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Blondie

Eat to the Beat

BLONDIE had been kicking around for several years before the band exploded into public conciousness with PARALLEL LINES, an album that made the most of Debbie Harry's sensuous voice and the band's "new wave" tone that fused punk and pop to impressive effect. EAT TO THE BEAT was the follow up, and although it stayed very much in the slick mold of PARALLEL LINES it did not repeat so much as elaborate the previous album.

On the whole, the recordings here are at once edgier and softer than those found on PARALLEL LINES, with "Atomic" similar in feel to "Heart of Glass" but considerably jumpier and "Sound-a-Sleep" echoing Debbie Harry's vocals for "Fade Away and Radiate" but softening the instrumentation to create a gentler tone. And then there are the knock-outs: "Dreaming" has sometimes been called the band's best single with its typical BLONDIE punk-pop fusion, both "The Hardest Part" and "Die Young, Stay Pretty" have a truly funky feel unlike anything on PARALLEL LINES, and "Union City Blue" possesses an English-toned wall-of-sound quality. My own favorite of the set is "Slow Motion," which is just flat-out fun.

The re-master here is very nice, and the additional live cuts are interesting although not entirely in line with the album as a whole. If you're a BLONDIE fan, PARALLEL LINES should still be your first purchase--but EAT TO THE BEAT should be a close second. Recommended.

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