Blondie - Plastic Letters CD

Plastic Letters songs Remastered reissue of 1969 album, suitable for standard & 'Super Audio' CD players. Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Teri Landi; Steve Rosenthal; Paschal Byrne. The Rolling Stones: Mick Taylor (guitars); Keith Richards (acoustic guitar); Mick Jagger (harp); Bill Wyman (autoharp); Charlie Watts (drums); Brian Jones (percussion). Additional personnel: Nanette Newman, Merry Clayton (vocals); Ry Cooder (mandolin); Byron Berline (fiddle); ...

Plastic Letters buy CD music All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology. 1979's EAT TO THE BEAT was Blondie's fourth album, and the first to follow the enormous commercial breakthrough of 1978's PARALLEL LINES. Though its singles, the brilliant "Dreaming" and the disco-influenced "Atomic," were lesser hits than PARALLEL LINES' "Heart of Glass" and "One Way or Another," EAT TO THE BEAT's success cemented Blondie's status as by far the most commercially viable of the first wave of New York punk bands. By this time, the band's always-tenuous connection to punk was barely noticeable; the artsy "Victor," the Springsteen-ish "Union City Blue," written for the soundtrack of Debbie Harry's first film, Steeltown, and the reggae-tinged "Die Young Stay Pretty" are early evidence of the sort of casual genre-hopping which defined the band's next album, AUTOAMERICAN. The ripping title track, "Accidents Never Happen" and the dreamy "Living in the Real World," however, are more typical Blondie fare. + 4 Bonus Tracks Recorded at the Power Station, Electric Lady Studio and Media Sound, New York, New York in 1979. Originally released on Chrysalis (1225). Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman. Producer: Mike Chapman. Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty. Personnel: Frank Infante (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Debbie Harry (vocals, background vocals); Chris Stein (guitar); Randy Singer Hennes (harmonica); Jimmy Destri (keyboards, background vocals); Clem Burke (drums); Donna Destri, Ellie Greenwich, Lorna Luft , Mike Chapman (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Mike Chapman . Recording information: Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland (04/1979-06/1979); Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY (04/1979-06/1979); Hammersmith Odeon, England (04/1979-06/1979); Media Sound, New York, NY (04/1979-06/1979); Media Sound, NY (04/1979-06/1979); Power Station, New York, NY (04/1979-06/1979); The Power Station, New York, NY (04/1979-06/1979). Photographer: Norman Seeff. Blondie: Frank Infante (vocals, guitar); Jimmy Destri (vocals, keyboards); Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar); Nigel Harrison (bass); Clem Burke (drums). Additional personnel: Randy Hennes (harmonica); Elle Greenwich, Lorna Luft, Donna Destri, Mike Chapman (background vocals).

Plastic Letters CD music All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology. Madonna and Michael Jackson aside, this is supreme pop music and as good as the genre can ever get. Everybody loved Blondie; fans, children, critics, other musicians and senior citizens - and not just because Debbie Harry was its frontperson. This is an unintentional greatest hits record that doesn't let up until the last note of 'Just Go Away' has died. If one wanted to carp, you could have asked for 'Denis' and 'Call Me' to have been included, but that would be just plain greedy. One of the greatest 'up' records of all time. + 4 Bonus Tracks Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, New York in June & July, 1978. Originally released on Chrysalis (1192). Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman. Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty. Personnel: Debbie Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar, 12-string guitar, E-bow); Frank Infante, Robert Fripp (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Clem Burke (drums). Liner Note Author: Mike Chapman . Recording information: Dallas, TX (06/1978-07/1978); The Paradise, Boston, MA (06/1978-07/1978); The Record Plant, New York, NY (06/1978-07/1978); Walnut Theatre, Philadelphia, PA (06/1978-07/1978). Illustrator: Frank Duarte. Photographers: Edo; Armando Gallo; Neil Zlozower. Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar, 12-string guitar, E-bow); Frank Infante (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Nigel Harrison (bass); Clem Burke (drums). Producer: Mike Chapman.

Plastic Letters album for sale All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology. Recorded in 1976, Blondie's self-titled debut was part of the New York City/CBGB's crowd's initial salvo of punk/new wave, radically different from anything in the American mainstream at the time. While other CBGB scenemakers strove for either artiness (Television) or primitivism (Ramones), Blondie was always about pure pop, served with a healthy dose of irony. Its early-'60s rock & roll/girl-group roots were never so apparent as on this album--"In the Sun" sounds like a classic slice of sunny '60s West Coast pop, while "In the Flesh" reaches even further back for a '50s ballad feel. The sly lyrics, Debbie Harry's knowing delivery, and especially Jimmy Destri's gloriously cheesy organ riffs make it apparent that revivalism was never Blondie's intention; the band simply used the past to hijack the punk present and lay claim to a new wave future. Over the next few years, countless groups would adopt the template laid down on the first couple of Blondie albums, with varying degrees of success, but, as this recording makes plain, Blondie did it first and best. Digitally remastered 1994 reissue on Chrysalis of their 1976debut for the label. Contains 11 tracks, including the cultclassics 'Rip Her To Shreds', 'X Offender' and 'In TheFlesh'. Recorded at Plaza Sound Stuidos, New York, New York in August & September 1976. Originally released on Private Stock (2023) in January 1977, reissued on Chrysalis (1165) in September 1977. Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman. Producer: Richard Gottehrer. Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty. Composer: Marty Thau. Personnel: Debbie Harry (vocals); Gary Valentine (guitar, bass guitar); Chris Stein (guitar); Jimmy Destri (piano, grand piano, Farfisa); Clem Burke (drums); Ellie Greenwich, Micki Harris, Hilda Harris (background vocals). Audio Remixer: Craig Leon. Liner Note Author: Richard Gottehrer. Recording information: Plaza Sound Studios, New York, NY (08/1976-09/1976). Photographers: Jonathan Postal; Ray Stevenson; Bob Gruen. Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein, Gary Valentine (guitar, bass); James Destri (piano, organ, synthesizer); Clement Burke (drums). Additional personnel: Ellie Greenwich, Micki Harris, Hilda Harris (background vocals).

