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Blondie – Autoamerican

Okay, I just listened to this for this project. Somebody owes me. With this 1980 release, the band got experimental, branched out, tried new things. That’s fine, and I strongly encourage it. But that...

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Blondie – Eat To The Beat

I guess I’ve always thought of this as a seriously lesser Blondie album. Released in October 1979, its first single was “Dreaming,” one of the absolute best Blondie songs and one of my favorite...

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Blondie – Parallel Lines

Of course, this was the breakout album for Blondie, the one that made them international superstars, the one that made millions of people explain “Debbie Harry isn’t Blondie, that’s the name of the band.”...

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Blondie – Plastic Letters

So, as I said last time, I picked up both “Blondie” and “Plastic Letters” after I’d already learned every note of “Parallel Lines.” In fact, “Plastic Letters,” which like their debut was produced by...

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Rory Block — Intoxication

I haven’t had the chance to write about Rory Block before, even though she takes up an amount of space in my CD collection. In the early ’90s we had a strong Rory Block...

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Blondie – Blondie

I came a tiny bit late to the Blondie party — or rather, I came to it exactly the same time almost everybody else did, with 1978’s Parallel Lines. I believe that I really...

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Blind Faith — Blind Faith

There have been a number of artists that I have had antipathy toward over the years, sometimes because of them, sometimes because of their fans, sometimes both. So: Eric Clapton. I came of age...

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The Blasters – Hard Line

One more Blasters album. Even though this came out in 1985, I don’t ever remember running across it until last year, when I picked it up locally at Shady Dog records. Honestly haven’t given...

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The Blasters – Non Fiction

This was actually my first Blasters album, the one I got after being completely blown away by their appearance in “Streets of Fire.” “The Blasters” was completely in line with the incredible hard-rocking, fast-bopping...