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After a 17-year recording layoff, one might assume the members of Blondie would be a bit rusty. This is not the case on NO EXIT, the band's seventh album of new material. Four of the original five members are intact, and time seems to have only improved the Blondie sound.
"Maria" is perfect pop, an infectious radio-friendly single. "Forgive And Forget" has jungle drums and electronic rhythms primed for the '90s dance market. The title track has Debbie Harry trading raps with Coolio; ironic, considering it was Harry who helped propel rap into the top 40 in the early '80s. The diversity of musical styles gives the album a widespread appeal. Rap, ska, dance, jazz, rock, country and African genres are all represented. Although the band helped pioneer the new wave movement along with The Cars, B-52's and Talking Heads, they have always resisted categorization. Blondie is back, and NO EXIT delivers in a big way, showing a vigor not seen since the group's early days.
Recorded at Red Night Recording,Electric Lady Studios, Chung King House Of Metal, New York, New York.
Blondie: Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Destri.
Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Clem Burke (drums).
Additional personnel: Paul Carbonara (guitar); Helen Hooke (violin); Robert Aaron (flute, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Dave Ironside, James Chance (saxophone); Candy Dulfer (saxello); Kenny Fradley (trumpet); Rick Davies (trombone); Leigh Fox (bass guitar); Frank Pagano (percussion); Rik Simpson (drum programming).
Additional personnel: Coolio (rap); Paul Carbonara (guitar); Helen Hooke (violin); Robert Aaron (flute, tenor & baritone saxophones); James Chance, Dave Ironside, Candy Dulfer (saxophone); Rick Davies (trombone); Ken Fradley (trumpet); Leigh Foxx (bass); Frank Pagano (percussion); Rick Simpson (drum programming); Donna Destri, Cassell Webb, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Nancy West, Theo, Romy Ashby.
Mojo (Publisher) (2/99, p.90) - "...Blondie albums were always characterised by variety and this one's no exception..." No Exit Music | List Price | $11.98 (You save $2.63) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Pop, New Wave | | Label | Eleven Seven | | Orig Year | 1999 | | All Time Sales Rank |  132309  | | CD Universe Part number | 7523400 | | Catalog number | 200 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 06, 2007 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Craig Leon | | Recording Time | 58 minutes | | Personnel | Deborah Harry - vocals
Clem Burke - drums
Chris Stein - guitar
Jimmy Destri - keyboards
Also: Candy Dulfer, Coolio, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Theo, James Chance, Rick Davies, Robert Aaron, Donna Destri, Frank Pagano, Cassell Webb, Leigh Foxx, Nancy West, Paul Carbonara, Dave Ironside, Helen Hooke, Ken Fradley, Romy Ashby |
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| | Blondie Eat To The Beat CD (1979) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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1979's EAT TO THE BEAT was Blondie's fourth album, and the first to follow the enormous commercial breakthrough of 1978's PARALLEL LINES. Though its singles, the brilliant "Dreaming" and the disco-influenced "Atomic," were lesser hits than PARALLEL LINES' "Heart of Glass" and "One Way or Another," EAT TO THE BEAT's success cemented Blondie's status as by far the most commercially viable of the first wave of New York punk bands.
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| | Blondie Plastic Letters CD (1977) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Considered by many to be Blondie's best, their second album catches the group poised on the brink of global superstardom. PLASTIC LETTERS' first single, a gender-switched cover of the '60s pop hit "Denise" by Randy and the Rainbows, was a massive British hit which went far towards dispelling the band's second-tier status on the New York punk scene.
The rest of the disc improves immensely on their self-titled debut, with sharper songwriting and better production. Jimmy Destri's Farfisa organ is still the band's main musical focal point, but his playing has evolved, along with the melodies, beyond the simple '60s pastiches of the debut. "Youth Nabbed as Sniper" and "Contact in Red Square" continue the band's fascination with trash culture, but the glorious "I'm Always Touched by Your Presence Dear," written by departed bassist Gary Valentine, is a genuinely heartfelt, if ironic, love song.
In artistic terms, Plastic Letters, Blondie's second album, was a classic example of the sophomore slump. If their debut, Blondie, ...
| | Blondie Hunter CD (1982) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Autoamerican was Blondie's last real album (until their 1999 reunion with No Exit), after which the band collapsed in legal problems and solo aspirations. The Hunter was only made because they still owed Chrysalis an album on their contract, and it sounds like the obligatory record it was. "Island of Lost Souls" (the album's only U.S. singles chart entry and, in fact, the only song released as a single in the U.S.) was a try at remaking "The Tide Is High," while "The Beast" tried to re-create at least the rap section of "Rapture." "War Child," which made the U.K. Top 40, was a dance rock effort in the style of "Call Me," and one of two somewhat autobiographical Debbie Harry lyrics, along with "English Boys." (Harry wrote all the album's words except for those to keyboard player Jimmy Destri's "Danceway" and the cover of the Marvelettes' 1967 hit "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," which was written by Smokey Robinson.) "For Your Eyes Only" had been intended as the theme song for the 1981 James Bond film, but rejected (rightly) in favor of a competing entry by Bill Conti and Mike Leeson that went ...
| | Curse Of Blondie CD (2004) Enhanced CD
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Blondie's first new studio album since 1999's NO EXIT accentuates the finest aspects of their seminal sound. The opening numbers "Shakedown" and "Good Boys," for instance, both mine the group's dance classic "Rapture," the former song finding iconic lead singer Debbie Harry revisiting her NYC rap persona, and the latter highlighting a disco-era beat.
While songs ...
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Diana Meyer is an 18 year old singer who plays kick-ass electric guitar. She has been singing and playing since she was 10. In 2003, when she was still in high school, Diana answered an ad for a "punk-pop singer" placed in a music trade publication by Seattle- based music producer ...
| | Great Bear Trio Dancing Again CD (2006)
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The Great Bear Trio is an exciting and energetic family band from Fulton, NY. Since the spring of 2000 these three talented musicians have been performing their unique blend of Celtic, French-Canadian, Scandinavian and Appalachian music at concerts, festivals, schools and dance halls across the Northeast. Brothers Andrew and Noah VanNorstrand are already well-known and respected musicians ...
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