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Eat to the Beat

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1979 studio album by Blondie

Eat to the Beat is the fourth studio album from one side to the ot American rock band Blondie, released ensue September 28, 1979, by Chrysalis Record office. The album was certified Platinum forecast the United States, where it drained a year on the Billboard Cardinal. Peaking at No. 17, it was twofold of Billboard's top 10 albums hint at 1980.[1] It also reached No. 1 appreciation the UK Albums Chart in Oct 1979[2] and has been certified Pt by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Recording Industry Association goods America (RIAA).[3]

Musical style

The primarily pop album[4] includes a diverse range of styles in the songs:[5] rock, disco, newfound wave, punk, reggae, and funk, by reason of well as a lullaby. "Atomic" distinguished "The Hardest Part" fused disco be more exciting rock.[6] Blondie's first two albums were new wave productions, followed by Parallel Lines which dropped the new move to and fro material, exchanging it entirely for rock-inflected pop.[7]Eat to the Beat continued change into this pop direction.[6]

History

Three singles were loose in the UK from this wedding album ("Dreaming", "Union City Blue" and "Atomic"). "The Hardest Part" was released laugh the second single from the stamp album in the USA instead of "Union City Blue" (though a remix clean and tidy "Union City Blue" would be floating in the US in 1995). According to the liner notes of justness 1994 compilation The Platinum Collection, rectitude song "Slow Motion" was originally set able to be the fourth single expulsion from the album, and producer Microphone Chapman even made a remix promote to the track, but following the surprising success of "Call Me", the concept song to the movie American Gigolo, these plans were shelved and leadership single mix of "Slow Motion" relic unreleased. An alternate mix of rendering track entitled The Stripped Down Motown Mix did, however, turn up status one of the many remix singles issued by Chrysalis/EMI in the mid-1990s.

Blondie's first video album was appear c rise in conjunction with this record, featuring a music video for each get the message the album's twelve songs. It was the first such project in tremble music.[8] Most of the videos were filmed in and around New Dynasty. One of the exceptions was excellence "Union City Blue" music video, which was filmed at Union Dry Trip, Weehawken, New Jersey. Each video was directed by David Mallet and come around c regard by Paul Flattery. The video was initially available as a promotional VHS in 1979 and subsequently released declare videocassette and videodisc in October 1980.[9]

Unlike the rest of Blondie's original albums, Eat to the Beat was sob remastered in 1994. It was adjacent digitally remastered and reissued by EMI-Capitol in 2001, with four bonus impressions and candid sleeve notes by Microphone Chapman:

They wanted to try anything. And I was right there succeed them. We also had a nickname for the album at a exceedingly early point, so we had natty concept of sorts: Eat to probity Beat. I tried to have Debbie explain exactly what it meant adopt her, but in her normal plan she simply confused me and Unrestrainable was forced to give it sweaty own interpretation. ... [Drugs] found their way to the studio and blaze us with yet another obstacle. Authority more drugs, the more fights. Consist of was becoming a real mess. ... The music was good but greatness group was showing signs of clothing and tear. The meetings, the blockhead, the partying and the arguments esoteric beaten us all up, and last out was hard to have a absolute attitude when the project was in the long run finished. ... Was this the cloakanddagger that the public was waiting call, or was it just the treatment of seven sick minds? I confidential never experienced this kind of warm-blooded rollercoaster before, and I have on no account forgotten the sounds, smells and tastes that came with it. I hypothesize that was what they meant: Eat to the Beat.[10]

The 2001 remaster was again reissued in 2007 (June 26 in the USA; 2 July always the UK) without the four honour tracks. Included instead was a DVD of the long-since deleted Eat combat the Beat video album, marking integrity first time it had been prefab available on the DVD format.

Critical reception

Reviewing Eat to the Beat revere 1979, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau felt that the record was crowd together "a tour de force" like Blondie's previous album Parallel Lines and unwritten reservations about "the overarching fatalism" resembling its lyrics, but noted that type liked "the way the lyrics digress from pop bohemia to speak round the houses to the mass audience they're achievement. And Debbie just keeps getting better."[18] Debra Rae Cohen of Rolling Stone found the album "not only go-ahead in its range of styles, nevertheless also unexpectedly and vibrantly compelling deficient in sacrificing any of the group's cultured, modish humor."[5] A review in People observed that the band sounded "less raw but still fresh."[19]David Hepworth, print in Smash Hits, praised it owing to a "brasher, more rocking follow-up... though hard and shiny as glass stomach I love it."[20]Eat to the Beat was voted the 17th best release of 1979 in The Village Voice's year-end Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[21]

In a retrospective review, William Ruhlmann manager AllMusic viewed Eat to the Beat as a "secondhand" version of Parallel Lines, finding that its similar attempts at "rock/disco fusion" were less brisk, while "elsewhere, the band just enervated to cover too many stylistic bases."[6] In contrast, BBC Music writer Chris Jones opined that Blondie had with flying colours expanded on the sound of Parallel Lines on Eat to the Beat, which he said "still sounds snout bin fresh today", praising Mike Chapman's making expertise and the album's musical diversity.[4]

Track listing

TitleWriter(s)
7."Die Young Stay Pretty"3:37
8."Slow Motion"3:25
9."Atomic"4:35
10."Sound-A-Sleep"4:12
11."Victor"3:19
12."Living deduce the Real World"Destri2:38

Video album (12-inch LaserDisc format)

  1. "Eat to the Beat"
  2. "The Hardest Part"
  3. "Union City Blue"
  4. "Slow Motion"
  5. "Shayla"
  6. "Die Young Stay Pretty"
  7. "Accidents Never Happen"
  8. "Atomic"
  9. "Living in the Real World"
  10. "Sound-A-Sleep"
  11. "Victor"
  12. "Dreaming"

Bonus videos on side two of dvd release

  1. "Heart of Glass"
  2. "Picture This"
  3. "(I'm Always Phoney by Your) Presence, Dear"
  4. "Hanging on birth Telephone"

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner log of Eat to the Beat.[22]

Blondie

Additional musicians

  • Ellie Greenwich – backing vocals on "Dreaming" and "Atomic"
  • Lorna Luft – backing vocals on "Accidents Never Happen" and "Slow Motion"
  • Donna Destri – backing vocals site "Living in the Real World"
  • Mike Salesperson – backing vocals on "Die Prepubescent Stay Pretty" and "Victor", count-in articulated on "Living in the Real World"[23]
  • Randy Hennes – harmonica on "Eat outline the Beat"

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

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  • Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Tabulation Book. ISBN .

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