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May We Rock You? (Home Records HR5982-6 - Italy - 1994)

Talk Of The Town / Hollywood Perfume / Money Talk / Don’t Get Me Wrong / Ohio / Kid / I’ll Stand By You / Chain Gang / Night In My Veins / Middle Of The Road / Mystery Achievement / Bonus tracks: The Wait / Message Of Love / Louie, Louie / Stop Your Sobbing / Brass In Pocket / Precious / The Adultress / Up The Neck

Same Glastonbury tracks as Now & Then. Incorrect titles only include "Ohio" and "Chain Gang", so there are no real crimes committed here. Bonus tracks recorded at that very same Dominion Theatre show as were the ones from Now & Then.

Glastonbury 1994 (Live Storm LSCD51608 - Italy - 1994)

Talk Of The Town / Hollywood Perfume / Money Talk / Don’t Get Me Wrong / Ohio / Kid / I’ll Stand By You / Chain Gang / Night In My Veins / Middle Of The Road / Mystery Achievement / Bonus tracks: The Wait / Message Of Love / Louie, Louie / Stop Your Sobbing / Brass In Pocket / Precious / The Adultress / Up The Neck

Includes not only the same songs from the Glastonbury Festival as May We Rock You? and Now & Then, but the same title errors and bonus tracks as May We Rock You?. Also lists "Martyn Chambres" on drums.

Hot, Hotter, Hottest (Baby Capone BC054 - Italy - 1995)

Precious / Kid / Brass In Pocket / Stop Your Sobbing / I Love To... / The Wait / Cuban Slide / Talk Of The Town / Mystery Achievement / Time The Avenger / Back On The Chain Gang / In My Life / Little Latin Lupe Lu / Bonus extra tracks: Ohio / Message of Love / Money

Lifted directly from DIR's King Biscuit Flower Hour, this track listing starts out with the original lineup and moves into a Chrissie Hynde solo appearance at London's Royal Albert hall and ends up at California's 1983 US Festival. The cover states the first set of songs was recorded in 1987 in Orlando, Florida. While there is no way the songs from the original lineup could have been recorded in '87, the KBFH cue sheet lists the show as being from Central Park, 1980. But if the band played only one show in Central Park that was broadcast, and the live cut from Extended Play is from that same New York show, then King Biscuit is also wrong because those two performances of Precious are not even similar. Incorrect song titles are "Ohio" and as on King Biscuit's cue, I Go to Sleep is listed as "I Love To...". Includes a sterilized Precious (gone are "shittin' bricks" and "fuck off") from the original lineup as well as The Beatles' In My Life and Mitch Ryder's Little Latin Lupe Lu from the Hynde solo performance.

Fifteen Hard-Ons A Day (Teddy Bear TB58 - Italy)

Night In My Veins / Talk Of The Town / Hollywood Perfume / My City Was Gone / Don’t Get Me Wrong / Revolution / 977 / Money Talk / Kid / Message Of Love / Middle Of The Road / Roomful of Mirrors / I’ll Stand By You / Precious / Stop Your Sobbing / Fifteen Hard-Ons A Day / Brass In Pocket

Don't let the name fool you, this boot is the Pretenders. From the soundboard of the November 3, 1994 Rosemont Horizon (Chicago) gig. The radio station that sponsored the show, WXRT, gave away free tickets and broadcast the performance. The Pretenders were really kicking that night and were joined on stage by Urge Overkill who performed The Carpenters hit Superstar, listed on the CD as "Fifteen Hard-Ons A Day". The makers of this boot also left out the number "9" on the track listing. Since your CD player can count to ten and even beyond, you'll end up with 17 tracks instead of the 18 that are claimed. They also are not familiar with their letters and managed to announce on the side of the CD that the band you'll be listening to will be "Predenders". You'll soon forgive them for these mistakes because they've included an unreleased photo of the band as well as a picture of Chrissie that's not often seen.

Revolution (Blizzard BLZD103 on the cover; the CD says 'The New Revolution' with a catalog number of AVL-002)

Chili Factor / I Hurt / Back On The Chain Gang / Kid / Revolution / Private Life / Criminal / Love Or Take / Thumblina / Creep / Him Or Her / Hit / 2,000 Miles / Brass In Pocket / My City Is Gone / Angel Of The Morning

Send in the title police, we've some hardcore criminals here. Song titles include "Chili Factor", "I Hurt", "Love Or Take" (Lovers Of Today), "Thumblina", "Him Or Her" (Hymn To Her), "Hit" (The Phone Call), "My City Is Gone". Taken from a broadcast of the acoustic November 5, 1995 show at Symphony Space in New York City. Put the headphones on, close your eyes and listen to Creep. You'll be there in the theater with the rest of us, holding your breath in anticipation of each note. Even if you have a taped copy of the show, you'll want to get this boot for the photos and of course to hear me hooting excitedly throughout the show, as the volume of noise from the audience has been turned up.

Kid (Joker JOK-031-A - Australia - 1993)

The Wait / Message Of Love / The Adulteress / Time The Avenger / My City Was Gone / Show Me / Kid / I Go To Sleep / Thin Line Between Love And Hate / Waste Not Want Not / Thumbelina / Back On The Chain Gang / Mystery Achievement / Middle Of The Road / Stop Your Sobbing / Talk Of The Town / Brass In Pocket / Up The Neck / Precious

1997? Hey, this is the same show as Live Vol.1. - that title is still on the CD! They changed the cover. The end.

Mystery Achievements (Tendolar TDR-134)

Whatcha Gonna Do About It / Stop Your Sobbing (demo) / The Wait (Nick Lowe ver.) / Money / Cuban Slide / Porcelain / Where Has Everybody Gone? / If There Was A Man / Windows Of The World / 1969 / Latin Lupe Lu / Property Of Jesus / Not A Second Time / Spirit Of Life / Born For A Purpose / Angel Of The Morning / I'm Not In Love / Superstar / Everyday Is Like Sunday / Live & Let Die / Goin Back / Fast Or Slow (It's The Law) / In The Sticks

It might look like an official release, but it's not. This CD, which began appearing in October 1999, contains some live tracks from charity benefits (which is really low, stealing from charities), b-sides and so-called rarities. There's nothing truly rare here, but it's a nice collection of tracks. Allegedly made in Japan, the quality of the CDs varies from one batch to the next. Some contain noticeable cracks and pops while others are clean. The ends of the last two tracks are cut off to allow both to fit on the CD.

Storyteller's (Stay Tuned)

Talk Of The Town / Kid / Mystery Achievement / The Phone Call / Back On The Chain Gang / Don't Get Me Wrong / The Adultress / My City Was Gone / They Don't Make Them Like They Used To / You Bring The Biker Out Of Me / The Wait / The Adultress / My City Was Gone / Talk Of The Town / Back On The Chain Gang / Mystery Achievement / Middle Of The Road / Up The Neck / Precious / Brass In Pocket / Tattooed Love Boys

This item stretches the generosity of the term "piece of crap". Tracks 1-10 are from the VH1 Storytellers broadcast. Tracks 11-20 are from the 1984 MTV Detroit broadcast from the Fox Theatre. The CD is actually a CD-R and there is a constant hissing throughout the entire recording. It's a CD only a collector could love... well not quite, this copy was donated to the Archives by fellow collector Jealous Dog Willy after he deemed it unworthy (we take ALL Pretenders garbage!). Buyer beware.

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