Blondie To Release First Live Album
New-wave pioneers to chronicle 1998
comeback tour.
SonicNet's Derek Carmean reports:
New-wave pioneers Blondie will release their first live
album in November.
Blondie Live, due Nov. 23, chronicles Blondie's 1998
world tour in support of No Exit, and will include
versions of the band's #1 singles "Call Me"
(RealAudio excerpt) and "Heart of Glass"
(RealAudio excerpt).
Blondie Live comes in the wake of the band's return to
action after a 16-year layoff. Blondie re-formed in 1998
with original members singer Deborah Harry, guitarist
Chris Stein, keyboardist Jimmy Destri and drummer
Clem Burke.
"I think bands work very hard for six
to eight years, and then you
become less interesting to the
market, less interesting to the
record company," said Harry of the
band's hiatus. "It's hard to keep
putting out product that's really
good, and it really is hard work.
And then you sort of step back for
a while, and then you get
reinspired. That's what it takes."
Alumni of the same late-1970s New
York scene that gave the world the
Ramones, Talking Heads and Patti
Smith, Blondie built a career on
slickly crafted new-wave pop. The
band scored consistent hits by
combining Harry's dry vocals and
glamorous stage presence with a
wide variety of styles, from the straightforward guitar
pop of "Dreaming" to the languid Latin-reggae fusion of
"The Tide Is High," to the proto-rap of "Rapture."
Guitarist Chris Stein talked about the "No Exit" tour in
April: "We've been doing all the crowd-pleasers; we're
giving them what they want. I think everybody's just
interested in seeing the band and seeing Debbie. We
get a lot of kids who say they were too young to come
to the shows [in the '80s]. Five or six years ago it
would have been a little horrifying to play these songs
over and over again. This time my own personal
attachment to them has changed."
The full track listing for Blondie Live is: "Dreaming,"
"Hangin' on the Telephone," "Rapture," "Heart of
Glass," "Shayla," "Union City Blues," "Call Me,"
"Atomic," "Sunday Girl," "Maria," "The Tide Is High,"
"One Way or Another," "Rip Her to Shreds," "In the
Flesh," "X Offender," "Boom Boom," "Screaming
Skin," "Forgive and Forget" and "No Exit (Loud All-Star
Version)."
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