One of the perks of getting older is having an encyclopedia of great hits from the past 70 years (!) and waking up in the morning from a dream that has Brass in Pocket as its theme song. The term "Detroit leaning" refers to a posture when driving a car. That was a big deal if you wanted to look cool driving a car. I love Chrissie, she has such a seductive, sultry voice.
There is something verging on telepathic going on here. The pulse of the song - driven by Martin Chambers on drums - pushes and pulls with Chrissie Hynde's vocals in a way that adds so much to this classic. I can still remember buying the single. I was 15. I'm now 60. That late 70s to early 80s era was an incredible time for music. I was privileged to be there.
I was born in 1990 and completely agree with this. Late seventies and early eighties is my favorite era in music. So much going on that I like - punk, new wave, power pop, NWOBHM, etc.
Pinnacle: Chrissie Hynde for soft rock/Pop (Blondie number 2), Donna Summer for Dance/Groove, Whitney Housten/Aretha for Soul music, Anne Wilson for hard rock Linda Rondstad and Karen Carpenter, for the rest of general "quality" music. Sorry, but no Madonna on my personal "pinnacle list"..
61 years old and some tears in my eyes watching this. Chrissie so vulnerable and sweet. But more so seeing two young, talented men who are no longer with us.
@@maddesi2709 Haven't been to one of her shows yet, but I've seen some recent shows on YT. She's still got it. She'll probably be rockin' into her 90's like Tony Bennett did. All of those healthy vegetables she eats are keepin' her young. 👍👍👍
My boyfriend once gave me a mixed tape and this was the first track on it,11 months later we married and it lasted for 28 fantastic years. Sadly he passed away 4 years ago. I've managed to put it behind me but now every time I hear this piece I automatically have to smile and laugh to myself. Music is definitely the best medicine 😊
@@sharonkremer614 my wife and i are like yall. We met through mutual friends at our hangout (a general store). The owner was our den mother and many times confidant. 6 years later my friend was in a bind and needed a place to crash. She was then 19 and i 24. She never moved out lol.3 years later married. 27 years this october.
@@michaelkaiser1864 And who said marriages don't last because that's also a lovely story. It's crazy how a simple but also great piece of music can bring up such beautiful memories. Good luck for the coming future and don't stop believing in the magic of music 😉
I'm 56 now and when I hear this, I'm 12 years old again. Singing into my hairbrush, shaking it in front of my mirror...belting it out like I believed that I was something special. Damn I love this song.
Brings back happy memories when i was in my twenties borrowing MTV tapes from a shop in my subdivision and going to concerts. Those days were one of my happiest when I look back now. Going on 62 now.
My best friend and I are both late 50’s black women & salute this song on so many levels. In fact we both went through a really tough patch in our individual lives & didn’t talk to each other for about 2 years. My friend heard this song playing over the sound system at Burlington’s & was moved enough to reconnect with me. We talk & laugh daily on how it takes a person to use every thing that makes them uniquely special to be special. This is the main salute as well as the song kicks ass! I came here to share it with my 30 year old daughter to keep her encouraged by its message. A great share, thank you!🫶🏾👏🏽
I was in the kitchen cooking a while back and heard my 20 year daughter put on this track in her bedroom upstairs , I loved the fact not only a fantastic song that always rocks you but also the generations coming up keeping the old classics alive . I couldn’t help singing at the top of my voice and doing a boogie in the kitchen in my 60’s ..love my daughter and Thank you the Pretenders 🙏❤️🇦🇺
I’m 53 years old and Afro American and I grew up on all types of music and this is one of them brass in the pocket by the pretenders that in the early 80s hit hard and this song I still feel and love this song till this day 👍🏾
I am 51& My Dearest Friend who past away in January of this yr would have turned 57. He use to Sing& dance for me to Lift my spirits up when I was down & stressed. So I dedicated this to him for his Birthday. I Miss Corey very much. He was Very Special to me. I'll miss him til I die
Yes, her use of note bends and swells make it sound so anticipating and hot! Also, the audible breathing in her voice, it really adds to the sensuous quality. She sounds both vulnerable, spunky and longing at the same time.
Chrissie Hynde hit the scene like a meteor. Writer, singer, looks, musicianship, brains & balls, she was the entire package. No weakness anywhere. Hasn't been anyone else like her since. If Aretha was the Queen of Soul, Chrissie was the Queen of Rock..
And a philosopher. She will often hold up a copy of the Bhagavad-gita, the Sanskrit scripture spoken by Lord Krishna. If you look at her picture you can see she wears tulsi mala, the necklace made of scared wood worn by Hare Krishna devotees.
Agreed. I saw them play in a bar in 1982. It was a college bar and most of the patrons didn't want to pay the 8 bucks to see the concert because it was their beer money so there was probably around 50 people there. I didn't know they were playing that night but paid the 8 bucks and had 2 bucks left over for a beer. They played on the dance floor and I stood in front a few feet away from Chrissie and watching them play the entire concert. Very fun and cool times.
@@LancelotLink1 Lucky you! Along with Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson (and Suzi Quatro) Chrissie is a natural rocker. I would have given up the beer and stuck the $2 in her tip jar.😁😁
@@rocco... Yeah she is. Most of the people who paid to get in were sitting at the tables around the dance floor but I stood on the dance floor in front of Chrissie and she kept pointing at me and I was like I think she wants to party with me afterwards LOL. Man I wish I could have partied with her.
