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Tracklisting & More Information
SUMMARY
There's a certain un-assuming barn just outside Woodstock, New York. It's easy to picture; the deep mythology of pop music history assures that much. For nearly two decades, the bulk of Blondie's audio and visual archive sat inside.
One hundred reel-to-reel tapes, half a dozen cassettes, a few storage tubs crammed with records, bits of promotional flotsam, flyers, a stray Warhol print, and mirrored dressing room signage from four sold-out January 1980 nights at London's Hammersmith Odeon. All of it lay silent through twenty humid summers, twenty frigid winters, and 20,000 rodents.
There were knives collected in Asia and sex worker advertisements pilfered from the UK's red telephone boxes of the late 1970s. In a corner, a dust-caked RIAA-certified gold record for Eat To The Beat reclined against a wall, its protective glass scarred by a bullet hole.“Iggy and I were shooting guns at a wall in my basement one night,” guitarist Chris Stein told us. “This was a casualty.”
From this chaotic hoard of ephemera, this long-gestating project was born.
Over the years, Blondie's many partner record companies have done an exemplary job archiving the band's recorded legacy, given the miles it's logged and the oceans it's had to cross. From Larry Uttal's Private Stock Records to Terry Ellis and Chris Wright's Chrysalis, which was absorbed by Capitol and then Universal, the band's reels have been moved, transferred, baked, re-boxed, remixed, and barcoded more than a few times. We pored over every foot of magnetic tape and, thanks to our brand new 24-bit, 192KHz transfers, have expanded the dynamic range of Blondie's six LPs.
We've scoured the earth for era-appropriate photos, pic sleeves, lyrics sheets, fan club newsletters, postcards, jukebox strips, and even eight-track tapes. There will always be more to find. Whether it's a mislabeled cassette tape squirrelled away in a New Jersey garage, a previously unknown Thai 45 variant, or a roll of film excavated at the Long Beach flea market, slivers of Blondie will continue to poke into our collective unconscious until there ceases to be any consciousness to poke.
What the seven members of Blondie set to tape over those first eight years remains among the most timeless music of its era, or any era. This is not hyperbole. Walk into a grocery store and Rapture fills the air. Spend an hour with any classic rock, '80s throwback, LITE FM easy listening, or rockin' oldies station and you will rediscover Heart of Glass.
Watch any given documentary on the birth of punk or hip hop, read any “Best Albums of All Time” list, and the stark three-color imagery of Parallel Lines will undoubtedly flash by. Visit any sports arena in the world and count the moments before you hear Call Me. Blondie has transcended the realms of mere bands, evolving out of pop and punk to become a vital strand of American music's core DNA.
Deluxe Edition 8CD Box
CD 1: Blondie
X Offender
Little Girl Lies
In The Flesh
Look Good In Blue
In The Sun
A Shark In Jets Clothing
Man Overboard
Rip Her To Shreads
Rifle Range
Kung Fu Girls
The Attack Of The Giant Ants
X Offender (Intro)
X Offender (Private Stock Single Version / Remastered)
In The Sun (Private Stock Single Version / Remastered)
Little Girl Lies (Private Stock Mix)
In The Flesh (Extended Intro)
A Shark In Jets Clothing (Take 2)
Kung Fu Girls (Take 8)
Scenery (Plaza Sound Outtake)
CD 2: Plastic Letters
Fan Mail
Denis
Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
Youth Nabbed As Sniper
Contact In Red Square
(I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
I’m On E
I Didn’t Have The Nerve To Say No
Love At The Pier
No Imagination
Kidnapper
Detroit 442
Cautious Lip
Denis (Terry Ellis Mix)
Moonlight Drive
Bermuda Triangle Blues – Flight 45 (Take 1)
I Didn’t Have The Nerve To Say No (Take 1)
I’m On E (Take 2)
Kidnapper (Take 2)
Detroit 442 (Take 2)
Poet’s Problem
CD 3: Parallel Lines
Hanging On The Telephone
One Way Or Another
Picture This
Fade Away And Radiate
Pretty Baby
I Know But I Don’t Know
11:59
Will Anything Happen
Sunday Girl
Heart Of Glass
I’m Gonna Love You Too
Just Go Away
Once I Had A Love (Mike Chapman Demo)
Sunday Girl (French Version)
I’ll Never Break Away From This Heart Of Mine (Pretty Baby) (Take 1)
Hanging On The Telephone (Mike Chapman Demo)
Will Anything Happen (Instrumental)
CD 4: Eat to the Beat
Dreaming
The Hardest Part
Union City Blue
Shayla
Eat To The Beat
Accidents Never Happen
Die Young Stay Pretty
Slow Motion
Atomic
Sound-A-Sleep
Victor
Living In The Real World
Call Me
Spaghetti Song (Atomic Pt. 2)
Die Young Stay Pretty (Take 1)
Underground Girl
Union City Blue (Instrumental)
Llámame
CD 5: Autoamerican
Europa
Live It Up
Here’s Looking At You
The Tide Is High
Angels On The Balcony
Go Through It
Do The Dark
Rapture
Faces
T-Birds
Walk Like Me
Follow Me
Autoamerican Ad
I Love You Honey, Give Me A Beer (Go Through It)
Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder Demo)
Angels On The Balcony (Giorgio Moroder Demo)
The Tide Is High (Demo)
Suzy & Jeffrey
Rapture (Disco Version)
CD 6: The Hunter
Orchid Club
Island Of Lost Souls
Dragonfly
For Your Eyes Only
The Beast
War Child
Little Caesar
Danceway
(Can I) Find The Right Words (To Say)
English Boys
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
Yuletide Throwdown
CD 7: Out in the Streets
Out In The Streets (1974 Session)
The Disco Song (1974 Session)
Sexy Ida (1974 Session)
Platinum Blonde (Betrock Demo)
The Thin Line (Betrock Demo)
Puerto Rico (Betrock Demo)
Once I Had A Love (Betrock Demo)
Out In The Streets (Betrock Demo)
CD8: Home Tapes
Nameless (Home Tape)
Mr Sightseer
Sunday Girl (Home Tape)
Theme From Topkapi (Home Tape)
The Hardest Part (Home Tape)
Ring Of Fire (Home Tape)
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