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Posted on 4/2/16 at 12:08 pm to Jim Rockford
IIRC they made a famous SNL appearance around that time where Debbie wore a dress made out of a plastic trash bag.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 12:10 pm to Lsupimp
Yeah, but it's like how the beastie boys started as punk. What people remember is their rap career. Eclectic but considered rap. Different than the Rolling Stones or rod Stewart's disco careers. 
Without looking it up I'm going to say that Heart of Glass was a number one disco hit. I considered Rapture to be rap, not disco. I liked it then and like it now but KRS One turned it out with his sample a few years later.
Without looking it up I'm going to say that Heart of Glass was a number one disco hit. I considered Rapture to be rap, not disco. I liked it then and like it now but KRS One turned it out with his sample a few years later.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 12:37 pm to Kcoyote
One of the best looking women I've ever seen, but a bit before my time.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 1:27 pm to Kcoyote
Saw them a couple times, they were big in the day but like many faded out quickly.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 1:27 pm to East Coast Band
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I know this because I grew up during that period.
fricking this. It's hard to explain without the needed context or the zeitgeist - the flavor of the time.
Worshipped is what the media wanted her to be, and that wasn't her game. At all. Respected is the better word...and never mind the heroin, I mean musically.
There is no modern-day comparison to be made to her or the band. She was an underground break out, even though had a following before making the 'big time'. she was a trend-setter, boundary breaker...one cool-assed high on junk rockstar. She was the first major recording artist to have a rap spot on a top-ten hit. She held the door wide open for Run/DMC and all the cool shite that followed. She introduced the world to music being made on the street, cuz she knew cool when she heard it.
The media tried to make her a beauty queen/sex symbol only, but that was not her style...in spite of her stint in the PB Mansion.
But from having been there, I can promise you she was more than just a flash in the pan. Not Madonna, either, but somewhere in between. She never lost her "cool" factor. Ever.
And if we had social media and interwebz and all our other bullshite back then, she would be even bigger...Hell, without it, she's still a household fricking name.
This post was edited on 4/2/16 at 1:28 pm
Posted on 4/2/16 at 8:22 pm to genro
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Weird considering they were raised by women who would literally weep and pass out at the sight of Elvis or the Beatles
My mother thought Elvis was trashy.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 8:49 pm to blueboy
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One of the best looking women I've ever seen, but a bit before my time.
Think she was like 35 y/o when Atomic came out. Crazy good looking for her age.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 8:52 pm to LSU1NSEC
quote:Yeah, people never believe me when I tell them that. Another hot 35+ woman from that era was Toni Basil.
Think she was like 35 y/o when Atomic came out. Crazy good looking for her age.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:00 pm to Lsupimp
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their music was classified as disco
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Actually they came out of the NY punk scene and you would find their records in the "new wave" section, Rapture notwithstanding. The disco label only applied to a few songs. You could say the same thing about the Rolling Stones on half of Some Girls. It was a weird, sucky time for legit bands trying to stay "relevant" and getting pressure from record labels.
So true, Pimp.
I love it when people 20-30 years younger than I am try to tell me all about the music I grew up with.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:06 pm to Lsupimp
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You could say the same thing about the Rolling Stones on half of Some Girls
That album pissed a lot of Stones fans off. They were throwing the "sold out" term around
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:10 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Hell, some of the best disco songs (kind of oxymoronic, I know) were by non-disco groups.
Heart of Glass by Blondie
Miss You by the Stones
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman by the Kinks
Heart of Glass by Blondie
Miss You by the Stones
(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman by the Kinks
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:11 pm to FightinTigersDammit
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:13 pm to Kcoyote
This is who I worshipped. Belinda Carlisle of the Go Go's.
Goddamn I was in love with that woman.
Goddamn I was in love with that woman.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:14 pm to supatigah
I think Eat to the Beat, top to bottom, may have been an even better album than Parallel Lines. If not, it was a damn strong follow-up.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:15 pm to supatigah
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Dreaming 1979
Was one of my favorite popular Blondie songs.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:17 pm to Kcoyote
She was big on the radio,but most people didn't have cable TV even. It wasn't like now.
Posted on 4/2/16 at 9:18 pm to Tiger Ree
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