TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Blondie
Blondie
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8815
Blondie Album Rankings
1
Blondie turned to British pop producerMike Chapmanfor their third album, on which they abandoned any pretensions to new wave legitimacy (just in time, given the decline of the new wave) and emerged as
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2
If new wave was about reconfiguring and recontextualizing simple pop/rock forms of the '50s and '60s in new, ironic, and aggressive ways, then Blondie, which took the girl group style of the early and
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3
Although Blondie made several first-rate albums, most of their best songs were released as singles, which makesThe Best of Blondiean essential collection.
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4
Track listing: 1) Dreaming ; 2) The Hardest Part ; 3) Union City Blue ; 4) Shayla; 5) Eat To The Beat; 6) Accidents Never Happen; 7) Die Young Stay Pretty; 8) Slow Motion ; 9) Atomic; 10) Sound-A-Slee
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5
Seventeen years passed between Blondie's sixth and seventh albums. The eighth has taken a mere four.
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6
Track listing: 1) Screaming Skin; 2) Forgive And Forget; 3) Maria ; 4) No Exit ; 5) Double Take; 6) Nothing Is Real But The Girl ; 7) Boom Boom In The Zoom Zoom Room; 8) Night Wind Sent; 9) Under The
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7
Track listing: 1) Fan Mail; 2) Denis; 3) Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45); 4) Youth Nabbed As Sniper; 5) Contact In Red Square; 6) (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear ; 7) I'm On E ; 8) I Di
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8
The whole thing tingles: you're in the presence of diamond-hard greatness
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9
Track listing: 1) Orchid Club; 2) Island Of Lost Souls; 3) Dragonfly ; 4) For Your Eyes Only; 5) The Beast; 6) War Child ; 7) Little Caesar; 8) Danceway; 9) (Can I) Find The Right Words (To Say); 10)
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10
WithAutoamericanand, now,The Hunter, Blondie has become more difficult to enjoy, even as the group has strained to become something you can "appreciate.
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11
Track listing: 1) Europa; 2) Live It Up; 3) Here's Looking At You ; 4) The Tide Is High; 5) Angels On The Balcony ; 6) Go Through It; 7) Do The Dark; 8) Rapture ; 9) Faces ; 10) T-Birds; 11) Walk Like
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12
The late '70’s brought forth a wave of bands that combined elements of rock, reggae, and a plethora of other genres together in order to sound like something new.
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29
If you consulted a Blondie discography in the fall of 2002, you would see a slew of compilations listed, and you might wonder why a new Greatest Hits was needed.
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36
One of the first New Wave bands to cross over to huge pop success, Blondie has been the subject of a number of posthumous releases and retrospectives since breaking up.
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40
Although Blondie made several first-rate albums, most of their best songs were released as singles, which makes The Best of Blondie an essential collection.
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42
Recorded on their recent No Exit tour, Blondie Live proves that the New York New Wave veterans still pack some punch.
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