Autoamerican
by Blondie
- Type: Album
- Released: November 1980
- Label: Chrysalis
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:09:13
- Community rating: 2.95/5 from 4 ratings
Artists on this release: Emil Richards, Tom Scott, Lerner, Howard Kaylan, Ollie Brown, Nigel Harrison, Ray Brown, Frank Infante, Mark Volman, Steve Goldstein, Alex Acu帽a, Laura Davis, Walter Steding, The 'B' Girls, D.Reid, Clem Burke, Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Blondie completely shattered the boundaries of new wave on their wildly ambitious fifth album, embracing an incredibly eclectic array of styles from orchestral pop to early hip-hop. Buoyed by the genre-defining hits 'Rapture' and 'The Tide Is High', 'Autoamerican' is a remarkably playful, wonderfully melodic, and warmly nostalgic tour through American musical history.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic
Tracklist
- Europa (3:30)
- Live It Up (4:09)
- Here's Looking At You (2:58)
- The Tide Is High (4:40)
- Angels On The Balcony (3:47)
- Go Through It (2:42)
- Do The Dark (3:51)
- Rapture (6:31)
- Faces (3:52)
- T-Birds (3:57)
- Walk Like Me (3:44)
- Follow Me (3:10)
- Call Me (8:06)
- Suzy & Jeffrey (4:10)
- Rapture (9:59)
Credits
- Blondie - primary artist
- Jimmie Haskell - arranged by [string & horn]
- Billy Bass - art direction
- Karen Knecht - artwork [peach], graphic design
- Nigel Harrison - bass, written-by
- John Van Hamersveld - design
- Clem Burke - drums
- Lenise Bent - engineer
- Doug Schwartz - engineer [assistant]
- Gary Boatner - engineer [assistant]
- Frank Infante - guitar
- Chris Stein - guitar, timpani [tympani], written-by
- Jimmy Destri - keyboards [electric], written-by
- Alive Enterprises, Inc. - management [direction]
- Bob Emmer - management [direction]
- Denny Vosburgh - management [direction]
- Shep Gordon - management [direction]
- Bruce Patron - management [road manager]
- Martin Hoffman - painting, graphic design
- Mike Chapman - producer
- Merwin Belin - producer [production trouble shooter]
- Scott Lesser - stage manager, percussion
- Deborah Harry - vocals, written-by
- The 'B' Girls - backing vocals
- Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson - guitar
- Alex Acu帽a - percussion
- Emil Richards - percussion
- Ollie Brown - percussion
- Walter Steding - violin
- D.Reid - written by
- John Holt - written-by [uncredited]
- Laura Davis - written-by
- Tom Scott - lyricon, saxophone [sax]
- Ray Brown - bass
- Steve Goldstein - piano, synthesizer
- Howard Kaylan - vocals
- Mark Volman - vocals
- Lerner & Loewe - written-by