You can see her naked in Cronenburg's movie "Videodrome"... Damn! I bumped into her after a concert in LA, and she let me feel her tits because I "looked pathetic" and she thought it would cheer me up. It did, then she got in the limo and drove off...
@CaptainMidnight85 Smoking Hot is right Captain. Inside and out! Her looks were matched by her personality and character and that is SUPER SUPER RARE indeed. The only really exotically beautiful female i can name who not one of the following: unstable scatter brain, self obsessed, up herself, a space cadet or a gold digging bio-tch!
@RTT8001 yeah, I heard about N.Y.C from my dad, who went there for a 3 week holiday in 1980 and never came back! He left N.Y and came back to Australia in 2001 because he said Mayor Rudy Giuliani fucked it all up by sanitizing the fuck out of the place and turning Broadway into a tourist trap and letting developers into all the burrows with their regulations. Wish i could go back and live in old dirty, dinghy, grubby, scummy, dangerous EXCITING, COOL, EDGY, HIP, HAPPENING NEW "FUCKIN" YORK!!!
me and my little sis have about a 10 year age difference. We aren't close or similar in any way. However, there is one thing that we do enjoy listening to...Blondie...saves the trip of akward silence on those long driving trips... ; )
@rustinpieces Yeah, Gary talks about this in his book. Gary played guitar on the songs he wrote, which Chris really didn't like apparently since he ended up on bass!
WROTE BY EARLY BAND MEMBER GARY VALENTINE AND ORIGINALLY TITLED SEX OFFENDER BUT LATER CHANGED,ONE OF BLONDIE BEST SONGS THOU NO REAL IMPACT UNTIL SIGNED BY CHRYSALIS RECORDS.MY FAVE BAND EVER
There's still good stuff around today, but it's under the radar of the big recording companies, just like back then. It was hard to get the culture industry to pay attention to real originals like Blondie. Plus in the late 70s, everyone was still stoned and listening to increasingly bloated album rock, Led Zepplin, or disco -- ask your dad :)
@bostonseeker Not everyone was listening to album rock, maybe in America where new music generally takes longer to catch on but here in the UK some of us were listening to what would eventually get labelled punk by the media from the mid 70's.
@nichotto No doubt, music in the UK gets there first -- it definitely did with punk and new wave. They actually started here in NYC, but the radio stations and record cos. were too scared to take them in. So they had to get popular in the UK, Canada, and Australia, before they were really accepted here.
Great song,great singer! Does anyone recall back in '76 she was on Don Kirshners' Rock Concert and she was wearing a poka-dot bikinni. Never saw that video clip. Thought this was it but it was'nt. If any one can find that,please put it up!!!
@ihasch Glad to know he mentioned it and some one recalls it. I started to think my friend and I imagined it back in '76! Yes,it was a live performance. Don Kirshners' Rock Concert.
@tjrxk7-Thanks for the confirmation. It's not even listed on the gig list that was compiled on the band's website, a strange oversight for their first national TV appearance. It is surprising that it has never made it to YT. Then again it's surprising that there is almost as much vintage footage of the band playing in Japan as there is of them playing at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City.
@ihasch Talking with my friend about it,there seems to be only one logical explanation and not an oversight at all. Consider: The polka dot bikinni she was wearing was extremely provacative and it might very well be that her agent,or she herself did not want it on UTube. It's the ONLY way a piece like that could be successfully kept off of something as big as UTube,not to mention the bands' own site. It makes sense to me. My friend is a girl and I think her 'womans intuition' is spot on.
@tjrxk7-Maybe. They had another Rock Concert appearance in 1978 and a first appearance on the Mike Douglas show that same year that I have also never seen and which are also not listed. The 1977 Rock Concert appearance was on the internet at one point, but that site is defunct. I think it's just a matter of stuff getting overlooked. Just a matter of finding it.
This reminds me of my high school days in the late 1970s...how many guys had a crush on Debbie Harry back then? I did. She was the gorgeous "older woman" of the punk scene...and she still turns heads now.
Fantastic video! Where in the world did this video gem come from?? I think this is one of Blondie's greatest hits... No one would have ever known of this song, but for the later breakout with Heart of Glass... kjinphx2003 thank you for sharing...
people lament about how commercial radio (currently at its worst, IMO) ignores trends or bands they like. well, dont you WISH for the old days? there is so much saturation that ANYTHING that might be novel or original has no mystery anymore. i STARVED for ANY mention or exposure of this band when i first heard them as a little kid....it was better that way. they remain to me the elusive fruit, decades later. not sure if im stating my point well.
Im only 17 but fucking love Blondie and Debbie Harry. My dad brought me up listening to her music and im still obsessed <3 music was much better back in the day. would have loved to have been born then, its all manufactured pop nowadays
@Jade09x Yeah Jade09x your right it was awesome in in the 70's and 80's! Music, films,fashion, fun, life was a lot simpler then and Living in Australia we had the best of everything! Life was simple and good jobs were everyware, working and having fun at the beach and going out to nightclubs was pretty much all anybody thought about here. Its still like that in Australia but its not as good as it was mainly because of political correctness and computers. Cheers
@Jade09x Hey Jade, "it's" not all canned for the sheeple pop nowadays! Although, artists tend to enjoy expressing themselves, and us sheeples like checking out stuff, there's a LOT of musical bands always pushing the envelope. Most always created out of tight knit communities in random towns, there's always a grip of young folk being very aware of the outer limits of what's been done. There's no big reason this can't be you, and you already show an interest. Learn music! Later, Teach music!
@Jade09x The irony is that earlier in their career they were going for the manufactured pop sound of the 60s, this song being one of the most obvious examples with the girl group intro.
