Pretenders II
by Pretenders

Pretenders II by Pretenders
Year: 1981
Release date: 1981-08-15
Overall rank: 3,359th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 146 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (56th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (498th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,359th)

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Pretenders bestography

Pretenders II is ranked 3rd best out of 18 albums by Pretenders on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pretenders is Pretenders which is ranked number 582 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,907.

Pretenders album bestography « Higher ranked (1,659th)
Learning To Crawl
This album (3,359th)
Pretenders II
Lower ranked (8,166th) »
Get Close

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Pretenders II rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,359th | 1980s rank: 498th | 1981 rank: 56th

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Pretenders II ratings

Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 146 votes)
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04/09/2026 16:36 covecove  Ratings distribution  6,60073/100
 
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04/06/2026 05:24 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,58570/100
 
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02/28/2026 04:39 Rivera  Ratings distribution  2,03682/100
 
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12/31/2025 17:01 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,63865/100
 
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11/12/2025 23:30 NYAndreas  Ratings distribution  1,43344/100

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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 74.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.2.

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75/100
From 02/19/2024 18:47 | #302070
Not as good as the debut, but still quite effective rock album
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From 07/07/2016 14:50 | #170784
Not as great as the first album but still very good. Great songs as always, but just a little short of that magic that made their first album so special.
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90/100
From 03/19/2016 00:53 | #162179
This band was hip in the 80's. Their sound and material has held up fairly well over the years. I still listen to them once in a blue moon.
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70/100
From 10/17/2014 20:32 | #124673
'Message Of Love' one of their best tracks, played this album recently for first time better than i expected.
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85/100
From 07/07/2012 19:33 | #46088
Very strong, consistent follow up. Best songs: “Jealous Dogs,” “Louie Louie,” “Talk of the Town,” “Message of Love,” and “I Go to Sleep.”
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