[2014-05-13] Blondie "Blondie 4(0) Ever" incl. "Ghosts of Download" & "Greatest Hits: Deluxe Redux" (Noble ID/ESMG)

pghmusiclover · **Joined:** 15 Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3360

Blondie 4(0) Ever

2014 marks Blondie’s 40th Anniversary and in celebration of this amazing milestone, the band will release a special double-disc package entitled Blondie 4(0) Ever on May 13, 2014 via Noble ID / ESMG. It will include a highly anticipated new collection of songs entitled Ghosts of Download and an album entitled Deluxe Redux: Greatest Hits, featuring brand new studio recordings of the band’s biggest songs. The iconic Andy Warhol ‘Debbie Harry’ portrait is the cover art for the greatest hits album.

The ever-prolific band began working on new material right after the release of 2011’s critically acclaimed LP Panic of Girls. The result is their 10th studio album and most collaborative to date, Ghosts of Download, which promises to offer some of the most infectious and memorable songs of Blondie’s catalogue. Produced by Jeff Saltzman, it’s an exhilarating mix of dance-floor-ready sounds, with more than a little pop radio flavor stirred into it and a few surprises along the way. “A Rose By Any Name,” is a cool electronic pulse of a duet for Harry and Beth Ditto of the Gossip. “Drag You Around” and “Backroom,” a sly tale of after-hours vampire group-groping, boast reggae grooves, while a cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s infamous eighties anthem, “Relax,” is turned into a slow, echo-chambered secular prayer before morphing into a more familiar thumping acid-house beat. Other album guests include downtown New York City club fixture Miss Guy (on “Rave”), Columbian Cumbia/hip hop/R&B group Systema Solar (“Sugar on the Side”) and Oakland–based Panamanian rappers Los Rakas (“I Screwed up”).

Among the tracks on the Deluxe Redux: Greatest Hits disc are the groundbreaking rock-disco hybrid “Heart of Glass,” the equally influential hip-hop fantasia “Rapture,” the stalker-love song “One Way Or Another” and the lilting calypso “The Tide Is High.” It’s a thrilling journey back to when Blondie pushed punk onto the dance floor and introduced a wider audience to hip-hop sounds, all the while building a catalog of enduring hits along the way.

Greatest Hits: Deluxe Redux [re-recordings]

1. Heart of Glass
2. Dreaming
3. Tide Is High
4. Maria
5. Sunday Girl
6. Hanging on the Telephone
7. Rapture
8. One Way or Another
9. Call Me
10. Atomic
11. Rip Her to Shreds

Ghosts of Download

1. Sugar on the Side
2. Rave
3. A Rose By Any Name
4. I Want To Drag You Around
5. Winter
6. I Screwed Up
7. Relax
8. Take Me In The Night
9. Make A Way
10. Mile High
11. Euphoria
12. Take It Back
13. Backroom

Deluxe Edition

2CD
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JMQ6SNQ/?tag=imwan-20

2CD/1DVD Deluxe Edition
DVD features Blondie live at CBGB's, 1977
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JMQ6SDQ/?tag=imwan-20

MP3
TBD

iTunes
Includes three exclusive bonus tracks: "Put Some Color On You", "Can't Stop Wanting", and "Prism"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blond ... d866214188

2LP/1DVD Deluxe Edition
DVD features Blondie live at CBGB's, 1977
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JPFTY6M/?tag=imwan-20

pghmusiclover · **Joined:** 15 Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3360

Exciting news (at least to me): Blondie has recorded a duet with Beth Ditto of Gossip!

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A Rose By Any Name- Blondie featuring Beth Ditto will premiere tomorrow on the Ken Bruce show (flagship mid morning show) on Radio 2 tomorrow

And this picture was also posted:

David Baker · 31 Oct 2006

That's exciting. I love Beth Ditto's "I Wrote The Book."

David Baker · 31 Oct 2006

Tickets for an Oct. 1 date in Atlanta for Blondie's "No Principals Tour" with X opening go on sale tomorrow. Hopefully the LP will precede it.

pghmusiclover · **Joined:** 15 Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3360

Here's the audio for "A Rose By Any Name":

Momo · 22 Jun 2007

Thanks for posting this. Sounds great! Looking forward to a new album.