@Jade09x yes, there are a lot more manufactured outfits now, but there were many in the 70s too, which we forget (because, thankfully, they were so ephemeral and died). there will always be new songs and new artists tho, intelligent people who want more than just shit. it gives me heart that you and others of your generation are proof of this. check out songs: 'waiter' and 'remember when' by Heathers. keep faith. - peace, mk
utter crap xreddragonx, moldrid1026!! Punk is about being 'young loud and snotty' !! I'm 36 yrs OLD but not fossilized like you two. Quit trying to set the genre in stone, its all about the kids (of all ages) having fun with it. If you two had your way 'Punks not dead' but embalmed and should die.
@hex0D Do YOU even know what the fuck you're going off about? I'm trying to see the relevance in your idiotic, whiny post to anything I said (which was freaking 1 line long).
I'll never forget when I saw Blondie for the first time,circa '76-'77 on Don Kirshners' Rock Concert and she did this song in a pink bikini,it just blew me away....I rushed out to Gimbels the next day and started hunting for the 'Blondie' album. The rest was history!
@Fpockets Well said man and I totally agree with you. No one did songs that sounded like this in the mid 70's! If you listen to their song Atomic from 1979 it sounds like a techno song from the 90's. Truly a band ahead of itself!!!!!!
It was a punk fashion show in September, 1977. It hadn't hit the proverbial fan yet, but bands like Blondie and the Ramones quickly realized how badly the association to punk hurt their careers. DH had to fly around the country to convince radio prgrammers to play their records, and even after Parallel Lines they still had to win over hostile crowds when they opened for mainstream acts. The Ramones on the other hand just had stuff thrown at them; I'm sure they were thrilled being called "punk."
See this is pre British punk. New York punk was the original punk but it was kind of a mix of 60s mod and sort of 1950s Rockabilly style. The Buzzcocks and the Jam were different sides of the proverbial tracks but were a bit mod while Sex pistols created what is true "Punk" in definition. Seems every band after that borrowed the style of Sex Pistols such as Dead Kennedys and the Damn and so on.
@geon67 I'm not saying it wasn't punk. I'm saying they existed before "Punk" was coined by a magazine. So they fell into "Glam rock" which existed before Punk was even a term used to classify a form of rock.
@geon67 Punk didn't mean "Sounds like Green Day" at the time. There was a lot of musical variety in the original Punk scene in 1976, with Blondie, the Ramones, and Patti Smith in New York, the Runaways in LA, and the Damned and Sex Pistols in London. There were more active bands than that, but these were the ones with records out, that year. Early Punk bands had an obvious Glam influence, even the Sex Pistols.
@Moldrid1026 That's just the way it was, at the time. These were the bands the term Punk Rock was used for in the '70s. It didn't mean "Sounds like Green Day" until 20 years later. Green Day wasn't even around in 1976 to be how Punk Rock was defined.
@ebailey140 When Blondie and the Ramones came on the scene, nobody even used the term "punk" back then. But then when "punk" sprouted into pop culture parlance, Blondie adamantly refused to call themselves punk...until it became commercially beneficial for them to do so. I chuckle because the people here on YouTube waxing authoritative about "punk" etc. all sound 22 years old to me. I'm 47 and I was actually THERE in NY when all of this was happening.
@Moldrid1026-When was it commercially beneficial to be identified as a punk band in the US again? As the NME put it, "after laboring through obscurity for years and only eating regularly for six months, punk is a term the band is not very fond of." They were ambivalent about that label. But they were part of that scene and they were labeled that way regardless. In the US nationally radio stations did not even want to play their records. Anyway nice that you were there in your teen years.
@ihasch Check out Gary Valentine's book, "New York Rocker." Gary was the original bass player for Blondie. He says that the band initially rejected the punk label (they thought of themselves more as a campy cabaret act). But after the British punk thing happened, kids started to think it was "cool" to be punk, and Gary writes that Debbie & Chris Stein at that point hopped on the bandwagon and signed up take part in a "punk" festival in LA, much to the consternation of the others in the band.
@Moldrid1026-I read it. I think I even wrote a short customer review for it. Valentine noted that they would go back and forth with the punk label. Very early on when they signed to Private Stock DH even wrote a letter to one of the NY papers insisting they were not punk. But then they would appear in Punk Magazine at the same time. It wasn't that calculated. Rather it was a label that could and did have real negative consequences. The LA event was a fashion show if I recall with Devo.
@ihasch that sounds so weird to me comming from Australia. Blondie had their first real commercial success in Australia in 1977, after "In the flesh"was shown on our national music show 'count down' it went straight to Number 1! Punk had already been popular years before that though and Blondie wasnt even thought of as punk rock here in Oz. Why wouldnt they play their music on the national radio in USA ?
@boltonox-Generally radio programming in the US was very conservative. Radio programmers were resistant to playing anything considered new, and by '77 anything associated with "punk" was viewed negatively. Punk/New Wave was excluded to the point that there was even a theory that this was due to political pressure. Their debut album was very radio friendly but labels and preconceptions are powerful obstacles.
@ihasch In Australia we had the best music from the USA, England and Europe so anything New or different was jumped on instantly no questions asked. I love Blondies Punkier sounding tracks to the max but i didnt even know they started as punk. Punk was already old hat when Blondie appeared in 1977. UK style punk Never did much in Oz because everyone was to happy having fun Ha Ha!
@boltonox-One more thing. People always get bogged down in defining "punk". Ironically a journalist quoted in John Lydon's book made a useful point: that "punk" became popularly defined as the aggressive expression of resentment in music, but that this expression was actually not punk at all but rather only using punk music as a format. Like the Ramones early Blondie is not angry or resentful but the structure and tempo of the music was very different than the soft/prog rock dominating radio.
