The Friday Canon: BLONDIE

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

BLONDIE TRUFAX:

- Debbie Harry used to be in a band called 'Wind In The Willows'
- And she was in an episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch! The big goth.
- In 1981, 89% of teenage bedroom walls displayed at least one Blondie poster.

Blondie have 23 UK Top 40 hits (including Debbie's solo stuff), you have just SEVEN ticks. Ooo bee doo!

[Poll #1051554]
Norman Cook (link)

1. Beats International [ft Lindy Layton] - Dub Be Good To Me
2. Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank
=3. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
=3. Housemartins - Happy Hour
5. Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin'
6. Freak Power - Turn On Tune In Cop Out
7. Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now
8. Fatboy Slim - Everybody Needs A 303
=9. Fatboy Slim - Star 69 / Weapon Of Choice
=9. Housemartins - Caravan Of Love

Comments

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

Atomic is the hero song here - weird, disco-synth-rock, mental minimal lyrics but so much passion underneath. "Oh, oh your hair is beautiful, ahhhhhh tonight. ATOMIC." Really sets me off crying, sometimes.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I contributed to our team's £10 pub quiz winnings by knowing that Sleeper covered it on the Trainspotting soundtrack. Almost indistinguishably from the original.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

The Mission (of all peoples) did a pretty good job of it on Ruby Trax. But nothing comes close to Harry's dead-stop, post-coital lurch of "atomic". It makes the dancing=sex metaphor explicit.