ONE POLL OR ANOTHER - ILM Artist Poll #83 - BLONDIE

I just threw together a ballot of my favorites, which wasn't v difficult given that Parallel Lines is literally one of the first albums I remember hearing/seeing (the other is the SNF soundtrack)

I would like to put in a good word for "Shayla" here

and "Union City Blue" – that whole side really

'Union City Blue' rules.

Deep cut everyone should check out: 'Angels on the Balcony'

20174?, not sure why i was writing out a zip code. anyways meant 2017 release.

Have Odenkirk and Cross ever copped to ripping of "A Shark in Jets Clothing" for Mr. Show's theme?

Yes, "Angels on the Balcony" is a nice song. (Also "Live It Up" from that album.)

I must rep for "Accidents Never Happen" which has always been a big favourite of mine. Jimmy Destri was a great songwriter for a while there.

Yeah, that's another good one. I'm hoping to see quite a fair few deep cuts place on this poll.

anyone watched this lately?

https://img.discogs.com/o_y8Zz_UC-kiMDaQXZgFAhhXGQQ=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3275922-1323527118.jpeg.jpg

I can tell you now my #1 and #2 are "Pretty Baby" and "Dreaming," and after that I can pick and choose.

well yeah but in what order? hmmm

Destri their best songwriter: consistently interesting.

The biggest prima donna in the band too, by most accounts.

Underrated Blondie album cut: "Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)," from Plastic Letters.

I make no apologies for including two-thirds of Parallel Lines on my ballot. Great songs across the first four records, but that one is the classic for a reason.

"Poets Problem"

Good old "unique b-side"

Oh, and "Platinum Blonde", "Puerto Rica" and "Thin Line".

I don't recall "Thin Line" I have to say..

So I've went on a Blondie listening spree today in preparation for this poll, and I'm up to The Hunter now... fucking hell, what a weird record.

If you post the French lyrics from "Sunday Girl" as they're presented on the Lyricswiki site into Google Translate, you get something amazing for the final chorus:

Dé pê che-toi, dé pê che-toi et attends
Toute la semaine absent et pourtant j'attends
J'ai le cafard, je t'en prie viens voir
ce que ton amour repré sente pour moi
I got the Blues

Go fishing, go fishing and wait
All week absent and yet I wait
I have the cockroach, please come see
What your love represents for me
I got the blues

Underrated Blondie album cut: "Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)," from Plastic Letters.

― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, June 26, 2017 8:34 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes! Will definitely have this one high on my ballot.

I haven't heard the bilingual 'Sunday Girl' since the very early '90s - must check that out again, I'd forgotten about it!

having fun listening to their catalog. the singles are just so good, hoping that my final ballot won't be overboard with them.

btw it was mocked at the time but I liked and still enjoy No Exit, which has at least two cuts ("Maria," "Nothing is Real But the Girl," and maybe "Under the Gun") I'm seriously considering.

No Exit was mocked? I don't remember that, but I do remember "Maria" being almost universally praised.

Lots of "lol Coolio."

"Maria" did get to #1 in England.

"Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom Room" and that dog song way more LOLable than the Coolio guest spot.

No Exit was my sort-of entry point into Blondie back in '99, in that I already knew/loved a bunch of their singles, but it finally goaded me into checking out their back catalogue. It ain't perfect (see above), but I have a lot of affection for it, and will probably include at least 3 tracks from it on my ballot.

I don't have any time for nu-Blondie. I heard 'Maria' played to death as a hit single at the time and that was more than enough.

For sure "Maria" is going where "The Tide is High" is supposed to on my ballot.

Tide Is High is the only song on the first 5 albums I actively dislike.

I never want to hear it again.

which are the fan-favourites that aren't singles/big hits? 11:59 and Slow Motion have a strong following if memory serves.

"Just Go Away," "Angels on the Balcony," "Fade Away and Radiate"

I also loathe 'The Tide Is High'

gonna bump it up one place on my ballot each time someone slams it

'I Know But I Don't Know' and 'Live It Up' also two underrated moments in their back catalogue.

I still like "The Tide is High," but I'm sick to death of "One Way or Another."

I'm sick of all the PL singles except "Sunday Girl" and "Picture This" (which weren't American singles).

I will never tire of "Heart of Glass." I still like "Hanging on the Telephone" if it catches me on a good day.

Hanging has my favorite nothing drum fill ever.

Bang-bang-bom-bom, Bang-bang-bom-bom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caX7ZyrAn38

^ Check out the lousy vibe in this clip.

exhausted and liquored out

I love clips like this. There's something compelling about watching a band that are on the slide and hate each other.

The strange part was that they were coming off Aotoamerican, their biggest American album.

Autoamerican was a hit? It's kind of hard to imagine, as its such an odd (and I would argue, unsuccessful) record. I imagine record stores at the time having a lot of "the rest of it doesn't sound like["The Tide is High"/"Rapture"] type complains/returns.

two #1 US hits, album went to #7

man, I had no idea there was an 8:06 version of "Call Me"

Sunday Girl and Picture This weren't American singles? never knew this!

the vinyl back cover of 'our' Best Of Blondie looked like this

https://img.discogs.com/B8EW3B07QquXAsfssnN-Dei4nYw=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-246364-1374135694-9937.jpeg.jpg

while the US one looked like this

https://img.discogs.com/ztRufGrU88jJUX2AUawjYrNqZOs=/fit-in/600x592/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-162581-1356861432-2055.jpeg.jpg

eat to the beat : back in the day my parents got a sony betamax video machine.
it was the future, despite having nothing to watch on it.
then someone lent/gave us a video album by blondie : a visual representation of 'eat to the beat'.
i f*cking loved that video.
many years later, it became available on a cd/dvd set that i somehow was sent.
guess i should dig the dvd out and watch it again.

anyone watched this lately?

― piscesx

ahh .. different cover, but same groove.

(It would give me time to decide the last 5-6 spots on my ballot)

are we going to get confirmation emails?

Yeah I will send out emails once I've processed the ballot.

Also I'm going to be pretty busy all weekend so I'm going to keep the voting period open until Monday.

thanks Nate, looking so forward to this!

16 ballots in so far, not too bad but more would be great. Any received in the next 24 hour will be counted.

hoping this will start this week?

POLL her to shreds

POLLable Lines
Hanging on the TelePOLL
I Know But I Don't POLL
I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say POLL
A Shark in Jets POLLing

Island of Lost POLLS

POLL Motion.

OH, YOUR POLL IS BEAUTIFUL - ILM Artist Poll #83 - BLONDIE - RESULTS THREAD

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