@ihasch Oh i see...wow.... Funny because in Australia we always had a lot of home grown hardcore hard rock music called pub Rock. It was the live music style you could see at your local pub every week. Bands like Rose Tatoo, Ac/Dc, Cold Chisel. We never had any of that conservative stuff in Australia. Blondie were picked up straight away here as just a great new band. If you wanna see a great Aussie rock song from that time, type "black Eyed Bruiser" by stevie wright in YT.
@Moldrid1026 You're 47? From the way you talk, I'd assumed you were younger. I turn 46 this year, BTW. If you'll recall, almost NONE of the bands called themselves "Punk" at the time, declaring it a label invented by the press. There's even a clip on Youtube from 1977 of Paul Weller on the Tomorrow Show complaining about the press invented label.
Nevertheless, the fact still stands: Blondie was considered a Punk band at the time, as were all the rest of the CBGBs bands.
@ebailey140,, none of the bands called them selfs punk at the time? it was really all a label invented by the press? wow that makes a lot of sense come to think of it. thanks man, glad i know that.
@edn172 You'll notice most names given to musical movements were invented by the press. The term Punk Rock was originally used in the early 70s to describe 60s Garage bands. Then, it was used for these 70s bands that were heavily influenced by the 60s Garage bands that were taking a "back to the basics" approach to counter the overblown pretentiousness of Prog bands like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
@ebailey140 oh right i see what you mean by the 70's bands that where influenced by garage bands of the 60's, like the most of the ones from CBGB in the early 70's?
@edn172 Alot like what people call Grunge! Where the music is not Grunge, most of it was Alternative Rock and Metal where Grunge was the style of wearing flanel and having long Hair
@ebailey140 Btw, no one my age takes Green Day seriously. Johnny Rotten had that hollow-eyed facial expression on stage because he had meningitis as a kid and the lights bothered his eyes; the singer from Green Day mimics that not b/c he has meningitis, but because he is an unoriginal copycat poseur.
WOW...don't think I've seen this in at least 20 years...with original bassist Gary Valentine and an adorably clumsy/goofy performance by all involved...awesome freakin post...
Just finished Gary Valentines book NEW YORK ROCKER.... excellent read for anyone interested in the NY Scene and the early days of Blondie. Jumping around ...now I understand Gary!
So catchy, and brilliant in every way, the sort of song you want to dance to and are really glad someone wrote, but makes you sad that there won't be another song like it. Perfection.
@zwartepiet412 - no, it's definitely 1976. I remember seeing that record in the stores in time for Christmas in 1976, and I have the record too (though didn't get it then).
Gotta love Gary Valentine's inane and erratic jumping around at 2:44 - so many times he looks like he's about to fall/trip/decapitate Debbie with his guitar lol.
Amazing, timeless song that made me fall in love with Blondie. Debbie looks just as awesome as ever.
yeah this song is a classic. beats just about anything in the charts now! lol shame its not an easy song to play in ma band, unless you know the riffs, got a synth and a one in a billion debbie harry. :)
I can thank You Tube for making me a huge Blondie fan. I came across a very rare video of Blondie playing the song funtime in 1977 that is probably the rawest performance anyone's going to find. For some reason I can't give the link but just do a search for Blondie and the song title and it comes up.
I just discovered that when I watch the dub version of Debbie's songs, I stop watching because of the fake and end up listening more and enjoying Deb's angelic voice. I also enjoy run on sentences.
I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine...I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled, I laid my heart on the line. Brilliant.
Did they sing other songs, there in that place? Beacause I Knew that this song is from their first album, and the other song from the same album(first album), have video?
If by "content" you mean "drunk". And if by "effortless" you mean "addled." This video is hilarious, kind of like when she was on the Muppet Show. I love Debbie lots, though!
Hehehe... Saying that you prefer the drummer rather than the singer is like saying you prefer a cup rather than a spoon. Not comparable and one nothing without the other.
What so I'm not allowed to have my own opinion now?
When I first heard Blondie it was the drums that I payed most attention to in songs, so yes we need both Debbie and Clem but Clem Burke is my favourite.
You people are saying that you want Clem Burke to be something other than a Rock drummer, by drumming to today's crap chart toppers which I don't understand, when you got a good sound going you stick to it like Blondie always has.
I just found it strange that the guy above me said that it was unfortunate that Clem Burke sold his soul for Rock N' Roll. I mean why would anyone want Clem to not be a great Rock drummer, he should of said that it was fortunate.
You're right, one can't say anything here because everyone jumps on you!
It´s ok Adam. I really thank your words. And I think that no one can judge the path of an artist. When it comes to self growth, even though it is just for money, just the one implicated can decide about.
When I first saw Blondie's album, as a nine year old, I liked Clem more than Debbie too, and wanted the record (oh, memories of the Spryfield Mall in Nova Scotia, with the morbid mangled sneaker that reminded you to step carefully on the escalator). I didn't get it until about nine years later, and, by then, I KNEW why I liked Clem more. :)
You can see her naked in Cronenburg's movie "Videodrome"... Damn! I bumped into her after a concert in LA, and she let me feel her tits because I "looked pathetic" and she thought it would cheer me up. It did, then she got in the limo and drove off...
dogbitedownmyleg 1 year ago
How super cool is Deborah Harry's dancing style. This chick was TOTALLY ORIGINAL!
boltonox 1 year ago
@boltonox
...'ol Molly Ringwald stole her steps at the end of this vid in "The Breakfast Club"...
Deborah Harry was as smoking hot as any back in the '70s and '80s.
CaptainMidnight85 1 year ago
@CaptainMidnight85 Smoking Hot is right Captain. Inside and out! Her looks were matched by her personality and character and that is SUPER SUPER RARE indeed. The only really exotically beautiful female i can name who not one of the following: unstable scatter brain, self obsessed, up herself, a space cadet or a gold digging bio-tch!
boltonox 1 year ago
When New York was New York......punk, disco, sleaze............great. I miss those days of being carefree.