A classic single from one of the most solid, song-to-song albums of the 80s. I cried when Jimmy died, was heartbroken when Farndon died, which brought an end to this lineup. Every song on this album was an intense tune.
It's amazing that the band even survived those losses; Chrissie has said that the determination to make up for the loss, just when they felt they had so much more to give, has contributed to the longevity of the band. I think the loss was made even worse for her personally by the fact that Farndon died less than a year after he had been fired while Honeyman.-Scott died just two days after he had been part of the decision to sack Farndon. The vibes of guilt and recrimination around the band during those months are easy to imagine - also, the fear of how they might look in the music press.
Yes, absolutely, one of the essential bands of those new wave years. This is such a great song, half-understatedly erotic and with that tight, laid-back beat (there was some buried soul influence to them , kinda like the jazz undercurrent of early Dire Straits).
@@louise_rose I think Chrissie can't escape her upbringing in Akron, Ohio, (relatively) near Detroit, and all the Motown influence that had on her. You can hear it in her singing voice, I think. There is always in undertone of R & B.
It just brought tears to my eyes too and I don't even know why - probably because she's awesome; that time will never return, we're all getting older and some of us missed out on life. Chrissie clearly didn't.
All PURE TALENT ,WHAT A GREAT BAND THEY WERE !! BLONDIE ,PAT BENATAR ETC,PRETENDERS ,HEART!SUCH GREAT BANDs IN MUSIC THEY ALL WERE AHEAD OF THE TIME (THAT WAS) ,SO SPECIAL 👍✌️😎🎸🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶!!!!!!!
I'm only 7 years old, but I remember being just 4 and my grandparents listening to this on compact disc. They told me then that they harbour such fond sentiments of 1979, of rocking my father to sleep in his cot to Chrissie Hynde's dulcet tones in this very track. My father is now 45 and often listens to The Pretenders - the "soundtrack to my childhood" so he often tells me. Ha ha, I do wish I'd been there with him during the 1980s.
1979---I was working for a department store in downtown LA; I went to an electronics trade show which introduced the Sony Walkman to the world, but these little things called 'music videos' were being shown on projection tv's. This video attracted more attention than the Walkman!
@@michelangelo144 The cutting edge technologies at that Trade Show were things like the Bone Fone (google or TH-cam it)- which was basically a radio that sat on your neck and shoulders and provided you with personal tunes... Laser Discs were all the rage (I remember one company showing a compiled disc with clips from Jaws II, Elton John video for a song called “Ego”, etc)... the videocassette-format battle between VHS and Beta was big news (Sony had the Betamax machine but still lost out to the VHS format machines)... Cheers!
Are you sure it was 1979? Because this video was released in early 1980 according to VH1's The Big 80's which has been off the air for more than 20 years. I used to have the record and not only it's printed and copyrighted 1979. It's also copyrighted 1980. And the album was released in January, 1980.
@@jasondudash5501 the single was released in 1979, before the full album... the video was made to promote the single on British music shows so it was released with the single. That VH-1 show used to drive me nuts with incorrect info.
@@leebarbier5257 When an album is released, sometimes the video doesn't get released until a year later. Especially if the album is released at the end of the year. But I do feel your pain about VH1 music videos showing a year off. But it's usually because they weren't released until then. So I'm only putting what I remember seeing on VH1. Do you remember The Tubes? They've always been my favorite group. My favorite album by The Tubes is The Completion Backward Principle, released in April, 1981. The first song on that album is Talk To Ya Later, which is my favorite song of all time and in my book it's the best rock 'n' roll song ever written! Whenever I watched VH1's The Big 80's, I've always waited for The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later video to come on and to see what year it would show. 1981 or 1982? But I never did get to see The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on VH1's The Big 80's. But I got to see The Tubes' She's A Beauty on The Big 80's and it showed 1983 which is the correct year and the song first charted on April 9th of that year. So if I were to see The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on The Big 80's and it showed, 1982, it would've drove my up a wall! But a high school friend told me he saw The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on VH1's The Big 80's, but he doesn't remember the exact year it showed. But he told me he was almost positive that it showed 1981. But on the music sheet of Talk To Ya Later, the copyright date shows 1982 and I'm mad about that! I wrote to the publisher but I couldn't get them to update it to 1981 instead of 1982. So I don't blame you at all! I feel the same way you do. Especially with The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later being copyrighted 1982 on sheet music. And because I never got to see The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on VH1's The Big 80's, I put 1981 on the youtube comments of The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later video which is the correct year. And I like it like that.
I lived through the 80's ...BEST Music ever made in the 80's I'm 58 to this day the memories will never be forgotten....💯💯💯💯 That's all I ever listen to the 80's
Spent so many years without having been drawn to this most splendid piece of western culture in recent times. So, thank you, TH-cam. This song is so superb! The video is just perfect, it feels like it explicitly gives priority to the music, to the song, to the singer, in perfect accompany.
You can wait on my table anytime. I think it was 1980 ? I am now 60. I was a dishwasher at LaRosa's pizzeria in 1980. All of the waitresses wore dresses. Give me one day of life in the 1980's, and I would give up 100 days of life in these times.
