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The Best Music Ever
In the mid-eighties, I was on a bus ride in Germany with my platoon. We were going to place called North Point, in Kirsheim Bolandin. The directions included, when you get off the autobahn, follow the signs with the bullet holes. I was half awake in a sort of trance like state. One of my men was blasting The Pretenders on a boom box. I remember thinking, man o monkeys, this is the best music I’ve ever heard. Another thought was that I was so happy and proud to be serving with these great men and women who would have done just about anything for me. It had been my experience that aside from chow and mail, you could screw a soldier pretty good as long as you told them it was coming. It was an honor and privilege to serve as an American Fighting Person.
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Nice, but who are those geezers singing? The Pretenders look like this . . .
You didn’t mention Rush.
The newer video is better…great artists are like wine or something. They get better with age.
Human Music
Funny that.
This was the first Pretenders song I ever heard. Of course, since it was one of about twenty videos in rotation on the early MTV, I heard it roughly six bajillion times.
I have a cousin that served in Germany as an enlisted soldier. He used his GI bill to earn his college degree. He was accepted, and completed Navy OCS. He was qualified to take the conn on his aircraft carrier, and took that out carrier out to sea with a shortened crew due to a typhoon that was about to hit Pearl Harbor. There was no time to wait for everyone on leave to get back aboard.
Yeah but there’s wrinkles and stuff, and if they got old, what about me?
“Everybody’s so different, I haven’t changed” – Joe Walsh
Pretenders. The best. I heard this one for years before really listening to the lyrics. Ha!
Love me some Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders. I grew up on a farm 20 minutes north of Akron. Thanks for posting this.
Great band. Great songs. Unpleasant leader.
Great singer though.
Yes. I’m sure someone somewhere has written an article about whether jerks make the best rock and roll. I can see the case. That may be a day gone by though.