Blondie

I was watching a “Rolling Stone: Behind the Music” show on YouTube the other day, and at its conclusion it rolled into a “Blondie: Behind the Music”, it was a very enlightening show.

I had never really listened to Blondie other than the traditional Clem Burke Drum intro to “Call Me” and Chris Stein’s strumming “One way or another”, but they have so many good songs. I went on to Spotify and if Blondie’s tracks were trending up my apologies. I have been on a wild kick for their music.

Burke on the drums is just amazing (dreaming), Debbie Harry has a mixture of great vocals and song writing skills that are just amazing (rapture), Stein’s just lagniappe.

You can really hear their influence in so many songs that you hear today. Their mixture of club, punk, hip hop, they were so ahead of their time, it’s just crazy.