Blondie: Autoamerican (Original CD Edition) CD Track Listing
Blondie
Autoamerican (Original CD Edition) (1980)
Autoamerican (Original CD Edition)\n\nOriginally Released November 1980\nRemastered Edition Released September 11, 2001\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: The basic Blondie sextet was augmented, or replaced, by a dozen session musicians for the group's fifth album, Autoamerican, on which they continued to expand their stylistic range, with greater success, at least on certain tracks, than they had on Eat to the Beat. The rap pastiche "Rapture" and the Caribbean-flavored "The Tide Is High" both went to #1 on the singles charts, but they are the only memorable tracks on an album that leads off with a string-filled instrumental and also finds Deborah Harry crooning ersatz '20s pop on "Here's Looking at You" and tackling Broadway show music in a cover of "Follow Me" from Camelot. What a mess. -- William Ruhlmann\n\nHalf.com Album Notes\nBlondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar, bass, vibraphone); James Destri (piano, organ, synthesizer, background vocals); Frank Infante (bass, background vocals); Clement Burke (drums, background vocals).\n\nBlondie's penultimate album before their breakup, 1981's AUTOAMERICAN is a fine collection of diverse, slickly-produced pop songs, featuring the all-pervasive "Rapture." It's difficult to explain just how omnipresent this song was on Top 40 radio in 1981--only Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" and the "Stars on 45" medley had more airplay--or how enormous its cultural impact. \n\nBefore "Rapture," rap was little known outside of New York City's outer boroughs, but Debbie Harry's rap, namechecking scene legends Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash (alongside '60s film auteur Francois Truffaut, for the downtown hipsters), brought the style worldwide. The rap was so groundbreaking that it's easy to forget that the first three minutes of the song, where Harry coos luxuriantly over a slinky bass groove, is some of Blondie's best work, as is the rest of the album.
This rock cd contains 12 tracks and runs 46min 44sec.
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- Blondie - Europa (03:30)
- Blondie - Live It Up (04:09)
- Blondie - Here's Looking At You (02:57)
- Blondie - The Tide Is High (04:39)
- Blondie - Angels On The Balcony (03:47)
- Blondie - Go Through It (02:40)
- Blondie - Do The Dark (03:51)
- Blondie - Rapture (06:30)
- Blondie - Faces (03:52)
- Blondie - T-Birds (03:56)
- Blondie - Walk Like Me (03:44)
- Blondie - Follow Me (03:00)