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

According to the Blondie website, purchasers of tickets for the band's fall tour will get "five exclusive new Blondie tracks from the forthcoming album":

“Make A Way”
“Drag You Around”
“Can’t Stop Wanting”
“A Rose By Any Name”
“I Screwed Up”

Two of these (“Can’t Stop Wanting” and “A Rose By Any Name”) are not on the album tracklist previously posted... pair them with the previously released download-only tracks, and Blondie collectors are enjoying life at the moment.

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Jul 28, 2013 1:44 pm

Ghosts Of Download might end up being Blondie's final album:

Quote:

Debbie Harry is considering calling time on Blondie, says bandmate Clem Burke

Blondie drummer Clem Burke has revealed that singer Debbie Harry is considering bringing the band to an end after nearly 40 years.

"Debbie is 11 years older than the rest of us, so it's on her mind," 57-year-old Burke told the Daily Mail. "We've tried to keep it going for as long as possible, but it's not just up to me. Nothing is finalised yet, but obviously there's no Blondie without Debbie Harry."

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Harry told the newspaper: "They are in a hiatus at the moment. They will do some tour dates next year. Nothing is confirmed yet."

Blondie completed an extensive UK tour earlier this month (July), including a set at Isle Of Wight Festival, and have a run of North American dates scheduled during September and October. The band are due to release a new album called 'Ghosts Of Download' later this year and the lead single, 'A Rose By Any Name', which features Gossip singer Beth Ditto, was released on iTunes last month.

The legendary band formed in New York in 1974 and went on hiatus eight years later, shortly after the release of their sixth album 'The Hunter'. Since reforming in 1997, the band have toured regularly and released three studio albums: 'No Exit' (1997), 'The Curse Of Blondie' (2003) and 'Panic Of Girls' (2011).

http://www.nme.com/news/blondie/71695

Bobby · 29 Sep 2006

Unless I am mistaken, I think this is a rumor.
Chris and Debbie (and Clem) have been my friends for nearly forty years and I hope this is not true.

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

So if she is 11 years older, making her about 68 tells me she definitely doing something right. She is still "so hot" and is singing as great as ever.

Rick A.

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 3:50 pm

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Blondie dispute Debbie Harry retirement rumours

Blondie have denied rumours that Debbie Harry is considering retirement following comments made by drummer Clem Burke this week.

Burke was quoted as saying that he thought Harry may be considering bringing the band to an end after 40 years, saying: "Debbie is 11 years older than the rest of us, so it's on her mind. We've tried to keep it going for as long as possible, but it's not just up to me. Nothing is finalised yet, but obviously there's no Blondie without Debbie Harry." His comments were backed by a spokesperson for the band who said: "They are in a hiatus at the moment. They will do some tour dates next year. Nothing is confirmed yet."

However, a message posted on the Blondie Facebook page last night (July 29) calmed the situation, stating that the band were not going anywhere and that Debbie Harry has no immediate plans to retire. "No plans to stop working, don’t believe everything you read," reads the message.

http://www.nme.com/news/blondie/71728

Sounds more like Clem spoke out of turn.

djgarver · 18 Dec 2007

..and then there is the fall tour with X.....

I won't miss their double-bill at the 9:30 club in September...

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26163

Looks like the Ghosts Of Download album is out in March and now called Blondie 4(0) Ever and will be the studio album attached to a best-of that may be re-recordings.

Here's what I found (there was also an interview in vanity Fair this month confirming this):

The album was originally scheduled to be released in November 2013 but the release was pushed back to January 2014 to avoid the rush of albums released for the Christmas period. On 31 December 2013, Debbie Harry stated in an interview with Anderson Cooper that the album would be released in March 2014.

It was announced in the February 2014 issue of Vanity Issue Magazine, for which Debbie Harry was photographed, that the album will be released as part of a special package entitled Blondie 4(0) Ever (marking the band's 40th anniversary) which will also include a CD of the band's biggest hits, re-recorded and remixed in 2013.

The final January 2014 issue of Mojo Magazine in the UK confirmed the album's release date as March 17, 2014, to be supplemented with the "Blondie 40th Anniversary World Wide Tour".

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

A limited number of signed and bundle versions can also be found at the band's online store.

http://store.blondie.net/pre-order.html

Apparently the big enchilada ($100) is the only way to get the three iTunes bonus tracks on CD.

http://store.blondie.net/pre-order/delu ... undle.html

DanO · 30 Jul 2006

Thought about the deluxe signed version, but then the $14.99 shipping tipped me over to not getting it.

Jeff · 05 Oct 2006

So wait, they redid all the old songs, or remixed them? Or both? I'm slightly confused.

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