09-10-2022, 13:29
Blondie - Autoamerican
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Came across an interview with Deborah Harry recently - she mentions that this is her favourite of the Blondie albums, so I listened, having not done so in a while. It's not altogether what one might expect.
The album is bookended by two distinctly atypical tracks - the wonderful instrumental "Europa" and "Follow Me", from the musical Camelot, would you believe? And there are several other numbers that show just how versatile they really were when not entirely committed to insouciant sass. Interesting to watch some of the old footage - they might have been somewhat cooked a lot of the time, but they knew what they were about. There was "Rapture" too, of course, which opened the floodgates to a whole load of inferior rubbish, unfortunately, but that would have happened anyway, somewhere along the line!
Love the cover artwork which almost has an old comic book vibe - really captures the gritty inner city feel which I think they'd been wanted to get across.
The very jazzy "Faces", written by Harry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_od6Cj6XrpQ
"Follow Me" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0opRJZ6wM
and "Europa", written by Chris Stein and which numbers among my favourite instrumental tracks of all time - who'da thought??!!
Came across an interview with Deborah Harry recently - she mentions that this is her favourite of the Blondie albums, so I listened, having not done so in a while. It's not altogether what one might expect.
The album is bookended by two distinctly atypical tracks - the wonderful instrumental "Europa" and "Follow Me", from the musical Camelot, would you believe? And there are several other numbers that show just how versatile they really were when not entirely committed to insouciant sass. Interesting to watch some of the old footage - they might have been somewhat cooked a lot of the time, but they knew what they were about. There was "Rapture" too, of course, which opened the floodgates to a whole load of inferior rubbish, unfortunately, but that would have happened anyway, somewhere along the line!
Love the cover artwork which almost has an old comic book vibe - really captures the gritty inner city feel which I think they'd been wanted to get across.
The very jazzy "Faces", written by Harry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_od6Cj6XrpQ
"Follow Me" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0opRJZ6wM
and "Europa", written by Chris Stein and which numbers among my favourite instrumental tracks of all time - who'da thought??!!
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