Track Listing

1. Atomic
2. Heart Of Glass
3. Sunday Girl
4. Call Me
5. Tide Is High
6. Denis
7. Dreamin'
8. Rapture
9. Hanging On The Telephone
10. I'm Always Touched By Your Presence Dear
11. Island Of Lost Souls
12. Picture This
13. Union City Blue
14. War Child
15. Rip Her To Shreds
16. One Way Or Another
17. X Offender
18. I'm Gonna Love You Too
19. Fade Away And Radiate
20. Atomic (2)
21. Atomic (3)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6413 in Music
• Released on: 1998-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Blondie - for everyone.
This is such mainstream Blondie that even the most lukewarm fan will love the lot. Blondastic value of course (21 tracks !) this album kicks off with the almost mystical Atomic (original version) and carries you thru such exotica as 'Island of lost souls', touching on a determined wistfullness in 'Dreaming', Bilingual Blondie (Denis) and winding up with a very satisifying remix of -well of course, 'Atomic' If Miss Harry has ever tingled your spine you will probably have all of these tracks anyway. If she hasen't - well it's never too late to start.

feel good funky little record
I love this album, the cheaper of the 2 versions of Blondie's greatest hits available and I love it. It makes me smile every time I listen and with the prices on here, you can't NOT buy it!

The many faces of Pop
For some reason known only to the record company, the tracks on this compilation are not in chronological order. The album thus opens with 1979s synth-rock track Atomic and then moves back one year for the equally electronic but far more catchy Heart Of Glass, the pop and dance classic.

Track 3, Sunday Girl, also comes from the excellent Parallel Lines album, whilst Call Me (theme from American Gigolo) is another electronic dance track that has not aged well because it lacks a good tune. Next comes The Tide Is High, a lilting reggae number from 1980s Autoamerican. Denis takes us back to the brilliant 1977 album Plastic Letters, whilst Dreaming and Union City Blue come from 1980s less than inspiring Eat To The Beat album that also contains Atomic.

Plastic Letters and Parallel lines remain Blondie’s best ever single albums, as demonstrated by the beautiful ballad I’m Always Touched (By Your Presence Dear), the snappy pop song Picture This and the dreamy, experimental Fade Away And Radiate. X Offender and Rip Her To Shreds from their 1976 debut show the raw punk promise that was to develop into their delicious take on pop in the aforementioned Plastic Letters and Parallel Lines.

Atomic concludes with two interesting remixes of the title track. Blondie made original and intelligent pop music that encompassed hypnotic synthesizer textures (Call Me, Atomic, Heart Of Glass), melodic ballads (Denis, Presence Dear), rap (Rapture), reggae (The Tide Is High) and punk rock (X Offender, Rip Her To Shreds). This is a great compilation album, like The Complete Picture (20 tracks) or Greatest Hits (19 tracks), and it is difficult to choose between them.