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Which do you turn up the loudest when it comes on your car radio?

1) "Call Me (Theme From American Gigolo)"	2 votes
2) "Dreaming"	3 votes
3) "Hanging on the Telephone"	0 votes
4) "Heart of Glass"	2 votes
5) "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear"	0 votes
6) "One Way or Another"	2 votes
7) "Rapture"	1 votes
8) "Sunday Girl"	0 votes
9) "The Tide Is High"	0 votes

AG/DC Mar 19 2008 10:15 AM

I'm not sure we did this one back in the day. One Blondie song goes on your mix tape. And that song is... 1) "Call Me (Theme From American Gigolo)" (Harry, Moroder) 2) "Dreaming" (Hary, Stein) 3) "Hanging on the Telephone" (Lee) 4) "Heart of Glass" (Harry, Stein) 5) "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" (Valentine) 6) "One Way or Another" (Harrison, Harry) 7) "Rapture" (Harry, Stein) 8) "Sunday Girl" (Stein) 9) "The Tide Is High" (Barret, Evans, Holt)

Mendoza Line Mar 19 2008 10:42 AM

Can I write in Union City Blue?

AG/DC Mar 19 2008 10:46 AM

YES! Good song. Good video concept.

metsguyinmichigan Mar 19 2008 10:56 AM

Mendoza Line wrote: Can I write in Union City Blue? I agree with you! That's my favorite Blondie song.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2008 11:00 AM

Strong collection overall but there is only one correct answer to this question (and especially when phrased as which you'd play loudest in your car. Not that you'd have a car on a desert island, but whatever). And that's the one that rhymes "verite" and "stare at me." The drumming is awesome, the cheesy echo on the voice is great, the whole thing is so atmospheric and wistful, yet you can dance to it and charm the chixxxx. Top Blondie song ever.

AG/DC Mar 19 2008 11:00 AM

Sorry to leave "UCB" out. It's a personal favorite of mine also, but I thought it largely forgotten (though perhaps not in union towns like Detroit). It didn't make the cut for Best of Blondie. Their catalog was deep and awesome. I knew the great drumming of Chris Burke cut a trench through punk, disco, glam, pop, and reggae, but I never realized until this poll how countrified "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" is.

AG/DC Mar 19 2008 11:22 AM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: And that's the one that rhymes "verite" and "stare at me.". Blank. I'm drawing one.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2008 12:05 PM

Never mind, I meant "dreaming" -- though it seems like some sites have different lyrics: either: Reel to reel is living verite People stop and stare at me or Reel to reel is living rarity People stop and stare at me

soupcan Mar 19 2008 12:05 PM

I gotta go with 'Call Me'. How does one rock to 'The Tide Is High'? Oh, wait...you're not talking about the Hilary Duff version.

AG/DC Mar 19 2008 12:22 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Mar 19 2008 01:31 PM

"Call Me (Theme From American Gigolo)" has the same bass riff as "Let the Day Begin" and a half dozen other stomping songs. That bassline is where disco and metal meet. "Dreaming" has Burkes great drum fills over and over "Hanging on the Telephone" has that woofer destroying explosion of "I'm in the phone booth; it's the one across the hall." Plus that opening couplet rhyming that line with "If you don't answer, I'll just rip it off the wall," has the sort of love-as-violent-obsession that young John Lennon threw into all his songs. "Heart of Glass" is their signature song, though certainly not their best. Cool how the bass walks up in the transition to the bridge, though. "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear," as I said, is countrier than I remember, perhaps written for their appearance in Roadie or a foreshadowing of it. "One Way or Another" kicks down every door in the building and leaves without apologizing. It's also the soundtrack to an endlessly played "This Week in Baseball" film of people chasing foul balls. "Rapture" is the single-with-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink characteristic of a band under too much pressure to top themselves and about to break up. "Sunday Girl" is the last hurrah of their original girl group R&B sound. "The Tide Is High" is thier biggest cover and what was true then is true now --- that reggae only gets on the radio when whitey does it. You can blame Bob Marley for scaring the industry away by smoking a huge fatties on the covers of his albums.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 19 2008 12:50 PM

Pretty sure she says Verity ver·i·ty n (formal) 1. the quality of being true or real 2. something that is true, especially a statement or principle that is accepted as a fact

Frayed Knot Mar 19 2008 02:23 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 20 2008 07:16 AM

It's "Dreaming" for me. In fact, it's [url=http://cranepoolforum.qwknetllc.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=533]already on[/url] my 'Best of 1979' mix tape.

TransMonk Mar 19 2008 04:14 PM

I'm with soup on Call Me. Union City Blue rocks as well, though.

MFS62 Mar 19 2008 06:48 PM

I heard a music critic on one of the musicTV stations say that "Rapture" is credited as the first song to bring rap out of the Black clubs and into the consciousness of the rest of America. I'm not sure, but if that's true the song certainly deserves some props. Later