Perfect Song: "Hanging on the Telephone"

For some reason, I was singing "Hanging on the Telephone" in the car on the way back from the show documented below. NO reason, except I think it is one of those perfect pop songs, and is never off my mental playlist. Blondie of course are the ones that made it big-ish - Blondie was not really on the cultural radar at large until "Rapture" I believe, but I saw Videodrome on Night Flight late one night, so she was forever etched in my adolescent mind.

Blondie's version of the song off Parallel Lines is good, great even - a last gasp of rock and roll for the band before disco, Richard Gere and bad island music ruined things for everyone; but its the original by LA punk band The Nerves that wins the cigar. So tennagerly urgent, so desperate, such a great song. I could listen to that guitar riff for days on end.