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Blondie’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
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Posted on 10/14/2021 10:02:25 AM PDT by mylife
As they reissue their 1981 festive EP Yuletide Throwdown, we rate the best of the New York band who strutted through punk, disco and pop with absolute cool
5. Hanging on the Telephone (1978) Sometimes, a song takes a while to find its ideal singer. The original of Hanging on the Telephone, a 1976 single by LA powerpop band the Nerves, is pretty good, but Harry’s commanding performance owns the song, while Blondie’s arrangement is louder, brasher, tighter and tougher: the stuff of which classics are made.
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My buddy Skweek was a roadie for them at that time in NYC.
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:02:25 AM PDT
by
mylife
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:03:20 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
To: mylife
Don’t think Blondie even had 20 great songs.
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:05:11 AM PDT
by
pas
To: pas
Did she even have 20 songs?
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:05:59 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(Proudly UNvaxxed )
To: mylife
20? She wasn’t all that. W
To: mylife
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:06:43 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: mylife
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:06:43 AM PDT
by
albie
To: pas
they were great in the punk days
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:07:31 AM PDT
by
mylife
(Would you rather have Questions without answers? or Answers without questions?)
To: mylife
I only know of three songs...
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:07:33 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: mylife; All
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:08:58 AM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
To: mylife
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:09:30 AM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: pas
Don’t think Blondie even had 20 great songs. Looking at the "top 20" list, I only recognized 4 of the songs.
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:09:31 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: mylife
Blondie. Another great band that got its start/breakthru at NYC’s CBGB.
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1980. Top down on the car. Driving thru the downtown with Blondie’s “Rapture” playing on the radio. Good times.
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10/14/2021 10:09:47 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(The future is a quiet world)
To: mylife
That’s a good list. There’s some in 20-11 my gut says should be higher, but then I look at the top 10 and not what I’d displace. Great band. Great singer.
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:09:53 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Like a dog being shown a card trick )
To: mylife
I think Deborah Harry's greatest 'song' was in the movie
Videodrome.
It wasn't really a 'song', and she didn't really 'sing'.
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:10:38 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Yeah, well, y'know that's just like, uhh... your opinion, man)
To: notdownwidems
She looks smokin’ hot in that video, with her two piece black outfit, *gulp*
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10/14/2021 10:13:34 AM PDT
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CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: mylife
I listen to my Nerves CD more than I listen to my Blondie CDs. And Plimsouls too, since they evolved from the Nerves.
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10/14/2021 10:15:13 AM PDT
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ClearCase_guy
(China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
Grauniad and their fake lists. No sign of Detroit 442 on that list. Maybe they didn’t like that Debbie wore an outfit reminiscent of a dominatrix in the video for that song?
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posted on
10/14/2021 10:15:36 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: mylife
I know six songs pretty well, and a few others somewhat.
Hanging on the Telephone is probably my favorite, but it is a very dated song ("I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall ...")
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10/14/2021 10:15:58 AM PDT
by
CatOwner
(Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
To: mylife
Dreaming, by far, has always been my favorite Blondie tune. Clem Burke’s drum work on that one is spectacular.
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