The Pretender

How many of my Boomer generation X generation brother's and sister's still listening to the greatest music of all time?

At 65 i now know the meaning of this song & im grateful to God for the opportunity..What a ride & it aint over yet.

They don’t make singer songwriters like Jackson Browne anymore! Young people are truly missing out!

What I find most astonishing about this magnificent song is that Jackson Brown was only 28 years old when he wrote it. How could anyone that young, who had barely started living, write a song that perfectly captures the feelings of a middle-aged or older person looking back on their unfulfilled life?

Say a prayer for the pretender

This album pulls emotions from me like no other. 15/16 years old , my parents split up , family blown to bits. Left basically alone in the house . Me and this album had some rough times. So many tears. Afterward it took along time for me to play any songs again . Four years ago, I saw Jackson Browne in concert with my wife. When Jackson started the piano to the Pretender I started crying like a baby. I’m sitting here now my wife sleeping, my grown kids are hard working with successful jobs, respected adults. Yet I’m still tearing up YouTubing those songs.

I'm 69. Thanks, JB for being you! What a life and time in music, unbelievable!

Jackson Browne checks all the boxes. You can listen to him anytime anywhere anyplace. Any age. Any mood.

I listened to this over and over way back at the time. Now I'm nearly 75, and have yet to surrender. Keep up the good fight!

Supertramp, Billy Joel, ELO, Steely Dan, Jackson Browne...hard to believe how far we've fallen from these artists to the vapid, empty stuff that passes for art these days.

as a young man i never really cared for Jackson Browne, I'm 58 now. The other day at work this song came on my chef's Pandora station. Suddenly about halfway through I found myself transfixed and nearly moved to tears by it. This song speaks volumes about the lives we all lead in one way or another. Lives of quiet desperation. And the line about putting on dark glasses before making love makes me smile every time. Beautiful stuff.

After I left my first husband, and could not afford to live in my own place, friends let me move into the front parlour of their old home, and a bedroom for my older son. I wasn't there long before I gave up and moved into my parents' home. My younger son and I lived in the large front parlour, sectioned off into living & sleeping quarters, and every night I put this album into the cd player and listened to the entire album to help us sleep. Listening to it brings back so many memories. It helped me get through a difficult time in my life.

"Caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender" the American Dream detailed beautifully here

I'm only 65 (next Thursday) but listened, loved JB's music since 74 and got my wish 6 years ago when he came to Edinburgh. Beautiful emotion charged words. Thank you JB

15 when this came out. Alone, only child, single mom. Pretending my way through high school and life… still at 62.

Sign me up. HATE THE NEW NORMAL We had the best music ever.

I saw him at around age 16, hung over the seats and handed him a rose, never forget it, I'm in my 60s now. Still thrills me!

My Dad just passed this week. This was one of his favorite songs and he asked me to learn it. I'm mostly there. When it's up I will edit this comment with a link to my version. Great words, great time for American music.

Such a beautiful song. Touches every heart that hears it. I wish we still had singers like this one for a future generation.

I'm 75 still.listening!