Debbie Harry - KooKoo
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Artist: Debbie HarryEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 1999-01-12
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- Jump Jump
- The Jam Was Moving
- Chrome
- Surrender
- Inner City Spillover
- Backfired
- Now I Know You Know
- Under Arrest
- Military Rap
- Oasis
- Backfired (Dance Version)
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Free Music Review: Relive the KooKoo-ness
Hit: 4 Stars
KooKoo is an album that had me and the masses very confused in 1981 - after the enormous success of Blondie and the latest album 1980's Autoamerican, Debbie went solo and at the time it was a bit of a disappoint for a great number of people. Listening to it all these years later, I can't believe how overlooked this album can be. Utilizing Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, Debbie went funk and at the time I didn't understand it, but now, boy do I get it.
A deeper more urban version of Diana Ross' Diana ("Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out") which Chic had done a year earlier. Debbie kept her New York cool and her attitude, and most importantly her delivery of strange and etheral images. Sure there's a few lackluster numbers, the closing number "Oasis" does remind you of a Sci fi film soundtrack but so did "Europa" from Blondie's Autoamerican album.
The production is minimal but that's the Chic brilliance, funk guitars, a few horns and a lot of Debbie's cool voice at the forefront. "Backfired" is still one of her best solo songs while my favorite the funk/rock fusion of "Under Arrest" and the uber fabulousness of the rap/white funk/hippity hop "Military Rap" is so humorous it's completely serious.
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