RTT8001 1 year ago
@RTT8001 yeah, I heard about N.Y.C from my dad, who went there for a 3 week holiday in 1980 and never came back! He left N.Y and came back to Australia in 2001 because he said Mayor Rudy Giuliani fucked it all up by sanitizing the fuck out of the place and turning Broadway into a tourist trap and letting developers into all the burrows with their regulations. Wish i could go back and live in old dirty, dinghy, grubby, scummy, dangerous EXCITING, COOL, EDGY, HIP, HAPPENING NEW "FUCKIN" YORK!!!
boltonox 1 year ago
so awesome
reverendrichard 1 year ago
me and my little sis have about a 10 year age difference. We aren't close or similar in any way. However, there is one thing that we do enjoy listening to...Blondie...saves the trip of akward silence on those long driving trips... ; )
moznico 1 year ago 2
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takumi1018 1 year ago
Chris and Gary seem to have switched instruments here! But never mind, they're not really playing them anyway. ;-)
rustinpieces 1 year ago
@rustinpieces Yeah, Gary talks about this in his book. Gary played guitar on the songs he wrote, which Chris really didn't like apparently since he ended up on bass!
swannmannbaggywaggy 1 year ago
oh I miss my youth when I see and hear this!
1963deecee 1 year ago
WROTE BY EARLY BAND MEMBER GARY VALENTINE AND ORIGINALLY TITLED SEX OFFENDER BUT LATER CHANGED,ONE OF BLONDIE BEST SONGS THOU NO REAL IMPACT UNTIL SIGNED BY CHRYSALIS RECORDS.MY FAVE BAND EVER
kansasinnovember 1 year ago
love you,kim
jeffordm666 1 year ago
There's still good stuff around today, but it's under the radar of the big recording companies, just like back then. It was hard to get the culture industry to pay attention to real originals like Blondie. Plus in the late 70s, everyone was still stoned and listening to increasingly bloated album rock, Led Zepplin, or disco -- ask your dad :)
bostonseeker 1 year ago 2
@bostonseeker Not everyone was listening to album rock, maybe in America where new music generally takes longer to catch on but here in the UK some of us were listening to what would eventually get labelled punk by the media from the mid 70's.
nichotto 1 year ago
@nichotto No doubt, music in the UK gets there first -- it definitely did with punk and new wave. They actually started here in NYC, but the radio stations and record cos. were too scared to take them in. So they had to get popular in the UK, Canada, and Australia, before they were really accepted here.
bostonseeker 1 year ago
I love their look during the first album period.
They combined NY punk, American 50's retro and English mod so well!
No band had this sensibility they had back then and no one after them either.
doetim 1 year ago
Great song,great singer! Does anyone recall back in '76 she was on Don Kirshners' Rock Concert and she was wearing a poka-dot bikinni. Never saw that video clip. Thought this was it but it was'nt. If any one can find that,please put it up!!!
tjrxk7 1 year ago
@tjrxk7-Was the Rock Concert performance live? Gary Valentine mentioned it but I haven't seen it. That would be their earliest televised performance.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch Glad to know he mentioned it and some one recalls it. I started to think my friend and I imagined it back in '76! Yes,it was a live performance. Don Kirshners' Rock Concert.
tjrxk7 1 year ago
@tjrxk7-Thanks for the confirmation. It's not even listed on the gig list that was compiled on the band's website, a strange oversight for their first national TV appearance. It is surprising that it has never made it to YT. Then again it's surprising that there is almost as much vintage footage of the band playing in Japan as there is of them playing at CBGBs and Max's Kansas City.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch Talking with my friend about it,there seems to be only one logical explanation and not an oversight at all. Consider: The polka dot bikinni she was wearing was extremely provacative and it might very well be that her agent,or she herself did not want it on UTube. It's the ONLY way a piece like that could be successfully kept off of something as big as UTube,not to mention the bands' own site. It makes sense to me. My friend is a girl and I think her 'womans intuition' is spot on.
tjrxk7 1 year ago
@tjrxk7-Maybe. They had another Rock Concert appearance in 1978 and a first appearance on the Mike Douglas show that same year that I have also never seen and which are also not listed. The 1977 Rock Concert appearance was on the internet at one point, but that site is defunct. I think it's just a matter of stuff getting overlooked. Just a matter of finding it.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch If you ever come across it...would love to see it. Let me know.
tjrxk7 1 year ago
This reminds me of my high school days in the late 1970s...how many guys had a crush on Debbie Harry back then? I did. She was the gorgeous "older woman" of the punk scene...and she still turns heads now.
jsc1215 1 year ago
this song is soooo 80's yet it was made in the mid 70's...blondie was a wee bit before their time eh?
Fpockets 1 year ago 2
Love her kicky dance moves! So cute! ;~)
geojorge1369 1 year ago
this is cool on many levels.
you have lovely debbie harry, the sounds of early/mid blondie.
and also a shogun warrior.
goyim1999 1 year ago
thumbs up for 1:49 to 2:02
edn172 1 year ago
classic !! in every way.
drstevie 1 year ago
51 people who rated this vid down are clearly retarded.
45vincentconnolly 1 year ago 3
Sem dúvidas a Debbie foi uma das vocalistas mais bonitas e empáticas das décadas de 70 e 80.
Era feliz como a disco dance e ácida como o punk rock,pena inssistirem nesses "revivals" para detonar nossas memórias dos seus gracejos da juventude!
MadameCurriebr 1 year ago
What bunch of great entertainers !!! Love their music !!!
