The first album is a classic -- no doubt.  But are
they one of the greatest bands of all-time?  Not even
close by a long shot.

I think Josh stated their case and it's a thin resume.
 It's not that a band can't be an all-time great with
a small body of work -- for example, The Sex Pistols
belong due to extreme historical significance alone --
but a great debut album, only one other undisputed
good album (Learning To Crawl) and otherwise
inconsistency -- though at some point they just became
disposable -- doesn't cut it.  Geez, Nick Lowe and
Squeeze, just to name two contemporaries, have much
more impressive bodies of work.

Mike Bennett

NP -- The Knife & Fork Band -- Cold Cereal & Juice
(though I'm just drinking hot coffee now).
--- pop@anotherplanet.ca wrote:

> > not well put together...The Pretenders????  I love
> the
> > debut album and some sundry other stuff, but they
> > wouldn't even be on a list of nominees, if I were
> in
> > charge.  Yet, I'm not surprised.
> 
> I'd vote for The Pretenders if the first album was
> the only thing they
> ever did.  Just for the cover!  It still blows me
> away when I listen to it
> after a break.
> 
> Lee Elliott
> 


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