Chrissie Hynde, A Modest Proposal For DL Sainthood

She grabbed my tit.

Oh, that horrible cover she did of that Christmas song that plays on the radio every year!

I detest her voice. That idiotic rhythmic vibrato that pulses 2-to-the-beat makes me laugh. In interviews she is constantly pissed off and confrontational. About as charming as Morrissey.

Didn't she piss us off with some stupid statement?

Here's Goddess culturally appropriating, with kdlang in the background assuming a Michael Musto visage.

r4, i think she made some ill-advised rape comment. she's made a lot of ill-advised comments over the years.

but her hairdo..jeezus...rocking that vidal klute mega-shag for 35 years, and it still looks like the freshest damned thing.

Limbaugh agrees.

I love her voice.

She kind of doesn't give a fuck. And it's not an act.

[quote]kdlang in the background assuming a Michael Musto visage.

LOL.

I've started packing ever since she tried to strangle me.

rocking that vidal klute mega-shag for 35 years, and it still looks like the freshest damned thing.

Absolutely. This displays it nicely. Maybe this video was played in America but I sure never saw it before youtube. Love her look.

I was at Tea&Sympathy on Greenwich quite a few years ago when the door opened and two tall galls stood there scanning the room for an empty table - Sandra Berhnard & Chrissie. Too bad the place was full. I would love to have eavesdropped on them.

[quote]rocking that vidal klute mega-shag for 35 years, and it still looks like the freshest damned thing.

The cut's OK, but the light hair color doesn't work.

There is a recent BBC doc about her where the crew follows her around for a few weeks, between London and Paris (and a visit to Akron). It was surprisingly dull. She lives alone, paints bad art, eats popcorn, shops alone, seems lonely... just like the rest of us.

galls = gals

Nasty, B-List drunk.

Are her eyes real? How does she tolerate that hair constantly in them?

She would like to work with Kate Bush:

Beauty is a duty, r15.

Maybe she was born without a forehead.

As a kid, I thought she and Patti Smith were the same person.

I hate that song she did called "I'll Stand By You". I think that's the name of it. And I think it's an awful version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" that R2 remembers. I liked "Brass In Pocket" and "My City Was Gone." But I never much liked Chrissie Hynde. She's always seemed like a very unpleasant person. And she seems to think a lot of herself.

Wow...this is interesting.

I'm guessing I saw this when it was originally broadcast...on my local Phila UHF channel...lulz.

"Self-mythologizing" was what was said of her quite often early in the band's career, R19.

I welcomed the Eighties and the Pretenders first LP with open arms. I should have known better. A lot of musicians can come off as tremendously unlikable people, but redeem themselves in your eyes in the next moment. John Lennon, Frank Zappa, John Cale..then there's Lou Reed (who loathed his audience, perhaps rightly so), and Hynde. Even Morrissey comes off better in interviews than those two.

The first three Pretenders records were terrific, but how many outfits could survive losing half its members and all within a year of each other? Hynde did quite well for herself, a kid from the heartland who plops herself down in Merrie Olde, gets lucky, and has the rock and roll fairy tale life. Why is she so miserable? Vegan insanity, perhaps.

This was the last thing they did that I liked..no, loved unreservedly. Her finest ballad.

I adore Chrissie. Saw her last year on tour and she's still got it — sounds good and does a great snarly-friendly patter between songs.

She hired two young VERY handsome guys for the tour and teased them throughout the show.

But her "art" ‚— honey, just no. It's mortifying.

She’s precious... ah, fuck off!,,

Chrissie's most difficult night in show business...

Shortly followed by this.

R19 she has talked about being gang raped, and beaten by a boyfriend. Probably some things you never really get over.

She’s tremendous.

I love hearing Brass in Pocket and Break Up the Concrete!

I think she is fantastic. Nothing you guys say will change my opinion. She is a very talented artist. I volunteer to go door to door to collect signatures to help you with your quest OP. And aren't we all ending up back on a chain gang at one time or another in our lives?

r28, i look forward to forwarding you some hot info on gathering signatures.

thanks for your support!

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I know this is a bit of a throwaway novelty, but I LOVE this song. "Would you like sour cream.... on your potato, honey" and "there go the delicates" always kill me. The combination of her deadpan delivery, and the tight (but, somehow, cheeky sounding) band never fails to make me smile.

Love the Pretenders, but I was confused for the longest time about why she still holds on to the band name when the only constant is her as the lead singer.

I've always loved her music, but she's a huge diva. Saw her in concert once and she threw a fit about folks filming her with cell phones. She threatened to stop the show and leave if people didn't put their phones away. (And this was just after the first song.) I thought, "Jeez, you've been in the public eye for 30+ years, all you ever wanted to be was a rock and roll star, and you're upset that folks want to take your picture? Honey, you should start bitching when they STOP wanting to take your picture." That incident has forever changed my opinion of her. I still listen to her music, though.

[quote] I've started packing ever since she tried to strangle me.

Sorry Car, got a little overexcited.

But that WAS and IS a real fuckin' singer on that stage!

The eyebrow raising comment she made about rape was basically that she put herself in the position (got dolled up, flirted and got drunk), and that women shouldn't go into positions where it might happen.

Her words, not mine, but I daresay a number of the antifrau DL contingent would find no fault with such a statement.

Oh, and Carly -- at least I can still sing!

R36 Bless your heart.

Her comments about rape was that women are basically asking to be raped by the way they dress.

An opinion shared by other open minded people: “Sami Abu-Yusuf also said one of the reasons why the men raped or assaulted the women was "due to the way they dressed." "If they're half-naked and wearing perfume, it's not surprising that such things would happen," Abu-Yusuf said.”. This are comments on the NYE mass sexual assaults.