TheFilthy13 1 year ago
wish she would have took me instead of the drugs
Einsteinwanabe 1 year ago
love debs love blondie
smcmillan2309 1 year ago
I love jamming to this song
Blondie rules!
basszant 1 year ago
not heard this since i was a kid
MyDaveMatthews 1 year ago
one of my faves. timeless. ugh, wish I still had this vinyl album. damned ex.
1970WasntAllBad 1 year ago
damn i love blondie
TheThroney 1 year ago
Clem Fucking Burke.
atomicdruid 1 year ago
Gary has ants in his pants (and he gotsta dance)!
ecnalubma696969 1 year ago
Fantastic video! Where in the world did this video gem come from?? I think this is one of Blondie's greatest hits... No one would have ever known of this song, but for the later breakout with Heart of Glass... kjinphx2003 thank you for sharing...
davidmadmaxx 1 year ago
@davidmadmaxx this my favourite to! his is more punky, blondie rules!!! lol
LAURAM0822 1 year ago
i like this
TheGarlandk9 1 year ago
people lament about how commercial radio (currently at its worst, IMO) ignores trends or bands they like. well, dont you WISH for the old days? there is so much saturation that ANYTHING that might be novel or original has no mystery anymore. i STARVED for ANY mention or exposure of this band when i first heard them as a little kid....it was better that way. they remain to me the elusive fruit, decades later. not sure if im stating my point well.
jas22 1 year ago
@jas22 i know exactly what you mean :)
TheThroney 1 year ago
Blondie's best IMHO!
goonerboypaul 1 year ago
who's better than Clem Burke?...... Nobody.
mrscurge 1 year ago 23
@mrscurge Double true that.
Spartacus217 1 year ago
@mrscurge Steve White is up there ;-)
trumbellst 1 year ago
@mrscurge Well, in all fairness, Neal Peart. But Clem Burke totally rules; I can't take that away from him. :)
angrydwarfofdoom 1 year ago
Im only 17 but fucking love Blondie and Debbie Harry. My dad brought me up listening to her music and im still obsessed <3 music was much better back in the day. would have loved to have been born then, its all manufactured pop nowadays
Jade09x 1 year ago 21
@Jade09x Yeah Jade09x your right it was awesome in in the 70's and 80's! Music, films,fashion, fun, life was a lot simpler then and Living in Australia we had the best of everything! Life was simple and good jobs were everyware, working and having fun at the beach and going out to nightclubs was pretty much all anybody thought about here. Its still like that in Australia but its not as good as it was mainly because of political correctness and computers. Cheers
boltonox 1 year ago
@Jade09x Hey Jade, "it's" not all canned for the sheeple pop nowadays! Although, artists tend to enjoy expressing themselves, and us sheeples like checking out stuff, there's a LOT of musical bands always pushing the envelope. Most always created out of tight knit communities in random towns, there's always a grip of young folk being very aware of the outer limits of what's been done. There's no big reason this can't be you, and you already show an interest. Learn music! Later, Teach music!
R1a1i1n1f1a1c1e1 1 year ago
@Jade09x The irony is that earlier in their career they were going for the manufactured pop sound of the 60s, this song being one of the most obvious examples with the girl group intro.
guitarpop 1 year ago
@Jade09x yes, there are a lot more manufactured outfits now, but there were many in the 70s too, which we forget (because, thankfully, they were so ephemeral and died). there will always be new songs and new artists tho, intelligent people who want more than just shit. it gives me heart that you and others of your generation are proof of this. check out songs: 'waiter' and 'remember when' by Heathers. keep faith. - peace, mk
icemanmwk 1 year ago
BLONDIE is the best.
CJLinOHIO 1 year ago
utter crap xreddragonx, moldrid1026!! Punk is about being 'young loud and snotty' !! I'm 36 yrs OLD but not fossilized like you two. Quit trying to set the genre in stone, its all about the kids (of all ages) having fun with it. If you two had your way 'Punks not dead' but embalmed and should die.
hex0D 1 year ago
@hex0D Do YOU even know what the fuck you're going off about? I'm trying to see the relevance in your idiotic, whiny post to anything I said (which was freaking 1 line long).
xreddragonx 1 year ago
I'll never forget when I saw Blondie for the first time,circa '76-'77 on Don Kirshners' Rock Concert and she did this song in a pink bikini,it just blew me away....I rushed out to Gimbels the next day and started hunting for the 'Blondie' album. The rest was history!
tjrxk7 1 year ago
@tjrxk7 Was it "In the Flesh"?
inhocsignovinces88 1 year ago
i think thats arturos apt on the eastside
gabbahey66 1 year ago
wow, 80,s music in the mid seventies. its like a futuristic past event? :-)
Fpockets 1 year ago 2
@Fpockets That's why they called it New Wave ^_^..
Cowtipping4love 1 year ago
@Fpockets Well said man and I totally agree with you. No one did songs that sounded like this in the mid 70's! If you listen to their song Atomic from 1979 it sounds like a techno song from the 90's. Truly a band ahead of itself!!!!!!
guyinsf 1 year ago
It was a punk fashion show in September, 1977. It hadn't hit the proverbial fan yet, but bands like Blondie and the Ramones quickly realized how badly the association to punk hurt their careers. DH had to fly around the country to convince radio prgrammers to play their records, and even after Parallel Lines they still had to win over hostile crowds when they opened for mainstream acts. The Ramones on the other hand just had stuff thrown at them; I'm sure they were thrilled being called "punk."
ihasch 1 year ago
in my opinion she's more punk than half the bands that came out in 1976
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SeliendaSmiles 1 year ago
Wow still one of my favs, hope you will sing it for me when you play Cork, Ireland on June 24Th, cant wait.
