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Released | November 23, 1999 (US) April 25, 2000 (UK) | |||
Recorded | November 22, 1998 –August 14, 1999 | |||
Genre | New wave | |||
Length | 75:51 (Live) 76:10 (Livid) | |||
Label | Beyond Records, Eagle Records | |||
Producer | Blondie / Randy Nicklaus | |||
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Allmusic | link |
Entertainment Weekly | A− link |
Robert Christgau | link |
Spin | (8/10) link |
Live is the second live album by the band Blondie released in 1999 in the US and in 2000 in the UK. [1]
As of August 9, 2005, it has sold 129,000 copies in United States. [2]
The album was recorded during Blondie's successful 1998-99 comeback tour in support of their 1999 album, No Exit , and features all their best-known songs, including "Atomic", "The Tide Is High", "Call Me", and "Heart of Glass", as well as the 1999 UK #1 "Maria". The last track on the album is a manipulated live version of the song "One Way or Another" with the audience noise removed, which was used as a theme song for American dramedy TV series Snoops .
The UK edition of the album was renamed Livid and released on April 25, 2000. It featured the actual live version of "One Way or Another" instead of the Snoops theme version.
The album was also released on DVD twice, the first time in 1999 by Beyond Records and the second time in 2005 by EV Classics. [3] The DVD edition captures the band filmed live on stage on February 23, 1999, at New York's Town Hall for their first hometown gig in 17 years, kicking off their 1999 US tour. The track listing of 2005 release is identical, but the running order is different.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Dreaming" (from Eat to the Beat , 1979) | Deborah Harry, Chris Stein | 3:27 |
2. | "Hanging on the Telephone" (from Parallel Lines , 1978) | Jack Lee | 2:23 |
3. | "Screaming Skin" (from No Exit , 1999) | Harry, Stein, Romy Ashby, Leigh Foxx | 5:32 |
4. | "Atomic" (from Eat to the Beat, 1979) | Harry, Jimmy Destri | 6:56 |
5. | "Forgive and Forget" (from No Exit, 1999) | Stein | 4:35 |
6. | "The Tide Is High" (from Autoamerican , 1980) | John Holt, Tyrone Evans, Howard Barrett | 4:04 |
7. | "Shayla" (from Eat to the Beat, 1979) | Stein | 5:08 |
8. | "Sunday Girl" (from Parallel Lines, 1978) | Stein | 3:28 |
9. | "Maria" (from No Exit, 1999) | Destri | 4:49 |
10. | "Call Me" (from American Gigolo , 1980) | Giorgio Moroder, Harry | 4:46 |
11. | "Under the Gun" (from No Exit, 1999) | Stein | 4:54 |
12. | "Rapture" (from Autoamerican, 1980) | Harry, Stein | 6:24 |
13. | "Rip Her to Shreds" (from Blondie , 1977) | Harry, Stein | 3:20 |
14. | "X Offender" (from Blondie, 1977) | Harry, Gary Valentine | 3:24 |
15. | "No Exit" (from No Exit, 1999) | Harry, Destri, Ashby, Stein, Coolio | 4:08 |
16. | "Heart of Glass" (from Parallel Lines, 1978) | Harry, Stein | 4:52 |
17. | "One Way or Another ('Snoops' Theme Song)" | Harry, Nigel Harrison | 3:38 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Dreaming" (from Eat to the Beat , 1979) | Deborah Harry, Chris Stein | |
2. | "Maria" (from No Exit , 1999) | Jimmy Destri | |
3. | "Rip Her to Shreds" (from Blondie , 1977) | Harry, Stein | |
4. | "Hanging on the Telephone" (from Parallel Lines , 1978) | Jack Lee | |
5. | "Call Me" (from American Gigolo , 1980) | Giorgio Moroder, Harry | |
6. | "X Offender" (from Blondie, 1977) | Harry, Gary Valentine | |
7. | "Screaming Skin" (from No Exit, 1999) | Harry, Stein, Romy Ashby, Leigh Foxx | |
8. | "Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom Room" (from No Exit, 1999) | Harry, Ashby, Clem Burke, Kathy Valentine, Denny Freeman | |
9. | "Atomic" (from Eat to the Beat, 1979) | Harry, Destri | |
10. | "Forgive and Forget" (from No Exit, 1999) | Stein | |
11. | "One Way or Another" (from Parallel Lines, 1978) | Harry, Nigel Harrison | |
12. | "Shayla / Union City Blue" (from Eat to the Beat, 1979) | Stein | |
13. | "In the Flesh" (from Blondie, 1977) | Harry, Stein | |
14. | "Heart of Glass" (from Parallel Lines, 1978) | Harry, Stein | |
15. | "Sunday Girl" (from Parallel Lines, 1978) | Stein | |
16. | "Rapture" (from Autoamerican , 1980) | Harry, Stein |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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17. | "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" (from No Exit, 1999) | Destri |
Blondie is an American rock band co-founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American new wave scene of the mid-1970s in New York. Their first two albums contained strong elements of punk and new wave, and although highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the U.S. until the release of Parallel Lines in 1978. Over the next four years, the band achieved several hit singles including "One Way or Another", "Heart of Glass," "Call Me," "Atomic," "The Tide Is High," and "Rapture". The band became noted for its eclectic mix of musical styles, also incorporating elements of disco, pop, reggae, and early rap music.
