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Recorded in 1976, Blondie's self-titled debut was part of the New York City/CBGB's crowd's initial salvo of punk/new wave, radically different from anything in the American mainstream at the time. While other CBGB scenemakers strove for either artiness (Television) or primitivism (Ramones), Blondie was always about pure pop, served with a healthy dose of irony. Its early-'60s rock & roll/girl-group roots were never so apparent as on this album--"In the Sun" sounds like a classic slice of sunny '60s West Coast pop, while "In the Flesh" reaches even further back for a '50s ballad feel.
The sly lyrics, Debbie Harry's knowing delivery, and especially Jimmy Destri's gloriously cheesy organ riffs make it apparent that revivalism was never Blondie's intention; the band simply used the past to hijack the punk present and lay claim to a new wave future. Over the next few years, countless groups would adopt the template laid down on the first couple of Blondie albums, with varying degrees of success, but, as this recording makes plain, Blondie did it first and best.
Recorded at Plaza Sound Stuidos, New York, New York in August & September 1976. Originally released on Private Stock (2023) in January 1977, reissued on Chrysalis (1165) in September 1977. Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman.
Producer: Richard Gottehrer.
Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty.
Blondie: Debbie Harry (vocals); Chris Stein, Gary Valentine (guitar, bass guitar); James Destri (piano, grand piano, Farfisa, synthesizer); Clem Burke (drums).
Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein, Gary Valentine (guitar, bass); James Destri (piano, organ, synthesizer); Clement Burke (drums).
Additional personnel: Ellie Greenwich, Micki Harris, Hilda Harris (background vocals).
Spin (11/01, p.137) - "...Their inauspicious 1976 sock-hop debut..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/21/01, p.85) - "...Lays the pulpy melodrama on thick, with Debbie Harry coming on like a harried femme fatale..." - Rating: B+
Q (5/02 SE, p.134) - 4 stars out of 5 - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums".
Q (10/94, p.135) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Winking at their generation's fondness for trash culture, Blondie's pastiches of Brill Building pop swaggered with conviction..."All tracks have been digitally remastered. Blondie Review
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Purchase Blondie CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Blondie Plastic Letters CD (1977) Limited Edition; Mini LP Sleeve
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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.
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| | Blondie Parallel Lines CD (1978) Limited Edition; Mini LP Sleeve
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Madonna and Michael Jackson aside, this is supreme pop music and as good as the genre can ever get. Everybody loved Blondie; fans, children, critics, other musicians and senior citizens - and not just because Debbie Harry was its frontperson. This is an unintentional greatest hits record that doesn't let up until the last note of 'Just Go Away' has died. If one wanted to carp, you could have asked for 'Denis' and 'Call Me' to have been included, but that would be just plain greedy. One of the greatest 'up' records of all ...
| | Billy Joel Streetlife Serenade CD (1974) Remastered; Enhanced CD
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The remastered edition of STREETLIFE SERENADE is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as a video clip for the song "Souvenir."
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
STREETLIFE SERENADE may have been a disappointment to Joel's record company, featuring but one single, "The Entertainer," that barely scraped the Top 40, but it's loaded with songs that came to be signature pieces for the piano man. For years, Joel began his concerts with a piped-in version of the instrumental "The Mexican Connection" and closed them by playing the bittersweet ballad "Souvenir." Another instrumental, the fast and infectious "Root Beer Rag," served as a favorite piano showcase throughout Joel's career, while the snide and clever "The Entertainer" began a career-long obsession with the evils of the pop industry.
Most of the album is about suburbia and its malcontents. While Englishman Elton John, to whom Joel was already being compared, devoted his second major-label album to a concept album about the mythological American West, Joel devoted his to the very real American frontier of strip malls and backyard barbecues in which he grew up. No romanticizing was intended. In case Joel's growing cynicism wasn't already evident, the album's one love song, "Roberta," is written to a hooker.
Also available with PIANO MAN on one cassette.
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| | Blondie Eat To The Beat CD (1979) Limited Edition; Mini LP Sleeve
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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.
By this time, the band's always-tenuous connection to punk was barely noticeable; the artsy "Victor," the Springsteen-ish "Union City Blue," written for the soundtrack of Debbie Harry's first film, Steeltown, and the reggae-tinged "Die Young Stay Pretty" are early evidence of the sort of casual genre-hopping which defined the band's next album, AUTOAMERICAN. The ripping title track, "Accidents Never Happen" and the dreamy "Living in the Real World," however, are more typical Blondie fare.
Recorded at the Power Station, Electric Lady Studio and Media Sound, New York, New York in 1979. Originally released on Chrysalis (1225). Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman.
