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| Destri’s keyboard is reaching up, augmenting, yearning for something beautiful as if he can see it just above the grate
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| off on the rollercoaster
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| Tempo and that drum beat
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| Bass solo
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| A flanging denuded perfect fifth, neither major nor minor, a sequenced beat, and Nigel Robinson
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| The bass
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| The arps
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| The Ennio Morricone guitar
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| This sounds like a band having an intense argument. Is it major or minor? Is it disco, punk or spaghetti western?
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| It underscores an important point: GREAT ART COMES FROM CONFLICT.
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| What do we know about Eat to the Beat?
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| *Blondie were under pressure to follow the massive ''crossover'' success of ''Parallel Lines''. Pop producer Mike Chapman worked with the band for the first time and
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| *Now, crossovers bring conflict: Blondie started life as a punk band in CBGB, with the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and Television. ''Parallel Lines'' was a much more pop-oriented record, with knockout singles like ''Sunday Girl'', ''Picture This'', ''One Way Or Another'' and ''Hanging on the Telephone'' barely having so much as a rock edge let alone a punk one. And, of course, the breakout single was Heart of Glass, which was out-and-out ''disco''.
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| *You get the sense that Clem Burke wasn’t wildly happy about this
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| *[[What is it about...?]] | | *[[What is it about...?]] |
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