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jonant2 1 year ago
My heart isn't big enough for the love and respect I ahve for this woman.Perfection. I will love u forever, my Debbie <3
sugarkaneandchloe 1 year ago
YOU JUST HAD TO LIE
Zujfsn 1 year ago
See this is pre British punk. New York punk was the original punk but it was kind of a mix of 60s mod and sort of 1950s Rockabilly style. The Buzzcocks and the Jam were different sides of the proverbial tracks but were a bit mod while Sex pistols created what is true "Punk" in definition. Seems every band after that borrowed the style of Sex Pistols such as Dead Kennedys and the Damn and so on.
MrChameleon2010 1 year ago 2
@MrChameleon2010 new york dolls, MC5 were before this and more punk
geon67 1 year ago
@geon67 But they were not defined as punk. They were part of the glamor rock generation that preceeded "punk".
MrChameleon2010 1 year ago
@MrChameleon2010 MC5 was hardly glam-the dolls music was punk before punk-blondie was never punk anyway
geon67 1 year ago
@geon67 I'm not saying it wasn't punk. I'm saying they existed before "Punk" was coined by a magazine. So they fell into "Glam rock" which existed before Punk was even a term used to classify a form of rock.
MrChameleon2010 1 year ago
@geon67 Punk didn't mean "Sounds like Green Day" at the time. There was a lot of musical variety in the original Punk scene in 1976, with Blondie, the Ramones, and Patti Smith in New York, the Runaways in LA, and the Damned and Sex Pistols in London. There were more active bands than that, but these were the ones with records out, that year. Early Punk bands had an obvious Glam influence, even the Sex Pistols.
ebailey140 1 year ago
@ebailey140 Hmm. Quite the authority, aren't we?
Moldrid1026 1 year ago
@Moldrid1026 That's just the way it was, at the time. These were the bands the term Punk Rock was used for in the '70s. It didn't mean "Sounds like Green Day" until 20 years later. Green Day wasn't even around in 1976 to be how Punk Rock was defined.
ebailey140 1 year ago
@ebailey140 When Blondie and the Ramones came on the scene, nobody even used the term "punk" back then. But then when "punk" sprouted into pop culture parlance, Blondie adamantly refused to call themselves punk...until it became commercially beneficial for them to do so. I chuckle because the people here on YouTube waxing authoritative about "punk" etc. all sound 22 years old to me. I'm 47 and I was actually THERE in NY when all of this was happening.
Moldrid1026 1 year ago
@Moldrid1026-When was it commercially beneficial to be identified as a punk band in the US again? As the NME put it, "after laboring through obscurity for years and only eating regularly for six months, punk is a term the band is not very fond of." They were ambivalent about that label. But they were part of that scene and they were labeled that way regardless. In the US nationally radio stations did not even want to play their records. Anyway nice that you were there in your teen years.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch Check out Gary Valentine's book, "New York Rocker." Gary was the original bass player for Blondie. He says that the band initially rejected the punk label (they thought of themselves more as a campy cabaret act). But after the British punk thing happened, kids started to think it was "cool" to be punk, and Gary writes that Debbie & Chris Stein at that point hopped on the bandwagon and signed up take part in a "punk" festival in LA, much to the consternation of the others in the band.
Moldrid1026 1 year ago
@Moldrid1026-I read it. I think I even wrote a short customer review for it. Valentine noted that they would go back and forth with the punk label. Very early on when they signed to Private Stock DH even wrote a letter to one of the NY papers insisting they were not punk. But then they would appear in Punk Magazine at the same time. It wasn't that calculated. Rather it was a label that could and did have real negative consequences. The LA event was a fashion show if I recall with Devo.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch that sounds so weird to me comming from Australia. Blondie had their first real commercial success in Australia in 1977, after "In the flesh"was shown on our national music show 'count down' it went straight to Number 1! Punk had already been popular years before that though and Blondie wasnt even thought of as punk rock here in Oz. Why wouldnt they play their music on the national radio in USA ?
boltonox 1 year ago
@boltonox-Generally radio programming in the US was very conservative. Radio programmers were resistant to playing anything considered new, and by '77 anything associated with "punk" was viewed negatively. Punk/New Wave was excluded to the point that there was even a theory that this was due to political pressure. Their debut album was very radio friendly but labels and preconceptions are powerful obstacles.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch In Australia we had the best music from the USA, England and Europe so anything New or different was jumped on instantly no questions asked. I love Blondies Punkier sounding tracks to the max but i didnt even know they started as punk. Punk was already old hat when Blondie appeared in 1977. UK style punk Never did much in Oz because everyone was to happy having fun Ha Ha!
boltonox 1 year ago
@boltonox-One more thing. People always get bogged down in defining "punk". Ironically a journalist quoted in John Lydon's book made a useful point: that "punk" became popularly defined as the aggressive expression of resentment in music, but that this expression was actually not punk at all but rather only using punk music as a format. Like the Ramones early Blondie is not angry or resentful but the structure and tempo of the music was very different than the soft/prog rock dominating radio.
ihasch 1 year ago
@ihasch Oh i see...wow.... Funny because in Australia we always had a lot of home grown hardcore hard rock music called pub Rock. It was the live music style you could see at your local pub every week. Bands like Rose Tatoo, Ac/Dc, Cold Chisel. We never had any of that conservative stuff in Australia. Blondie were picked up straight away here as just a great new band. If you wanna see a great Aussie rock song from that time, type "black Eyed Bruiser" by stevie wright in YT.
boltonox 1 year ago
@Moldrid1026 You're 47? From the way you talk, I'd assumed you were younger. I turn 46 this year, BTW. If you'll recall, almost NONE of the bands called themselves "Punk" at the time, declaring it a label invented by the press. There's even a clip on Youtube from 1977 of Paul Weller on the Tomorrow Show complaining about the press invented label.