As soon as I hear this great song it reminds me of being about 5 or 6 yrs of age, in about 1980 or 1981, being interested in 261 Piccadilly Radio station and the sound of Manchester as it was in 1980, the cold rains and snow, the great old Whsmith shop, Sarah's cafe in the Arndale, Top Shop, Kendals, Lewis', Debenhams...... What a marvellous city it was back then.
I a m a 61 years young Irishman fan from Dublin 😊i love this The Prentenders song Brass in Pocket Wonderful Brilliant song with the Wonderful vocals of the Brilliant Chrisse Hynde😊
My favorite music video ever, because it beautifully highlights both Chrissie's brave front and the vulnerability behind it, which is basically the theme behind every song she ever wrote. Most music videos were just commercials for the song, but this was a work of art.
I've loved this song ever since I first heard it over my car radio back in the day. I have Alexa play it for me every once in a while. It's just one of those tunes that grabs you and never lets go. Great music really does stand the test of time, doesn't it?
I'd been having one of those days while attending college, and heard that she was going to be playing in The Pub on campus. I sat in the front with my buddy and she came over to where we were sitting. This song just started and she sat on my lap for the entire song. My bad day became a great day just because of her!
I was a 2 yr old toddler when this came out, I have heard this song thousands of times. FM radio loves playing this song to death, but every time I hear it I'm a little boy again, Thank you Chrissy and Pretenders, it's a sweet memory.
Yeah, I remember watching MTV and other tv channels/shows in the 1980s/early 90s and getting introuced to lots of exciting new bands that way. Of course many of those videos are now on TH-cam, but today's bands and record labels don't really come up with as powerful songs and videos as back then! Most of the good stuff on TH-cam, when it comes to music videos and live clips, is from bands that launched their careers more than twenty years ago, or even forty years ago... :(
I saw these guys open for the re-formed Who in St. Louis in 1980. First American tour, unknown by most. Fantastic band. Chrissie in all black leather, hair all teased the f*ck up, first song, "The Hurt". Martin Chambers hitting the drums so hard the sticks flew right out of his hands and into the crowd.
What a woman!! Any man who appreciates a powerful woman would love Chrissie.....she enchanted young men and I'm sure older men too...stunning music! xx
46 yo now, was so young, raised south of France, and yet this song from another continent resonates in me as if to this day, what a song, what a tile to be alive ❤️
I got brass in a pocket I got bottle, I'm gonna use it Intention, I feel inventive Gonna make you, make you, make you notice Got motion, restrained emotion Been driving, Detroit leaning No reason, just seems so pleasing Gonna make you, make you, make you notice Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my Imagination 'Cause I gonna make you see There's nobody else here, no one like me I'm special (special) So special (special) I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me I got rhythm, I can't miss a beat I got a new skank, so reet Got something, I'm winking at you Gonna make you, make you, make you notice Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my Imagination 'Cause I gonna make you see There's nobody else here, no one like me I'm special (special) So special (special) I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me 'Cause I gonna make you see There's nobody else here, no one like me I'm special (special) So special (special) I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me Oh-oh-oh Anyway you want Source: Musixmatch
It’s hard to believe I’m growing old now when I hear this song I was a young teenager now I’m in my 50s it takes me back to that special time nothing will ever be like my childhood 80s! So much great music in all genre.
I agree with you there. I was 6 years old when this song came out. It still sounds as good as it always has. It never lost its touch. It is really great
I've been going through and making a play list for myself and when listening to certain ones from the early '80's, when my marriage broke up, my parents, kids and I moved out of state to my and my mom's home state I thought, "Oh goody! A NEW start!" Yeah...oh well, so much for that idea...especially for as backwards woman I was...men haven't changed, though music has, and my sons are all grown. I'm a proud Gramma, even though I rarely get to see my granddaughters...but, they're all fine! The WORST thing over the past decades was the loss of my beautiful son, Michael, in 2015...fentanyl. But, he had had back surgery and the script was real...TOTALLY above board and legal. But he had suffered so for year after year and didn't have a clue about fentanyl and what it would do to him...I'd rather it had been me. Thanks to anyone who shares my words. I would listen/read anyone, any time, because at my age (76) I've been through hell and high water, and would never refuse to listen to anyone's words....
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
I was 21 when 'the' MTV went on air, the Pretenders were one of the few bands worth watching. As you kids abbreviate today Omg, I'm getting Old! Rock until you drop! STAY HEALTHY PEOPLE.
One of the perks of getting older is having an encyclopedia of great hits from the past 70 years (!) and waking up in the morning from a dream that has Brass in Pocket as its theme song. The term "Detroit leaning" refers to a posture when driving a car. That was a big deal if you wanted to look cool driving a car. I love Chrissie, she has such a seductive, sultry voice.
Spot On !🍎🍎🍒🍎
Dee-troit leaning
Exactly 😂 I liked your comment as number 78 the year I was born🫶🌌🌌🌌
Great commenting of yours!
One of the best, most under-rated bands of all time.
Love Crissy's voice
Y do people always say that
BECAUSE...IT'S TRUE!@@andreaeden6163
yup.. brah i been saying that since late ‘80s..
