Blondie

Certain Songs #220: The Clash – “Lost in the Supermarket”

June 13, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: London Calling
Year: 1979

My high school didn’t have a newspaper the year I was a Senior. If I remember correctly, it was a punishment for our class being terrible, rowdy trouble-makers and continually needing to be disciplined. Or something.

And if so, it was a weirdly arbitrary punishment, as it only affected folks who wanted wanted to use their talents to contribute something to the universe.

Maybe they were scared of what we would write: editorials in favor of legalizing weed, stories about hanging out in the Figs, the lyrics to Fugs songs.

Certain Songs #69: Blondie – “Dreaming”

January 6, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Album: Eat to the Beat
Year: 1979

For a four-year period between 1979 – 1982, Blondie were probably the premier singles act going. In terms of both quality and quantity, their only peers during that period were The Clash, The Police, Squeeze and, er Rush. But none of those acts cranked out as many singles that were as disparate, experimental AND popular. And out of all of the classic Blondie singles from that era, my favorite is easily 1979’s “Dreaming”

And the reason I love “Dreaming” so much can be summed up in two words: Clem Burke.