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“Time The Avenger” by The Pretenders

From the album Learning to Crawl (1983)

“Time The Avenger” by The Pretenders appears on 18 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1989 and 2014. It was first released in 1983 on the album Learning to Crawl. Its best result is #275 on the WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,430 alternative song of all time.

18countdowns
2stations
#275best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1989–2014years charted

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"Time the Avenger" comes from Learning to Crawl, the album the Pretenders released in 1983, with Chris Thomas producing and Steve Churchyard engineering. Chrissie Hynde wrote it and sings it, and she shares the guitar work with Robbie McIntosh, while Malcolm Foster plays bass and Martin Chambers holds down the drums.

It's a taut, driving rocker with the two guitars tangling and ringing off each other, and Hynde's voice cool, knowing and a little wounded, like she's already seen how this ends.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

All Rock Formats

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1989 405 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1989) 500
1994 275 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) 500
1996 277 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) 498
1999 402 WOXY 97X WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) 500
1999 686 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
2000 686 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 687 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 687 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2003 687 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 687 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 687 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1750 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1719 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 1736 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 1772 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1848 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1912 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 1986 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013

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