@@andreaeden6163 hate that saying - they were very rated
THEYRE NOT UNDERRATED AT ALL 😂😂😂😂
This song reminds me of my childhood… this song came on the radio during the week when I was in school many times…
There is something verging on telepathic going on here. The pulse of the song - driven by Martin Chambers on drums - pushes and pulls with Chrissie Hynde's vocals in a way that adds so much to this classic. I can still remember buying the single. I was 15. I'm now 60. That late 70s to early 80s era was an incredible time for music. I was privileged to be there.
Me 2
Yes, _we were_ privileged! I even met that caddy, with Fun Boy Three, and Madness, in it, at work
I was born in 1990 and completely agree with this. Late seventies and early eighties is my favorite era in music. So much going on that I like - punk, new wave, power pop, NWOBHM, etc.
I still eat at every diner in every state I visit, hoping to run into Chrissie, and arguing with my wife everytime I stop at one!! 🤔
Chrissy Hynde is on a freakin' PINNACLE as far as I am concerned.
Yeah I had a major crush on her when I was a teenager.
Pinnacle: Chrissie Hynde for soft rock/Pop (Blondie number 2), Donna Summer for Dance/Groove, Whitney Housten/Aretha for Soul music, Anne Wilson for hard rock Linda Rondstad and Karen Carpenter, for the rest of general "quality" music. Sorry, but no Madonna on my personal "pinnacle list"..
Yes indeed!
The first bad girl of rock. I want to be her except I have no talent ha ha ha ha
61 years old and some tears in my eyes watching this. Chrissie so vulnerable and sweet. But more so seeing two young, talented men who are no longer with us.
😅
Dam that hit deep brother
Always tinged with sadness as far as I'm concerned but this never ages.
I remember when this came out. Always a favorite. Beauty and talent.
At 71, I still dig Chrissy Hind, her sound, her style, her rock and roll....she's still special!
I'm with you Patrick
I'm 74 and I agree with you 👍
75 here and I couldn't agree with you more.
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Going 61 and still today this song sounds fresh and sexy! Love Chrissie,she’s super hottie! Love Pretenders
The pretenders finest tune.
I consider Chrissie Hynde to be the best female rock singer in the last 43 years. She has always been backed by great musicians as well. 👍👍👍
I saw the Pretenders open for Guns N Roses last summer. She sounds remarkably the same! It was pretty amazing
@@maddesi2709 Haven't been to one of her shows yet, but I've seen some recent shows on YT. She's still got it. She'll probably be rockin' into her 90's like Tony Bennett did. All of those healthy vegetables she eats are keepin' her young. 👍👍👍
Your So Right ! She F___ Rocks!!
Best women singers in the past 43 have to be Taylor swift, faith hill, Trisha yearwood - then Chrissie Hynde
@@robertweir5313Taylor Swift before Chrissie? You absolute plank 🙄
My boyfriend once gave me a mixed tape and this was the first track on it,11 months later we married and it lasted for 28 fantastic years. Sadly he passed away 4 years ago. I've managed to put it behind me but now every time I hear this piece I automatically have to smile and laugh to myself. Music is definitely the best medicine 😊
honor to his memory Lady. Strength to you.
@@michaelkaiser1864 That is so nice of you , thanks for that 👌
@@sharonkremer614 my wife and i are like yall. We met through mutual friends at our hangout (a general store). The owner was our den mother and many times confidant.
6 years later my friend was in a bind and needed a place to crash. She was then 19 and i 24. She never moved out lol.3 years later married. 27 years this october.
@@michaelkaiser1864 And who said marriages don't last because that's also a lovely story. It's crazy how a simple but also great piece of music can bring up such beautiful memories. Good luck for the coming future and don't stop believing in the magic of music 😉
@@sharonkremer614 amen sister :)
Oh Chrissy, you don't have to work to capture my attention. You had me at "got brass in pocket."
I'm 56 now and when I hear this, I'm 12 years old again. Singing into my hairbrush, shaking it in front of my mirror...belting it out like I believed that I was something special.
Damn I love this song.
My favorite song to do Karaoke, transports me into a confident badass!
I am 56 and had the same experience 🎉😂
I am 56 and had the same experience 🎉😂
You're special, so special 💗 😊
AMEN!!!!! I'm 57 and I know all about singing in the hair brush. It was fun then and it still is😂😂
I have been looking for this song for about 30+ years, with a lack of knowledge about it and only remembering partial lyrics..... and I just found it!
🙌🏼 Chrissie Hynde has thee most beautiful voice (even now - it seems it hasn't changed at all) and the Pretenders are incredible! 💗
Brings back happy memories when i was in my twenties borrowing MTV tapes from a shop in my subdivision and going to concerts. Those days were one of my happiest when I look back now. Going on 62 now.
Happy until those tapes unwound in the player 😳
@@mickjagger8439 screwtapes something or another
@@jacklyn6253 huh?
The world sure has changed. Oh how I long for simpler times....
Oh yeah! There are still concerts out there!
this tune just never gets old ....her voice is amazing !!!!
but Chrissie Hinde hate This song
@@MrPyjamarama wether she hated it or loved it.... she still sang it brilliantly i reckon 🙂
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Love them period.
@@MrPyjamarama i hated it too
Somebody give the bass player his flowers for this one.
Pete Farnum
Sadly he’s been dead for more than 40 years, as has the guitarist and co-writer, James Honeyman-Scott.
The 3 male customers were her fellow band members of Pretenders.
