So Many Roads To Ease My Soul: The Pretenders - 1980-08-30 Central Park, NY (FM)

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Pretenders - 1980-08-30 Central Park, NY (FM)

The Pretenders

1980-08-30

Central Park

New York, NY

FM broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. Precious

02. Kid

03. Talk Of The Town

04. Brass In Pocket

05. Stop Your Sobbing

06. The Wait

07. Band Intros

08. Up The Neck

The Pretenders - 1980-08-30 Central Park, NY (FM)

When The Pretenders played their second of 2 shows that month in New York’s Central Park on August 9, 1980, 32 years ago today, as captured in this FM brodcast, their debut album had already been met by overwhelming commercial and critical success. The disc reached #1 on the charts in the UK and climbed to #9 on The Billboard charts in the US. Famed rock critic Robert Christgau gave the disc an A- rating while Rolling Stone wrote that the album “stands as some of the freshest, most provocative music around right now.”