Friday, December 7th, 2007...3:06 pm
Favorite Old Song Discovered in 2007
Die Young Stay Pretty - Blondie
Released in 1979 on the album Eat to the Beat, I can’t believe this song never made much of an impression on me. It reads like legendary rock & roll, but plays like reggae. Check out this verse:
“Oh, you sit all alone in your rocking chair
Transistor pressed against an ear
Were you waiting at the bus stop all your life?
Or just to die by the hand of love?
Love for youth, love for youth
So live fast ’cause it won’t last”
I think it got some spins on Sirius this year when Eat to the Beat was released as a special edition DVD. Interestingly, Blondie’s website claims that it was released “along with the first-ever album-length video.” The video for the song can be found on YouTube. I didn’t embed it here because I think it undermines the integrity of the song a bit. It unintentionally comes off more as a parody of than an embrace of reggae.
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December 10th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
I remember seeing the video for “Rapture”. It’s pretty bad, in the way that most pre-MTV videos are. No one knew any better. In the part where she “raps”, a few breakdancers start gettin’ down in the street. Billie Joel did the same thing in the middle of “Uptown Girl”, which generously starred another blonde beauty, Christie Brinkley.
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