My best friend and I are both late 50’s black women & salute this song on so many levels. In fact we both went through a really tough patch in our individual lives & didn’t talk to each other for about 2 years. My friend heard this song playing over the sound system at Burlington’s & was moved enough to reconnect with me. We talk & laugh daily on how it takes a person to use every thing that makes them uniquely special to be special. This is the main salute as well as the song kicks ass! I came here to share it with my 30 year old daughter to keep her encouraged by its message. A great share, thank you!🫶🏾👏🏽
I was in the kitchen cooking a while back and heard my 20 year daughter put on this track in her bedroom upstairs , I loved the fact not only a fantastic song that always rocks you but also the generations coming up keeping the old classics alive . I couldn’t help singing at the top of my voice and doing a boogie in the kitchen in my 60’s ..love my daughter and Thank you the Pretenders 🙏❤️🇦🇺
Chrissie is definitely special. Love her. Love this song.
She's a doll
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72-year old and this is always one that perks me up. Love Chrissie and her music.
Her beautiful voice really shines in this song.
Chrissy is such swagger, grace and that je nai sais quoi. Just can't be measured.
well said.
no doubt. something about her most cannot explain
chrissy hynde elle est nikel ! sa voix est genial et sa personnalité aussi ! pas touche a toutes ces meufs du rock !
Oh, I don't know...!
James, Martin and Pete are incredibly handsome dudes
I’m 53 years old and Afro American and I grew up on all types of music and this is one of them brass in the pocket by the pretenders that in the early 80s hit hard and this song I still feel and love this song till this day 👍🏾
why do Americans always have to state their "race" before talking about their taste in music...Im curious.
Me too👍
@@pocojoyo Because, unfortunately, a lot of people in America don’t listen to music outside their own culture, that’s why.
I’m black too and I grew up loving this music. Still do.
@@MsAppassionata Im green and I like this song !
I am 51& My Dearest Friend who past away in January of this yr would have turned 57. He use to Sing& dance for me to Lift my spirits up when I was down & stressed.
So I dedicated this to him for his Birthday.
I Miss Corey very much. He was Very Special to me. I'll miss him til I die
Still an absolutely perfect song, I just love the sultry and wistful vocals of Chrissie. Never mind the silly video, this is a true classic.
I love Chrissie's delivery on this one - great voice!
Yes, her use of note bends and swells make it sound so anticipating and hot! Also, the audible breathing in her voice, it really adds to the sensuous quality. She sounds both vulnerable, spunky and longing at the same time.
Christie hynde is absolutely amazing. They’re ain’t too many singers that make me cry. She’s one of ‘em.
Cry, Peter?
Give me a break.....
@@chriskeith5742You are a PUNK!!!! LEAVE YOUR NEGATIVE COMMENTS AT THE DOOR!!!!
@@chriskeith5742HEY CHRISSIE KEITH, LEAVE YOUR NEGATIVE COMMENTS AT THE DOOR!!!!
@@chriskeith5742 Yes cry. You know what, it takes a man to cry. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Chrissie Hynde hit the scene like a meteor.
Writer, singer, looks, musicianship, brains & balls, she was the entire package.
No weakness anywhere.
Hasn't been anyone else like her since.
If Aretha was the Queen of Soul, Chrissie was the Queen of Rock..
Pure talent and unique no one like her.
And a philosopher. She will often hold up a copy of the Bhagavad-gita, the Sanskrit scripture spoken by Lord Krishna. If you look at her picture you can see she wears tulsi mala, the necklace made of scared wood worn by Hare Krishna devotees.
Queen of Rock..
Agreed man, Chrissie was/is fucking amazing. SOOO talented in every respect.
She was always in thick of music revolutions... She came up in same burgeoning punk scene in england
Can someone please invent a Time Machine so I can go back to the 80s and spend the rest of my life there
i wanna hitch that ride
Along with Devo, the best things to come from Akron, Ohio since tires.
What a legacy her and her band left behind.
Agreed. I saw them play in a bar in 1982. It was a college bar and most of the patrons didn't want to pay the 8 bucks to see the concert because it was their beer money so there was probably around 50 people there. I didn't know they were playing that night but paid the 8 bucks and had 2 bucks left over for a beer. They played on the dance floor and I stood in front a few feet away from Chrissie and watching them play the entire concert. Very fun and cool times.
@@LancelotLink1 Lucky you! Along with Pat Benatar and Ann Wilson (and Suzi Quatro) Chrissie is a natural rocker. I would have given up the beer and stuck the $2 in her tip jar.😁😁
@@rocco... Yeah she is. Most of the people who paid to get in were sitting at the tables around the dance floor but I stood on the dance floor in front of Chrissie and she kept pointing at me and I was like I think she wants to party with me afterwards LOL. Man I wish I could have partied with her.
@@LancelotLink1 She would have made an interesting Emma Peel.
@@rocco... Agreed. I think shes pretty hot in this Brass In Pocket video.
You really are "special" Chrissie. You and the band kicked ass BIG TIME.
Love Chrissy, and she was and still is Special ❤❤❤
I am 55 and have heard this since I was a teenager and never saw the video. It made me cry. Ugh.
makes me cry too ❤️
I am also 55 and it was the first music video I ever saw (you never forget your first, right) What different lives we have led!
Same. like she deserves a happy ending and he was obviously into her.