Plastic Letters CD music All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology. Blondie's penultimate album before their breakup, 1981's AUTOAMERICAN is a fine collection of diverse, slickly-produced pop songs, featuring the all-pervasive "Rapture." It's difficult to explain just how omnipresent this song was on Top 40 radio in 1981--only Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" and the "Stars on 45" medley had more airplay--or how enormous its cultural impact. Before "Rapture," rap was little known outside of New York City's outer boroughs, but Debbie Harry's rap, namechecking scene legends Fab Five Freddy and Grandmaster Flash (alongside '60s film auteur Francois Truffaut, for the downtown hipsters), brought the style worldwide. The rap was so groundbreaking that it's easy to forget that the first three minutes of the song, where Harry coos luxuriantly over a slinky bass groove, is some of Blondie's best work, as is the rest of the album. + 3 Bonus Tracks Recorded at United Western Studio, Hollywood, California in December 1980. Originally released on Chrysalis (1290). Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman. Producer: Mike Chapman. Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty. Personnel: Debbie Harry, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar, timpani); Frank Infante, W.W. Watson, Wa Wa Watson (guitar); Tom Scott (saxophone, lyricon); Steve "Golde" Goldstein, Steve Goldstein (piano, synthesizer); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Clem Burke (drums); Scott Lesser, Alex Acuña, Ollie E. Brown, Emil Richards (percussion); B Girls (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Mike Chapman . Recording information: Power Station, New York, NY (1980); United Western, Hollywood, CA (1980). Directors: Denny Vosburgh; Bob Emmer; Shep Gordon. Photographers: Retna; Bob Gruen; Jeff Mayer. Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar, bass, vibraphone); James Destri (piano, organ, synthesizer, background vocals); Frank Infante (bass, background vocals); Clem Burke (drums, background vocals). Additional personnel: Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman (vocals); Jimmie Haskill (arranger); Wa Wa Watson (guitar); Tom Scott (saxophone); Steve Goldstein (piano, synthesizer); Ray Brown (bass); Scott Lesser, Ollie Brown, Emil Richards, Alex Acuna (percussion); B-Girls (background vocals).

Plastic Letters buy CD music All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology. Autoamerican was Blondie's last real album (until its 1999 reunion with No Exit), after which the band collapsed in legal problems and solo aspirations. The Hunter was only made because they still owed Chrysalis an album on their contract, and it sounds like the obligatory record it was. "Island of Lost Souls" (the album's only U.S. singles chart entry and, in fact, the only song released as a single in the U.S.) was a try at remaking "The Tide Is High," and "The Beast" tried to re-create at least the rap section of "Rapture." "War Child," which made the U.K. Top 40, was a dance rock effort in the style of "Call Me" and one of two somewhat autobiographical Debbie Harry lyrics, along with "English Boys." (Harry wrote all the album's words except for those to keyboard player Jimmy Destri's "Danceway" and the cover of the Marvelettes' 1967 hit "The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game," which was written by Smokey Robinson.) "For Your Eyes Only" had been intended as the theme song for the 1981 James Bond film, but rejected (rightly) in favor of a competing entry by Bill Conti and Mike Leeson that went on to become a Top Five hit for Sheena Easton. The rest of the material was equally second-rate, consisting of funk-rock tracks with the barest of melodies and lyrics that ranged from impenetrable ("Orchid Club") to incoherent (the science fiction epic "Dragonfly," which alternated recited and sung sections having something to do with a spaceship race). Blondie was always a band with ideas -- musical, lyrical, and visual -- but The Hunter found them running short conceptually as well practically. It was a disappointing end. (The 2001 reissue adds an eight-minute extended version of "War Child," previously unreleased in the U.S., as a bonus track.) ~ William Ruhlmann Recorded at the Hit Factory, New York, New York in 1981. Originally released on Chrysalis (1384). Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman. Producer: Mike Chapman. Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty. Personnel: Debbie Harry (vocals); Chris Stein, Frank Infante (guitar); Robert Aaron (saxophone); Luis Ortiz, Rafael Maldonado, Luis "Perico" Ortíz, Rick Davies (horns); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Clem Burke (drums); Roger Squitero, Manolo Badrena, Sammy Figueroa (percussion); Darryl Tookes, Lani Groves, Zachary Sanders, Janice Pendarvis (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Mike Chapman . Recording information: The Hit Factory, New York, NY (1981). Photographers: Barry Schultz; Brian Aris; Ebet Roberts. Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Frank Infante, Chris Stein (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Nigel Harrison (bass); Clem Burke (drums). Additional personnel: Rae Maldonado, Luis Ortiz, Richard A. Davis, Mac Gollehor (horns); Robert Aaron (saxophone); Sammy Figueroa, Manual Badrena, Roger Squitero (percussion); Janice G. Pendarvis, Zachary Sanders, Lani Groves, Darryl Tookes (background vocals).