- Baby's Breath
- (Viva El Amor)
C. Hynde/Billy Steinberg/Tom Kelly
- Back On The Chain Gang
 
- (Learning To Crawl)
- C. Hynde
The first single released after the death of Jim and loss of Pete. Chain Gang is the band's second signature song
(after Brass In Pocket). It went up to #17 and held on to the charts for 9 weeks.
- Bad Boys Get Spanked
- (Pretenders II)
C. Hynde
Ooh, that whip sounds wicked! The effect was created by recording the sound of guitar strings being hit against
a post, then slowing it down.
- Biker
- (Viva El Amor)
C. Hynde
My Favourite song from Viva!
- Birds Of Paradise
- (Pretenders II)
C. Hynde
- Blue Sun
- C. Hynde/B. Steinberg/T. Kelly
Only available on The Isle Of View laserdisc.
- Bold As Love
- Jimi Hendrix
To quote a friend of ours, "More Hendrix than Hendrix!" To quote Chrissie, "Bold As Love, I
thought, was one of the quintessential Jimi Hendrix songs. I wanted to...get the cosmic aspect of what he was all
about... this song describes all the colors of the auras, the chakras, you know, it gets into the anger, purple;
envy, green... If we'd had a bit more time, maybe we would've been able to even cosmic it up a bit more."
Bold As Love is available on the Stone Free Hendrix tribute CD.
Born For A Purpose - Dr. Alimantardo
Available on the PETA CD, Tame Yourself.
- Brass In Pocket
- (Pretenders)
C. Hynde/J. Honeyman-Scott
Their "signature song" (for the first batch of fans). Brass was on the charts for 17 weeks and reached
#1. The US release of the single was called "Brass In Pocket (I'm Special)".
The mysterious lyrics to Brass have baffled listeners for nearly two decades. What is
"reet"? And what might a "new skank" be? "Got bottle - I'm gonna use it..."? It's
not as mind-boggling as one might think. Skank is to move one's body rhythmically from side to side, moving the
arms along with the rest of the body. "Reet" means righteous. So what's she talking about? She's got
herself a new way of movin' and groovin' and it's hip. As for the not-so-listener-friendly "got bottle...",
that is British slang meaning "courage or confidence".
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