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Artist: | Blondie |
Title: | Blondie Against The Odds 1974-1982 Limited Deluxe 8 CD + book box set |
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Released: | 26/08/2022 |
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Format: | 8CD + BOOK BOX SET |
Country | Worldwide |
Barcode: | 602508760969 |
Catalogue number: | 876096 |
Store location: | CLASSIC ROCK |
SKU: | 42758747 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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Genre: | Pop Punk , Power Pop , Vocal , Disco , Pop Rock , Post-Punk , Rock & Roll , Punk , Power Pop , Brit Pop |
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.
Let this box set serve as a map of the genome.
This set will be available in the below formats:
10LP - The 10LP super deluxe set offers all six studio albums – Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican and The Hunter – and includes four additional LPs of session outtakes, B-sides, and demos. These rarities are titled ‘Plaza Sound’, ‘Parallel Beats’, ‘Coca Cola’, ‘Home Tapes’. This vinyl box comes with a bonus 10-inch of outtakes called ‘Out In The Streets’ and a seven-inch single featuring the band’s cover of The Doors’ ‘Moonlight Drive’ and demo of ‘Mr. Sightseer’. In total, it contains 124 studio tracks. The deluxe comes with two books: a 144-page hardcover book with session commentary from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Frank Infante, Nigel Harrison, and Gary Valentine, and essays from producers Richard Gottehrer and Mike Chapman and a 120-page volume which gives a discographical overview of the period via hundreds of pic sleeves, 45 labels, international sleeve variants, flexis, cassettes, and even 8-tracks.
8CD (this edition) - The 8CD version of Against The Odds effectively offers the same audio content – 124 studio tracks – as the big vinyl package, but with the rarities on two bonus CDs (called ‘Home Tapes’ and ‘Out In The Streets’). The eight CDs come in replica sleeves and are presented within a large-format 128-page hardcover book and slipcase.
4LP - The 4LP set features all 52 bonus tracks and comes packaged as a 128-page hardcover book tucked inside a foil-wrapped slipcase (all the formats are foil-wrapped).
3CD - The 3CD edition has the same 52 bonus tracks and comes with a 164-page hardcover mini-book housed in a sturdy slipcase.
Out In The Streets | ||
1-1 | Out In The Streets (1974 Session) | 2:24 |
1-2 | The Disco Song (1974 Session) | 3:56 |
1-3 | Sexy Ida (1974 Session) | 3:59 |
1-4 | Platinum Blonde (Betrock Demo) | 2:18 |
1-5 | The Thin Line (Betrock Demo) | 2:27 |
1-6 | Puerto Rico (Betrock Demo) | 2:08 |
1-7 | Once I Had A Love (Betrock Demo) | 3:58 |
1-8 | Out In The Streets (Betrock Demo) | 2:21 |
Blondie | ||
2-1 | X Offender | 3:14 |
2-2 | Little Girl Lies | 2:07 |
2-3 | In The Flesh | 2:32 |
2-4 | Look Good In Blue | 2:56 |
2-5 | In The Sun | 2:40 |
2-6 | A Shark In Jets Clothing | 3:40 |
2-7 | Man Overboard | 3:21 |
2-8 | Rip Her To Shreds | 3:22 |
2-9 | Rifle Range | 3:41 |
2-10 | Kung Fu Girls | 2:32 |
2-11 | The Attack Of The Giant Ants | 3:25 |
2-12 | X Offender (Intro) | 0:17 |
2-13 | X Offender (Private Stock Single) | 3:14 |
2-14 | In The Sun (Private Stock Single) | 2:40 |
2-15 | Little Girl Lies (Private Stock Mix) | 2:08 |
2-16 | In The Flesh (Extended Intro) | 2:51 |
2-17 | A Shark In Jets Clothing (Take 2) | 3:42 |
2-18 | Kung Fu Girls (Take 8) | 2:27 |
2-19 | Scenery | 3:09 |
Plastic Letters | ||
3-1 | Fan Mail | 2:40 |
3-2 | Denis | 2:19 |
3-3 | Bermunda Triangle Blues (Flight 45) | 2:50 |
3-4 | Youth Nabbed As Sniper | 3:03 |
3-5 | Contact In Red Square | 2:02 |