Ffs lol you'd collapse at MJs earth song vid if *this* makes you cry
@@gillymac9363 What's wrong with Earth Song? And/or with crying at this video or Earth Song? 😂😂 *weeps copiously into elbow* Leave David alone!! 😂
80s kid here who grew up with such classic tunes...it's 2024 they don't make them like this nowadays...
Same here!!
Love you Chrissy 💓. Nobody else like you ♀️. You're special 🤩
This is such a awesome song never gets old
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@Mr Cranky Appears you are aptly named!
Вона є мелодичною. По справжньому.
A classic single from one of the most solid, song-to-song albums of the 80s. I cried when Jimmy died, was heartbroken when Farndon died, which brought an end to this lineup. Every song on this album was an intense tune.
It's amazing that the band even survived those losses; Chrissie has said that the determination to make up for the loss, just when they felt they had so much more to give, has contributed to the longevity of the band.
I think the loss was made even worse for her personally by the fact that Farndon died less than a year after he had been fired while Honeyman.-Scott died just two days after he had been part of the decision to sack Farndon. The vibes of guilt and recrimination around the band during those months are easy to imagine - also, the fear of how they might look in the music press.
this was released in the 70s. not 80s
クリッシー.ハインドは好きなボーカリストの1人
青春だ～！
40 years later Chrissie is still special
❤❤❤❤❤❤
TAINT. SHE SOMETHING AND A BAG OF CHIPS
Fuck Yeah I Love Her I Love That Chick For Reals Fo Sho Yay Yaya !
Still love this song. She's so beautiful
I was also thinking how special she still is
I was 12 in 1979. I remember this song so vividly. Funny how music becomes the colors, in the paintings, of our lives.
This song got my teenage heartbroken self out of bed!
Great perspective!
I was 9 in 1979, but still remember this song like it was yesterday.
@@greedo2660 Released in 1980.
So great in 2022
40 ans plus tard, rien à changé, je suis toujours amoureux de Chrissie. Et j'adore toujours les Pretenders
I once heard a music reviewer call this song "the most perfectly-composed pop song of all time". I'll never forget that quote! 😊
An incomparable song and an incomparable band. For many of us, they defined the late 70s and early 80s.
Yes, absolutely, one of the essential bands of those new wave years. This is such a great song, half-understatedly erotic and with that tight, laid-back beat (there was some buried soul influence to them , kinda like the jazz undercurrent of early Dire Straits).
Rather sad that the influence of such a singular band has waned to nothing...
100% definitely defined that time.
They did define the late 70s and early 80s (1978 - 1984).
@@louise_rose I think Chrissie can't escape her upbringing in Akron, Ohio, (relatively) near Detroit, and all the Motown influence that had on her. You can hear it in her singing voice, I think. There is always in undertone of R & B.
I saw the Pretenders in concert in 85 or 86. It was phenomenal. She gave 5 or 6 encores! I loved it.
Jealous! 😀
The best 3 minutes and 1 second of music you'll ever hear.
they are the coolest of the cool! like all your music!
I'm 61. Nice to know those who appreciate this music
1978...45rpm....i was in 12 grade...I heard this song... everywhere.....Now it is 2023 ...it is still Great...A Real Classic!!!
52 here! Grew up with late 60's lived through the 70's and 80's. GenX
That math does not work
Brings tears to my eyes - such blessed times, Chrissie, James, Pete and Martin you made my world sparkle...
It just brought tears to my eyes too and I don't even know why - probably because she's awesome; that time will never return, we're all getting older and some of us missed out on life. Chrissie clearly didn't.
Feel the same.....I just thought it would go on and on...
All PURE TALENT ,WHAT A GREAT BAND THEY WERE !! BLONDIE ,PAT BENATAR ETC,PRETENDERS ,HEART!SUCH GREAT BANDs IN MUSIC THEY ALL WERE AHEAD OF THE TIME (THAT WAS) ,SO SPECIAL 👍✌️😎🎸🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶!!!!!!!
Ha ce morceaux !!! Que des bon souvenirs d'adolescents. Un monde disparu
I'm only 7 years old, but I remember being just 4 and my grandparents listening to this on compact disc. They told me then that they harbour such fond sentiments of 1979, of rocking my father to sleep in his cot to Chrissie Hynde's dulcet tones in this very track. My father is now 45 and often listens to The Pretenders - the "soundtrack to my childhood" so he often tells me. Ha ha, I do wish I'd been there with him during the 1980s.
Oh yeah, well I'm only 3 and I remember listening it inutero during my second trimester.
No finer than THE PRETENDERS! 41 years later and she's still fine.
You got that right Michelle !
She's amazing
Yes, she is.
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One of those songs that both absolutely defines a time and era but also completely transcends it to become a universal timeless classic.
Chrissie Hynde is so special. Her voice is like silk for ears.
Always one of my favorites by the Pretenders.
Pretenders! Damn I love Chrissie! What a voice...
Chrissie is pure charisma, and this song perfectly captures it. Totally unique.
Still special.
1979---I was working for a department store in downtown LA; I went to an electronics trade show which introduced the Sony Walkman to the world, but these little things called 'music videos' were being shown on projection tv's. This video attracted more attention than the Walkman!
