Blondie by Blondie [Remastered] (CD, 2001, Capitol) *NEW* *FREE Shipping*

Description: Blondie by Blondie [Remastered] [Bonus Tracks] [CD] Track Listing: 1 X Offender2 Little Girl Lies3 In The Flesh4 Look Good In Blue5 In The Sun6 A Shark In Jets Clothing7 Man Overboard8 Rip Her To Shreds9 Rifle Range10 Kung Fu Girls11 The Attack Of The Giant Ants12 Out In The Streets (demo) [Bonus Track] 13 The Thin Line (demo) [Bonus Track]14 Platinum Blonde (demo) [Bonus Track]15 X Offender (single version) [Bonus Track]16 In The Sun (single version) [Bonus Track] This is the one that started it all. Blondie's self-titled debut (originally on the independent Private Stock label) laid the foundation of the pop bridge that would lead from punk to new wave. It wasn't a major hit upon it's initial 1976 release, however the years have been kind and the now classic 11 original tracks including "X Offender"; "Rip Her to Shreds," and "Look Good in Blue" have been remastered and are joined by five bonus cuts, two of them being the rare Private Stock single versions of "X Offender" and "In the Sun"! --- If new wave was about reconfiguring and recontextualizing simple pop/rock forms of the '50s and '60s in new, ironic, and aggressive ways, then Blondie, which took the girl group style of the early and mid-'60s and added a '70s archness, fit right in. True punksters may have deplored the group early on (they never had the hip cachet of Talking Heads or even the Ramones), but Blondie's secret weapon, which was deployed increasingly over their career, was a canny pop straddle -- they sent the music up and celebrated it at the same time. So, for instance, songs like "X Offender" (their first single) and "In the Flesh" (their first hit, in Australia) had the tough-girl-with-a-tender-heart tone of the Shangri-Las (the disc was produced by Richard Gottehrer, who had handled the Angels ["My Boyfriend's Back"] among others, and Brill Building songwriter Ellie Greenwich even sang backup on "In the Flesh"), while going one step too far into hard-edged decadence -- that is, if you chose to see that. (The tag line of "Look Good in Blue," for example, went, "I could give you some head and shoulders to lie on.") The whole point was that you could take Blondie either way, and lead singer Deborah Harry's vocals, which combined rock fervor with a kiss-off quality, reinforced that, as did the band's energetic, trashy sound. This album, released on independent label Private Sound, was not a major hit, but it provided a template for the future. ~ William Ruhlmann, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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