Nevertheless, the fact still stands: Blondie was considered a Punk band at the time, as were all the rest of the CBGBs bands.
ebailey140 1 year ago
@ebailey140,, none of the bands called them selfs punk at the time? it was really all a label invented by the press? wow that makes a lot of sense come to think of it. thanks man, glad i know that.
edn172 1 year ago
@edn172 You'll notice most names given to musical movements were invented by the press. The term Punk Rock was originally used in the early 70s to describe 60s Garage bands. Then, it was used for these 70s bands that were heavily influenced by the 60s Garage bands that were taking a "back to the basics" approach to counter the overblown pretentiousness of Prog bands like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
ebailey140 1 year ago
@ebailey140 oh right i see what you mean by the 70's bands that where influenced by garage bands of the 60's, like the most of the ones from CBGB in the early 70's?
edn172 1 year ago
@ebailey140 Yes, and thats the reason why I hate when people say Nirvana invented grunge.
trumbellst 1 year ago
@edn172 Alot like what people call Grunge! Where the music is not Grunge, most of it was Alternative Rock and Metal where Grunge was the style of wearing flanel and having long Hair
msmdude68 1 year ago
@Moldrid1026 "I chuckle because the people here on YouTube waxing authoritative about "punk" etc. all sound 22 years old to me."
Sad thing is they're often younger than even that.
xreddragonx 1 year ago
@ebailey140 Btw, no one my age takes Green Day seriously. Johnny Rotten had that hollow-eyed facial expression on stage because he had meningitis as a kid and the lights bothered his eyes; the singer from Green Day mimics that not b/c he has meningitis, but because he is an unoriginal copycat poseur.
Moldrid1026 1 year ago
@ebailey140 green day isnt punk either
geon67 1 year ago 2
@geon67 thank you! greenday is the polar opposite of punk.
whathelephant1251 1 year ago 2
FIND THE LYRICS @ EasyLyrics . org/?artist=Blondie&title=X+Offender
easylyrics1 1 year ago
WOW...don't think I've seen this in at least 20 years...with original bassist Gary Valentine and an adorably clumsy/goofy performance by all involved...awesome freakin post...
thecountofbasie 1 year ago
brilliant!!!!!!!!! I saw them in 77 in Glasgow supporting television. ace.
mijymotor 1 year ago
@mijymotor .....snap mate. Went to see the brilliant television and left slabbering at the mouth over Debbie. Been hooked since.
222hoofhearted 1 year ago
I just noticed - the TV at the beginning is showing the New York Dolls. :)
Timmybear 1 year ago
that drummer is insane
fdalkjfdsalkj 1 year ago
really good stuff,cheers for posting
blade0954 1 year ago
Just finished Gary Valentines book NEW YORK ROCKER.... excellent read for anyone interested in the NY Scene and the early days of Blondie. Jumping around ...now I understand Gary!
shonuffido 1 year ago
@shonuffido - Yes, a brilliant book, if a little bitter.
Timmybear 1 year ago
Fluff Rock and they were so young (i was only 18. Is she a natural?
Anyway thanks for the post it was so nice to see back in the day!
If we only knew how FAST it went!!
Still the best time to beebop
Bigum99 1 year ago
So catchy, and brilliant in every way, the sort of song you want to dance to and are really glad someone wrote, but makes you sad that there won't be another song like it. Perfection.
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"music did not sound like this in 1976" you moron, if anything this sounds like more 60s with the organ this is her early surf punk shit
um what about b-52s they started out mid/late 70s
I'm getting really really tired of the little twits on here who think they know music when they know jack SHIT
CIGARPIGSKIN6 1 year ago
Yep, Its 1976 alright. This was released June 17th of that year.
PottyEsq 1 year ago
music did not sound like this in 1976.. i think the date is wrong.. maybe 78 or 79
zwartepiet412 1 year ago
@zwartepiet412
This song is from their debut album which IS from 1976. They were just ahead of their time like they always were.
doetim 1 year ago 3
@zwartepiet412 - no, it's definitely 1976. I remember seeing that record in the stores in time for Christmas in 1976, and I have the record too (though didn't get it then).
Timmybear 1 year ago
WOT A BABE!!! LOVE YA DEBBIE...
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silverpizza100 1 year ago
Every time I watch Debbie, I'm reminded of how much I fucking loathe Madonna.
mikey42 1 year ago 67
@mikey42
Amen.
weepingforbrunnhilde 1 year ago
@mikey42 :-)...me too
sugarkaneandchloe 1 year ago
@mikey42 I know everyone of those blondes (Madonna, Stefani, Gaga, etc) that came after Debbie ripped her off
Debbie Harry is the original ^_^
kingmojopin0 1 year ago 3
@mikey42 same here cat!!!!
nukecat 1 year ago
@mikey42 You can add Gaga to the loathe list. You may disagree, but they r cheap copies.
thursdaae 1 year ago 2
Haha there's a Voltron in the background!! XD
MackTuesday 2 years ago
I wish they did the part at 1:50 three more times. That would of been sick. but great song none the less
babybooo2 2 years ago
I know I always wish that too, it's a great part!
Glad someone thinks the same too!
doetim 2 years ago
@doetim Yeah, same!:)
babybooo2 2 years ago
@babybooo2 Are you speaking of the bridge? Yeah, I really love it, but once is enough don't you think?
mikey42 1 year ago
Yeah, that part. I think three more times would of brought more to the song cause its such a special part.
babybooo2 1 year ago
maybe so, but you had to respect certain time constraints if you wanted to get airplay.
No longer certain if this or "In The Sun" was the A side of the record. Either way it was their first single/45 release.
himself801 1 year ago
Truu truu, well thats too bad. But great song still
babybooo2 1 year ago
X Offender was the A-side.