3-6 | (I'm Always Touched By) Your Presence, Dear | 2:44 |
3-7 | I'm On E | 2:17 |
3-8 | I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No | 2:55 |
3-9 | Love At The Pier | 2:29 |
3-10 | No Imagination | 2:57 |
3-11 | Kidnapper | 2:39 |
3-12 | Detroit 442 | 2:28 |
3-13 | Cautious Lip | 4:23 |
3-14 | Denis (Terry Ellis Mix) | 2:22 |
3-15 | Moonlight Drive | 3:00 |
3-16 | Bermuda Triangle Blues - Flight 45 (Take 1) | 2:38 |
3-17 | I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No (Take 1) | 2:59 |
3-18 | I'm On E (Take 2) | 2:37 |
3-19 | Kidnapper (Take 2) | 2:32 |
3-20 | Detroit 442 (Take 2) | 2:56 |
3-21 | Poets Problem | 2:21 |
Parallel Lines | ||
4-1 | Hanging On The Telephone | 2:25 |
4-2 | One Way Or Another | 3:37 |
4-3 | Picture This | 2:58 |
4-4 | Fade Away And Radiate | 4:03 |
4-5 | Pretty Baby | 3:23 |
4-6 | I Know But I Don't Know | 3:56 |
4-7 | 11:59 | 3:20 |
4-8 | Will Anything Happen? | 3:02 |
4-9 | Sunday Girl | 3:06 |
4-10 | Heart Of Glass | 3:49 |
4-11 | I'm Gonna Love You Too | 2:10 |
4-12 | Just Go Away | 3:27 |
4-13 | Once I Had A Love (Mike Chapman Demo) | 3:18 |
4-14 | Sunday Girl (French Version) | 3:14 |
4-15 | I'll Never Break Away From This Heart Of Mine (Pretty Baby) | 3:36 |
4-16 | Hanging On The Telephone (Mike Chapman Demo) | 2:20 |
4-17 | Will Anything Happen (Instrumental) | 2:54 |
Eat To The Beat | ||
5-1 | Dreaming | 3:09 |
5-2 | The Hardest Part | 3:43 |
5-3 | Union City Blue | 3:22 |
5-4 | Shayla | 3:58 |
5-5 | Eat To The Beat | 2:41 |
5-6 | Accidents Never Happen | 4:16 |
5-7 | Die Young Stay Pretty | 3:34 |
5-8 | Slow Motion | 3:29 |
5-9 | Atomic | 4:41 |
5-10 | Sound-A-Sleep | 4:18 |
5-11 | Victor | 3:19 |
5-12 | Living In The Real World | 2:45 |
5-13 | Call Me | 3:32 |
5-14 | Spaghetti Song (Atomic Part 2) | 2:06 |
5-15 | Die Young Stay Pretty (Take 1) | 3:36 |
5-16 | Underground Girl | 3:53 |
5-17 | Union City Blue (Instrumental) | 2:51 |
5-18 | Llámame | 6:18 |
Autoamerican | ||
6-1 | Europa | 3:30 |
6-2 | Live It Up | 4:09 |
6-3 | Here's Looking At You | 2:58 |
6-4 | The Tide Is High | 4:40 |
6-5 | Angels On The Balcony | 3:47 |
6-6 | Go Through It | 2:43 |
6-7 | Do The Dark | 3:51 |
6-8 | Rapture | 6:30 |
6-9 | Faces | 3:52 |
6-10 | T-Birds | 3:56 |
6-11 | Walk Like Me | 3:45 |
6-12 | Follow Me | 3:01 |
6-13 | Autoamerican Ad | 1:07 |
6-14 | I Love You Honey, Give Me A Beer (Go Through It) | 2:42 |
6-15 | Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder Demo) | 4:03 |
6-16 | Angels On The Balcony (Giorgio Moroder Demo) | 4:17 |
6-17 | Tide Is High (Demo) | 3:59 |
6-18 | Susie & Jeffrey | 4:09 |
6-19 | Rapture (Disco Version) | 10:00 |
The Hunter | ||
7-1 | Orchid Club | 5:44 |
7-2 | Island Of Lost Souls | 4:42 |
7-3 | Dragonfly | 6:00 |
7-4 | For Your Eyes Only | 3:07 |
7-5 | The Beast | 4:54 |
7-6 | War Child | 4:00 |
7-7 | Little Caesar | 3:00 |
7-8 | Danceaway | 3:18 |
7-9 | (Can I) Find The Right Words (To Say) | 3:07 |
7-10 | English Boys | 3:49 |
7-11 | The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game | 3:35 |
7-12 | Yuletide Throwdown | 4:49 |
Home Tapes | ||
8-1 | Nameless (Home Tape) | 1:42 |
8-2 | Mr. Sightseer | 3:45 |
8-3 | Sunday Girl (Home Tape) | 2:50 |
8-4 | Theme From Topkapi (Home Tape) | 2:57 |
8-5 | The Hardest Part (Home Tape) | 3:32 |
8-6 | Ring Of Fire (Home Tape) | 2:48 |
8-7 | Heart Of Glass (Chris Stein Mix) | 6:14 |
8-8 | Call Me (Chris Stein Mix) | 5:15 |
8-9 | War Child (Chris Stein Mix) | 5:20 |
dispatched in | 24 hours |
format | Box Set |
year of release | 2022 |
condition | new |
genre | Rock |
artist | Blondie |
label | UMC |
Country | Worldwide |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | No |
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