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“Hymn To Her” by The Pretenders
From the album Get Close (1986)
“Hymn To Her” by The Pretenders appears on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1986 on the album Get Close. Its best result is #760 on the CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,117 alternative song of all time.
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"Hymn to Her" came from Get Close, the Pretenders' fourth album, in 1986, and it isn't one of Chrissie Hynde's own songs: Meg Keene, a friend of hers from high school, wrote it. It's a song about womanhood across a whole lifetime, calling up the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone, and one encyclopedia of modern witchcraft even reads pagan themes into it. Hynde, better known for sharper stuff, sings it straight and tender.
Jimmy Iovine and Bob Clearmountain produced, with Clearmountain mixing and Bruce Lampcov engineering, and the arrangement keeps its head bowed: Hynde and Robbie McIntosh on guitars, Tommy Mandel's synthesizer, Chucho Merchán on bass and Simon Phillips on drums. It reached number eight in Britain, and it has stayed a favorite on adult contemporary radio.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 760 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 811 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 813 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 813 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 813 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 813 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 813 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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