Blondie's Heart of Glass is one of those songs that makes you so thankful that radio was invented - you may not have it in your collection (I do, as it happens) but when you hear it played over the air you remember that part of the reason you have legs is to dance with delight at such melodies.
Truthfully, I just don't know how anyone could not like this song. It grabs you from the start with the terrific intro and then the always elusive, thrill-is-in-the-chase singing of Ms Harry. And it keeps going, wave after wave of perfect pop. You just don't want this song to end, which it nearly doesn't (the link is to the full-length album version).
We coulda made it cruising, yeah.....riding high on love's true blueish light.
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Makes me think how, by and large, the pop single of yesteryear had a lot more going for it than today - but then maybe my parents would have said that about the 60s!
Yep, I approve. Not going to buy it, but it is a good radio track.
And, more obscurely, reminds me of a sequence in the TV series Due South - wherein Ray's embedded cop in a local girl's school is injured, and Frasier (the Mountie) spends the rest of the episode in drag so as to masquerade as a teacher. Yes - this is, at one and the same time, a proper police show AND profoundly silly. At the retro-80s annual ball Frasier gets trapped with a short teacher who likes big women, but Ray needs to get to him covertly at the dance....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WxawIbZlONY)
Now, that really is STUNNING!
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