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Extended Play by The Pretenders
Extended Play is an EP by The Pretenders, released in 1981. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Cuban Slide”, on 10 lists with a best position of #100.
Extended Play was the Pretenders' 1981 stopgap for American and Australian fans, a Sire EP that never came out in Britain, where the same songs went out as a pair of singles instead. It gathers two cuts that would turn up on Pretenders II later that year, "Talk of the Town" and "Message of Love", which borrows a line from Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, plus two outtakes from the debut album, "Porcelain" and "Cuban Slide", and a live "Precious" taped in New York's Central Park on 30 August 1980 that you couldn't get anywhere else.
It's the original band at full stretch: Chrissie Hynde up front on vocals and guitar, James Honeyman-Scott's guitar ringing and slashing, Pete Farndon on bass and Martin Chambers on drums driving hard. Within two years both Honeyman-Scott and Farndon were dead, which gives these tapes an extra ache.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Extended Play on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuban Slide | 10 | #100 | – | 1980–2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.