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Blondie - Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie Audio CD

A fair review of the Blondie "Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Blondie reviews here, or go back to the Blondie tabs.

Blondie Band: Blondie
Title: Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie
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Release Date: 1999-06-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Atomic 2: Heart Of Glass 3: Sunday Girl 4: Call Me 5: The Tide Is High 6: Denis 7: Dreaming 8: Rapture 9: Hanging On The Telephone 10: I'm Always Touched By You 11: Island Of Lost Souls 12: Picture This 13: Union City Blues 14: War Child 15: Rip Her To Shreds 16: One Way Or Another 17: X-Offender 18: I'm Gonna Love You 19: Fade Away And Radiate 20: Atomic '98(Xenomania Mix) 21: Atomic '98 (Tall Paul Remix)

Best songs of one of the greatest punk rock/new wave bands of the late 70's

This album showcases their most fantastic tracks from 1976 to 1982, but I agree with the pervious reviewer that it is unfortunate that the songs not in chronological order. Blondie was one of the greatest punk rock/new wave bands of the late 70's and early 80's.
The synth-pop of Atomic and the vibey synthesized Heart Of Glass gives way to the sensual sunday Girl, the memorable movie soundtrack hit Call Me, the reggae style The Tide Is High, the flirtatious Denis, and one of the first rap numbers by a white band, Rapture.
Other notable hits include the calypso type Island Of Lost Souls and the angry Rip Her To Shreds.
I really love blondie, and this music really energizes me.
This stuff is still as hot as when it was released.
Blondie was one of the best bands of it's time.


The many faces of quality Pop
The album thus opens with 1979s synth-rock track Atomic and then moves back one year for the equally electronic but far more catchy Heart Of Glass, the pop and dance classic. For some reason known only to the record company, the tracks on this compilation are not in chronological order.

Track 3, Sunday Girl, also comes from the excellent Parallel Lines album, whilst Call Me (theme from American Gigolo) is another electronic dance track that has not aged well because it lacks a good tune. Next comes The Tide Is High, a lilting reggae number from 1980s Autoamerican. Denis takes us back to the brilliant 1977 album Plastic Letters, whilst Dreaming and Union City Blue come from 1980s less than inspiring Eat To The Beat album that also contains Atomic.

Plastic Letters and Parallel lines remain Blondie's best ever single albums, as demonstrated by the beautiful ballad I'm Always Touched (By Your Presence Dear), the snappy pop song Picture This and the dreamy, experimental Fade Away And Radiate. X Offender and Rip Her To Shreds from their 1976 debut show the raw punk promise that was to develop into their delicious take on pop in the aforementioned Plastic Letters and Parallel Lines.

Atomic concludes with two interesting remixes of the title track. Blondie made original and intelligent pop music that encompassed hypnotic synthesizer textures (Call Me, Atomic, Heart Of Glass), melodic ballads (Denis, Presence Dear), rap (Rapture), reggae (The Tide Is High) and punk rock (X Offender, Rip Her To Shreds). This is a great compilation album, like The Complete Picture (20 tracks) or Greatest Hits (19 tracks), and it is difficult to choose between them.


A great very best of Blondie compilation

However a new Blondie Greatest Hits will soon be released all remastered hits, this hitcollection will be updated with Maria their recent UK #1. Sound quality is very good and it contains all their hits including I'm gonna love you too which was a hit in Europe, War child is included and the fantastic Fade away and Radiate not a single actually but it's on this CD probably I'm not the only one who think this song is a real beauty. Fade away, War Child and I'm gonna love you too will not be on that one but therefore you get the US single The hardest part which is a rocky Blondie classic !

It is a matter of choise, my advise: buy the new Greatest Hits collection instead of this one together with Parallel Lines, Blondie's biggest selling album, if you go for the hits !.


All the Blondie hits you need on one CD.
All of their best songs like "Heart of Glass", "Call Me", "Rapture", "One Way or Another", and "The Tide is High" are included, as well as some ones that I hadn't heard like "Island of Lost Souls" and "Union City Blue". This is probably the single best Blondie compilation available, all the hits and none of the filler. While "Best of Blondie" is a neat little package, "Atomic" is the most complere Blondie collection. The remixes are not that great, though, but that is just a minor fault. Anybody who enjoys female pop stars should at lease know where they came from. An essential part of any good music collection. But it!.


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