The Best of Blondie - Blondie

Posted : 7 months, 2 weeks ago at Apr 9 1:46

An adequate introduction to the band, but it skews in favor of the more chart friendly later years and ignores some of the better earlier songs. Only one song from Plastic Letters? Were “Detroit 442” and “Denis” not good enough? I beg to differ. No love for “X Offender”? “Sunday Girl” is present, but it's the French version of the song and not the album track from Parallel Lines. Either version is fantastic, but it seems strange to include the non-album version on a ‘best of.’ This is, obviously, not everything you need to know about the band and their music. One doesn't get the sense that Blondie practically invented the skinny-jean, skinny-tie, icy-cool sound of New Wave from this collection. One does get twelve fantastic songs. All of them first-rate and among the gr...Read more