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gsrox

"One Way or Another" killed. "Atomic' didn't place too high in Billboard but that metronome beat can't be denied.

gsrox

There are so many spectacular Blondie songs. Everything from "Heart of Glass" to "Atomic" to "One Way Or Another". Debbie kicks ass...end of discussion.

Akyho

When I was a kid my dad got us a PS1 and was excited as it was the first thing he ever had that could play music CD's. So he disappeared for 10 minutes and left me on the street one day. He came back with a handful of CD's. One of those CD's was a best of Blondie.

So me being a 7 year old or such never knew Blondie, yet somehow I ended up putting it on a music player we had a few years later and listening to it all.

One track always stuck to me (despite enjoying all of it) that was Rapture. It just got inside my head and told me a story, granted a weird one.

Something I found fascinating, if it was not for Blondie and their choice to make that song then rap/hip hop may have been stunted a little longer from getting into the public stream.

While Blondie did not sing the first commercial Rap song......Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses I think holds that.

Music is weird...yet awesome.

Basil C. Thurston III

Clem Burke is an amazing drummer, a machine behind the kit. Worth going to a Blondie show just to see him drum, IMO...

wrong note rod

I had only heard the big hits... the only Blondie CD we had, was Greatest hits.

These hits were awesome in just about every respect.

So I decided to explore their music and bought almost every CD by them, all at one time, from Amazon.

It seemed like the albums were very un-even. The hits were great but the album tracks, didnt do much for me, except maybe Parallel Lines, which is great from start to finish, a hella great effort.

I liked some of the more recent, post-reunion CDs better than the old ones.

Its funny to listen to bar bands try to play One Way or Another.. they always train-wreck the middle 8, everytime. Its like nobody ever bothers to learn it correctly.

wrong note rod

There's a funny moment on one of the Blondie documentaries, I think I saw it on Netflix.

Theres an interview with Burke and he goes on and on about how Keith Moon was the greatest drummer ever. And you can really hear it in Burke's playing. Burke wont shut up about Moon..

then theres a quick cut to Harry and she rolls her eyes and says, "Keith Moon sucks".

bob_32_116

Hmmm, Blondie & Debbie Harry's best songs were excellent. I wasn't so fond of their more punkish stuff.

I do love "Rapture". I never heard another song like it, before or since. I say this as someone who usually hates rap.

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A friend has the CD "Debbie Harry & Blondie: The Complete Picture". It really is a very good encapsulation of the essential Blondie... except that I could scarcely believe it when I scanned the track listing and saw that "In the Flesh" was not included. Their first No. 1 hit, and one of their biggest.

Floydy

Union City Blue is my favourite. Hell of an intro.

Inna Selez

New album "Pollinator"!!!

Track list:

1. Doom or Destiny
2. Long Time
3. Already Naked
4. Fun
5. My Monster
6. Best Day Ever
7. Gravity
8. When I Gave up on You
9. Love Level
10. Too Much
11. Fragments