[quote]I've always loved her music, but she's a huge diva. Saw her in concert once and she threw a fit about folks filming her with cell phones.

I've been to concerts where the band asked for no phones. It was great to enjoy a live show without hundreds of phones shining in my direction. And it completely changed the atmosphere in the room - people were present.

I'm with her on this one. Even if she threw a fit about it.

I always liked this track from Last of the Independents, Love Colors:

I'd sign on for her canonization, no question about it. DL Canonization? Eh, I'm not so sure... But for those of us who love her and "get" her, she's a one-off, never to be repeated, never to be replaced. Yeah, she's abrasive and has zero tolerance for anyone who so much as [italic]touches[/italic] a piece of chicken or beef, but she's also witty as hell and so fucking smart. Most of all, she's given us decades of songs to love.

Favorite lyric, referring to a former lover's new GF: "I can see just where she's headin' / She's as predictable as Armageddon."

Favorite song: "Show Me," from [italic]Learning to Crawl[italic]

R35, a lot of women who have been raped in the same situation would find no fault with that statement, too.

and R38, sweetie, how about quoting Hynde instead of a lame attempt at "guilt-by-association" with a woman-hating male?

Hynde was a truly unique talent, a very tough and very compassionate woman. If anyone gets ruffled by her crusty exterior perhaps they need to get out more.

Probably one of the best concerts I've been to.

If she is in your town, GO SEE HER!

He showed me what that hole was for......yeah.

[quote]Favorite song: "Show Me," from Learning to Crawl

Good one.

R38: I happen to love Chrissie Hynde but she’s said lots of really nasty shit about women over the years. Internalized misogyny.

In a lot of photos she reminds me of Melania.

I love so many of their/her songs, and have memories with so many of them.

But I remember this being the one that was playing when my parents dropped me off at college. Love it still.

She got to fuck Ray Davies, always an ambition of mine.

[quote] She got to fuck Ray Davies, always an ambition of mine.

Who'll be the next in line?

I love her remake of "Crimson & Clover".

R51 That's Joan Jett, you fat meat eating whore!

R52: Really? My bad. Well, I like that song from The Pretenders called "I Love Rock And Roll". That's a good one.

I smell a stench

Oh no, that's just Akron

[quote]Her comments about rape was that women are basically asking to be raped by the way they dress.

That's not exactly what she said. She said that she had been hanging around with bikers and so on, people who actually wore pins that say, "I love rape," and then get coerced into sex, and then claim you have no culpability at all.

In other words, don't jump into a lion cage and then be stunned that you get eaten.

I like that song 10,000 miles. They play that at Christmastime.

Well, this thread inspired me to learn more about her.

I always thought she was a dyke, but she apparently had relationships and children with members of The Kinks and Simple Minds.

God you guys are really slipping... listen to "Tattooed Love Boys" (I shot my mouth off and you showed me what that hole was for! ugh), Bad Boys get Spanked" or "Pack it Up" (and your insipid record collection) Chrissie was "it" when it came to punk music and attitude and being a woman in a man's world of music.

Let's not forget "Brass in Pocket", "China Slide" or "Precious" (but not me baby I'm too precious, fuck off!).

She liked to fuck as well, ask Ray Davies or that guy from Simple Minds. Popped out a few kids with their DNA to boot.

Of course she's a Goddess for DL - she's old and cranky and had her heyday in the late 80s/early 90s; she's been irrelevant for decades, but still believes her shit don't stink - just like so many of you.

I thought she was fabulous - in a previous century.

Women are put under pressure to look attractive and to flirt and then are blamed if they are raped, maybe that's why Chrissie looks so decidedly masculine.

Cuban Slide

She's a massive cunt in interviews. So confrontational and irrationally angry that she sounds like she's on the verge of a psychotic break.

She did an interview with MTV once and the interviewer called her the queen of rock and roll. She glared at him and said, "Go Fuck Yourself"

r62- Would you find that and post it here, please? I'd love to see!

But, maybe she reacted that way because of the way Joan Jett is also called Queen of RnR, so Chrissie judt thought they weren't taking it seriously when they said it to her too.

Love her voice.

She always bugged the living hell out of me. Her voice was so thin and flat. I found her rat-faced and trashy looking which I know is part of her appeal, but still.

“ Her voice was so thin and flat”

Her voice is neither thin nor flat.

I just watched her on Austin City Limits last weekend. I think she looks and sounds better now than she di in the 80’s. She adheres to Hinduism and clean, vegan living. She has a vegan restaurant in her hometown in Ohio which is cool.

"The Queen of Rock and Roll" is a title that gets tossed around indiscriminately. I don't think there ever really was one.

R63 I tried to find it but couldn't. From what I remember it wasn't a full interview with her, just a mix of interviews with different female rockers that were big at the time.

I think her restaurant closed. Vegan, yeah, clean living no unless you consider drugs and alcohol clean living.

I adore her.

Yes....Chrissie! Cuban Slide & My City Was Gone are my favorite songs. She also took fire for a 9-11 comment. That the U.S. had brought it on themselves, with their foreign policy.......no one wanted to hear that, but it was true.

Someone earlier wrote that Chrissy Hynde is the only original member. Martin Chambers the Pretenders drummer is also an original band member.

Have loved her music since the beginning, but she has always seemed completely devoid of humor.

She was really good friends with Madonna, aroubd the time Madonna was married to Sean Penn. In one of Madonna's many Rolling Stone cover stories, Chrissie is quoted about her friendship with Madonna and says something like, "Madonna writes beautiful songs", this was around 1986 /1987

No, R74 - I’m not a fan, but I read her book and she's very funny. Very dry.