Blondie [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import]

Blondie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000006T0G
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,693 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. X Offender

2. Little Girl Lies

3. In The Flesh

4. Look Good In Blue

5. In The Sun

6. A Shak In Jets Clothing

7. Man Overboard

8. Rip Her To Sheds

9. Rifle Range

10. Kung Fu Girls

11. The Attack Of The Giant Ants

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered 1994 reissue on Chrysalis of their 1976debut for the label. Contains 11 tracks, including the cultclassics 'Rip Her To Shreds', 'X Offender' and 'In TheFlesh'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS ONE OF BLONDIES BEST. IT STILL SOUNDS FRESH TODAY., July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Blondie (Audio CD)

This is the album that orignaly put Blondie on the music map and its easy to see why. From the moment Debbie Harry seductivly utters the first lines in the song 'X Offender' before an explosion of Clem Burkes manic drumming, you know this is going to be a classic Blondie collaberation. The band somehow manage to create a big and polished sound, even in there modest "Instant Record" days. The album also has a cute B-movie theme running through it, with songs like 'Kung fu Girls', 'Rip Her To Shreds', 'Attack of the Giant Ants etc.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The mocking girl group sound of Blondie's debut album, July 1, 2004

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blondie (Audio CD)

Blondie was the most commercially successful band to emerge from the punk/new wave movement of the late 1970s. The lineup changed a lot over the years but at the core of the group from the day it was formed in August 1974 was singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein, who had both been in the Stilettos. This debut album was released in late 1976 by Private Stock Records and clearly defines the group's style as taking the girl group sound of the Sixties and fusing it with the punk sensibilities of the Seventies to become new wave icons. Blondie was never punk the way the Ramones or the Talking Heads were punk, but they still had serious attitude.

This is amply proven by this album's first track and the group's first single, "X Offender." The song was originally entitled "Sex Offender," before the record company changed it, and the lyrics tell of a criminal falling for the cop who busts her. At the same time that the song fits the formula of the teenager in love angst songs of the 1950s and 1960s it also clearly mocks such songs as well. "In the Flesh," one of the few songs where Harry tries to sound really sexy, sounds like it should have come out of the Brill Building a decade earlier except Harry's vocal performance here, with its echoes of Marilyn Monroe, keys you in that there is some serious deconstruction at work here. Just listen to the final line of "Look Good in Blue" and clearly there is a tongue in cheek attitude to the double-entendres.

Rating this one is fairly easy because while Blondie would get better there is some historical significance to this debut effort and this remastered CD offers up five bonus tracks consisting of three demos, including the archetypal "Platinum Blonde," a cover of the Shangri-Las' "Out in the Streets," as well as the original single versions of "X Offender" and "In the Sun." "Blondie" is not a great Blondie album, but it does establish the group's definitive high gloss trashy sound. The result was a group whose greatest hits collection is one of the most popular every produced (i.e., everybody I know has it and listens to it on a regular basis). That strongly suggests the rest of their oeuvre is worth examining as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THEIR FIRST WAS THEIR BEST - CLASSIC ALBUM, July 12, 2001

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dphilips2002 (ROYAL OAK, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blondie (Audio CD)

GET THIS BEFORE ANY OTHER BLONDIE CD. CLASSIC SOUND THAT WAS BOTH RETRO & AHEAD OF ITS TIME. A1 SONGWRITING AND CLEAN PRODUCTION TOO. WELL WORTH THE XTRA CASH!