Friday Night Videos
February 15th, 2013 - 11:03 pm
Despite being released near the height of Blondie’s radio popularity (and a wicked-cool album cover by H.R. Giger), Debby Harry’s first solo album went pretty much nowhere. But it did have this chart-friendly, Cold War-themed bubblegum track which… also went pretty much nowhere, topping at #82 on the pop charts. You’d think a collaboration between Harry and studio production-meisters Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards would have led to massive sales, but they never happened.
Thirty years later though, The Jam Was Moving still has a spot on my playlist called “Silly Things I’m Not Ashamed to Admit I Still Like.”
And here’s that Giger art.
Pretty tame by his standards, really.
Now enjoy the slick-pop funkalicious electronic sound.
That was … interesting. I can honestly say, I don’t think I ever heard that song before now.
Can’t say that I’m really surprised that it wasn’t a big hit at the time. Even though there’s an attempt at an eclectic sound, it’s still too vanilla. I’m curious what direction Thomas Dolby would have taken it, given that it kinda has that tone to it to begin with.
Is the video supposed to cut off like that? It seems to end before the song does.
I’ll date myself by saying that my “almost ashamed to admit it” Deborah Harry thing was the arc of the Ken Wahl TV show “Wiseguy” she guested on.
The riff sounds familar to the Cameo’s Word Up song.
I found this album in a bargain bin in Ithaca when I was going to college. Inner City Spillover still freaks me out.