- Original Release Date: 3 Mar 2003
- Release Date: 1 Sep 2004
- Label: Chrysalis Inc
- Copyright: (C) 2003 Capitol Records, Inc.
- Total Length: 46:16
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- ASIN: B001INHM3G
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,137 in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 in MP3 Albums)
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the first cd from the band Blondie and it is one of the best lps ever. I bought this lp in 1981 and used my school clothes money for it and Plastic Letters. I love every track on here but the hits stand out most. "X Offender" comes in 2 mixes:the original mix which sounds like 2 Debbie's singing at once and the more famous single remix known to all. The original double Debbie mix was put out on the Private Stock label in 1976 and changed when Chrysalis bought out their contract in '77. "In The Flesh" and "Rip Her To Shreds" are the two big hits here. But classic tracks like "Man Overboard","Rifle Range","Little Girl Lies","A Shark In Jets Clothing","Kung Fu Girls" and "The Attack Of The Giant Ants " to name a few already show the group as genre crossing as they would become more later in the 70's. The bonus tracks include the original mix of "In The Sun" and demos "Platinum Blonde","Out In The Streets" and "Thin Line". A Classic debut from the best band ever!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Before they became the property of big business, Blondie earned a reputation as one of the pioneers of the new wave. Deborah Harry had apparently once clicked finger cymbals with an obscure hippy band, but Blondie started as a fun, no-nonsense pop band with a dirty undercurrent. These three-minute, uptempo, beaty songs recall girl groups such as The Shangri-Las and garage bands, with their multi-tracked female vocals and James Destri's dated organ flourishes. Yet the titles of the best-known songs here, 'X Offender', 'In The Flesh' and 'Rip Her To Shreds', betray the darker themes of a later era.
Clem Burke's drumming shouldn't be underestimated either. His retro-oriented style gives the music a freshness that's rare for 1976. Other highlights include 'A Shark In Jets Clothing' and 'Rifle Range'. The former starts out like The Stranglers at their most mischievous, the latter is a fast number that featured as a bonus on the 12" of 'Heart Of Glass'. This album is one you play over again straight away after hearing it and is well worth buying.
Clem Burke's drumming shouldn't be underestimated either. His retro-oriented style gives the music a freshness that's rare for 1976. Other highlights include 'A Shark In Jets Clothing' and 'Rifle Range'. The former starts out like The Stranglers at their most mischievous, the latter is a fast number that featured as a bonus on the 12" of 'Heart Of Glass'. This album is one you play over again straight away after hearing it and is well worth buying.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By R Jess
Format:Audio CD
Wow, an 80's album in the middle of the 70's? Strange but true. Deborah Harry was the architypal 80's vocalist, infusing Blondie's songs with a pop sensibility that was missing from her punk pals Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde. It's not difficult to imagine Cyndi Lauper, Belinda Carlisle or even the early Madonna singing these tunes. In that sense Deborah Harry was without doubt the most influential American female vocalist of the late 70's/early 80's.
On their first album Blondie perfectly mix 60's bubblegum pop with garage rock and it's the keyboard that makes all the difference (another one of their innovations that would become standard in the 80's). If Blondie can be described as punk it was their humour and irreverence that made them so, subverting classic pop styles with black and ironic humour e.g. 'Rip Her To Shreds' and 'Attack Of The Giant Ants'. It's also interesting to hear the reggae influence of the time on a track like 'Man Overboard'. 'Heart Of Glass' was also originally written as a reggae tune, but by the time Blondie was gaining some success, the producers took it and turned it into a disco hit, the reason being apparently that "Americans don't buy reggae". Other notable tracks reflecting their time include 'Kung Fu Girl' (Bruce Lee movies being huge in the 70's).
Respect must also be given to Chris Stein for his foresight and musical knowledge in knowing what would instantly appeal to an audience overdosed on rock pretentiousness.
Blissful!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Sonny
Format:Audio CD
I heard from a friend that apparantly Blondie was a punk band when they first started out. So this being the debut album, I thought this would be the most heavy album by them, but I was dissapointed though to tell you the truth it's pretty good none the less.
