Blondie - X Offender
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2009
- REMASTERED IN HD!
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BEFORE Fame.. she was 32 at the time of this song....no spring chicken for a starting rock n roller. Shes 76 now and still a doll
REALLY?
She was wasn't a starting rock and roller. Blondie was her fourth band at least. She was in a folk group in the late 1960s then the punk group The Stilletoes, then Angel and the Snake with Chris Stein, then she and Chris formed Blondie
She was famous since CBGBs. Everyone knew she was special since teenage years.
@@pixelgoat_ She was actually 30 yrs old when she play CBGB's in '75, although she looked like a teen. She got a late start with Blondie and will be age 78 July 1st.
@@AlizeeDefan yeah ur right, I think she was hanging or even dating iggy pop then…
No one or no band can copy her she's one of a kind
They are all one of a kind. Clemens Burke (aka Elvis Ramon) is one of the greatest 5 drummers of all time.
Clem Burke, the drummer, knocks it out of the park!!
He is awesome, as was his work with Eurythmics on the Revenge LP.
he always does
He only lasted a day as Ramones' drummer. Can't handle triple time on the high-hat.
He has been the best drummer in Rock and Roll for almost 50 years
He usually does.. T birds is a fave, Dreaming too
I just watched her live performance of this in Birmingham England in '22 and she still knocks it out of the park at 77 years old. She's touched by some magic her whole life!
LGF 👍
To put that in perspective, she is only three years younger than Joe Biden, whose rendition is considerably lower energy.
mk ultra programming is what
Wow! You're unique you live in ingland! God Damn, Blondie should move there also it will make you very unique!
❤😂🎉
Clem's drumming is top notch as always.
There are no words to describe my love of this band
It's sad that the bands songs have low views. These songs are worthy of 100s of millions
sorry china and the Arabs dont buy ,,,,
Dreaming...Heart of Glass... Call Me.... Rapture. Let’s face it. After those four songs their repertoire gets pretty light. There are some decent songs here and there but they’re not The Beatles.
@@kingofallwhites Incorrect. They have an entire catalog of songs better than each song that you just mentioned (although Dreaming is an amazing song that doesn't get nearly as much love as it deserves from the mainstream audience imo).
@@kingofallwhites- One Way or Another?!?! Dreaming? The tide is high? Atomic? Sure, they're not the Beatles but they have a name for themselves
Let'em be they don't understand. Same people who say "punks dead" if you listen to top 40 radio or the crap that was (and guess still is apparently) Mtv....then one will miss out. Blondie had many many hits. Radio played and underground too.
The likes of Heart of Glass, and Rapture don't thrill me very much, but the earlier new wave 'garage band' - type recordings like X Offender are sublime.
debbie is 73 years young this year,shes still glowing x
77 now.
After all the Blondie songs ....x offender is still one of their very best ..love the girl band influence ..Debbie's just amazing. Thank you Gary valentine .
Have you read his book - New York Rocker - it's absolutely superb! IMHO of course
@@PrivateWalker I have Matthew ,great read I once comented on how talented he is and he replied to me saying he was touched ( by my presence dear ?)
@@nickmorrell3559 so right ❤
100% ♥
The most beautiful and fun rock chic of all times ... Nobody does it better!
Beautifully said: the female icons of pop that followed her have none of the sweet sophistication she and the band bestowed upon us.
Debbie the perfect looking female.I was so crazy about her the first time I saw her,so fanciable.
@@johndean4765 HELLO, FOLKS, SHE'S ALSO A VERY TALENTED SINGER.
There is the irrelevant matter of the incredible voice that she has. Her fine octaval range. A song like Sunday Girl is very difficult to sing, but she manages it.
That surf rock Dick Dale mid riff is great! No one was doing this in the mid 70s!
That's largely it!
Dick Dale was.
I'd say this is punk. Sounds kinda like 90s punk Screeching weasel.
you actually read my mind. I feel like this song was the start of the late 70s
@@MyDrugHell True but by 76 he was probably mostly playing his old hits, not creating new songs. Hope Im wrong.
One of my fav' Blondie songs.
Steely Eyed Rock n Roll Girl You Are.....
This song is full of life and I don't want to stop listen to, play it again and again. Blondie forever.
2:04s? That stage walk? She was sooooo cute, So, so, soooooooo cute! She did not even have to face a camera to be so!
