Blondie - Autoamerican (1980) [1985] CD-Rip

• Title: Autoamerican
  
• Year Of Release: 1980 [1985]
  
• Label: Chrysalis Records [F2 21290]
  
• Genre: Pop Rock / New Wave
  
• Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log)
  
• Total Time: 00:46:36
  
• Total Size: 318 mb (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

The basic Blondie sextet was augmented, or replaced, by numerous session musicians (including lots of uncredited horn and string players) for the group's fifth album, Autoamerican, on which they continued to expand their stylistic range, with greater success, at least on certain tracks, than they had on Eat to the Beat. A cover of Jamaican group the Paragons' "The Tide Is High," released in advance of the album, became a gold-selling number one single, as did the rap pastiche "Rapture," but, despite their presence, the album stalled in the lower half of the Top Ten and spent fewer weeks in the charts than either of its predecessors. One reason for that, admittedly, was that Chrysalis Records pulled promotion of the disc in favor of pushing lead singer Debbie Harry's debut solo album, KooKoo, not even bothering to release a third single after scoring two chart-topping hits. But then, it's hard to imagine what that third single could have been on an album that leads off with a pretentious string-filled instrumental ("Europa"), and also finds Harry crooning ersatz '20s pop on "Here's Looking at You" and tackling Broadway show music in a cover of "Follow Me" from Camelot. Though more characteristic, the rest of the tracks are weak compositions indifferently executed. Thus Autoamerican was memorable only for its hits, which would be better heard when placed on a hits compilation.


Tracks:

01. Europa (3:30)
02. Live It Up (4:09)
03. Here's Looking At You (2:57)
04. The Tide Is High (4:39)
05. Angels On The Balcony (3:47)
06. Go Through It (2:40)
07. Do The Dark (3:51)
08. Rapture (6:30)
09. Faces (3:52)
10. T-Birds (3:56)
11. Walk Like Me (3:44)
12. Follow Me (3:01)

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