10. Union City Blue (1979)
Union City Blue is a song by the American rock band Blondie from their fourth studio album Eat To The Beat. The song was written by bassist Nigel Harrison and vocalist Debbie Harry. The song is about Debbie's experiences acting in the 1980 film Union City. The song did not appear in the film for contractual reasons.
9. Picture This (1978)
8. Atomic (1979)
7. Dreaming (1979)
“’Dreaming’ is pretty much a cop of ‘Dancing Queen,” Stein told EW.com earlier this year. “I don’t know if that was where we started, or if it ended just happening to sound like that.” With all due respect to Stein, there doesn’t seem to be much of a similarity between the two songs, other than the fact that both are lushly melodic. Besides, no ABBA song ever had a drum beat as propulsive as the one that Clem Burke lays down on “Dreaming.”
6. Rapture (1980)
Harry's rap is so goofy that it sounds like she could be mocking the genre, but this was very early in the evolution of hip-hop, and many of the rhymes that came out of the New York block parties were just as silly. Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie championed rap and got involved in the community, often attending these block parties - they even took Nile Rodgers to one, which is where he learned that his song "Good Times" was a DJ favorite. Blondie brought rap to a far larger audience with this song; Debbie Harry says that a lot of rappers - including members of Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang Clan - told her it was the first rap song they ever heard, since the genre wasn't welcome on the radio then.
5. The Tide Is High (1980)
4. Hanging On The Telephone (1978)
"Hanging on the Telephone" is a song written by Jack Lee. The song was first performed by his short-lived US West Coast power pop band The Nerves. Blondie had discovered the song via a cassette tape compilation which Jeffrey Lee Pierce had given the band. Beginning with a phone sound-effect courtesy of producer Mike Chapman, Blondie's version of the song was released on the band's breakthrough third album, Parallel Lines. The single was a top five hit in the UK and has since seen critical acclaim as one of the band's best songs.
3. One Way Or Another (1978)
This song is about a stalker. The lyrics are very dark and go into detail about a guy with evil intentions, but the music is very light and catchy, which masked the meaning of the song. According to Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, it was inspired by real events. She told Entertainment Weekly: "I was actually stalked by a nutjob, so it came out of a not-so-friendly personal event. I tried to inject a little levity into it to make it more lighthearted. It was a survival mechanism."
2. Call Me (1980)
European disco producer Giorgio Moroder wrote this with Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, who thus became the first woman in British chart history to write three #1 hits. However she wasn't Moroder's first choice. The Italian disco king had originally wanted Stevie Nicks to provide vocals on the track but the Fleetwood Mac vocalist declined the offer.
1. Heart Of Glass (1978)
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