🎵 How Good Are They Really 🎵 Blondie

Hi there! Time for another one I reckon.

Here we are after Bruce then (unbelievably low score imo)

Artist Rating
Aretha Franklin 4.64
David Bowie 4.31
The Cure 4.28
Stevie Wonder 4.17
Nirvana 4.15
Radiohead 4.13
The Supremes 4.13
Kate Bush 4.07
OutKast 4.07
Portishead 4.03
Joni Mitchell 3.89
Bruce Springsteen 3.84
ABBA 3.66
Kanye West 3.65
Beyoncé 3.54
Bob Marley & The Wailers 3.48
The Rolling Stones 3.09
The Strokes 3.03
Girls Aloud 2.93
Britney Spears 2.85

So we’ll move on and today look at Blondie

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So then…

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
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Album

  • Blondie
  • Plastic Letters
  • Parallel Lines
  • Eat To The Beat
  • Autoamerican
  • The Hunter
  • No Exit
  • The Curse Of Blondie
  • Panic Of Girls
  • Blondie 4(0) Ever
  • Pollinator

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Single

  • Denis
  • (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear
  • Picture This
  • Hanging On The Telephone
  • Heart Of Glass
  • Sunday Girl
  • One Way Or Another
  • Dreaming
  • Union City Blue
  • Call Me
  • Atomic
  • The Tide Is High
  • Rapture
  • Island Of Lost Souls
  • Maria
  • Nothing Is Real But The Girl
  • Good Boys

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I’m starting with a 3 but if the poll is open long enough I’ll try to go through some albums on Monday and may reassess

Oh and the updated playlist

  1. Parallel lines and lots of the other singles are amazing. Too much meh in the back catalogue for a 5
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A 4 from me. Terrific singles band and I think it’s often understated how important a part they were of the late 70s New York scene that birthed punk. I’ve never delved particularly deep but maybe now is the time.

Their best singles (and they have many) are up there with the very best pop music of all time.

Enough for a 5 on that alone.

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five (5)

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Also the second half of Rapture is just brilliant.

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imagine your band being the one that wrote heart of glass though. you can’t can you. ridiculous. and atomic and hanging on. christ. banging out bangers for fun.

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Parallel Lines and Eat to the Beat are stunning albums.

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3 for me. A couple of bangers but Parallel Lines is inconsistent and much of their catalogue is very weak

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Parallel Lines is brilliant front to back and is endlessly playable. Only spent time with their first four albums. Always meant to give Autoamerican and The Hunter a go but just haven’t gotten round to it.

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in the flesh is a cool cool song

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Couple of good songs, quite boring overall

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Parrelel Lines is a very good album, with anazing singles, but thats about it. Outside of that they range from eh to outright bad

3/5

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Didn’t vote for it as best single, but I love Union City Blue so much.

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Hanging… is a cover - only found out recently on another DiS thread. Plenty of amazing songs tho

What’s the name of that fucking batshit mental film about crystal meth that Debbie Harry is in?