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

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

For once I can take the indiest of positions here: I like their early stuff best, before the hits. I totally love their first album (s/t) - it sounds like a punk Shangri-Las. Their first single was my first 12" single - X Offender, Rip Her To Shreds and In The Flesh - and those three tracks remain my favourites.

I was going to go to see them live in 1977, their first visit here, supporting Television. However, that was one of three highly desirable gigs in, I think, four days, and at 17 I didn't have the money for all of them. I went to the White Riot tour (Clash, Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, Slits) and the Ramones first appearance here (supported by the Talking Heads). I regret the one I missed, but I still think I got it right.

Red eyeshadow, green mascara, yuck! She's too much

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I heart Rip Her To Shreds! Definitely would have got a tick if it had charted over here.

[koganbot]

And "In The Sun," I heart.