Human beings CAN be wonderful.
yup
This is really the very first NEW WAVE song in music history and it sounds like the song was recorded in a time when New Wave already existed for like five years.
Blondie was the greatest group of the 70s
No
wonderful drumming by clem Burke
if there is a better drummer than clem i have yet to see him
alan bullman Elvis Motherfucking Ramone.
When I was a kid listening to Blondie I knew the drummer was amazing, now I'm over 50 I still think he's amazing. There's other brilliant drummers like Jimmy Chamberline but Clem Burke is a whole different thing.. Totally unique
Clemant is clearly on another level !
@@leedsboy64 Rat Scabies.
I have always been in awe of Debbie harry and always wanted to be like her. She was blessed with absolute fantastic looks a face that could stand out amongst thousands of people.
A pin up of all time!
Edible.🤗
I saw Debbie in 1990 and had a chat with her ,though she was in her 40s she made the pretty teenage fans around her look plain.
She was an absolute stunner and so friendly and charming.
Lots of plastic surgery. She was naturally beautiful and doesn't need to do this. Her face is stretched too tight. None of the men, however, have felt the need to do that.
You know, she's had massive cosmetic surgery. She didn't always look like that. She's a creation. I'm only pointing that out to say, she has an AMAZING VOICE. But she understood, correctly, that people would always be out her looks. That's how it was for women in the 70s and 80s. BUT DAMN, SHE COULD ALWAYS SING.
I love the organ riff on this song! Jimmy Destri baby!
I love Debbie's dancing in this vid.
Hugh Mongus I just love Debbie!!!
Haha any live performance she just never could dance... but then who cares
@@MrTripletts - I think I know what you mean, but it also depends on what who you're comparing her too, right? You've got stay within the genre, otherwise you're comparing apples and oranges.
Hugh Mongus True Hugh...i mean she DID have rhythm and timing. As a vocalist she was flawless on where to come in with the vocals. Some of those punk dances were a little revolutionary too so in the punk world her dancing may have been spot on
@@MrTripletts She readily admitted she couldn't dance, but along with some of her wilder outfits, as you said, who cares.
They paved a whole new genre of music...they broke new ground. True musicians.
Gary Valentine's energy is so good here, shame he left Blondie
She would make a fantastic topic for a movie about her life .
Imagine the queue of wannabe men to play her suitors!!! It would be long enough to stifle the production. I'm applying!
Gary Valentine is still the epitome of New Wave New York c 1976. Shame he didn't hang around a little longer with Blondie.
This was the first Blondie song I ever heard --- how could they fail to be huge.
Best Blondie song by a mile...
That drummer badass !!
Clem is the best ..
Check out Accidents Never Happen or particularly Living in the real World if you want to see him at his best!
Aus80sRockRadio so true
Best musician in the band. The drumming in Dreaming is excellent, but Clem's drumming was excellent in most of their songs.
this song is EVERYTHING
paedophile anthem
And a can of Pringles!
Valentine's backwards jump at 2:46 and his dancing along with Debbie is EPIC!
Wow, just look what Clem is doing all the time. Coolness level 100%.
Hair stylist: where do you want your bangs?
Debbie: Yes
This is so old, but still sounds fresh.
I agree, the first Blondie album was hardly played on the radio so it still sounds fresh today. I always felt this album must have inspired the B-52s (who are also awesome).
Happy 40th birthday X Offender
xoffender74 Hey I'm still only 35.
That song has so much energy! Blows me away. Like 3 cups of coffee.
Amazing drummer!
+ghilarda Clem Burke - legend.
ghilarda He also filled in with the Ramones from time to time.
He did good drumming on the song 'dreaming'
One of the greats. For me, the holy trinity of punk/new wave drummers is Clem Burke, Rat Scabies, and Stewart Copeland.
my favourite track on their debut album -- "in the flesh" comes a very close second
I LOVE this song! It's been on my playlist with "Denis" and "Rip Her To Shreds" like forever. It just always makes me feel happy. I remember hearing it in Hollywood clubs when Blondie first came out and seeing them on a big billboard sign outside the Whisky on Sunset Blvd. What a great band!
The best, ultimate new wave band!
+IdleElectric They set the tone for 80s new wave with their sound and looks more than any 70s band! Duran Duran opened for Blondie in the early 80s and were huge fans of Debbie Harry and her style and they came to dominate 80s new wave pop culture taking the torch from Blondie and Debbie.
