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Blondie - their most overrated and underrated song ?
It always feels that Blondie get over looked when anyone reviews music from the 70's or 80's. Maybe because they never dominated either decade - as they hit it really big in the last couple of years of the 70's and the first couple of the 80's.
IMO they produced some great songs/singles and few that were underrated. For me though, Denis was always a bit overrated although it proved their break through single here in the UK. Underrated would have to be Union City Blue, great song. |
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Not to many overrated ones in my opinion. Plenty of underrated ones though, I'll stick to 5..
Overrated : Dreaming & Tide is High. Underrated : Angels on the Balcony, Pretty Baby, Detroit 442, Susie and Jeffrey & Golden Rod. |
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Not an easy question to answer as far as over rated songs go. They certainly churned out some proper rubbish in their later years, but they weren't really over rated because everyone knew they were rubbish.
Under rated is a bit easier, because there are so many album tracks that many will be unaware of. The magnificent No Imagination from Plastic Letters springs to mind, but you could include most of the tracks on that album. From more recent years, Golden Rod is a simply MASSIVE song and seems to be criminally ignored. Well I've thought hard about it and I really can't think of any track that is actually over rated. Call Me is perhaps one of their weaker singles, but even that is better than most bands will ever achieve in their entire careers. |
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Overrated:
Heart Of Glass Maria One Way Or Another Underrated: Picture This Hanging On The Telephone I'm Always Touched by Your Presence, Dear |
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tbh for me they havnt aged well. after an initial atraction to these 60's wannabes i went off them when they courted the disco scene.
overrated - the tide is high ..... awful underrated - im always touched by your presence dear, picture this. |
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tbh for me they havnt aged well. after an initial atraction to these 60's wannabes i went off them when they courted the disco scene.
overrated - the tide is high ..... awful underrated - im always touched by your presence dear, picture this. I always loved The Tide Is High and it always brings a smile to my face, but remember it was a cover version. I found this recently and was amazed at how good musically Blondie were at the start of their career. Some of the vocals are sensational, especially on I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No and Kidnapper. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qWvlG6uOIA |
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Hardly under rated, as they are widely acknowledged as classics.l]
ps... i note that im not the only one nominating those tracks either
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I suppose it depends how old you are. I can remember the sheer electric shock to the groin of seeing Debbie Harry in the videos for those songs, which changed the lives of countless thousands of lads (and probably a few lasses) from the moment they were released. It also depends which country you live in: the truly outstanding Plastic Letters (from which both those singles came) had hardly any airplay at all in the US, but was very well received here. Admittedly, the album probably sold more copies immediately after Parallel Lines than it did before.
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Sunday girl doesn't get much of a mention, I really like that.
Call me is my favourite though. |
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Overrated - IMO, none! But my least favourite single is probably The Tide Is High. But, I do love the bit(s) in the video where Joey Ramone makes a brief appearance and particularly where Debbie mops up water from the floor but then immediately wrings the cloth out back where she just got it from.
I thought back then as now, "no, that's not how you clean up a spillage Debbie!". ![]() Underrated - Slow Motion (should have been a single). Ditto Pretty Baby. Nothing Is Real But The Girl, (for me a better song than Maria). And most definitely Union City Blue. It's always made little sense to me that UCB spent 10 weeks on the chart but only got as high as number 13 while the two singles that followed it, Atomic and Call Me (both excellent songs) each made number 1 but each only spent 9 weeks on the chart. Also seriously underrated is Debbie's solo single Two Times Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVNsrfw76o |
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I missed out on Blondie but I bloody love Rapture, what a tune.
Hat tip for Golden Rod and Atomic too. If we're including solo Debbie I recently discovered the fantastic Nile Rodgers produced Backfired which is funny, sassy and funky. Definitely under rated.
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Brite Side is another solo effort worth a peek, although I can't work out why she seems to be several years older in the official video than in the live one that follows.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FVVJlPzoNU This one seemed to coincide with some kind of a traumatic brain injury affecting her dress sense and from which she has never really recovered. From the Des O'Connor Show would you believe?www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_dQ4eMs-c |
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Brite Side is another solo effort worth a peek, although I can't work out why she seems to be several years older in the official video than in the live one that follows.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FVVJlPzoNU This one seemed to coincide with some kind of a traumatic brain injury affecting her dress sense and from which she has never really recovered. From the Des O'Connor Show would you believe?www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_dQ4eMs-c Brite Side is a great song. UK peak position No. 59 Ridiculous, deserved much better than that. I've never seen that Des show performance, wow, (and dress sense aside), she still looks stunning though and at 44! Staying Debbie solo(ish) for a minute, (and apologies, I've inadvertently taken this thread a bit OT), but here's another one worth a mention which chart wise was an under achiever and IMO underrated song with Iggy..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjejqJVUYOU |
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Brite Side and Did You Evah are fantastic. I think I have the latter on the Red White and Blue compilation somewhere.
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here's another one worth a mention which chart wise was an under achiever and IMO underrated song with Iggy..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjejqJVUYOU
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I suppose it depends how old you are. I can remember the sheer electric shock to the groin of seeing Debbie Harry in the videos for those songs, which changed the lives of countless thousands of lads (and probably a few lasses) from the moment they were released. It also depends which country you live in: the truly outstanding Plastic Letters (from which both those singles came) had hardly any airplay at all in the US, but was very well received here. Admittedly, the album probably sold more copies immediately after Parallel Lines than it did before.
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i can't think of any underrated ones but i can't stand rapture, which everyone else seems to like.
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i was 21 in 1978, tbh i cant remember the vids for 'hangin' and 'touched' , i do remember seeing her perform 'denis' , heart of glass, and the rest.
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i can't think of any underrated ones but i can't stand rapture, which everyone else seems to like.
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I just hated the Island of Lost Soul single. It was at that point I realised that Blondie had lost it.
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I think this band is underrated. Because most of people in my circle didn't know this band. The overrated song is heart of glass
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I just hated the Island of Lost Soul single. It was at that point I realised that Blondie had lost it.
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I just hated the Island of Lost Soul single. It was at that point I realised that Blondie had lost it.
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My dad had Blondie's Eat to the Beat cassette in his car and Victor was far and away my favourite track. I always asked him to turn up the volume when it came on.
That song probably helped influence my love of the darker, harder-edged post-punk/goth music that I listened to throughout my teens and early twenties. |
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My dad had Blondie's Eat to the Beat cassette in his car and Victor was far and away my favourite track. I always asked him to turn up the volume when it came on.
That song probably helped influence my love of the darker, harder-edged post-punk/goth music that I listened to throughout my teens and early twenties. |
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I thought back then as now, "no, that's not how you clean up a spillage Debbie!". 
Ridiculous, deserved much better than that. I've never seen that Des show performance, wow, (and dress sense aside), she still looks stunning though and at 44!