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Released
  
July 13, 1998

Atomic The Very Best of Blondie (1998)
  
No Exit (1998)

Release date
  
13 July 1998

Genres
  
New wave, Pop music

Recorded
  
Compilation

Artist
  
Blondie

Label
  
EMI

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Length
  
77:44 (Atomic) 58:02 (Atomix)

Producers
  
Mike Chapman, Richard Gottehrer, Giorgio Moroder

Similar
  
Blondie albums, Pop music albums

Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie is a compilation album of recordings by the band Blondie released by EMI/Chrysalis Records in the UK and the rest of Europe in late 1998, at the time when the band reunited and shortly before the beginning of Blondie's successful comeback tour.

Contents

Overview

Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie includes the band's best known songs from the 70's and 80's as well as two new remixes of the title track. The compilation reached #12 on the UK charts and was certified platinum.

The compilation was reissued in June 1999 as a limited edition 2-CD set titled Atomic/Atomix: The Very Best of Blondie, including a second disc of previously available remixes with the exception of another new remix of the title track.

In 2011, the compilation was reissued again as a single disc with identical track listing, but with the title being changed to Essential.

Track listing

Disc one - Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie
  1. "Atomic" (7" Mix) (Destri, Harry) – 3:50
  2. "Heart of Glass" (7" Mix) (Harry, Stein) – 4:11
  3. "Sunday Girl" (Stein) – 3:15
  4. "Call Me" (Harry, Moroder) – 3:32
  5. "The Tide Is High" (7" Edit) (Barrett, Evans, Holt) – 3:52
  6. "Denis" (Levenson) – 2:18
  7. "Dreaming" (Harry, Stein) – 3:06
  8. "Rapture" (7" Mix) (Harry, Stein) – 4:59
  9. "Hanging on the Telephone" (Lee) – 2:22
  10. "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" (Valentine) – 2:42
  11. "Island of Lost Souls" (7" Edit) (Harry, Stein) - 3:50
  12. "Picture This" (Destri, Harry, Stein) – 2:57
  13. "Union City Blue" (Harrison, Harry) – 3:22
  14. "War Child" (Harrison, Harry) - 4:00
  15. "Rip Her to Shreds" (Harry, Stein) – 3:21
  16. "One Way or Another" (Harrison, Harry) - 3:28
  17. "X Offender (Harry, Valentine) - 3:10
  18. "I'm Gonna Love You Too" (Mauldin, Petty, Sullivan) - 2:07
  19. "Fade Away and Radiate" (Stein) - 3:59
  20. "Atomic '98 (Xenomania Mix)" (Destri, Harry) - 4:33
  21. "Atomic '98 (Tall Paul Mix)" (Destri, Harry) - 8:43
Disc two - Atomix: The Very Best of Blondie Remixed
  1. "Atomic" (Diddy's 12" Mix) – 6:51
  2. From the compilation Beautiful: The Remix Album (1995)
  3. "Dreaming" (Utah Saints Mix) – 6:21
  4. From the compilation Beautiful: The Remix Album (1995)
  5. "Denis" (Danny D Remix) – 5:23
  6. From the compilation Once More into the Bleach (1988)
  7. "Call Me" (Original 12" Version) – 8:04
  8. From the American Gigolo soundtrack (1980)
  9. "Heart of Glass" (Original 12" Instrumental) – 5:14
  10. From the UK & US "Heart Of Glass" 12" single (1979)
  11. "Rapture" (US Disco Version) – 7:13
  12. From the US "Rapture" 12" single (1981)
  13. "War Child" (12" Version) - 8:01
  14. From the UK "War Child" 12" single (1982)
  15. "Atomic '98" (Dana Intellectual Mix) / "Sunday Girl" (French Version) (Hidden track) – 10:50
  • Tracks 4, 5, 6 and 8 were previously unreleased on CD.

    • Songs

    1Atomic3:49
    2Heart of Glass4:10
    3Sunday Girl3:06

    References

    Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie Wikipedia
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