Extended Play (Pretenders EP)

Extended Play
EP by The Pretenders
Released March 30, 1981
Recorded 1980–81
Genre Rock
Length 17:45
Label Sire Records
Producer Chris Thomas
The Pretenders chronology
Pretenders
(1980)
Extended Play
(1981)
Pretenders II
(1981)

Extended Play is an EP released by new wave band The Pretenders. "Message of Love" and "Talk of the Town" were included on their second album released later in the year. "Porcelain" and "Cuban Slide", outtakes from the first album, were included on the 2006 remastered edition of Pretenders, as well as the Pirate Radio boxed set. The blistering live version of "Precious" from Central Park has not been reissued as of 2007.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Chrissie Hynde unless otherwise indicated.

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Side one

  1. "Message of Love" – 3:24
  2. "Talk of the Town" – 2:42
  3. "Porcelain" (Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott) – 3:53

Side two

  1. "Cuban Slide" (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott) – 4:29
  2. "Precious" – 3:17 (Live in Central Park, August 30, 1980)

Personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1981 Billboard Pop Albums 27