There was something desperate I always loved in this song, I heard it first on a Blondie greatest hits album. They recorded it as the first track on Parallel Lines and it was a cover of a song from a few years earlier by The Nerves. There is a great pop punk playing energy there, but its the phrasing & delivery Debbie Harry gives it that gave it a special place in my heart, the upfront delivery and the fullthroated rockout undercut by the weird scene being played out in the lyric. This was recorded in one take with some minimal voice doubling overdubs & an extra keyboard, mostly just live guitar & voice late at night in a room.
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