This groovy cover by The Pretenders of the single "Thin Line Between Love and Hate", originally by The Persuaders, is amazing. Chrissie Hynde and team changed
the point of view from the dark song about a troubled relationship and in her voice it sounded melancholic, painful yet admirable greatly alligned with a great use
of the basslines, keyboards and backing vocals, the latter elementes made by guest Paul Carrack. It's definitely better than the original version and as a bonus
Pretenders have this video while The Persuaders might have live or TV performances. No worries and no complaints though.
But on the other hand we don't have much to analyze or go deeper in terms of the images being presented since it's a mere performance by the group, inside this closed space (a basement, maybe). Hynde shows her heart and soul while singing out, the band is all tune and they make the best of efforts to stay together, I mean must have been hard for this return of theirs, their first album abot guitarrist James Honeyman-Scott, dead from an overdose in 1982. Yet they kept going and released plenty of new and wonderful stuff and this cover has to be one of my favorite of all time. The way Hynde speaks and sings you can make those descriptions vivid in your mind by telling us about the companion who arrives early in the morning but far too late to be with her. Dangerous stuff. A quite fine music video. 8/10.
But on the other hand we don't have much to analyze or go deeper in terms of the images being presented since it's a mere performance by the group, inside this closed space (a basement, maybe). Hynde shows her heart and soul while singing out, the band is all tune and they make the best of efforts to stay together, I mean must have been hard for this return of theirs, their first album abot guitarrist James Honeyman-Scott, dead from an overdose in 1982. Yet they kept going and released plenty of new and wonderful stuff and this cover has to be one of my favorite of all time. The way Hynde speaks and sings you can make those descriptions vivid in your mind by telling us about the companion who arrives early in the morning but far too late to be with her. Dangerous stuff. A quite fine music video. 8/10.