Blondie - Hunter, The
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Artist: BlondieEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2011-11-22
Music Label: Capitol Music
Soundtracks:
- Orchid Club
- Island Of Lost Souls
- Dragonfly
- For Your Eyes Only
- The Beast
- War Child
- Little Caesar
- Danceway
- (Can I) Find The Right Words (To Say)
- English Boys
- The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
- War Child (extended version)
Music reviews of Hunter, The
Music Review: Just as good as any previous Blondie album. Don't listen to the critics
Rating: 4 Stars
The Hunter is often blasted as a terrible album from a band past their prime. That's complete nonsense. That's just the typical backlash a band can expect to receive after the phenomenal success Blondie had achieved by this point. I've also read reviews in which statements are made about Debbie's voice just not being up to it. Have you listened to the album? Debbie sounds as amazing as she did on any previous album. While The Hunter is spotty, all of Blondie's albums were spotty, with the only truly solid album being the classic Eat to the Beat.
Yes, The Hunter does have some bad material, and the peak of the poor material is 'Little Caesar' and 'The Beast'. Truly painful with no redeeming quality.
The highlights are amazing. 'Orchid Club' is a stunningly dark and tribal sounding track, and a real surprise album opener. It's pretty daring to start an album with song of this caliber, especially after all of the commercial singles of the previous years. 'Orchid Club' is dark and powerful, building to a strong finish that is not detracted from at all during its fairly lengthy run.
'Island of Lost Souls' is the song that finally encouraged me to look deeper into Blondie's back catalog. While it seems like an obvious 'The Tide is High' soundalike in an attempt to cash in on previous successes, it failed to light up the charts. Nonetheless, it's a catchy song that fits nicely along with the other classic Blondie singles.
'War Child' was the next single, and also failed to make an impact, despite its high production and then-current sound of heavy synths and bombastic production. Though it's tolerable in its short version, it's much more powerful in the extended version that's included here as a bonus track.
'Danceway' is what I view as the lost should-have-been single. It's a classic bouncy and boppy song that could have been made into an amazing Dance Mix.
The rejected Bond theme, 'For Your Eyes Only', is not a bad song at all. It's more light and airy in a dreamy melodic sort of way, and maybe that's why it was rejected.
And I can't forget the scifi classic, 'Dragonfly'. This may be a little dated in the Atari generation with its outer space race theme, (Dragonfly is the name of a ship), but it has strong a catchy music while Debbie sings in between her spoken monologues. The one production fault that surprises me is Debbie's obvious stumbling in one of the spoken sections was not corrected with a retake. "As many of you fans... know already..."
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