This album sounds like a hybrid of old style punk (think Ramones) and new wave music, though it's hard to judge which genre it favours but it still makes for a good album.
However if you're expecting distorted raw powerchord based punk then don't buy this, fans of new wave music would most appreciate this.
Highlights are "X Offender", "In The Sun", "Man Overboard", "Rip Her To Shreds" and "Attack Of The Giant Ants". With "In The Sun" being probably the best track in my opinion.
This album sounds like a hybrid of old style punk (think Ramones) and new wave music, though it's hard to judge which genre it favours but it still makes for a good album.
However if you're expecting distorted raw powerchord based punk then don't buy this, fans of new wave music would most appreciate this.
Highlights are "X Offender", "In The Sun", "Man Overboard", "Rip Her To Shreds" and "Attack Of The Giant Ants". With "In The Sun" being probably the best track in my opinion.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Blondie was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the punk/new wave movement of the late 1970s. The lineup changed a lot over the years but at the core of the group from the day it was formed in August 1974 was singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, who had both been in the Stilettos. This debut album was released in late 1976 by Private Stock Records and clearly defines the group's style as taking the girl group sound of the Sixties and fusing it with the punk sensibilities of the Seventies to become new wave icons. Blondie was never punk the way the Ramones or the Talking Heads were punk, but they still had serious attitude.
This is amply proven by this album's first track and the group's first single, "X Offender." The song was originally entitled "Sex Offender," before the record company changed it, and the lyrics tell of a criminal falling for the cop who busts her. At the same time that the song fits the formula of the teenager in love angst songs of the 1950s and 1960s it also clearly mocks such songs as well. "In the Flesh," one of the few songs where Harry tries to sound really sexy, sounds like it should have come out of the Brill Building a decade earlier except Harry's vocal performance here, with its echoes of Marilyn Monroe, keys you in that there is some serious deconstruction at work here. Just listen to the final line of "Look Good in Blue" and clearly there is a tongue in cheek attitude to the double-entendres.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
BLONDIE BY BLONDIE. A CLASSIC EARLY ALBUM.
BRILLIANT SONGS SUNG BY A GREAT VOICE. THIS ALBUM IS ONE OF THEIR BEST AND IS A MUST FOR BLONDIE LISTENERS. I HAD THEM ALL ON VINTL AND AT LAST HAVE THEM ALL ON CD. ENJOY!
Published 1 month ago by Observant
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice pop music which has lasted.
To my mind this is not really as good as Plastic Letters or Parallel Lines, but even so a very good album that shows that they really knew how to write a song that would live in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by ColinD
4.0 out of 5 stars
An easily over looked Blondie album
Like Debbie Harry, this album has aged a bit. It lacks the polished edge of later albums, and that's why I bought it again. Read more
Published 10 months ago by A. Austin
3.0 out of 5 stars
A unique debut that promised more
With mod, 60s girl group, surf band and B grade science fiction horror references bundled up with a mid 70s lower Manhattan street sensibility, Blondie's infectious comic book-like... Read more
Published 23 months ago by B. S. Marlay
3.0 out of 5 stars
A sign of things to come...
This album is certainly not as strong as the other albums Blondie put out, but it is the blue print of what is to follow. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2011 by JamesN
5.0 out of 5 stars
AMAZING PUNK CHICK
IT HAS TO BE SAID "BLONDIE" AMAZING LOOKER AND VOICE, MAGIC PERFORMANCE.HAS THE MAGNET VIBES THAT ENTICES YOU INTO THE PUNK ROCK SCENE.BEING AN OLDER ROCKER NOW AS IS BLONDIE. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2008 by D. A. Bush
5.0 out of 5 stars
An sadly overlooked but brilliant debut!
Although Blondie's self-titled debut LP is probably my least-played album of theirs, I love it as much as any of the others and I am glad I own a copy. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enter Blondie
Blondie's 1977 debute is no less than one of the 10 best debute albums ever released. Blondie is the perfect pop album, lyricaly and musically creative and witty. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2002 by Ashley Blair
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