Song Debate #12: Heart of Glass / Genius of Love

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

 

[Gloves | 11,794]

I've only heard the first, and I didn't like either. Where are you picking these songs from? xD

[Tulpa | 3,517]

Genius of Love is from members of the Talking Heads. Bite your tongue. 

(Not really, I can see it's not everyone's cup of tea. I like it a lot, though.)

Heart of Glass is a middle of the road Blondie song. 

[Mega Tank | 967]

26 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I've only heard the first, and I didn't like either. Where are you picking these songs from? xD

https://youtu.be/K26RlIDJtkw?feature=shared

[Gloves | 11,794]

7 minutes ago, Mega Tank said:

https://youtu.be/K26RlIDJtkw?feature=shared

They're very dull songs lol. 

[doner24 | 1,197]

5 for both, but love the funky bass from Tina. 

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

10 for both.  That Talking Heads live version of Genius of Love is pretty weak though.  4 at best.

[Tulpa | 3,517]

Yeah, the Tom Tom Club labeled one is the definitive version of that song. 

[Sumez | 2,968]

It's hard for me to separate Genius of Love from both the massive stain it is on Stop Making Sense, but also the people behind it who are kind of douches (even though I absolutely love Talking Heads). 

It's a decent enough song, but I just really don't like it. 

 

Blondie always rocks! Can't hate that. 

[Gloves | 11,794]

35 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

Genius of Love is from members of the Talking Heads. Bite your tongue. 

(Not really, I can see it's not everyone's cup of tea. I like it a lot, though.)

Heart of Glass is a middle of the road Blondie song. 

Talking Heads obviously have some fuckin' bangers, but that doesn't make them infallible, and this song isn't my jam, man.

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

57 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I've only heard the first, and I didn't like either. Where are you picking these songs from? xD

These are from a magical time known as The Eighties.  I guess you had to be there 

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

 

That's more better.

[Gloves | 11,794]

1 minute ago, JamesRobot said:

These are from a magical time known as The Eighties.  I guess you had to be there 

I love eighties music, these songs just ain't the bomb-diggidy. I was born in '88 so I can't claim to have personally experienced the eighties, but if I were cognizant of my surroundings at the time I'm confident I'd have been a rock, metal, and punk head. 

It's fair to say also that having grown up with a mother who was a kid/teen in the eighties, I can assure you that car rides were spent head bobbing to these bands and their contemporaries.

My mom's hair looked like this (and so too does mine, thanks Mom):

[AstralSoul | 502]

Blondie is great and Heart of Glass is one of their biggest songs. 8/10

That other one I've heard but it annoys me every time I hear it. 4/10

[Sumez | 2,968]

4 minutes ago, JamesRobot said:

That's more better

The girls can do it too, yall! 

James brown? James brown! 

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

4 minutes ago, Gloves said:

mom's hair looked like this

Say hi for me. 

[Gloves | 11,794]

Just now, JamesRobot said:

Say hi for me. 

We've not spoken in like a decade lol. If you look at me from behind it's similar enough though.

 

[JamesRobot | 5,807]

7 minutes ago, Sumez said:

The girls can do it too, yall! 

James brown? James brown! 

Love all the tribute paid in this song.

 I'm in Heaven
With the maven of funk mutation
Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins
Raise expectations to a new intention 

Bootsy played with JB before hooking up with P-Funk too.

[koifish | 556]

I'm good with these.

[Tulpa | 3,517]

27 minutes ago, Sumez said:

The girls can do it too, yall! 

James brown? James brown! 

With a hippie-the-hip and a hippie-the-hop
Who needs to think when your feet just go

I admit the live versions don't do it justice. But the album song is chef's kiss. 

[Tulpa | 3,517]

44 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Talking Heads obviously have some fuckin' bangers, but that doesn't make them infallible, and this song isn't my jam, man.

That's cool, though if you just listened to the live video Reed inexplicably posted for reference, you haven't actually heard the song, IMO. 

Edited February 28 by Tulpa

[Gloves | 11,794]

4 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

That's cool, though if you just listened to the live video Reed inexplicably posted for reference, you haven't actually heard the song, IMO. 

[RH | 4,923]

8 and 3 respectively.

Blonde is one of those bands that sounds best on vinyl tho.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,549]

13 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Don't listen to these plebs.  If you don't like the (superior) SMS version, you won't like the studio version either 

[Tabonga | 2,324]

1 hour ago, Tulpa said:

Heart of Glass is a middle of the road Blondie song. 

It did wildly well in the day - charted at number 1 on US Billboard 100 (pretty amazing actually since Blondie had never charted before).

The album Parallel Lines also charted very well all over the world.