Some Cars fans may disagree!
Bob Davis like myself! I love Blondie, but no one can top The Cars imo!
Yes, I like all stages of Blondie's career (and bought this first album when it was still sold on the Private Stock label) but overall I like The Cars better, all career stages. :-) Same applies to all solo efforts made by whatever members of each band, including The Wind In the Willows, Milkwood etc.
Bob Davis
Bob... no one cares.
Love how Debbie Harry frequently sings from a guy’s perspective (so many of Blondie’s songs were co-written by the guys). I believe the juxtaposition of that & Debbie’s angelic, otherworldly appeal makes Blondie.
She wrote the lyrics to this one. Gary Valentine laid out the melody and gave it to her saying it was about him getting busted at 19 with his 16 year old girlfriend. So sex offender. Debbie told him she'd come up with lyrics and changed it to be about a prostitute who falls for the cop shes arrested by. So she subverts the norm by making the woman in the song the "offender".
Your beauty overwhelms me
As I wrap my arms around you
I press your softness tight
Great passion fills my inner being
I'm captured in your embrace
Your eyes control my very soul
The touch of your lips, heaven
Forever frozen in time
All else fades into nothing
Love how surfy it sounds. That guitar....I’m in love
The opening track from their first, self titled album. Brilliant!
The G.O.A.T. of female rock / pop/ punk stars .
Dude, you do realize that Gary Valentine WROTE THIS SONG! I think if you write the song you can do what you want.
Gary had the concept for this song because of a situation he was in with a young gal, but all the lines were written by Deborah.
He wrote the music, Debbie wrote the lyrics.
on the record debbie says in the intro: i saw u standing on the corner, you looked so big and fine, I really wanted to go out with you, so i put my heart on the line...
The entire "Blondie" album is great!👍
Yes!!! Great album. Look good in blue, x offender, little girl lies, in the sun, kung-fu girls etc. All brilliant songs!
@@MrMassivefavour Plastic Letters is another one that gets no love.
@kennethoats2322 Yes! It's as Punk as they got, a punchy album, but there were some good songs. Detroit 442, Didn't have the nerve, no imagination etc. I don't quite know how they justified Touched by your presence amongst an album of pretty hard hitting songs. That wouldve been better on Parallel lines.
I love this Song...with an original text and fresh sound.I love Debbie
THE ORIGINAL AND BEST LINE-UP
Sometimes what you see IS what you get- Chris Stein and Gary Valentine actually did swap instruments for Blondie's very first single; Stein played bass and Valentine (who co-wrote the tune with Deborah Harry) played guitar, both on the recording.
Oh, how I love this! Was so happy when she became a star, I'd always known it would happen. Love her!!
This was the beginning of a myth called Blondie... Longest running Punk Rock band in history probably... But Debbie Harry who nowadays accepts to be called Blondie herself as an honor, started back in 1968 in another band, The Wind in The Willows, a record of the same year can be heard in this tube. 2019 is a great year for Debbie/ Blondie fans, she released "Face It", getting recognition as what she always be, a great poet!
this has always been my absolute favourite blondie song ❤️ love playing this on my keyboard
I listened it when I was a child, now I remember their music and I love Blondie 😍
Bass player: "I don't have anything to do right now, here's Voltron".
Chris Stein is very random. In the "Union City Blue" video, for example, he waves a plant at the camera. Not coincidentally, he has the best Twitter account of any Blondie member and fits in on the internet better than many people half his age.
@@spinningchrysalis4061 The bass player is Gary Valentine, the author of the song.
@@noimpostura in this video? Chris Stein is playing bass.
@@brianquinn3961 You are right. Gary Valentine plays bass guitar.
That's Mazinger-Z, not Voltron.
Nothing can be cooler than this.
best band ever
This was the best version of Blondie.
My favorite song of Blondie!! I really love the 1:35 part!! Saludos desde Chile :)
moi aussi , meme si tout est faux cela n'enleve pas le charme des personnes .. j'aime bcp
Song was supposed to be SEX Offender. Record label released it as X Offender.
Originally written by Valentine about an 18 year old having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend. Debbie rewrote it to be about a prostitute who loves a cop. Still poetically intriguing, but doesn't fit the title as well in my mind.
@@nicolaswalli4722 Valentine is not on the video right?