@@michelangelo144 The cutting edge technologies at that Trade Show were things like the Bone Fone (google or TH-cam it)- which was basically a radio that sat on your neck and shoulders and provided you with personal tunes... Laser Discs were all the rage (I remember one company showing a compiled disc with clips from Jaws II, Elton John video for a song called “Ego”, etc)... the videocassette-format battle between VHS and Beta was big news (Sony had the Betamax machine but still lost out to the VHS format machines)...
Cheers!
understandably so. yeah!
Are you sure it was 1979? Because this video was released in early 1980 according to VH1's The Big 80's which has been off the air for more than 20 years. I used to have the record and not only it's printed and copyrighted 1979. It's also copyrighted 1980. And the album was released in January, 1980.
@@jasondudash5501 the single was released in 1979, before the full album... the video was made to promote the single on British music shows so it was released with the single. That VH-1 show used to drive me nuts with incorrect info.
@@leebarbier5257 When an album is released, sometimes the video doesn't get released until a year later. Especially if the album is released at the end of the year. But I do feel your pain about VH1 music videos showing a year off. But it's usually because they weren't released until then. So I'm only putting what I remember seeing on VH1. Do you remember The Tubes? They've always been my favorite group. My favorite album by The Tubes is The Completion Backward Principle, released in April, 1981. The first song on that album is Talk To Ya Later, which is my favorite song of all time and in my book it's the best rock 'n' roll song ever written! Whenever I watched VH1's The Big 80's, I've always waited for The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later video to come on and to see what year it would show. 1981 or 1982? But I never did get to see The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on VH1's The Big 80's. But I got to see The Tubes' She's A Beauty on The Big 80's and it showed 1983 which is the correct year and the song first charted on April 9th of that year. So if I were to see The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on The Big 80's and it showed, 1982, it would've drove my up a wall! But a high school friend told me he saw The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on VH1's The Big 80's, but he doesn't remember the exact year it showed. But he told me he was almost positive that it showed 1981. But on the music sheet of Talk To Ya Later, the copyright date shows 1982 and I'm mad about that! I wrote to the publisher but I couldn't get them to update it to 1981 instead of 1982. So I don't blame you at all! I feel the same way you do. Especially with The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later being copyrighted 1982 on sheet music. And because I never got to see The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later on VH1's The Big 80's, I put 1981 on the youtube comments of The Tubes' Talk To Ya Later video which is the correct year. And I like it like that.
Love this song!♥️ Chrissie was so edgy & rocker chic cool. Love the classic heavy eye makeup. She wore it well.💯
I always turn up the radio when this song comes on.
Back in the day I was being trained for bodybuilding competition and this was my song for it . Perfect. 💝 Chrissie and Pretenders.
I lived through the 80's ...BEST Music ever made in the 80's I'm 58 to this day the memories will never be forgotten....💯💯💯💯 That's all I ever listen to the 80's
Spent so many years without having been drawn to this most splendid piece of western culture in recent times. So, thank you, TH-cam. This song is so superb! The video is just perfect, it feels like it explicitly gives priority to the music, to the song, to the singer, in perfect accompany.
You can wait on my table anytime. I think it was 1980 ? I am now 60. I was a dishwasher at LaRosa's pizzeria in 1980. All of the waitresses wore dresses. Give me one day of life in the 1980's, and I would give up 100 days of life in these times.
1980: me buying record
2020: my kids are playing this.
That's why i am here.
It's special, so special.
As a musician, I will take this era in my dreams over this stupid time we are living though now.
Good kids
Good for you! Me too. Kids, and now grandkids. Giving them their inoculations from this vapid age of music. Bravo.
@@chuckgoede4778 there is some incredible music out there atm if u look for it. Try TTB, Markus King, just for starters
♥️♥️♥️♥️
I am 63 and this song takes me immediately back to the late 70's and early 80's.
I still love it im a sextie one years,old and still love it
Just saw her open for the Foo Fighters in Seattle. 72, and she's still got it.
As soon as I hear this great song it reminds me of being about 5 or 6 yrs of age, in about 1980 or 1981, being interested in 261 Piccadilly Radio station and the sound of Manchester as it was in 1980, the cold rains and snow, the great old Whsmith shop, Sarah's cafe in the Arndale, Top Shop, Kendals, Lewis', Debenhams...... What a marvellous city it was back then.
My wife absolutely loved Chrissy.🌹
Chrissie's vocals made a huge impact on me when I was very young. This song in particular helped create in me a strong admiration for powerful women.
I a m a 61 years young Irishman fan from Dublin 😊i love this The Prentenders song Brass in Pocket Wonderful Brilliant song with the Wonderful vocals of the Brilliant Chrisse Hynde😊
My favorite music video ever, because it beautifully highlights both Chrissie's brave front and the vulnerability behind it, which is basically the theme behind every song she ever wrote. Most music videos were just commercials for the song, but this was a work of art.
LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!
Love it, 80's music is like a time machine that will take me back to a better place and time until my last breath. 😢❤
So setimental about then and 90,s myself sometimes!😀
Right? This is some powerful music here, revives the memories of being young and carefree!
This was released in the 70s. not 80s
Yes MTV was fascinating, it supposedly folded last year. There was more music shows that weren't contests😅
MTV days....song still rocks today
This song never lost its touch. It just got better with age. It still sounds as good as it always did
still got the single
@@lorainewinn6798 I would like to find it sometime
Made it my phone ring tone 😎
It's still a great song
instaBlaster.
