The Best of Blondie [Capitol] [Digipak]

Performer: Blondie
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Blondie: Debbie Harry (vocals); Chris Stein, Frank Infante (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Nigel Harrison (bass); Clem Burke (drums). Not the original 1981 album. This is a budget-priced reissue released to coincide with Blondie's 1999 comeback album and tour. BEST OF BLONDIE is a fine compilation; Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and company were a classic singles band, and it's impossible to argue with songs as enduring as "One Way or Another," "Hanging on the Telephone," "Dreaming," and "Rapture." This reissue contains the superior seven-inch single version of the band's breakthrough hit, "Heart of Glass," instead of the remix. The album also gets major points for including two tracks not on the first BEST OF BLONDIE, the farewell single "Island Of Lost Souls" and the girl-group pastiche "Denis."

Although the press and public were initially focused on singer Debbie Harry's model-like good looks, Blondie was one of the first new wave bands of the 1970s to experiment with other musical styles. Beginning as part of the '70s CBGB scene in New York, the band experienced massive commercial success when they merged their '60s girl-group-influenced punky pop with disco, reggae, and rap. After the group disbanded in the early '80s, Harry went on to a solo career and acted in numerous films. Blondie had a successful reunion in the late '90s, touring and releasing an album of new material that showed they were far from done.

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