Gabriel Mansilla Yes he is. He is on guitar.
@@kingofallwhites Thanks! My mistake
Gabriel Mansilla Chris Stein had to switch to bass for it and was all pissed off about it.
This is one of my favorite Blondie's song!
an underrated song.
One of my favorite songs! Great, especially when i hear it, driving my car on the highway...
lol Gary Valentines one (and only) dance move.
You know you're good when you have Shogun warrior toys in your performances
perfect song
some images are iconic in the mind when you're growing up and sort of shape you a bit, this is one of those clips for me. Still gives me tingles and not sure why (except for the obvious Debbie).
The original and greatest hipster chick of rock and roll!
The term "punk rock" was coined in reference to "96 Tears" by "? and the Mysterians" and you can really hear that connection in this early Blondie, Velvet Underground, Johnathan Richmond, etc. It was slowly lost when groups like the Clash drove punk more toward guitar and "new wave" started to become a catch-all for keyboard-oriented sounds.
This is a great example of when punk took it back to the 50s.
I’d say more like the 60’s. Surf music and girl groups.
One of the most beautiful women ever🔥🔥
This is art.
no doubt the best up front female to come from anywhere. love the band,the music and her style. she can't not be beautiful, sexy and so easy to listen to.
so many great songs from this group amazing
There are a Radeen and Gaiking in this video. Great!
Keep singing your heart out banging on the drums strumming the strings dancing all around town!
Classic.. boys and girls of 2019 this is music
it was a Blondie original song - they were staying ahead of disco - they were soon to be a top 40
STUNNING TALLENT GIRL GREAT SONGS GROUP 77 SHES GOING WOW
That was her greatest ability as a singer, that, and the ability to sound oh so very innocent on the surface. LOL I love her so much!
Fantastic footage..... completely off her face and still gorgeous x
The whole album ghost of download is underrated... i actually found it only 2 days ago :( but i am very happy i did!! Better now then ever..
Since you are Blondie (famous legendary band) that we are talking about i am very disapointed that nobody played nothing from this album - i am talking about commercial tv, radios ad other media.
I am following worldwide music charts but still missed this one.
Anyway it is more indie alternative album,i guess thats the reason. But because of this style i love it.
Thank you Blondie for this amazing album :)
How was this song not used in the opening credits for The Deuce on HBO? Come on, you know I’m right 😉
Blondie does everything fantastic all this song seem to be really good
Just wonderful, soo many high school memories.
One of my favorites I love Blondie
That was her greatest strength as a singer.
that was what hipsters in 2005 were wearing, and that music is in a style that was only about 10 years old by that time so it wasn't actually some kind of ironic throwback really, because a lot of the radio waves were playing that kind of music still. so in a way we are watching a legit 60s band.
Stein on bass? We're they clowning? So few kids today will get how great this band is/was!!!
Unique pretty great vocals.theyve definitely have the beat 💓 👌 💙 ❤️ 🙌 ♥️ 💓
I love her hair it's so pretty 😫💓
1978 - bored in school, I start writing the lyrics, beginning with the spoken lines (not seen here) 'I saw you standing on the corner. You looked so big and fine. I REALLY wanted to go out with you. So when you smiled, I laid my heart on the line'. Bfore I knew it, I'd written out the whole song.
Song was released in 1976. Couldn't have been written in 1978. LOL..
Then Dr Who arrived, we went back in time, and I invented punk ;-)
School? She was born in 1945. How was she in school in the 70s?
Aus80sRockRadio the poster of this comment said they were in school in 1978 and wrote out the lyrics. Doesn't matter if the song was released in 1976. It's 2018, you could write the lyrics on a page right now if you wanted...
DarthScorpio11 the poster said THEY were in school writing out the lyrics not Debbie.
New York Punk Forever
❤😂🎉🎉
Great opening track - and very enjoyable clip - on a good album, although I never liked the last three tracks,
but the single Rip Her to Shreds and the excellent Out In The Streets cover make up for that.
In The Flesh is my favorite track, followed closely by this one.
They missed the beginning, "I saw you standing on the corner - you looked so divine. I really wanted to go out with you - so when you smiled.................I laid my heart on the line".
Brilliant. Love JD organ sounds.
Love this in the best of album. Put me in mind of much older Hollywood.
Literally the first New-Wave song.
I had a massive crush on her when i was 6. I didn’t realise she was older than she looked