First listen to Blondie - Heart of Glass (REACTION)

[@robharrowven6674]

This was released as a single in the UK in ‘79 - it was from their ‘parallel lines’ album which was released in ‘78. Parallel lines is their best album - check it out, it’s phenomenal!

[@jameswarner5809]

I believe only two or three tracks weren't released as singles.

[@kd2mill]

Blondie led the meshing of punk and disco called "New Wave Rock" in the eighties. I think they were the first to chart "New Wave", a few months before the Cars.

[@dagmar.6954]

Blondie is an American rock & new wave band co-founded by singer Debbie Harry & guitarist Chris Stein. They had a lot of great hits in the 70's-90's such as Heart Of Glass", "Call Me", "Atomic", "The Tide Is High", “Rapture”, "Picture This", "Hanging On The Telephone", "I'm Gonna Love You Too", "One Way Or Another", "Sunday Girl", "Dreaming", "Island Of Lost Souls", "War Child", "Maria" etc.

[@flyingcloud6776]

Isn't she absolutely sweet and pretty? Her voice is also unique and beautiful. I love the Blondie songs with her singing in a deeper key like Sunday Girl, or the Tide is High

[@AFLOVEable]

Yes she came from punk, look at "Rip Her To Shreds". Sometimes she was denounced as the first Punk-pin-up but she had much more to offer than good looks. Blondies first hit, at least in Germany, was "Denise".

[@ssga_tgbuddy3082]

I always felt this was a song that turned the corner from the 70's to the 80's. It did come out in 79 but it just has something to it that makes it feel more modern.

[@CursiMusic]

Awesome review. Love Blondie. they started off as a punk band. been listening to them since I was like 7 (a long time ago) they have a lot of hit. Call Me, One Way or Another, Rapture, Maria and more...Debbie was a trend setter for a lot of female artists in the 80's.

[@josephcox736]

You immediately detected Debbie's sarcasm, which is an integral part of who she is as a performer. Good job!

[@AnthonyKellett]

Blondie had some great tracks, including Heart of Glass, but I don't think it's entirely representative of their catalogue. Try Dreaming, Hanging on the Telephone or Picture This, which I'd consider more 'middle ground' of their range, off the top of my head.

[@catschorus4684]

such a shame that the lyric "once I had a love and it was a gas, soon turned out to be a pain in the ass" - is removed and dubbed over

[@jumpjet777]

You saved me posting the same thing .......... :-) ..... @4:20

[@florinest]

@SMC Gmail some radio stations at that time wouldn't air the "ass" version, so a second version was had to be made.

[@barriehull7076]

An early panning process was used in the development of Fantasound, an early pioneering stereophonic sound reproduction system for Fantasia (1940). Stereo-switching Before pan pots were available, "a three-way switch was used to assign the track to the left output, right output, or both (the center)".[4] Ubiquitous in the Billboard charts throughout the middle and late 1960s, clear examples include the Beatles's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City".[5] In the Beatles's "A Day In The Life" Lennon's vocals are switched to the extreme right on the first two strophes, on the third strophe they are switched center then extreme left, and switched left on the final strophe while during the bridge McCartney's vocals are switched extreme right.[6][7]

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

The mystical magic of a great pop song.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

This song is very evocative of a time, it brings those of us who were there right back. She has a lot of other stuff, not necessarily with this high voice. Call Me and Rapture are a couple of her other big ones

[@Archipelington]

The last verse does sing ‘soon found out he was a pain in the ass’ but this official video has been edited. You can see Debbie’s mouth says that, but the audio doesn’t match.

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

Debbie and I were meant to get married but we had two problems......we never met and I was born in'72!❤️

[@colinszakal3050]

When l saw the Ramones one time blonde was the back up band.......it was last show of tour and she came back on stage for the Ramones encore and Debbie was HAMMERED LOL

[@ronhall5395]

This is the music video. In some live performances she changes some words to express her disgust with the man that broke her heart.

[@jc296x]

Her drummer Clem Burke is incredibly underrated. Total monster drummer. This was more of her pop side but she had some real rockers too...All great tho and a totally new kind of music when she first appeared.

[@hahatoldyouso]

Such a classic!

[@kekwayblaze3176]

Great reaction!