Producer: Mike Chapman.
Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty.
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| | Doors Live In New York CDs (2009) Box Set; Special Edition
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Track Listing of songs: DISC 1: JANUARY 17, 1970 FIRST SHOW: Start Of Show; Roadhouse Blues; Ship Of Fools; Break On Through; Tuning/Breather; Peace Frog; Blue Sunday; Alabama Song; Back Door Man; Love Hides; Five To One; Tuning/Breather; Who Do You Love; Little Red Rooser; Money; Tuning/Breather; Light My Fire; More, More, More; Soul Kitchen; End Of Show; DISC 2: JANUARY 17, 1970 SECOND SHOW: Start Show 2; Jim "How Ya Doing?"; Roadhouse Blues; Break On Through (To The Other Side); Ship Of Fools; Crawling King Snake; Alabama Song; Back Door Man; Five To One; Pretty Neat, Pretty Good; Build Me A Woman; Tuning/Breather; Who Do You Love; Tuning/Breather; Wild Child; Cheering/Tuning; When The Music's Over; DISC 3: JANUARY 17, 1970 SECOND SHOW CONTINUED: Tuning/Breather; Light My Fire; Hey, Mr. Light Man!; Soul Kitchen; Jim's Fish Joke; End, The; End Of Show; DISC 4: JANUARY 18, 1970 THIRD SHOW: Start Show; Roadhouse Blues; Ship Of Fools; Break On Through (To The Other Side); Tuning/Breather; Universal Mind; Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)-False Start; Alabama Song (Whisky Bar); Back Door Man; Five To One; Tuning/Breather; Moonlight Drive; Who Do You Love; Calling Out For Songs; Money; Tuning/Breather; Light My Fire; More, More More; When The Music's Over; Good Night-End Show; DISC 5: JANUARY 18, 1970 FOURTH SHOW: Start Show 4; Roadhouse Blues; Peace Frog; Alabama Song (Whisky Bar); Back Door Man; Five To One; We Have A Special Treat; Celebration Of The Lizard; Alright Let's Boogie; Build Me A Woman; When The Music's Over; More, More, More; DISC 6: JANUARY 18, 1970 FOURTH ...
| | Adam Lambert For Your Entertainment CD (2009)
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With Adam Lambert, American Idol finally got a finalist who was completely, utterly contemporary, aware of what's hip in music and culture and aware of how music is made and consumed in 2009, never seeming to try to follow fads or set trends, just embodying the time. Mercifully, he came in second to Kris Allen, for if he came in first he may have had to tame his self-styled glamazon ways. A second place finish allowed Lambert to come out of the closet and indulge in his penchant for theater on his debut, For Your Entertainment -- which isn't quite the same thing as camp, for if Adam Lambert is anything, he's earnest about his dress-up, never winking at the audience because he doesn't think there's much funny about his glitter and mascara: that's just what pop stars are supposed to do. He's learned that by listening to his stacks of Queen and Bowie records, from watching old MTV videos on YouTube, from living in a present that always competes with the ever-present past, so he takes it all at face value, mixing up arena rock guitars, new wave, disco, operatic overdubs with a constant electro pulse, glassy modern R&B, and the vague Euro strains of new millennium teen pop. All this makes For Your Entertainment very, very modern in a way few mainstream pop albums are in 2009, whether they're products of the American Idol/19 machine or not: Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Rivers Cuomo, P!nk, Lady GaGa, Linda Perry, Ryan Tedder, Muse's Matthew Bellamy, and Justin Hawkins of the Darkness all elbow each other for space here, creating cheerful genre-bending where Sweet gives way to the Scissor Sisters, and it's never, ever necessary for a listener to recognize the allusions, either the intentional or accidental. All the heavy-hitters here ...
| | Soul Of Ben Webster CDs (1995)
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In addition to THE SOUL OF BEN WEBSTER, this compilation includes Harry Edison's GEE, BABY AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU and Johnny Hodges' BLUES A-PLENTY in their entirety.
Recorded in Hollywood, California and New York in 1957 and 1958. Originally released as three separate LPs on Verve (8359), (8211) and (6123). Includes liner notes by Francis Davis and original release liner notes by Benny Green and Nat Hentoff.
This two-CD set is slightly misnamed. Not only does it feature the tenor stylings of the great Ben Webster, it also contains a full album by trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison called GEE, BABY AIN'T I GOOD TO YOU and altoist Johnny Hodges' full LP, BLUES A-PLENTY. Webster appears on Edison's album but does not play on all of Hodges'. In fact, he sits out on five of the eleven Hodges tracks.
