Blondie Is The Name Of A Band [ECD] - Blondie

Advantages: The first high ranking new wave album by any artists or band
Disadvantages: A couple of flat tracks that dampen the spark of the album

...so this very immature, sweaty sound of hard thumping, microphone stand shaking new wave might as well have been natural to Blondie as throughout this album, they adapt gracefully to each and every style. This entirely, timeless classic album is still admired by fellow musicians to day as being one of the most influential and inspiring of the era. Along with its striking sleeve, it contains a small piece about the making of the album and the first meeting with Blondie by album producer Mike Chapman. He recalls in the appraisable and touching account his incredible nervousness on his first encounter with Stein and Harry. Being called in to produce, he had only become a big name from producing glam and glitter rock albums and was not prepared for a futuristic punk rock band with an attitude. He tells of the tensions with the recording... Read review

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Advantages: Some Superb Songs
Disadvantages: Some Tracks Are Quite Short

...Debbie Harry's musical career spans five decades and dates back to 1968 when she fronted a Band called The Wind in the Willows and released an Album of the same name. It is however with the Band Blondie that she formed a few years later that most people will associate her. Debbie Harry and the name of her Band, Blondie quickly became synonymous. Blondie were a Punk Band with a difference, and that difference was Debbie Harry, virtually no other Bands of that era were fronted by Women, and this is without a doubt an important factor why so many successful musical Women that have followed, including Madonna have described Debbie and her Band as a major influence. The Punk tag that Blondie were rightly given following the release of their debut Album called Blondie in 1976, and its follow up Plastic Letters the following year... Read review

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Advantages: A brave step forward, experimental
Disadvantages: This doesn't necessarily equate as good music

...Having conquered the music world with their successive monster albums 'Parallel Lines' and 'Eat To The Beat', both of which had spawned a string of successful singles, Blondie seemed unstoppable at the turn of the 1980's. However, they were at a point in 1980 where they were looking to expand to new horizons and explore new styles of music. They had flirted with reggae and even a lullaby on their previous album 'Eat To The Beat' and here on 'Autoamerican' they take their musical nous and apply it to lots of different musical styles. 'Autoamerican' sees Blondie tackle reggae, jazz, rap, electronica and the blues. Some times it works, other times it falls completely flat. This album was recorded at a point, I think it is fair to say, when Blondie were starting to decline and their power as one of the world's best bands was starting... Read review

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