Catalog Number: 1-23980 Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely; a few light hairlines (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edge; light-scuffing and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (photos/credits); seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with some wear. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of some use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Middle Of The Road Back On The Chain Gang Time The Avenger Watching The Clothes Show Me Thumbelina My City Was Gone Thin Line Between Love And Hate I Hurt You 2000 Miles About The Record: Learning to Crawl, by the Pretenders, was released after a hiatus, during which time James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon both died of drug overdoses. Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers initially recruited Rockpile's Billy Bremner and Big Country's Tony Butler to fill the line-up of the band in 1982. Bremner played guitar and Butler played bass on the band's September 1982 single Back on the Chain Gang/My City Was Gone, both sides of which were later included on Learning to Crawl. As the album sessions got under way, Bremner, Graham Parker's bass player Andrew Bodnar, and Paul Carrack (formerly of Squeeze, Ace and Roxy Music) played guitar, bass and piano respectively for the track Thin Line Between Love and Hate. Finally, Robbie McIntosh (guitar) and Malcolm Foster (bass) were recruited to join Hynde and Chambers, and the band was now officially a quartet. It was this line-up that recorded the rest of the tracks featured on Learning to Crawl. The November 1983 single 2000 Miles/Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law) was the newly reconstituted foursome's first release, followed shortly by the full Learning to Crawl album in June 1983. The album's title of Learning to Crawl was given in honor of Chrissie Hynde's then-newborn daughter, Natalie Rae Hynde. She was learning to crawl at the time that Chrissie was trying to determine a name for the album.