I saw her open for Stevie Nicks 6 years ago...Chrissie stole the show. ❤
I've loved this song ever since I first heard it over my car radio back in the day. I have Alexa play it for me every once in a while. It's just one of those tunes that grabs you and never lets go. Great music really does stand the test of time, doesn't it?
I'd been having one of those days while attending college, and heard that she was going to be playing in The Pub on campus. I sat in the front with my buddy and she came over to where we were sitting. This song just started and she sat on my lap for the entire song. My bad day became a great day just because of her!
Epic story !!! Love when life throws us a curve and we blast it out of the park
That had to be........awkward 😳😏
@@Dreyno I bet it was awesome. Chrissie Hynde in your lap and singing to YOU? A dream come true!
awkward...
@@bongodave13 I was clearly too subtle.
I was a 2 yr old toddler when this came out, I have heard this song thousands of times. FM radio loves playing this song to death, but every time I hear it I'm a little boy again, Thank you Chrissy and Pretenders, it's a sweet memory.
I truly miss music videos on MTV. I wish they would come back. I could watch videos all day. Especially awesome ones like this song.
@Ruby Tuesday I think it's because we remember how, we heard an watched it, the memories r complete then u watched it the way u remember
TH-cam TV has MTV classic and they play tons of music videos!
@@KristenSullivanMusic thank you so much
Yeah, I remember watching MTV and other tv channels/shows in the 1980s/early 90s and getting introuced to lots of exciting new bands that way. Of course many of those videos are now on TH-cam, but today's bands and record labels don't really come up with as powerful songs and videos as back then!
Most of the good stuff on TH-cam, when it comes to music videos and live clips, is from bands that launched their careers more than twenty years ago, or even forty years ago... :(
Same here..I know we have You Tube..but still miss MTV early 80's.. especially Rick Springfield..
She’s fab. Great voice
She's a classic
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Listnin to all the Pretenders music makes me cry for the old times. I love their songs !
I saw these guys open for the re-formed Who in St. Louis in 1980. First American tour, unknown by most. Fantastic band. Chrissie in all black leather, hair all teased the f*ck up, first song, "The Hurt". Martin Chambers hitting the drums so hard the sticks flew right out of his hands and into the crowd.
The Hurt?
I think I was like 14 or so when this hit it... great song. Incredible voice, Chrissie.
Saw them on the first two US tours. The epitome of rock at the time.
What a woman!! Any man who appreciates a powerful woman would love Chrissie.....she enchanted young men and I'm sure older men too...stunning music! xx
46 yo now, was so young, raised south of France, and yet this song from another continent resonates in me as if to this day, what a song, what a tile to be alive ❤️
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65 and I'm still special when I hear this song. 🎶
I got brass in a pocket
I got bottle, I'm gonna use it
Intention, I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Got motion, restrained emotion
Been driving, Detroit leaning
No reason, just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my
Imagination
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here, no one like me
I'm special (special)
So special (special)
I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me
I got rhythm, I can't miss a beat
I got a new skank, so reet
Got something, I'm winking at you
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice
Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style, gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers, gonna use my, my, my
Imagination
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here, no one like me
I'm special (special)
So special (special)
I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me
'Cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here, no one like me
I'm special (special)
So special (special)
I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me
Oh-oh-oh
Anyway you want
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It’s hard to believe I’m growing old now when I hear this song I was a young teenager now I’m in my 50s it takes me back to that special time nothing will ever be like my childhood 80s! So much great music in all genre.
I agree with you there. I was 6 years old when this song came out. It still sounds as good as it always has. It never lost its touch. It is really great
80’s childhood was the best!
Growing up in the 80’s was the best 🎹🎤 🎶 🎵 🎼 📻
you"re so right!!
I've been going through and making a play list for myself and when listening to certain ones from the early '80's, when my marriage broke up, my parents, kids and I moved out of state to my and my mom's home state I thought, "Oh goody! A NEW start!" Yeah...oh well, so much for that idea...especially for as backwards woman I was...men haven't changed, though music has, and my sons are all grown. I'm a proud Gramma, even though I rarely get to see my granddaughters...but, they're all fine! The WORST thing over the past decades was the loss of my beautiful son, Michael, in 2015...fentanyl. But, he had had back surgery and the script was real...TOTALLY above board and legal. But he had suffered so for year after year and didn't have a clue about fentanyl and what it would do to him...I'd rather it had been me. Thanks to anyone who shares my words. I would listen/read anyone, any time, because at my age (76) I've been through hell and high water, and would never refuse to listen to anyone's words....
Saw her live in Leicester last night. Still got it !
Resides within her range with such acceptance of it, and confidence and joy, revelling within her range!
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams..
get eckhart tolles power of now
I so agree with that statement 😢😢😢
It’s always “now”.
is that from a play, or did he say it?
"Preserve your memories; they're all that's left you." -- Simon & Garfunkel
I was 21 when 'the' MTV went on air, the Pretenders were one of the few bands worth watching. As you kids abbreviate today Omg, I'm getting Old! Rock until you drop! STAY HEALTHY PEOPLE.
She has sooo much soul, swagger, and harmony in her voice. I have nothing but Love for this ❤.
Nice to see the four original band members. RIP James and Pete.