Eat to the Beat
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| Studio album by Blondie | |||||
| Released | October 13, 1979 | ||||
| Recorded | 1979 | ||||
| Genre | Pop, New Wave, punk rock | ||||
| Length | 43:01 | ||||
| Label | Chrysalis | ||||
| Producer | Mike Chapman | ||||
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Eat to the Beat was Blondie's fourth studio album. It reached number one on the UK album charts in October 1979.
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[edit] History
Blondie released three UK singles from this album ("Dreaming", "Union City Blue" and "Atomic"). Three singles were released in the U.S. ("Dreaming", "Atomic" and "The Hardest Part"). The album includes such diverse styles as punk, reggae, and funk as well as a lullaby.
Eat to the Beat was the first ever "video album", meaning it was commercially released on home video simultaneously with the audio album. Every song on the album has a corresponding music video.
Deborah Harry mentioned during the UK tour for this album that she enjoyed singing "Accidents Never Happen" and "Shayla" the most.
According to the liner notes of 1994 compilation The Platinum Collection the song "Slow Motion" was originally planned to be the fourth single release from the album, and Mike Chapman even made single remix of the track, but following the unexpected success of "Call Me", the theme song to movie American Gigolo, these plans were shelved and the single mix remains unreleased. An alternate mix of the track entitled The Stripped Down Motown Mix did however turn up on one of the many remix singles issued by Chrysalis/EMI in the mid 1990's.
Eat to the Beat was digitally remastered and reissued by EMI-Capitol in the year 2001, with four bonus tracks. The 2001 remaster was again reissued in 2007 (June 26 - U.S.; July 2 - U.K.) without the four bonus tracks. Included instead was a DVD for the video album. This was the first time the Eat To The Beat video album was available in the DVD format.
[edit] Track listing
- Side A
- "Dreaming" (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein) – 3:08
- "The Hardest Part" (Harry, Stein) – 3:42
- "Union City Blue" (Nigel Harrison, Harry) – 3:21
- "Shayla" (Stein) – 3:57
- "Eat to the Beat" (Harrison, Harry) – 2:40
- "Accidents Never Happen" (Jimmy Destri) – 4:15
- Side B
- "Die Young, Stay Pretty" (Harry, Stein) – 3:34
- "Slow Motion" (Laura Davis, Destri) – 3:28
- "Atomic" (Destri, Harry) – 4:40
- "Sound-A-Sleep" (Harry, Stein) – 4:18
- "Victor" (Harry, Frank Infante) – 3:19
- "Living in the Real World" (Destri) – 2:53
- Bonus tracks (2001 CD reissue)
- "Die Young Stay Pretty" (Recorded live New Year's Eve '79 at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland) (Harry, Stein) – 3:27
- "Seven Rooms of Gloom" (Recorded live New Year's Eve '79 at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland) (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 2:48
- "Heroes" (Recorded live 1/12/80 at The Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (David Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:19
- "Ring of Fire" (Live, from the soundtrack to the 1980 film Roadie) (June Carter Cash, Merle Kilgore) – 3:30
- DVD-Video tracks (2007 CD/DVD reissue)
- "Eat to the Beat" (Harrison, Harry)
- "The Hardest Part" (Harry, Stein)
- "Union City Blue" (Nigel Harrison, Harry)
- "Slow Motion" (Laura Davis, Destri)
- "Shayla" (Stein)
- "Die Young, Stay Pretty" (Harry, Stein)
- "Accidents Never Happen" (Jimmy Destri)
- "Atomic" (Destri, Harry)
- "Living in the Real World" (Destri)
- "Sound-A-Sleep" (Harry, Stein)
- "Victor" (Harry, Frank Infante)
- "Dreaming" (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein)
[edit] Personnel
- Frank Infante - vocals, guitar
- Jimmy Destri - vocals, keyboards
- Deborah Harry - vocals
- Chris Stein - guitar
- Nigel Harrison - bass guitar
- Clem Burke - drums
- Randy Hennes - harmonica on "Eat To The Beat"
- Robert Fripp - guitar on "Heroes"
- Ellie Greenwich - background vocals
- Lorna Luft - background vocals
- Donna Destri - background vocals
- Mike Chapman - background vocals
[edit] Production
- Mike Chapman - record producer
- Recorded at the Power Station, Electric Lady Studios and Media Sound, New York in 1979. Originally released on Chrysalis Records (1225).
- Kevin Flaherty - 2001 reissue producer.
[edit] Chart positions
- United Kingdom: #1
- Sweden: #2
- Australia: #9
- United States: #17
- Austria: #19
- Germany: #23
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