Deborah Harry - Necessary Evil
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Artist: Deborah HarryEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Eleven Seven Music
Soundtracks:
- Two Times Blue
- School for Scandal
- If I Had You
- Deep End
- Love with Vengeance
- Necessary Evil
- Charm Redux
- You're Too Hot
- Dirty and Deep
- What is Love
- Whiteout
- Needless to Say
- Heat of the Moment
- Charm Alarm
- Jen Jen
- Naked Eye
- Paradise
Free Music Notes for Necessary Evil
Free Music Review: The return of THE one and only New York Diva!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I have seen some good and some odd reviews of this cd but to me as a fan of Ms. Harry since 1979 it is always a welcome site to see a new cd as either Blondie or Jazz Passengers or as a solo act-- you know you are going to get something new and different to hear.
When I first played the cd I was a bit taken back with some of the songs-- There are some that I would have left off (Charm Redux and Heat Of The Moment) but then I read an interview with VH1- their Track by Track series and in that Debbie goes through each track and gives you an idea of the song's origin or meaning or the fact that some of the instrumentals through out the cd is to break up the theme of some songs or add a different feel to others and I am thinking that here is a woman who has busted her butt for over 30 years and she can basically set this cd up as she wished. The new Billboard interview also lets you know that she recorded the cd basically with her own money and really is set up for her fans and not sure how well it will actually sell but wanted to make a cd for herself and fans alone. Be damned with what others think I guess.
So here is what I think of Necessary Evil. The lead track "Two Times Blue" is to me not even the best track on the cd. It is a "Maria" type pop hit that has such a killer hook -- try and find the Nickel And Dime radio remix because that is THE best version of the track. Now for the most part on the cd Debbie is much more aggressive sexually lyrically and vocally than the last 2 Blondie cds. "School For Scandal" is pure Alternative Rock that smolders with her delivery. The best track on the new cd is the 3rd song "If I Had You"-- flawless from the intro to the end of the song. It is heart on sleeve/honest Debbie vocals shining all through the song. This song is a huge hit if the label or radio could find a way of finding each other. The second best track is the title track "Necessary Evil" and it's cock rock guitars and Debbie's smarty vocal performance. This needs a really solid remix to run up the dance chart."You're Too Hot" starts out with a new Debbie persona-- Black Gospel Debbie just going all Gospel at the intro and then it breaks into a flat out yelling/chant of a vocal with heavy guitars all through the song. Listed on the credits-- Debbie played guitar on the song. Then you get 2 lovely ballads- "What Is Love" with it's killer hook but odd break off to a bit of chanting and the super personal "Needless To Say". The tracks "Dirty And Deep" and "You're Too Hot" are companions and so is the "Needless To Say" and "Heat Of The Moment" as well. So that should be obvious. The cd from 1-14 are produced by Super Budda.
The bonus tracks or tracks 15-17 are produced by Chris Stein and Bill Ware from Jazz Passengers. They are sort of Middle Easteren/African influenced and a different in scope and feel from the first 14 tracks. "Jen Jen" is basically an instrumental with chants and a New Order type guitar running through the song-- think of the b-side to "Strike Me Pink"--- 8 1/2 Rhumba and you get the idea of the song. The next bonus song- "Naked Eye" is a classic Stein/Harry written track-- a song of love about leaving your mark on your partner -- good or bad. The last track is the female suicide bomber track "Paradise" and it was hard to get into the lyrics when Debbie is singing almost as a wind /saxapohone instrument . Written by Roy Nathanson from The Jazz Passengers and it sounds more POP jazz in style. Listen a few times like I had to and it will grow on you.
So for me on the whole the cd is a fascinating look at the mind of Deborah Harry. Since a child I have been fascinated in what she has to think and say musically and to me is one of the few artists you can hear thinking as the songs progress. Like I said before some will LOVE this cd or think it is ODD but to me it is never boring ever.
Necessary Evil Poster
Following the ending of Blondie's second life as a recording and touring outfit, and nearly a decade and a half after her last solo record, Debbie Harry, at the age of 62, makes a surprisingly feisty and invigorating return to form on the spunky Necessary Evil. Recorded with songwriting and production assistance from the likes of longtime collaborator Chris Stein and young production team Super Buddha, this album features echoes of early Blondie's ironic updating of classic '60s pop (the Phil Spector-like "Two Times Blue" shows where Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse got many of their ideas) mixed with contemporary Hip Hop and Electro Rock influences. Highlights include the lascivious "Dirty and Deep" and the lovely ballad "If I Had You," a worthy successor to Blondie's glorious love song "In the Flesh." At an age when many of Harry's contemporaries, such as Elvis Costello or Nick Lowe, are working in musical styles that have no connection to the modern Pop marketplace, Debbie Harry proves that it's possible to rock the mainstream at any age.Anyone hoping for the 62-year-old Debbie Harry to sit up and act her age will be sorely disappointed by the former Blondie vixen's sixth solo album (and first in 14 years). Viscerally contemporary, Necessary Evil harnesses youthful exuberance from across the charts, and Harry and her team of producers and songwriting partners do radio-ready rock, pop, and soul-lite with à la mode savvy to spare. Big-time sing-alongs ("Two Times Blue," "You're Too Hot") rub elbows with spare, distorted guitar lines piled in arena-sized stacks ("Love with Vengeance," "Charm Redux," and the especially vivacious "Whiteout"). "The Devil's dick is hard to handle," Harry growls in "School for Scandal," encapsulating the attitude of shameless defiance coursing through this and other lean, mean, up-tempo numbers like the half-rapped, full-lipped "Dirty and Deep." Between the reversed hip-hop break bisecting "Charm Alarm," the title track's stolen riff from Rage Against the Machine's "Know Your Enemy," and Harry's bits of Internet imagery, this album won't dare let go of its of-the-moment moxie. Gumdrops like the flaccid "What Is Love" and closer "Paradise" are irrevocable but few; in all, the occasional slice of tripe strangely sweetens Harry's otherwise surprising longevity, ready to rock and salty as ever. --Jason Kirk
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