Blondie - Autoamerican
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Free Music Notes for Autoamerican
Free Music Review: "Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any day."
Hit: 5 Stars
I completely forgot that the wondeful song "Call Me" was never included on any of Blondie's albums. Well, someone at the record company was very kind to include it here. Also included is "Suzy and Jeffrey" the B-side of The Tide is High single. A great song about blood tests, marriage, outstanding traffic tickets and Orson Welles. Very Blondie, indeed.As for the original Autoamerican songs, they are all gems. The remastering has cleaned up the original muddy sound quite a bit. A true conceptual masterpiece, it begins with a very eerie instrumental entitled Europa. From there Debbie does disco-lite, a torch song, rap, punk, lounge and it all ends with a song from Lerner and Loew's Camelot. In many ways this was Blondie's swansong. The follow up, The Hunter, had it's moments, but it seemed a bit tired and a bit of a retread of Autoamerican. The big suprise was 1999's No Exit, which was every bit as fabulous as the earlier classics.
Free Music Review: Blondie manages to extend their number ones
Hit: 5 Stars
Blondie and the producer Mike Chapman are very experimental on this album. It's 1980 and besides being superstars in the rest of the world, Blondie did already have their US #1 hits Call me and Heart of Glass.Autoamerican proves that Blondie is in evolution! Dance rap on Rapture, dance kind reggea on the The tide is high, a beautiful Angels on the balcony an (almost) intrumental ode for Europe: the beauty Europa, jazz like songs such as Faces and Here's a looking at you.
This remastered verion contains a great long version of the American Gigilo soundtrack Call Me so it contains three US #1 !
Blondie's mission was completed with this album : to settle theirselves as a supergroup in their domestic country: the USA a well chosen album title: Autoamerican, you may ask yourself are they paranormal or something?
Free Music Review: Blondie Conquers All
Hit: 5 Stars
I have owned this album in every imagineable format since its release in 1980. It was; at the time the only Blondie I had, where I actually went into the store and bought it when it first came out. Full of all this is Blondie glory, there isn't a genre not covered on Autoamerican. From the hip hop stops of "Rapture", the reggae tune of "The Tide Is High" - jazz on "Faces" , 40s style "Here's Looking At You" and straight up rock on "Walk Like Me" and "TBirds." This is definitive Blondie, and it contains my all time fav Blondie track "Angels On The Balcony. Plus the whole thing starts with a space age alien soundtrack called "Europa." Plus the remaster has the excellent B-side "Suzy & Jeffrey" which I have never to this day gotten tired of hearing.
Free Music Review: ''...in rapture'' when listening to this album
Hit: 5 Stars
As it can be seen, "Rapture" is one of my favorite tracks from this album. I actually got this album for the Disco Version of "Rapture" because it had been unavailable for many years. I love it! This is one of the first rap songs, although it came after "Rapper's Delight". That might have been an inspiration for this song. I also like the "Tide Is High". It's a fun track. Lower BPM, but it is still great. Finally, this album contains the Long Version of "Call Me". It is amazing! This is the first time it has been released on Blondie CD in this version! It's worth it for just "Call Me" and "Rapture" in the long versions.Free Music Review: Nice Remaster with a few extra songs
Hit: 5 Stars
You eitherr like the music or you don't so this review will focus on the 'tangable" aspects of the CD. Not the subjective.
The remastered tracks all sound crystal clear, just like I remembered them when my father bought the album for his recordplayer when I was a child. Drum tones are deep and punchy with plenty of depth. Gutars and brass are all tight and come across real nice.
There are a few bonus tracks on the end that do not appear to have been remastered like the rest of the CD, but are still in very high quaility.