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Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Take a nursery rhyme :3 blind mice Put it into the minor key :sad 3 blind mice Brighten it up again :Classis 70s sequencer :A really excitable drummer Add a drum roll And after that there's onlyone thing for it: Ennio Moricone :Atomic intro Intro to atomic makes no sense and is the better for it Third single on the album Eat To The Beat 1979 Not a difficult second album - it was 4th - but had on the heels of the crossover smash Parallel Lines, it was meant to be....") |
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Atomic. | Atomic. | ||
Destri’s keyboard is reaching up, augmenting, yearning for something beautiful as if he can see it just above the grate | |||
off on the rollercoaster | |||
Tempo and that drum beat | |||
Bass solo | |||
A flanging denuded perfect fifth, neither major nor minor, a sequenced beat, and Nigel Robinson | |||
The bass | |||
The arps | |||
The Ennio Morricone guitar | |||
This sounds like a band having an intense argument. Is it major or minor? Is it disco, punk or spaghetti western? | |||
It underscores an important point: GREAT ART COMES FROM CONFLICT. | |||
What do we know about Eat to the Beat? | |||
*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 | |||
*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''. | |||
*You get the sense that Clem Burke wasn’t wildly happy about this | |||