![]() It was no different in 1967 than it is now, he said. Pop music has always been 50 percent crap. I love the minimalism, the stripped-down nature. Stein, 62, said hes enamored of todays pop world. Blondie plays with Devo on Thursday at Zoo Amphitheatre. Last year, it turned out a new disc, Panic of Girls, and tours often. Still, Blondie isnt one to live in the past. Fronted by über-sexy Debbie Harry, a former Playboy bunny, the trio mined pop, punk, disco, reggae and techno for aural seductions like Heart of Glass, One Way or Another, The Tide Is High and ∼all Me. In 2006, it won induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. What we aspired to was eclecticism.īlondie achieved it. ![]() They were very specific about what they were doing and they were very defined. When Talking Heads came in, they were Talking Heads. When the Ramones came in, they were the Ramones. ∺ssuming we even have a vision, it was very much less formed in those days, Stein said. Its an impressive range of influence for an outfit once considered the ugly duckling of New Wave acts toiling in the sweaty, steamy environs of New Yorks CBGB back in the 1970s. Blondie co-founder Chris Stein hears traces of his band in a lot of contemporary rock and pop, from Garbage to Lady Gaga.
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