The music itself is all quite memorable, featuring notables such as trumpeters Art Farmer and Roy Eldridge, pianists Oscar Peterson and Billy Strayhorn, and trombonist Vic Dickenson. Indeed, this album boasts many legends, and with this caliber of musicianship, you can't go wrong. Highlights include Webster's composition, "Ev's Mad" Sweets Edison's "Blues for Bill Basie," and Hodges' "Honey Hill." On the latter, Roy Eldridge reaches into the stratosphere, playing high notes with great precision.
With J.Hodges & "Sweets' Edison (2 CD)
Personnel: Ben Webster (tenor saxophone); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Harold Ashby (tenor saxophone); Harry "Sweets" Edison, Art Farmer, Roy Eldridge (trumpet); Vic Dickenson (trombone); Oscar Peterson, Jimmy Jones, Billy Strayhorn (piano); Mundell Lowe, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis (guitar); Milt Hinton, Ray Brown, Jimmy Woode (bass); Dave Bailey, Alvin Stoller, Sam Woodyard (drums).
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| | Edu Lobo Cantiga De Longe CD (1971) Import
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This is the CD reissue of a 1970 LP. With a few more instrumental solos than the regular Lobo albums, this one takes advantage of the genius of the arranger/instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal. The album has other stars, including percussionist ...
| | Young Bo & Pocahontas Hood America CD (2007)
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La's B-Boy Young Bo vs New Jersey Tropical Tyrant Pocahontas on this one of a kind, classical themed album/DVD,HOOD AMERICA. All tracks are produced by Harlem's platinum producer Hoodnoiz and features C-Murder, Young Trump, Jag Bomb, and Jae Dubble of Myke Check. Hoodnoiz beats are so nostalgic that the banging will hypnotize you through your speakers. Young ...
| | Dead Meadow Old Growth CD (2008) Digipak; Enhanced CD
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The guitar bruisers in Dead Meadow dropped OLD GROWTH in early 2008 a year after relocating to the City of Angels from Washington D.C. One of the bands most committed to extolling the unflagging power of the riff, Dead Meadow have made an album that simply explodes with one guitar-driven epiphany after another. Though the songs have a sprawling quality--enhanced by guitarist/vocalist ...
| | Wentus Blues Band Family Meeting CDs (2008) (Import) Import
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$22.35 | | Liz Phair Exile In Guyville CDs (1993) Bonus DVD; Bonus Tracks; 15th Anniversary Edition
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This special DVD/CD pack includes the reissued CD with 3 never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions. In the DVD, Guyville Redux, Liz and the 'guys' of Guyville take us back to the making of the album, the male-dominated, Chicago independent music scene of the early 1990s, and the Wicker Park neighborhood where it all happened. Phair interviews Gerald Cosloy and Chris Lombardi of Matador Records, famed indie producer Steve Albini, Ira Glass of NPR's 'This American Life,' John Henderson of the elusive indie label Fell Good All Over, CD producer Brad Wood, John Cusack of New Crime Productions, Urge Overkill, and more.
The 2008 reissue of Liz Phair's groundbreaking debut album, EXILE IN GUYVILLE, features two songs recorded during the original sessions for the album, as well as a bonus DVD about the making of the album and its cultural moment. Upon its release in 1993, EXILE IN GUYVILLE was a seismic event in the shift from alternative rock to indie rock, being both one of the key early lo-fi releases and, arguably, the album that completely re-defined the female singer-songwriter for its time. Crucially, ...
| | White Shoe Brown Shoe Yer Birthday CD (2008)
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WhiteShoeBrownShoe2006-PresentWhiteShoeBrownShoe is the collaboration of Patrik Gochez and Alex Britten, two young songwriters brought together by rock, roll, and a bowl of chilli. Pat was forged in the kiln of New England, moving from state to state, while Alex was crafted from equal parts London and Los Angeles. Together, the Shoes form the balance you need to walk on two feet in this modern world. In the midst of a spicy tune crankin session, the two realized if they wanted to grab the people by the short and curlies they’d need a hurricane rhythm section. Just at that moment there was a knock at the door, and what appeared to be a pirate from the heart of America walked in, sat down and kicked a beat so sweet it rocked the Shoes to their feet. He said his name was Nez, and was more than happy to join the Shoe family, but he needed an avalanche bass player with the grace of a fox to run the groove train with him. Luckily, it just so happened that dynamite Dave Lee lived just around the corner, and all he wanted was to put on the family shoes. Once this union came to pass, the Shoes quickly began building a reputation around the Boston area with explosive shows and an electric demo. They are currently ...
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