No Exit

Blondie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eleven Seven Music
• ASIN: B000W7Y2GE
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,733 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2007 reissue of this hit album from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees. Blondie emerged as the great pop icons of NY's celebrated late '70s new wave/punk scene by defying easy categorization. No Exit, their seventh studio album (originally released in 1999), was a perfect, up to date evolution of Blondie. The trademark elements were still there: that propulsive beat; Debbie's unmistakable voice - seductive, soulful yet ironic; atmospheric keyboards - sometimes lush, sometimes eerie; and brilliantly articulated guitar lines. Their hit "Maria" went to #1 in 14 countries and the album sold over two million units worldwide.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Blondie's Best Albums - Includes 14 New Songs Including "Maria" = Outstanding Blondie Music!!!!!!, May 19, 2009

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Gary Covington "Southern Rocker" (Louisiana, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Exit (Audio CD)

This is an excellent album CD by Blondie. This was their great come-back album released in the late 1990's. You get the line-up of Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, and Jimmy Destri. The songs are as follows:

Note - This is the CD edition without the Bonus Tracks of Dreaming, Call Me, & Rapture. There is another edition of this cd with those Bonus tracks.

1. Screaming Skin
2. Forgive & Forget'
3. Maria (This one went to #1 in the U.K.)
4. No Exit (You get Coolio performing as a guest musician).
5. Double Take
6. Nothing is real but the Girl
7. Boom, Boom in the Zoon Zoon Room
8. Night Wind Sent
9. Under the Gun
10.Out in the Streets
11.Happy Dog
12.The Dream's Lost on Me
13.Divine
14.Dig Up the Conjo

Overall, this is a great Blondie cd, the music is simply outstanding from beginning to end. I highly recommend this one, or the one like this one that includes the Bonus Tracks. Thanks!!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome comeback album, June 1, 2010

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B. S. Marlay (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Exit (Audio CD)

In 1999 Blondie reformed and returned with `No Exit', named after the Jean Paul Sartre play of the same name. Produced, intriguingly, by Craig Leon, who was the producer of their debut back in 1976 (as well as albums by The Ramones and later, Jesus Jones), it is a mostly excellent exercise in gothic-infused genre-hopping that manages to stay just short of being over-produced - though there is a certain sense of restraint to it. Give or take a song or two, `No Exit' can sit easily alongside the best albums from the band's 70s heyday - and it has the added bonus of finding Deborah Harry in superlative voice.

Harry and band members, Chris Stein, Jimmy Destri and Clem Burke, are all heavily represented among the song-writing credits, which helps the record sound authentically Blondie. Those songs that do not feature external collaborators also tend to be the best on the record.

Things kick off with the mad ska vampire ditty, `Screaming Skin' before moving into the beautiful layered synths of Chris Stein's `Forgive and Forget' which features a mythic spoken intro from Deborah Harry. The hit single and first of two mod/ new wave Jimmy Destri masterpieces, `Maria', is followed shortly thereafter by the second, `Nothing is Real But the Girl'. Stein's `Under the Gun', a moving cowboys and Indians ode to late Gun Club lead singer, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, follows a few tracks later and acts as a sound partner to them. These three songs are the closest in spirit and style to the old Blondie sound, though they are separated by the dark, edgy metal guitar rap of `No Exit', which features Coolio.

New York writer, Romy Ashby is a prominent collaborator on many of the other tracks, which account for some of the most beautiful moments in the set. `Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom Room' is a slinky, smoky cool jazz number. There are also stunning country turns on `The Dream's Lost On Me' and `Happy Dog'. Drummer Clem Burke and former Go Go's bassist, Kathy Valentine, contribute the infectious `Divine', which follows them.

The only low points are a an unbelievably limp version of the Shangi-La's `Out on the Street', as well as a boring nod to `Island of Lost Souls' and the jokey early Blondie approach, with `Dig Up The Conjo'.

5.0 out of 5 stars BLONDIE!, June 23, 2011

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L. A. Cummings (Cutten, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Exit (Audio CD)

what can I say, it's Blondie, for heavens sake. ALWAYS great! Wore out the last CD had to replace it.