Blondie - Autoamerican
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Artist: BlondieEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: Capitol
Product features:
- BLONDIE AUTOAMERICAN
- Europa
- Live It Up
- Here's Looking At You
- The Tide Is High
- Angels On The Balcony
- Go Through It
- Do The Dark
- Rapture
- Faces
- T-Birds
- Walk Like Me
- Follow Me
- Call Me (long version)
- Suzy & Jeffrey
- Rapture (Special Disco Mix)
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Free Music Review: Blondie Live It Up
Hit: 5 Stars
Exploring the relm of music in general is always a good thing for a band who are in a state of growth most of the time and I have to admit Blondie really rose to the challange here. Certain fans of the group,especially of their earlier music may not get into this-there's probably a good reason why. Even at it's rockiest this album doesn't sound like the output of a typical new-wave/punk band at all. The great album cover shows a very sophisticated looking group posed in front of the NYC cityscape and it perfectly matches the music within. And that amounts to a wide tapestry of the different kinds of music the entire band were exposed to on a regular basis in different areas of the city. The recent addition of the eurodisco sound into their framework makes itself very clear not only on the cinematic,orchestrated opener "Europa" but on "Live It Up" and "Do The Dark" as well,both of which showcase a strong mix of eurodisco style electronics with a solid funk/rock flavor. Debbie Harry's interested in jazz vocalizing makes it's presense known on "Here's Looking At You",again taking nods at big band jazz-styled disco heavily leaning toward the big band jazz aspect of the sound. In fact Debbie is downright torchy on "Faces". The only songs here that really nod at the bands earlier psychedelic surf/new wave flavors are "Angels On The Balcony","Go Through It","Walk Like Me" and "Follow Me" and even they are a more stylized and often enough (then) contemporary dance flavored songs than you'd expect of that kind of music. The two hits on this album are two of the best songs not only on the entire album but of Blondie's entire career. The bright calypso/caribbean styled "The Tide Is High" is one of those great sing-a-long,reflective kind of pop songs I never get tired of hearing no matter how many times I do. I have to agree with Grandmaster Flash that I don't have a clue what Debbie is trying to say when she raps about something "eat cars and then guitars" and so forth but the groove is funk as funk can be,right down to some JB styled guitars and is allowed to go on for a well rounded 6+ minutes in lengh. The UK disco remix presented here plays up the funk by giving it that Stevie Wonder styled "Superstition" beat the Bee Gee's even used on their "Stayin' Alive" to kick out more of a jam in a tune that already more than does so. The extended version of "Call Me" at near 10 minutes is another fine varient on eurodisco helped by the extended lengh. "Suzy & Jeffrey" is a totally tragi-drama girl group type send up but goes well with the album. Considering Debbie teaming up with Chic on her first solo album KooKoo shortly to be released this albums sophistication of style and appropriate embrace of heavier funk elements made this in a word a model for a lot of similar musical hybrids in the future.
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