Blondie hits the floor pulsing on No Exit with the trashy ska-pop of "Screaming Skin," which should scare the bleach out of Gwen Stefani's crew and prove to Madonna that old babes don't go gently into that good night. Isn't sneer and bounce all we ever wanted from Debbie Harry and company before we were so rudely interrupted by the Eighties? Oh yes, and that's why tracks such as "Forgive and Forget," "Double Take," "Nothing Is Real but the Girl," and "Under the Gun," are classic Blondie pop confections while the title cut pays homage to its own past, offering Coolio in "No Exit" for Fab 5 Freddy in "Rapture." Harry's sultry voice is highlighted in the "Fever"-ish sound of "Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom Room," co-authored with Harry and Clem Burke by former Austinites Kathy Valentine and Denny Freeman. One of Blondie's most appealing qualities was their unabashed love for the girl groups and here they deliver Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry's "Out in the Streets" with Brill Building aplomb. No Exit isn't all retro rage, though; songs like the marvelously loopy funk of "Happy Dog" and the sweet country air of "The Dream's Lost on Me" are what you'd expect from a band who once made the jump from CBGB's to disco charts. And it's nice to see Blondie still knows how to end an album: The crescendo of "Dig Up the Conjo" is sublime -- startlingly Talking Heads-like. It's always so risky to say this a month into a new year but here goes: Top Ten for 1999. Easy.