This set is their first ever boxed set featuring over 5 hours of career-spanning music on 4 CDs, including many previously unreleased cuts, plus a bonus DVD including never-before-released performances from 1979-1995 including hot early BBC Top of the Pops performances, and material from NBC's The New SHow and the 2003 Montreux Jazz Festival.
Outstanding Box Set If you are Pretenders´fan you will love it! If you are not a Pretenders´fan yet you will start to love them. Its value for money!!! Submitted by r.pascale (São Paulo,Brazil) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Very good Box Set It actually consists of 4cd's and 1 dvd. I would recommend this to any Pretenders fan. Nice book layout and good song choices. The dvd is pretty good. 3 of the videos are kinda low budget but the rest are hi quality. But anyways it's the music that counts. I'm pretty happy with the purchase. :) Submitted by J.Weber (Osseo,Mn) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
All you could ask for! I'm a huge Pretenders fan so I have many cds, however I need only to carry these 4 in my cd holder. Some of the recordings I'm hearing for the 1st time and Chrissy still blows me away with her beautiful voice. She trully has a unique style!!! Submitted by aramirez (San Diego usa) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Loved This Collections of Pretenders!!! I highly recommend this collections for Pretenders lovers. This box set is very well oraganized and enjoy the added songs never heard over the air waves. Submitted by maems2 (Columbia, Ms, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Pretenders - Pirate Radio I like it. However the DVD skips on two of the video's Submitted by bcotariu (Castro Valley, CA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
$25.45 What is it about hearing Jimmy Jones' original 1960 version of the song "Handy Man" that makes one feel like James Taylor should have been prosecuted for song desecration in the 1970s? Checking out the 1960 volume in the German Bear Family label's Blowing the Fuse series makes a dead-set, open-and-shut case. This baby has 31 cuts, all of them burners. The thing opens with Buster Brown's "Fannie Mae," and after Jones' cut, Barrett Strong tears the mother down with the original version of "Money"! The blues are here, too, with Jimmy Reed's smash "Baby, What You Want Me to Do." There is just so much here, from the biggest hits -- and there are plenty, like Maurice Williams' "Stay," Fats Domino's "Walking to New Orleans," and Howlin' Wolf's read of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" -- to the near ones -- like Sugar Pie DeSanto's "I Want to Know," the Shirelles' "Tonight's the Night" (speaking of criminals, Neil Young should never have been allowed to write ...
$11.35 Tha D.R.E a native of Milwaukee, WI. forged his career in music in the early nineties as an entrepreneur and entertainer. "Just Another Hustle" was Tha D.R.E.'s fist debut as an artist which he wrote and produced in 1992. At the time he was wit a group called Mil-Town Hustlers. Soon after the release, Eazy-E(RIP)founder of Ruthless Records, was interested in a song entitled "Cock Da Pump" off the EP "Just Another Hustler". Problems soon came after one of the group members faced federal drug charges, which forced Tha D.R.E. to start to his own production company called D.R.E. Productions, so he could pursue his solo career as a producer/writer/recording artist. Tha D.R.E.'s First solo release was entitled "Deep on a Solo Creep". The year was 1994 and Ruthless Records was still looking for hot new acts. But unfortunately for Tha D.R.E. Eazy E was only interested in groups such as Bone Thugs and Harmony, and at the time his hands were full. Still on the grind Tha D.R.E. was still pushing his EP and became the first artist in his own city to have the hottest single out called "The Drout" a/k/a "Where is the P?" on the streets. In the early spring of 1995 Nam Records(an independent record company out of Los Angeles, CA) became very interested and signed Tha D.R.E. for the E.P entitled "Deep on a Solo Creep". Soon after that a low budget music video was made for "Gotta Get Paid" a/k/a "Modern Day Pimpin" with cameos from Max Julian "Goldy the Pimp" from the movie The Mack. Which was aired on Hot Rocks/Playboy Channel in August of 1995. But due to money problems with the company Tha D.R.E project fail short. Tha D.R.E.'s Second solo release was entitled "Still Creepin". The year was 1996 and now D.R.E. Productions wanted to get there projects in more regions to make ...