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released in September 1978, by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success. The album reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 in April 1979. In Billboard magazine, Parallel Lines was listed at No. 9 in the top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit "Heart of Glass".
No Exit is the seventh studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on February 23, 1999, by Beyond Music. It was the band's first album in 17 years and features the UK number-one single "Maria". As of March 2006, the album had sold two million copies worldwide.
"Call Me" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie and the theme to the 1980 film American Gigolo. Produced and composed by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, with lyrics by Blondie singer Debbie Harry, the song appeared in the film and was released in the United States in early 1980 as a single. "Call Me" was No. 1 for six consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it became the band's biggest single and second No. 1. It also hit No. 1 in the UK and Canada, where it became their fourth and second chart-topper, respectively. In the year-end chart of 1980, it was Billboard's No. 1 single and RPM magazine's No. 3 in Canada.
The Hunter is the sixth studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on May 24, 1982, by Chrysalis Records. It was Blondie's last album of new material until 1999's No Exit. It was recorded in December 1981.
Plastic Letters is the second studio album by American rock band Blondie, released in February 1978 by Chrysalis Records. An earlier version with a rearranged track listing was released in Japan in late December 1977.
"(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" is a song by the American band Blondie, from their 1978 album Plastic Letters. Written by recently departed Blondie bassist Gary Valentine, the song was based on the telepathic connections that Valentine believed he experienced with his girlfriend, journalist Lisa Jane Persky, while on tour. Though Valentine had left the band, drummer Clem Burke convinced the band to record the song for Plastic Letters.
"One Way or Another" is a song by American new wave band Blondie from their 1978 album Parallel Lines. Lyrically, the song was inspired by Blondie frontwoman Deborah Harry's experience with a stalker in the early 1970s, an incident which forced her to move away from New Jersey. The song's music was composed by bassist Nigel Harrison, who introduced the Ventures-influenced track to keyboardist Jimmy Destri.
"Rip Her to Shreds" is a song by American new wave band Blondie, which features on the band's self-titled debut album.
"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. It was featured on the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines (1978), and was released as the album's third single in January 1979 and reached number one on the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
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"Rapture" is a song by American rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album Autoamerican (1980). Written by band members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, and produced by Mike Chapman, the song was released as the second and final single from Autoamerican on January 12, 1981, by Chrysalis Records. Musically, "Rapture" is a combination of new wave, disco and hip hop with a rap section forming an extended coda.
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"Nothing Is Real but the Girl" is a song by American rock band Blondie. Written by the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri, it was the second single released from their seventh album, No Exit (1999), on May 31, 1999. The single peaked at number 26 in the United Kingdom and number 89 in Germany.
"I'm Gonna Love You Too" is a song written by Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan and Norman Petty, originally recorded by Buddy Holly in 1957 and released as a single in 1958. It was covered 20 years later by American new wave band Blondie and released as the lead single in the U.S. from their multi-platinum 1978 album Parallel Lines.
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