I was myself a little surprised at the direction taken with it but it really honors Hendrix that Hynde didn't xerox the original arrangement when she remade it as a lot of people would tend to do. A lot of people put down this album because of what it isn't. But there's a lot to like about it for what it is.

Been missing my girl Chrissie, can't motivate myself to dig out my turntable and vinyl copy. Good but not great sound on some cuts, notably "My Baby".

Please read my review on "Loose Screw". The same applies to this album. The stand out songs on this album for me are "Tradition Of Love" and "Hold A Candle To This". It also contains the two hits, "My Baby" and "Don't Get Me Wrong".

Delivered before the estimated time. Very happy with this purchase.

I get the distinct impression that 'Get Close' tries to be two albums at once. On one hand are the wistful love songs stamped all over with that distinctive Pretenders sound. On the other hand the album tries to explore funk territory, which leads one to believe that Chrissie should stick to what she knows best.HYMN TO HER is a classic, pure and simple, in my opinion the best track thatChrissie has ever written. Lyrically and musically beautiful. TRADITION OF LOVE is a rousing euphoric rocker, and amazes me why this was never a single. MY BABY, WHEN I CHANGE MY LIFE and DONT GET ME WRONG all gorgeous Pretenders by numbers, altho the latter gets a little too close to being bubblegum, incredibly infectious though. I REMEMBER YOU flirts with reggae and is pleasant enough, altho the three 'funk' tracks, LIGHT OF THE MOON, DANCE and HOW MUCH DID YOU GET FOR YOUR SOUL leave much to be desired. 'How Much' is redeemed by witty bitchy lyrics, but 'Dance' is just plain awful. And altho ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS is okay, I get very uneasy when Jimmi Hendrex is covered. He puts magic into his songs no-one else can so covers will also sound, well inferior.Be prepared to do alot of skipping on this album, there will be something you hate. Patchy musically and probably the weakest Pretenders albumlyrically (most of the tracks are basically glorified love songs)the good tracks more than redeem the situation.

Love the Pretenders , the remastered ecpanded edition is most excellent !

当時学生で”音楽を聞くか食べ物を買うか？”だった時代。このCD.(当時はレンタルレコード屋と言うのが支流だった）で借りるか友達からやはりレコードで借りるしかなかった。特に個人的にDon't Get Me Wrongが好きで、後に”ファレッジセール”の「ゴリさん」がコントで『ゴリエで自転車を漕ぐ』シーンでも使われていた懐かしい曲が入ってる素晴らしいCD。割とジャケットは見た目シンプルだけどalbumの中身はとても濃い。最近では女子ギタリストが沢山いるがその殆どはヘヴィメタ系・ヴィジュアル系。それらとは音楽は違うが当時女子ギタリストといえばクリッシーかジョーンジェットだった。　このalbumは今のレディースバンドの先駆者だと思う。是非聞いて欲しい。

Love Chrissie and Pretenders since ever. First time have this album on vinyl and just love it, even more now! The only negative points go to the pressing plant for putting precious vinyl LP into just hard paper instead to use fine protective polyvinyl anti-static sleeve! Such indolence cause paper particles and dust to stick firmly onto warm vinyl during the packaging process. Record companies and pressing plants - come to your senses, before it's too late and your careless business ruins this vinyl revival!!!

buen precio para este disco en su versión extendida, con 6 canciones más en edición digipack de dos cuerpos con muchas fotos y memorabilia, un libreto que incluye las letras y los créditos de las canciones, fotos y memorabilia de la época, y una breve pero completa historia de la grabación del álbum, del grupo y de las circunstancias que lo rodearon

I love this album, got two copies for myself.

Really good quality of sound in CD and DVD!