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Released
  
November 16, 1993

Length
  
70:02

Release date
  
16 November 1993

Genres
  
New wave, Pop music

Recorded
  
Compilation

Artist
  
Blondie

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

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Blonde and Beyond (1993)
  
The Platinum Collection (1994)

Similar
  
Blondie albums, Pop music albums

Blonde and Beyond is a compilation album of recordings by Blondie released on Chrysalis Records in 1993.

Contents

Overview

Blonde and Beyond is a unique compilation that gathers some of the band's hit singles like "Heart of Glass", "Denis", "X Offender", "Picture This" and "Island Of Lost Souls" along with album tracks, single b-sides and previously unreleased recordings, which include three demos ("Underground Girl", "Scenery" and "Once I Had A Love") and a live cover of T. Rex's "Bang a Gong (Get It On)".

Most of the single b-sides and previously unreleased songs included on Blonde and Beyond have since been recycled as bonus tracks on 2001 reissues of the band's studio albums or other EMI compilations.

Track listing

  1. "Underground Girl" (Frank Infante) - 3:54
  2. Demo from Parallel Lines sessions, 1978
  3. "English Boys" (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein) - 3:48
  4. From the album The Hunter, 1982
  5. "Sunday Girl" (French Version) (Stein) - 3:02
  6. From the UK 12" single "Sunday Girl", 1978
  7. "Susie And Jeffrey" (Harry, Nigel Harrison) - 4:08
  8. B-side of "The Tide Is High" single, 1980
  9. "Shayla" (Stein) - 3:56
  10. From the album Eat to the Beat, 1979
  11. "Denis" (Niel Levenson) - 2:17
  12. From the album Plastic Letters, 1978
  13. "X Offender" (Harry, Gary Valentine) - 3:11
  14. From the album Blondie, 1977
  15. "Poets Problem" (Jimmy Destri) - 2:19
  16. B-side to "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear" single, 1978
  17. "Scenery" (Valentine) - 3:08
  18. Demo from Blondie sessions, 1976
  19. "Picture This" (Harry, Stein, Destri) - 2:55
  20. From the album Parallel Lines, 1978
  21. "Angels on the Balcony" (Laura Davis, Destri) - 3:37
  22. From the album Autoamerican, 1980
  23. "Once I Had a Love" (Harry, Stein) - 3:11
  24. The early version of "Heart of Glass", 1976.
  25. "I'm Gonna Love You Too" (Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan, Norman Petty) - 2:08
  26. From the album Parallel Lines, 1978
  27. "Island of Lost Souls" (Stein, Harry) - 3:49
  28. Original version appears on album The Hunter, 1982
  29. "Call Me" (Spanish Version) (Giorgio Moroder, Harry) - 3:31
  30. From the 12" single "Call Me", 1980
  31. "Heart of Glass" (Disco Version) (Harry, Stein) - 5:48
  32. Original version appears on the album Parallel Lines, 1978
  33. "Ring of Fire" (Live) (June Carter, Merle Kilgore) - 3:30
  34. From the soundtrack album "Roadie", 1980
  35. "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" (Live) (Marc Bolan) - 5:22
  36. Recorded live at The Paradise Club, Boston on November 4, 1978.
  37. "Heroes" (Live) (David Bowie, Brian Eno) - 6:28
  38. Recorded live at The Hammersmith Odeon on January 12, 1980. From the UK 12" single "Atomic", 1980
  • Tracks 1, 9, 12, 18 were previously unreleased

    • Personnel

    Blondie
  • Deborah Harry – vocals
  • Chris Stein – guitar
  • Clem Burke – drums
  • Jimmy Destri – keyboards
  • Nigel Harrison – bass guitar
  • Frank Infante – guitar
    • Additional musicians
  • Robert Fripp - guitar (track 19)
    • Production
  • Bruce Harris - executive producer
  • Dan Loggins - compilation producer, audio mixer (track 12)
  • Larry Walsh - mastering, audio mixer (track 12)
  • Vincent M. Vero - project coordinator, discography research
  • Ira Robbins - liner notes
  • Henry Marquez - artwork/art direction
  • Susan Bibeau - artwork/design
  • Blondie - producers (tracks 17, 18)
  • Mike Chapman - producer (tracks 1 to 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16)
  • Richard Gottehrer - producer (tracks 6 to 9)
  • Giorgio Moroder - producer (track 15)
  • Chris Stein - producer (track 19)
  • Jimmy Destri - producer (track 19)
  • Paddy Maloney - producer (track 19)
  • The producer of track 12 in unknown

    • Songs

    1Underground Girl3:53
    2English Boys3:50
    3Sunday Girl (French version)3:03

    References

    Blonde and Beyond Wikipedia
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