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Loose Screw
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Studio album by
Released12 November 2002
RecordedJune 2001 – April 2002
Studio
  • RAK (London)
  • Sony Music (London)
  • Axis (New York City)
Genre Alternative rock
Length42:40
Label Artemis
Producer Jonathan Quarmby, Kevin Bacon
The Pretenders chronology
Greatest Hits
(2000)
Loose Screw
(2002)
Pirate Radio
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly B− [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1] [4]
Robert Christgau A− [5]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Spin 7/10 [1]
Stylus Magazine C+ [7]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
USA Today Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Loose Screw is the eighth studio album by rock group the Pretenders, and was released in 2002. It was the first time that the Pretenders had the same credited band line-up (Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers, Andy Hobson and Adam Seymour) on three consecutive studio albums.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Chrissie Hynde and Adam Seymour, except where noted.

Original album

  1. "Lie to Me" – 2:23
  2. "Time" – 3:58
  3. "You Know Who Your Friends Are" – 3:30
  4. "Complex Person" – 2:47
  5. "Fools Must Die" – 2:36
  6. "Kinda Nice, I Like It" – 3:37
  7. "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" (Hynde, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly) – 3:28
  8. "I Should Of" – 4:03
  9. "Clean Up Woman" – 3:25
  10. "The Losing" – 4:51
  11. "Saving Grace" (Hynde, Steinberg, Kelly) – 3:20
  12. "Walk like a Panther" (Jarvis Cocker, Richard Barratt, Dean Honer, Jason Buckle) – 4:42

2003 special edition bonus tracks (Eagle Records)

  1. "Complicada" ["Complex Person" Spanish version] – 2:57
  2. "I Wish You Love" (Charles Trenet, Albert Beach) – 10:32 [from Eye of the Beholder soundtrack, 1999]

2013 CD and DVD edition (Salvo Sound & Visions)

The CD contains the twelve tracks from the original album.

DVD – Loose in L.A.

  1. "Lie to Me"
  2. "Time"
  3. "Message of Love" (Hynde)
  4. My Baby (Hynde)
  5. "Talk of the Town" (Hynde)
  6. "You Know Who Your Friends Are"
  7. "Time the Avenger" (Hynde)
  8. "The Homecoming" (Hynde)
  9. "Up the Neck" (Hynde)
  10. "Fools Must Die"
  11. "My City Was Gone" (Hynde)
  12. "The Losing"
  13. "Biker" (Hynde)
  14. "Complex Person"
  15. "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" (Hynde, Steinberg, Kelly)
  16. "Back on the Chain Gang" (Hynde)
  17. "Don't Get Me Wrong" (Hynde)
  18. "Kid" (Hynde)
  19. "Rebel Rock Me" (Hynde)
  20. "Night in My Veins" (Hynde, Steinberg, Kelly)
  21. "Tattooed Love Boys" (Hynde)
  22. "Precious" (Hynde)
  23. "I'll Stand by You" (Hynde, Steinberg, Kelly)
  24. "Middle of the Road" (Hynde)
  25. "Mystery Archievement" (Hynde)
  26. "Brass in Pocket" (Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott)

Personnel

The Pretenders

Additional personnel

Bonus tracks

"Complicada"
"I Wish You Love"

Loose in L.A. DVD

Charts

Chart performance for Loose Screw
Chart (2002–2003)Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [9] 55
US Billboard 200 [10] 179
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [10] 8

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