The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)

The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)

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Chrissie Hynde – lead vocals (all but 11 & 15), rhythm guitar, harmonica

Robbie McIntosh – lead guitar, backing vocals

Malcolm Foster – bass guitar, backing vocals

Martin Chambers – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals (11), percussion

Billy Bremner – lead guitar on "Back on the Chain Gang" and "My City Was Gone", rhythm guitar and vocals on "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"

Tony Butler – bass guitar on "Back on the Chain Gang" and "My City Was Gone"

Andrew Bodnar – bass guitar and vocals on "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"

Paul Carrack – piano and vocals on "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"

 

1 LP, gatefold jacket

Limited numbered edition

Original analog Master tape : YES

Half-speed Mastering

Gain 2™ Ultra Analog

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : RTI

Label : MOFI

Original Label : Real Records

Recorded Mid-1982 to late 1983 at Air Studios, London

Engineered by Steve Churchyard

Produced by Chris Thomas

Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich

Originally released in 1983

Reissued in 2012

 

Tracks:

Side A :

  1. Middle of the Road
  2. Back on the Chain Gang
  3. Time the Avenger
  4. Watching the Clothes
  5. Show Me

 

Side B :

  1. Thumbelina
  2. My City Was Gone
  3. Thin Line Between Love and Hate
  4. I Hurt You
  5. 2000 Miles

 

Reviews :

"Chrissie Hynde took a long, hard road to rock & roll stardom, but when her band, the Pretenders, finally broke through in 1979, they wasted no time, growing from promising newcomers on the British music scene to major international stardom with a pair of smash albums to their credit in a mere three years. But the Pretenders' meteoric rise came to a crashing halt in 1982, when drug abuse claimed the life of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and forced Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers to dump bassist Pete Farndon, who would also succumb to an OD in April 1983. Hynde was forced by circumstance to reinvent the Pretenders for their third album, 1984's Learning to Crawl, but if the new edition of the group lacked some of the spark of the band that made the first two LPs, through sheer force of will Hynde created a masterpiece. While Hynde hardly held back in her emotionally potent songwriting in the Pretenders' early work, on Learning to Crawl there's a gravity to her lyrics that blended with her tough but wiry melodic sense and streetwise intelligence to create a set of truly remarkable tunes. "Back on the Chain Gang" is a touching tribute to her fallen comrades that still sounds bitterly rueful, "Middle of the Road" is a furious rocker that explores the emotional and physical toll of a musician's life, "Time the Avenger" is a taut, literate examination of a businessman's adulterous relationship, "My City Was Gone" deals with the economic and cultural decay of the Midwest in a manner both pithy and genuinely heartfelt, and "2000 Miles" is a Christmas number that demonstrates Hynde can be warm without getting sappy. As a guitarist, Robbie McIntosh brought a simpler and more elemental style to the Pretenders than James Honeyman-Scott, but his tough, muscular leads fit these songs well, and bassist Malcolm Foster's solid punch fits Chambers' drumming perfectly. Three albums into her recording career, Chrissie Hynde found herself having to put the past to bed and carve out a new beginning for herself with Learning to Crawl, but she pulled it off with a striking mixture of courage, strength, and great rock & roll; with the exception of the instant-classic debut album, it's the Pretenders' finest work." AllMusic Review by Mark Deming

 

Ultra Analog™ : The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ Series stems from the use of the Gain 2 system, mastered at half speed from the original master tapes where possible, capturing and uncovering as before undiscovered sonic information.

 

Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.

 

Ratings :

AllMusic :  5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,05 / 5

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