Blondie - Plastic Letters
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Free Music Review: PLASTIC 5 Stars
Plastic Letters is great! Fan Mail is i good pop song,Denis is a wonderful french/pop song, Kiddnapper is a Elvis type song but this is better becuase its by Blondie!!!(Blondie is and always will be better than Elvis!!)I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No this is my favorite song on this album (though all the songs are great!!!)I love this alum!Free Music Review: Second Blondie album
Hit: 5 Stars
Some more of the same . . like the first album, not quite as slick as Parallel Lines (different producer) but every bit as enjoyable. Full of energy . . a must have. Debbie rules.Free Music Review: Blondie is the best. This CD is a must have classic!
Hit: 5 Stars
What can I say - Blondie is great and this early CD is very raw and exciting.Free Music Review: FOR AMBER.....
Hit: 4 Stars
As a health inspector in urban Australia it was my job during the early 90's to inspect the various registered brothels. Prostitution is legal here. In Melbourne's eastern suburbs I had to report on a newly established brothel called the "The Steak House." Simply put this cramped two bedroom house was decked out with the usual tacky Chinese paper lanterns, dimmed lights and Karma Sutra pictures on the walls. All this plus burning incense in a typical shallow attempt to create an intimate atmosphere.
The place was clean and up to code in all the necessary checks i ran threw, i.e condom disposal and clean bed sheets ect. It was midday and only two girls were working, both sitting quietly reading in each bedroom. The girl in the bedroom closest to the entrance was singing the words to Def Leopard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" while the other girl actually had a small boom box and was playing Plastic Letters by Blondie. We briefly chatted about music and eventually I invited her to go see Debbie Harry play at a local night club in the upcoming weeks. Amber was her name and she was a huge Blondie fan, and was probably looking forward to this gig more than anything else at this particular time.
On the evening before the gig, Amber was responsible for a car accident which may have contributed to a series of other major car crashes at a busy intersection. She ran a red light and multiple cars collided as a result. Four people were taken to hospital and two people died. However the cops only charged Amber with running a red light incurring a $200 fine. They called her every filthy name under the sun, but due to the laws, had to treat the other crashes as separate accidents and not connected to Amber's driving error.
She phoned me from the local cop station and after went straight to the gig, where i met up with her. During the support bands she informed me of the details of the crashers. She was physically ok, but feeling horribly guilty, particularly due to the deaths which occurred. To calm her nerves she told me she had taken several Valium. I noticed she was throwing back alcoholic drinks like their was no tomorrow. During the gig itself i virtually had to hold her up as she insisted on standing near the front of the stage.
In the taxi ride home she lost consciousness and was rushed to hospital where she died from a combination of drugs causing her heart to slow then stop. I have forgotten the technical term the doctor used.
Due to the fact i only knew Amber for a few weeks and was not a family member I was not allowed to be by her side when she passed. The authorities could not locate a next of kin. Even after searching her apartment and exploring personal documents. I could offer no assistance, but decided to place an add in a Melbourne newspaper in the hope of locating a relative. I had no success. Plastic Letters is a good cd of early Blondie material, but is a cd I can not easily listen too for obvious reasons. R.I.P Amber Liechtenstein
Free Music Review: Blondie Making Good Second Time Out
Hit: 4 Stars
If you look at the history of Blondie this is probably one of their more forgotton albums. At this point they'd had a reasonably successful debut but major label attention still eluded them. 1977 was the year the The Clash and The Sex Pistols emmerged overseas with the British Punk sound so rather than come out with an album featuring more of a punk edge than before the band actually responded by moving ahead with their music,slickening up the instrumentation and production of their sound even more than before and also bringing the electronic element of their music even more into the forefront than before. True songs such as "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presense,Dear","I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No" and of course their well known cover of "Denis" make it all too easy to think of this album as something of a carbon copy of their debut but there's actually a much broader stylistic bent here. "Bermuda Triangle Blues" actually goes for a more retro R&B styled rhythm whereas the electronic new style element in the music is very much pronounced on "Fan Mail","Contact In Red Square","I'm On E","No Imagination","Detroit 442" and "Cautious Lip" as is the bands pop smarts. Because they had two records out around this time Blondie had begun to move somewhat beyond the CBGB's scene on which they got their start and become known at other clubs just as well so it was only natural that their natural pop inclinations would take on an even stronger presidents here. The bonus songs such as "Scenery" and the more elaborately chorded "Poets Problem" show this as well but nothing on this CD points to the bands future direction better than the reggae pop/funk flavored "Once I Had A Love",a 1975 demo made before their debut album was realeased that would be re-recorded in a years time after this and become known as "Heart Of Glass". Blondie's two pre Parallel Lines albums are often somewhat undeservedly underappreciated albums that not only point to the bands talents but also to why they are considered one of the most innovative and inventive pop/rock bands of their day. Trend setters not only in terms of music and style their sense of being able to successfully siphon from their influences to create their sound is very important as well.