[@richardchilton7311]

Find the time to watch the animated movie "Rock And Rule". Debbie Harry provided the singing voice for one of the main characters - Angel. " Oh what will the signal be For your eyes to see me?" - a wonderful song.

[@kevcall]

This was the final filler track for the album Parallel Lines. I remember it on the jukebox in that year at my local youth centre.. So many great songs.. Maybe check out Atomic for starters..

[@troyshilanski380]

13 years at roller rink and they play blondie, abba, etc

[@troyshilanski380]

You do great reactions bro.

[@rusynlig1]

I think it quite sad that that this song i the epitome for Blondie, who were a punk band. For me, "One way, or another" (I'm gonna get ya)" is their #1!

[@maruad7577]

The album was great at the time. Don't know how well it stood the test of time. Lots of good songs to hear from them.

[@richardtaylor6187]

By the way, you've got the dubbed over version. The original 3rd verse was : "3rd time round, was a pain in the ass."

[@1983simi]

I'm a cishet woman and still have a crush on her all over again whenever i see this video

[@elkalabaw7665]

they were in the opposing camp daniel, debbie and her blondie. we were chrissie and her pretenders fans. ( kidding, we liked them both.)

[@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering]

This was the song that the other original punk bands from CBGB’s like Ramires, television and Patty Smith accused Blondie of selling out and going disco… I thought that too at the time but I was so enraptured with Debbie Harry at the time she could’ve whistled Yankee Doodle Dandy in the shower and I’d have bought it 😂

[@Hotdogger808]

Welcome to our generation..............you have a lot to listen to! They filmed it at Studio 54 in New york and it was meant to be a parody disco track, but it now lives along side some of the best tracks ever written. Graham Chapman produced it with some highly complex production performed to get the sound your actually hearing. Go lookup "how Heart of Glass was made" Lots of interesting info there. I was your approx your age, maybe younger when it was playing on high rotation in nightclubs, I guess you worked that part out.........lol The70's 80's and 90's are just waiting for you to embrace them......especially the 80's! What a decade....!

[@bendancar]

If this..... then, Talking Heads! They took this sound and same era NYC scene and turned it inside out and upside down. David Byrne is still a force of art. I think you may have done Psycho Killer, but that is not really typical of them. Try "Life During War Time," or "Girlfriend is Better." Never a big Blondie fan, but I respect and appreciate that they jumped out of the dying disco era and made something new of it by combining it with a new wave/punk aesthetic. They broke ground, and you have to respect that.

[@timwhitnell7145]

It wouldn't be in my top 400 or maybe even not in my top 500 ever but, that said, I still think it is a catchy and very good tune. 'Pain in the ass' has always been the line I think of whenever I hear that part of the song. This is the first time I've heard in more than 40 years that Debbie Harry initially intended to use that phrase. It works better and she should have used it. I'll continue sing/think it for her.

[@Dave-el6rh]

Thank you.Really.Thank you. P.s. industry secret: the majority of the verses are literally the back of medical equipment technical information verbatim in the order the equipment had appeared upon the writing of the lyrics...so they don't mean hardly anything...so punk...

[@jeffmorehead1311]

One of the catches songs of all-times...lead by Deborah Harry, a sex kitten, that drove all teenage boys crazy at the time.

[@petersp63]

More Blondie and you'll get a new subscriber!!

[@laurenpeck3609]

Check out "I live For Love" it's great!!!

[@stevejohnson9234]

Love your reactions Daniel but please please please react to Ayreon

[@richardtaylor6187]

If there was ever, ever, ever a more desirable woman acting in a more desirable manner, I've not seen it. It's a good thing she's not an immortal siren! The seas would all be empty.

[@markthompson180]

Punk. Yes. Punk. sorry you didn't get it. This band is in fact a PUNK band whether you recognize it or not. Sorry you can't hear her actual soaring vocals or the amazing baseline. You can't see it, and I will not come back to your channel because you can't see it.

[@davidarwood6264]

I haven't even finished the reaction.....damn dude, do you not even find her a little attractive? I wonder about you. I don't care what your age is or how old the song is.

[@briancleveland6115]

This is the censored version 👎👎

[@yannhollister9091]

She's a terrible singer live 😂

[@TheReaperMan275]

Live is the true test of a singer's talent or lack of talent. Of course, these days they either turn on the autotune or outright lipsink if they can't cut it.