Points for quoting Oscar Wilde in the line "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars," however. Pretenders - Message of Love Lyrics Artist: Pretenders Album: Miscellaneous Genre: Rock Heyo SONGLYRICS just got interactive. It's a subtle effect, but it's crucial to the success of the song, which otherwise is a fairly standard rocker with undistinguished "love power" lyrics. Cannily, however, Chambers fills in the dropped beats with skittering snare fills that give the song a paradoxically driving rhythm. Somewhat like "Tattooed Love Boys" on the debut, "Message of Love" proves that the rhythm section of bassist Pete Farndon and drummer Martin Chambers was one of the most inventive of its time: the verses are based on a stop-start beat that in other hands would be all angular and artsy, willfully undanceable. Overshadowed by the sheer pop perfection of its immediate predecessor, "Talk of the Town," and hindered by the not-unjustified received wisdom that Pretenders II is a spotty follow-up to the band's sterling debut, "Message of Love" is unfairly overlooked by all but the Pretenders' biggest fans. The Pretenders - Message of Love - 1981 (Better Graphics & Audio) 3:28 Message of Love.
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