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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Jump Jump | |||
| 2. The Jam Was Moving | |||
| 3. Chrome | |||
| 4. Surrender | |||
| 5. Inner City Spillover | |||
| 6. Backfired | |||
| 7. Now I Know You Know | |||
| 8. Nder Arrest | |||
| 9. Military Rap | |||
| 10. Oasis | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. I Want That Man | |||
| 2. Lovelight | |||
| 3. Kiss It Better | |||
| 4. Maybe For Sure | |||
| 5. Calmarie | |||
| 6. Get Your Way | |||
| 7. Sweet And Low | |||
| 8. He Is So | |||
| 9. Brite Side | |||
| 10. Bugeye | |||
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Digitally remasted 2-on-1 version of Blondie frontwoman's 1st and 3rd albums.
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7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Pairing Deborah Harry's first solo album with her third is an odd combination. One is terrible, the other is fantastic. It would have made more sense to combine `Koo Koo' with her second, the frothy `Rockbird'. Additionally, this version of `Def, Dumb and Blonde' is the vinyl release, which is four songs shorter than the original concurrently released CD issue (a common record company ploy at the time, which was designed to encourage people to move from vinyl to disc). Without those four songs the album is decidedly weaker. Given that `Koo Koo' is so poor, I recommend buying the full CD of `Def Dumb and Blonde', where you will receive another four great songs in place of 10 weak ones.
For her first solo outing while still in `Blondie', it appears DH was trying to release something that did not sound like Blondie, which she definitely managed with `Koo Koo'. Instead of working with Blondie's rock producer, Mike Chapman (Suzi Quatro, The Knack, The Sweet, Pat Benatar), she worked with dance producers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (Chic, Sister Sledge, The Jacksons, Diana Ross). The result is that `Koo Koo' sports a thin sound, contains slight, lack-lustre songs and, worst of all, fails to capitalize on Harry's awesome vocal abilities, leaving her enigmatic style sounding silly alongside all the popping basses and excessive rapping.
Most of the songs are flat out terrible. Were it produced by Chapman, the song `Under Arrest' would have sounded very much like a great Blondie song. Unfortunately, without him, it and everything else just sounds daft and under-realized. The best thing about it is the incredible cover art by H.R.Giger.
In 1989, following 1986's poppy `Rockbird', Harry finally released an album that was not only produced by Mike Chapman, but was every bit as strong as `Parallel Lines', `Eat To The Beat' and `Autoamerican'. `Def, Dumb and Blonde' is Harry at the peak of her enigmatic powers, tapping punk, new wave, dance, pop and 60s girl bands to create a delectably assured whole - one of the very best things she has ever recorded, with and without Blondie. It is clear evidence of the benefits of working with a producer that `gets' the artist - which her previous solo project producers evidently did not. It might have been a relative commercial flop, but it is an absolute must for any rock collection.
For her first solo outing while still in `Blondie', it appears DH was trying to release something that did not sound like Blondie, which she definitely managed with `Koo Koo'. Instead of working with Blondie's rock producer, Mike Chapman (Suzi Quatro, The Knack, The Sweet, Pat Benatar), she worked with dance producers Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (Chic, Sister Sledge, The Jacksons, Diana Ross). The result is that `Koo Koo' sports a thin sound, contains slight, lack-lustre songs and, worst of all, fails to capitalize on Harry's awesome vocal abilities, leaving her enigmatic style sounding silly alongside all the popping basses and excessive rapping.
Most of the songs are flat out terrible. Were it produced by Chapman, the song `Under Arrest' would have sounded very much like a great Blondie song. Unfortunately, without him, it and everything else just sounds daft and under-realized. The best thing about it is the incredible cover art by H.R.Giger.
In 1989, following 1986's poppy `Rockbird', Harry finally released an album that was not only produced by Mike Chapman, but was every bit as strong as `Parallel Lines', `Eat To The Beat' and `Autoamerican'. `Def, Dumb and Blonde' is Harry at the peak of her enigmatic powers, tapping punk, new wave, dance, pop and 60s girl bands to create a delectably assured whole - one of the very best things she has ever recorded, with and without Blondie. It is clear evidence of the benefits of working with a producer that `gets' the artist - which her previous solo project producers evidently did not. It might have been a relative commercial flop, but it is an absolute must for any rock collection.
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I had the album Koo Koo on audio tape since it came out in 1980. I enjoyed the songs and wanted to get the album on CD for many years and couldnt get it until i found it recently on Amazon. I also enjoyed the album Def, Dumb and BLond that comes with it
0 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Blondie's works come in peaks and troughs...
They claimed to be (and sometimes were acclaimed as) a punk band
which they never were...
The truth of the pudding is they just tried anything -erratically most of the time-
sometimes it sold sometimes it didn't.
They did yield some pleasant stuff at times
(parallel lines is a Blondie classic and eat to the beat can be pleasant in parts)
yet for me they remain inconsistently poor.
Even Blondie compilations (dozenfolds) can really manage to show them to their best effect.
My best advice is do like me make your own.
This two-set is hardly better in its remastered version
and really has a couple of good songs...
They claimed to be (and sometimes were acclaimed as) a punk band
which they never were...
The truth of the pudding is they just tried anything -erratically most of the time-
sometimes it sold sometimes it didn't.
They did yield some pleasant stuff at times
(parallel lines is a Blondie classic and eat to the beat can be pleasant in parts)
yet for me they remain inconsistently poor.
Even Blondie compilations (dozenfolds) can really manage to show them to their best effect.
My best advice is do like me make your own.
This two-set is hardly better in its remastered version
and really has a couple of good songs...
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