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Get Close by The Pretenders
Get Close is an album by The Pretenders, released in 1986. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 44 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Don't Get Me Wrong”, on 26 lists with a best position of #8.
Get Close, the Pretenders' fourth album, landed late in 1986, on Real in Britain and Sire in America, and it's Chrissie Hynde steering a band that had been blown apart and rebuilt. The deaths of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon had left her the only constant, and after this one drummer Martin Chambers would be gone for a long while too: Hynde fired him, later admitting that grief over his lost bandmates had been hurting his playing.
The sound is sleeker and more grown-up, a glossy frame around Hynde's tough, smoky croon, with guitarist Robbie McIntosh, bassist T. M. Stevens and drummer Blair Cunningham in the new lineup. "Don't Get Me Wrong" is pure bounce, all breezy jangle and swing, and "My Baby" has a warmer glow. Both went to number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the band's best showings there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Get Close on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Get Me Wrong | 26 | #8 | – | 1986–2026 | |
| 2 | My Baby | 11 | #83 | – | 1986–2005 | |
| 3 | Hymn To Her | 7 | #760 | – | 1999–2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.