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“Bad Boys Get Spanked” by The Pretenders
From the album Pretenders II (1981)
“Bad Boys Get Spanked” by The Pretenders appears on 13 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1981 and 2011. It was first released in 1981 on the album Pretenders II. Its best result is #44 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1981. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #44 alternative song of 1981 and #1,967 alternative song of all time.
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Chrissie Hynde wrote "Bad Boys Get Spanked" alone, words and music, and it landed on Pretenders II, the band's second album, which Sire put out in August 1981 with Chris Thomas in the producer's chair.
Listen back now and it's a band on borrowed time. Pretenders II was the last record by the original lineup: a year later the group lost two members within a single week, with bassist Pete Farndon fired and guitarist James Honeyman-Scott dead. Farndon himself died in 1983, and it took a rebuilt band to make Learning to Crawl. The album still did the business before the fall, going to number 7 in Britain, number 10 on the Billboard 200 and gold in the States.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 44 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1981 | 106 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1015 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 761 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 761 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 761 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 761 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 761 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 761 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1843 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1794 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1822 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1869 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1950 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
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