Yeah, that's another good one. I'm hoping to see quite a fair few deep cuts place on this poll.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 24 June 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
anyone watched this lately?
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― piscesx, Saturday, 24 June 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
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
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
Destri their best songwriter: consistently interesting.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
The biggest prima donna in the band too, by most accounts.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:35 (six years ago) link
Underrated Blondie album cut: "Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)," from Plastic Letters.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 26 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 27 June 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
"Poets Problem"
Good old "unique b-side"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 14:24 (six years ago) link
Oh, and "Platinum Blonde", "Puerto Rica" and "Thin Line".
I don't recall "Thin Line" I have to say..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
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 attendsToute la semaine absent et pourtant j'attendsJ'ai le cafard, je t'en prie viens voirce que ton amour repré sente pour moiI got the Blues
Go fishing, go fishing and waitAll week absent and yet I waitI have the cockroach, please come seeWhat your love represents for meI got the blues
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard the bilingual 'Sunday Girl' since the very early '90s - must check that out again, I'd forgotten about it!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
having fun listening to their catalog. the singles are just so good, hoping that my final ballot won't be overboard with them.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
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.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
No Exit was mocked? I don't remember that, but I do remember "Maria" being almost universally praised.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 29 June 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
Lots of "lol Coolio."
"Maria" did get to #1 in England.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
"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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
For sure "Maria" is going where "The Tide is High" is supposed to on my ballot.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link
Tide Is High is the only song on the first 5 albums I actively dislike.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
I never want to hear it again.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
which are the fan-favourites that aren't singles/big hits? 11:59 and Slow Motion have a strong following if memory serves.
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 June 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
"Just Go Away," "Angels on the Balcony," "Fade Away and Radiate"
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
I also loathe 'The Tide Is High'
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
gonna bump it up one place on my ballot each time someone slams it
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link
'I Know But I Don't Know' and 'Live It Up' also two underrated moments in their back catalogue.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
I still like "The Tide is High," but I'm sick to death of "One Way or Another."
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:36 (six years ago) link
I'm sick of all the PL singles except "Sunday Girl" and "Picture This" (which weren't American singles).
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
I will never tire of "Heart of Glass." I still like "Hanging on the Telephone" if it catches me on a good day.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:41 (six years ago) link
Hanging has my favorite nothing drum fill ever.
Bang-bang-bom-bom, Bang-bang-bom-bom
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 29 June 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caX7ZyrAn38
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
^ Check out the lousy vibe in this clip.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
exhausted and liquored out
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
I love clips like this. There's something compelling about watching a band that are on the slide and hate each other.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:31 (six years ago) link
The strange part was that they were coming off Aotoamerican, their biggest American album.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
two #1 US hits, album went to #7
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
man, I had no idea there was an 8:06 version of "Call Me"
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
Sunday Girl and Picture This weren't American singles? never knew this!
the vinyl back cover of 'our' Best Of Blondie looked like this
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while the US one looked like this
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― piscesx, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
― piscesx
ahh .. different cover, but same groove.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
I kinda lump the original run of Blondie LP's into pairs: Blondie & Plastic Letters obviously come from the same place, as do Parallel Lines & Eat to the Beat, with Autoamerican & The Hunter being some kind of attempt at branching out.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
man, I had no idea there was an 8:06 version of "Call Me"― sleeve, Thursday, June 29, 2017 9:21 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Thursday, June 29, 2017 9:21 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup, there is and it fucking rules! My preferred version by a long way. There's also a longer version, iirc.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
Eat To The Beat must have been the first video-album. or one of the first few. there weren't too many i guess. i know Soft Cell had a stab at one, Eurythmics too.
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
― piscesx,
as sputnik said : "welcome to the future .. "
― mark e, Thursday, 29 June 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
The Tide is High >>> Rapture
though i don't think TTiH is going to make my ballot because of over exposer.
― Bee OK, Friday, 30 June 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
been having a blast listening to this band this week. haven't even replayed Parallel Lines but i know that album inside and out. close to every song from there will probably make it.
― Bee OK, Friday, 30 June 2017 01:57 (six years ago) link
I'M YOUR DOGBUT NOT YOUR PETAWOOOOOOO
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 June 2017 02:19 (six years ago) link
"Scenery" is a nifty obscure Blondie demo... I think this might sneak onto my ballot. I'd forgotten it, but I first heard it on that "Blonde & Beyond" comp from the early 90s. Along with "X Offender" and "Presence, Dear," it really make me wish Gary Valentine had written more songs for the band...
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Friday, 30 June 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
Island of Lost POLLS
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
POLL Motion.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
OH, YOUR POLL IS BEAUTIFUL - ILM Artist Poll #83 - BLONDIE - RESULTS THREAD
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
^^^ A+
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 12 July 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link