Live by Request (Blondie album)

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Live by Request
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Live album by
Blondie
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2004 (US)
October 3, 2005 (Internationally)
RecordedMay 7, 2004, New York City, New York
Genre New wave, punk rock, rock
Length1:02:42
Label Sanctuary Records (US)
Cooking Vinyl (Internationally)
Blondie chronology
The Curse of Blondie
(2003)		Live by Request
(2004)		 Greatest Hits: Sight + Sound
(2005)
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Live by Request is a live and video album by the band Blondie released in the US in 2004, [2] and internationally in 2005. [3]

Contents

Background

Following the US release of The Curse of Blondie the band performed on the A&E Network's Live by Request program on May 7, 2004 in New York City, taking requests via e-mail and phone from fans – and personal friends including film director John Waters.

This is the first Blondie release without original keyboardist Jimmy Destri who had been replaced by Kevin Topping after the work on The Curse of Blondie. This is the band's first and only release with Topping.

The album is notable for the band performing additional codas after the end of several songs, particularly after "Hanging on the Telephone", "Rip Her to Shreds", "One Way or Another", "Rapture", "Call Me" and "Union City Blue".

Release

The CD and DVD editions of the album feature a different track listing as well as different bonus tracks not aired in the original broadcast. The Japanese version of the audio CD includes all seventeen tracks from the DVD version. [4]

The album was reissued in 2008 by Warner Music as a combined CD+DVD package, however the CD featured a different running order. [5]

Track listing

CD
  1. "Dreaming" (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein) – 3:27
  2. "Hanging on the Telephone" (Jack Lee) – 2:54
  3. "Accidents Never Happen" (Jimmy Destri) – 4:25
  4. "The Tide Is High" (John Holt, Tyrone Evans, Howard Barrett) – 4:27
  5. "Good Boys" (Kevin Griffin, Harry, Brian May) – 4:16
  6. "Rip Her to Shreds" (Harry, Stein) – 4:19
  7. "One Way or Another" (Harry, Nigel Harrison) – 5:09
  8. "Rapture" (Harry, Stein) – 8:23
  9. "X Offender" (Harry, Gary Valentine) – 3:41
  10. "Call Me" (Giorgio Moroder, Harry) – 4:57
  11. "Union City Blue" (Harry, Harrison) – 4:06
  12. "Heart of Glass" (Harry, Stein) – 5:59
  13. "The Dream's Lost on Me" (Acoustic) (Harry, Romy Ashby, Stein) – 3:38
  14. "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" (Valentine) – 3:01
Bonus tracks on Japanese edition
  1. "Undone" (Harry, Craig Bartock, John Vitale) – 4:34
  2. "End to End" (Harry, Ashby, Stein) – 3:58
  3. "Hello Joe" (Harry, Ashby, Stein) – 4:08
DVD
  1. "Dreaming"
  2. "Hanging On The Telephone"
  3. "Accidents Never Happen"
  4. "The Tide Is High"
  5. "Good Boys"
  6. "Undone"
  7. "Rip Her To Shreds"
  8. "One Way Or Another"
  9. "Rapture"
  10. "X Offender"
  11. "Call Me"
  12. "Union City Blue"
  13. "Heart Of Glass"

Bonus Tracks (Not Aired In The Original Broadcast)

  1. "The Dream's Lost On Me"
  2. "End To End"
  3. "Hello Joe"
  4. "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear"

Bonus Features

  1. Photo gallery
  2. "Good Boys" music video

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Blondie". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8.
  2. ↑ "'Live By Request' press release". blondie.net. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  3. ↑ "'Live By Request' international press release". blondie.net. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  4. ↑ "'Live By Request' Japanese edition". deborah-harry.com. September 20, 2005. Archived from the original on February 8, 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  5. ↑ "LIVE BY REQUEST [live album]". deborah-harry.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-08. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
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