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: #1074 in Music
• Released on: 1998-07-13
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

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.

The Very Best
In one word, Blondie were phenomenal in their prime, and to this day they are still making music. This greatest hits (made in 2001) highlights all the highs in Blondie's career which is still blossoming.
Hits like Atomic, Heart of Glass and The Tide Is High make this a blondie must. The song of the CD of course has to be the rock chick anthem One Way Or Another.
I listen to this album nearly all the time and i'm surprised at it's durability. I mean how many albums can you name that you've listened to a million times.

One other thing, if you're a Kelly Osbourne, Pink or Avril fan, you should buy this album, all of the greats in pop today have taken something from blondie, be it a cover version, their habits or their attitudes to music.

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!