Timmybear 1 year ago
@Timmybear .....'twas a double A-side with" In the flesh."
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222hoofhearted 1 year ago
One of their best songs.
andrewleibs 2 years ago
Early Blondie tracks had a real unique energy and sound, shame this was never released as a single in the UK. Clem is stunning as usual.
JohnnyTheWolfLupino 2 years ago 2
Gotta love Gary Valentine's inane and erratic jumping around at 2:44 - so many times he looks like he's about to fall/trip/decapitate Debbie with his guitar lol.
Amazing, timeless song that made me fall in love with Blondie. Debbie looks just as awesome as ever.
lach9999 2 years ago 2
it's his song, probably extra excited for that reason...
MattAyroli 2 years ago
yeah this song is a classic. beats just about anything in the charts now! lol shame its not an easy song to play in ma band, unless you know the riffs, got a synth and a one in a billion debbie harry. :)
highroller213 2 years ago 5
I don't think there's a synth on this one - it's a farfisa organ.
Timmybear 1 year ago
they were so awesome.. its funny how all of a sudden they went disco.. but blondie was bad ass.. they kept that cbgb style of energy..
DinoVice 2 years ago
to bad this song was used in the piece o' shit movie " mad magazine presents up the academy"
beatlesopusnintendo 2 years ago
luv the arrogance and in your face style..even before they were nobodys..part of the initial success with any successful band
dannycaddy1 2 years ago
blondie was hot! i love her messed up hair. so sexy.
willgy 2 years ago
WOW thanks for posting Debbie Harry is one of my heros I grew up with!! She was competely cool and sexy!
Badfingerbabe777 2 years ago 4
has allmost a california surfer type sound to the music
youtuuberoxx 2 years ago 3
Their 1st album is full of this surf sound!
guyinsf 2 years ago
I can thank You Tube for making me a huge Blondie fan. I came across a very rare video of Blondie playing the song funtime in 1977 that is probably the rawest performance anyone's going to find. For some reason I can't give the link but just do a search for Blondie and the song title and it comes up.
ihasch 2 years ago 3
This was Blondie at the beginning...
HarryPotter87 2 years ago
I just discovered that when I watch the dub version of Debbie's songs, I stop watching because of the fake and end up listening more and enjoying Deb's angelic voice. I also enjoy run on sentences.
ponyshowharmonica 2 years ago
I want whatever she's on...
LoveTruth86 2 years ago
This music is so jolly and carefree, I luv it ...
americanmg 2 years ago
Despite being about a prostitute having an affair with a cop, ha ha.
hightimesbruce 2 years ago
I saw you standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine...I really wanted to go out with you, so when you smiled, I laid my heart on the line. Brilliant.
mikey42 1 year ago 15
wtf wtf wtf o_o
wendy1851 2 years ago
Well, my last doubt, they sang in that places this song, in the flesh, in the sun, and the other songs from their first album,?
dxx92 2 years ago
Did they sing other songs, there in that place? Beacause I Knew that this song is from their first album, and the other song from the same album(first album), have video?
dxx92 2 years ago
Could someone tell me where they were singing?, I mean, the program's name or Place's name
dxx92 2 years ago
This is my favourite Blondie song. Debbie is so content on stage, she makes it look so effortless, a true star.
KateFenwick12 2 years ago
If by "content" you mean "drunk". And if by "effortless" you mean "addled." This video is hilarious, kind of like when she was on the Muppet Show. I love Debbie lots, though!
tinypapercube 2 years ago
AWESOME
Ma965 2 years ago
Yes, unfortunately Clem sold his soul for Rock and Roll many years ago. He will not age until Rock fades away. In other words- he is immortal!
(grins!)
smegweevil 2 years ago
That's a good thing not a bad thing.
Clem Burke is my favourite and I like him more than Debbie.
Adam060756 2 years ago
Hehehe... Saying that you prefer the drummer rather than the singer is like saying you prefer a cup rather than a spoon. Not comparable and one nothing without the other.
bodtorent 2 years ago
What so I'm not allowed to have my own opinion now?
When I first heard Blondie it was the drums that I payed most attention to in songs, so yes we need both Debbie and Clem but Clem Burke is my favourite.
You people are saying that you want Clem Burke to be something other than a Rock drummer, by drumming to today's crap chart toppers which I don't understand, when you got a good sound going you stick to it like Blondie always has.
Adam060756 2 years ago
Hey, keep calm. I don´t care who you like the most. It just seemed funny to me but in a innocent way.
Fuck! One can´t say anything here...
Take care.
bodtorent 2 years ago
It's cool, don't worry about it.
I just found it strange that the guy above me said that it was unfortunate that Clem Burke sold his soul for Rock N' Roll. I mean why would anyone want Clem to not be a great Rock drummer, he should of said that it was fortunate.
You're right, one can't say anything here because everyone jumps on you!
Adam060756 2 years ago
It´s ok Adam. I really thank your words. And I think that no one can judge the path of an artist. When it comes to self growth, even though it is just for money, just the one implicated can decide about.
Take care.
bodtorent 2 years ago
When I first saw Blondie's album, as a nine year old, I liked Clem more than Debbie too, and wanted the record (oh, memories of the Spryfield Mall in Nova Scotia, with the morbid mangled sneaker that reminded you to step carefully on the escalator). I didn't get it until about nine years later, and, by then, I KNEW why I liked Clem more. :)
Timmybear 2 years ago 3
Debbie chose plastic surgery instead. She has done a facelift last year (and admitted it.)
RaptureandZune 2 years ago
Ooohhhh. God.
jenlafille 2 years ago
Silly observation but starting at 1:10 Debbie's pic on the right of the screen sports a moving mustache and she still looks freakin hot!
guyinsf 2 years ago 2