Pollinator

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Still, ‘Pollinator’ is distinctly Blondie at their poppiest, most accessible, even often recalling some of their earlier hits. ‘Long Time’ – co-written by Dev Hynes – echoes the disco-tinged, hook-laden brilliance of ‘Heart of Glass’, and serves as the album’s pinnacle. Across the LP there are also contributions from Johnny Marr, Charli XCX and Sia. Elsewhere, retro synth-pop regularly collides with funk, particularly on the buoyant, light-hearted ‘Fun’. These easy-to-get-wrong facets are unfortunately heightened by unbearably polished, sterile production.

As Stein deadpans today: “We all had similar interests.” He laughs when he tells Classic Pop that he has tried explaining to his teenage daughter that, when he was growing up, instead of going to EDM concerts, he would do things like watch counter-cultural renegades Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, the Fugs and others attempt to “exorcise and levitate” the Pentagon in America’s capital. 19th nervous breakdown The short film made the selection of several film festivals in 2021, such as In-Edit Festival (Spain), Rizoma Festival (Spain), Tribeca Film Festival 2021 (United States), Sheffield DocFest 2021 (England), Reykjavik International Film Festival 2021 ( Iceland), Sonoma International Film Festival 2022 (United States), BBC's LongShots 2022 (United Kingdom). Garner, George (11 July 2017). "Blondie announce extra London show at O2 Brixton Academy". Music Week. Intent Media . Retrieved 11 July 2017.

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I went to Haight Street [in San Francisco] in 1967 and ’68 and the difference was extreme,” he remarks. “It got really dark. I saw some weird things in ’68. Offiziellecharts.de – Blondie – Pollinator" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 12, 2017. Carlos Alfonso, Ele Valdés, María del Carme Ávila, Alejandro Delgado, Juan Carlos Marín, Jamil Schery, Degnis Bofill, Adel González– Side musicians on "The Tide is High" and "Rapture"

In 1979, following the deathless glacial disco of Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Dreaming, Union City Blue and the Parallel Lines and Eat To The Beat albums, they were utterly ubiquitous and omnipresent, on the charts and in the music press, even if the latter were tentative with their praise. Soon, they were gigging regularly at premier NYC dives Max’s Kansas City and the legendary CBGB. “We’d go out every night to see bands or to play ourselves,” Stein remembers. The problem with Pollinator is it’s hard to know why it exists. Nothing’s wrong, naturally, with Blondie’s desire to continue making music: we’re long past it being ‘better to burn out than fade away’, and they’ve already broken up once anyway, only to find the temptation to reform too great. Furthermore, their influence – Debbie Harry’s, at least – has never receded: Lady Gaga’s made no secret of it, and she’s just turned up on Future Islands’ album, too.Everybody we knew was put off by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt and all that stuff getting to the top of the charts − all those faceless bands into expertise and musicianship,” he says of this dread era of bland country pabulum and tedious prog virtuosos. It wasn’t as crazy as modern concerts, but it was awesome. Debbie was there, too. Various people that went on to be in the arts, like [‘cyberpunk’ writer] William Gibson, were there. There was the artsy camp which was Television, Talking Heads and Patti, and then there was the pop camp, which was us and Ramones,” Stein elucidates. “But really everybody got along. It was a nice fertile period. Towards the end there was a bit of vying for record company attention, but even then it never got really heated.” Blonde ambition If we have one more No.1, we’ll be the only band to have No.1 hits in four decades − at the moment we’re tied with The Bee Gees with three decades,” Stein says with some pride.

This wasn’t actually Stein’s first walk on the wild side. Similar to goddess-like front-creature Debbie Harry, he had some previous. Ingham, Tim (September 30, 2015). " 'Don't tell artists what they want to hear. Tell them the truth.' ". Music Business Worldwide . Retrieved February 1, 2017. Blondie – About". theblondiestore.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017 . Retrieved 8 April 2017. Matching Blondie’s new hybrid music was Harry’s gutter-glamour persona. There had never been anyone quite like her. “Janis [Joplin] was always a victim in spite of her power, whereas Debbie was consciously not going in that direction,” Stein the pop historian comments. So, too, were other future members of Blondie. Bassist Gary Lachman (formerly Valentine), for example, who is now a world expert on the occult. Blondie Pollinator coverFarber, Jim. "Blondie honor their New York City roots on electrifying album Pollinator: EW review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 18 June 2017. Pollinator has charted higher in most regions than their previous three albums. The album debuted and peaked at number 4 in the United Kingdom, the band's ninth Top 10 album and seventh Top 5 there (and their first since 1999's No Exit). As of July 2017, the album has sold 24,206 copies in the UK. [28] The album also debuted at number 1 in the UK Independent Albums Chart, and remained in the top 50 for 16 consecutive weeks. In the United States, the album debuted and peaked at number 63 on the Billboard 200, also the band's highest charting album in their native country since 1999. The album was more prominent on Billboard's Top Independent Albums Chart where it debuted and peaked at number 4. In Australia, the album peaked at number 29. When he first met Stein and Harry in New York’s Little Italy, there were books doing the rounds by the likes of Colin Wilson and Aleister Crowley, which led Lachman to become immersed in the culture. In this interview from 2017, Blondie talked to Classic Pop’s Paul Lester about their 11th studio album, Pollinator a b c Roffman, Michael (February 1, 2017). "Blondie announce new star-studded album, Pollinator, share ridiculously catchy single "Fun" — listen". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved February 1, 2017.