ARTiST: Deborah Harry
TiTLE: Necessary Evil
LABEL: n/a
GENRE: Pop
TiME: 64:33 min
SiZE: 88,9 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Sep-12-2007
RELEASE DATE: Sep-17-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a
Track List:
01. Two Times Blue 03:57
02. School For Scandal 03:08
03. If I Had You 03:14
04. Deep End 03:10
05. Love With Vengeance 04:36
06. Necessary Evil 03:26
07. Charm Redux 01:15
08. You're Too Hot 03:43
09. Dirty And Deep 03:14
10. What Is Love 04:30
11. White Out 03:08
12. Needless To Say 04:12
13. Heat Of The Moment 02:04
14. Charm Alarm 04:53
15. Jen Jen 05:15
16. Naked Eye 04:28
17. Paradise 06:20
Release Notes:
Anyone hoping for the 62-year-old Debbie Harry to
sit up and act her age will be sorely disappointed
by the former Blondie vixen's sixth solo album (and
first in 14 years). Viscerally contemporary,
Necessary Evil harnesses youthful exuberance from
across the charts, and Harry and her team of
producers and songwriting partners do radio-ready
rock, pop, and soul-lite with α la mode savvy to
spare. Big-time sing-alongs ("Two Times Blue,"
"You're Too Hot") rub elbows with spare, distorted
guitar lines piled in arena-sized stacks ("Love with
Vengeance," "Charm Redux," and the especially
vivacious "Whiteout"). "The Devil's dick is hard to
handle," Harry growls in "School for Scandal,"
encapsulating the attitude of shameless defiance
coursing through this and other lean, mean, up-tempo
numbers like the half-rapped, full-lipped "Dirty and
Deep." Between the reversed hip-hop break bisecting
"Charm Alarm," the title track's stolen riff from
Rage Against the Machine's "Know Your Enemy," and
Harry's bits of Internet imagery, this album won't
dare let go of its of-the-moment moxie. Gumdrops
like the flaccid "What Is Love" and closer
"Paradise" are irrevocable but few; in all, the
occasional slice of tripe strangely sweetens Harry's
otherwise surprising longevity, ready to rock and
salty as ever.