Blondie: Live in Toronto
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Movie Reviews of Blondie: Live in Toronto
Movie Review: Blondie "Live in Toronto" Outstanding 1982 Vintage Blondie Performing at Their Best!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!!! You get 11 great songs. This concert was filmed on August 18, 1982. In this line-up of Blondie, you get the founding members: Debbie Harry on lead vocals, Chris Stein on guitar, Clem Burke on drums, and Jimmy Destri on organ/keyboards, along with non-founding members: Nigel Harrison on bass guitar (He replaced Gary Valentine), and a super great guitar player- Frank Infante.
The songs are as folows:
1. Rapture
2. Island of Lost Souls
3. Danceway
4. The Tide is High
5. Heart of Glass
6. Dreaming
7. One way or Another
8. War Child
9. Start Me Up (The Rolling Stones Classic)
10.Call Me
This is a great one, and a "must-have" for any Blondie fan (and I'm a Blondie fan), because in this one you get to see Blondie in their "prime".
Thanks, and may God Bless!!!
Movie Review: A must have for Blondie fans
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1982 Toronto concert was the only live film of the Hunter tour, Blondie's last album until 1999's No Exit. For years, it languished as a VHS only release. This late 2007 reissue on DVD in the only DVD playable on US DVD players. (It was issued in the UK as "Blondie Live" in PAL format). "The Hunter" was the last of the 80's classic albums, but the concert includes many of their earlier hits and some rare covers found no where else (the "Rolling Stone's" 'Start Me Up')Movie Review: End Of An Era
Summary: 4 Stars
This review is about a month overdue since seeing Blondie in Baltimore, MD about five weeks ago on the Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Tour. I watched this concert a couple of times prior and I could see more than ever how Blondie have come full circle. Recorded live in August of 1982, I can still remember when HBO aired this concert on my 13th birthday and seeing Debbie riding up on the elevator to an arena of cheering fans. This was Blondie's last dance before the budding musical tastes of American pop culture were to change again. Despite Chris Stein's declining health and Debbie reaching a burnout phase due to mounting tensions within the group, Blondie put on a great show and the added sax players enhance their sound quite nicely. The highpoint is "Heart of Glass" through "War Child," and even the weaker moments are not that terrible now by virtue of "Island of Lost Souls" never really holding up with most fans anyway, plus they encore with "Start Me Up," which I had dismissed as lame many years back, but now I see how Blondie value the Rolling Stones as an timeless rock inspiration. They included "Paint It Black" in their encore two years ago at a Buffalo, NY show, and ended their set with "Get Off Of My Cloud," during the Baltimore show. Blondie did define a time in music history from the emergence of New Wave in 1978 to the night they performed this very show in Tornoto, and called it quits not long after, but history has given Debbie and the band a second coming as trendsetters in pop, punk, and even classic rock, and this video illustrates the style Blondie created making it a must for both Blondie and music fans alike.Movie Review: Get it, but don't expect it to be the best video you've ever seen
Summary: 3 Stars
If you're a true Blondie fan, of course you have to own it. Recorded in 1982, it's probably the closest you'll ever come to seeing a concert recorded just before Blondie stopped touring and recording not long after release of The Hunter. As such, the performances are fair to middlin' on most songs. Frank Infante isn't even present.
Personally, I like the energy and enthusiasm of the Glasgow concert and the Musikladen videos better than this one.
And if you haven't already purchased the Eat to the Beat CD/DVD...don't even think of buying this before you've purchased that one!
High point: probably the performance of War Child has the most energy.
Low point: Frank Infante's replacement seems to be singing background vocals annoyingly off key in spots.
Movie Review: Blondie Live In: The Grainy DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD release is awful!
Immortal DVD should be ashamed. I have owned this concert on two other VHS releases and they both looked way better than this DVD.
My original 1984 Mono VHS of this looks entirely better.
This DVD looks like it was transfered from VHS and not taken from the original footage that was used for the HBO special this was filmed for.
The only reason I give this release 3 stars is becuase it contains 3 audio options:
2.0 Surround
5.1 Surround
DTS Surround
It sounds awesome but looks crappy.
There are other DVD releases of this concert out there. Get those instead.
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