Eat to the Beat

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Eat to the Beat
Eat to the Beat cover
Studio album by Blondie
Released October 13, 1979 (1979-10-13)
Recorded 1979
Genre Pop, New Wave, punk rock
Length 43:01
Label Chrysalis
Producer Mike Chapman
Professional reviews
Blondie chronology
Parallel Lines
(1978)		 Eat to the Beat
(1979)		 Autoamerican
(1980)

Eat to the Beat was Blondie's fourth studio album. It reached number one on the UK album charts in October 1979.

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[edit] History

Blondie released three UK singles from this album ("Dreaming", "Union City Blue" and "Atomic"). Three singles were released in the U.S. ("Dreaming", "Atomic" and "The Hardest Part"). The album includes such diverse styles as punk, reggae, and funk as well as a lullaby.

Eat to the Beat was the first ever "video album", meaning it was commercially released on home video simultaneously with the audio album. Every song on the album has a corresponding music video.

Deborah Harry mentioned during the UK tour for this album that she enjoyed singing "Accidents Never Happen" and "Shayla" the most.

According to the liner notes of 1994 compilation The Platinum Collection the song "Slow Motion" was originally planned to be the fourth single release from the album, and Mike Chapman even made single remix of the track, but following the unexpected success of "Call Me", the theme song to movie American Gigolo, these plans were shelved and the single mix remains unreleased. An alternate mix of the track entitled The Stripped Down Motown Mix did however turn up on one of the many remix singles issued by Chrysalis/EMI in the mid 1990's.

Eat to the Beat was digitally remastered and reissued by EMI-Capitol in the year 2001, with four bonus tracks. The 2001 remaster was again reissued in 2007 (June 26 - U.S.; July 2 - U.K.) without the four bonus tracks. Included instead was a DVD for the video album. This was the first time the Eat To The Beat video album was available in the DVD format.

[edit] Track listing

Side A
  1. "Dreaming" (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein) – 3:08
  2. "The Hardest Part" (Harry, Stein) – 3:42
  3. "Union City Blue" (Nigel Harrison, Harry) – 3:21
  4. "Shayla" (Stein) – 3:57
  5. "Eat to the Beat" (Harrison, Harry) – 2:40
  6. "Accidents Never Happen" (Jimmy Destri) – 4:15
Side B
  1. "Die Young, Stay Pretty" (Harry, Stein) – 3:34
  2. "Slow Motion" (Laura Davis, Destri) – 3:28
  3. "Atomic" (Destri, Harry) – 4:40
  4. "Sound-A-Sleep" (Harry, Stein) – 4:18
  5. "Victor" (Harry, Frank Infante) – 3:19
  6. "Living in the Real World" (Destri) – 2:53
Bonus tracks (2001 CD reissue)
  1. "Die Young Stay Pretty" (Recorded live New Year's Eve '79 at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland) (Harry, Stein) – 3:27
  2. "Seven Rooms of Gloom" (Recorded live New Year's Eve '79 at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland) (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland, Jr.) – 2:48
  3. "Heroes" (Recorded live 1/12/80 at The Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (David Bowie, Brian Eno) – 6:19
  4. "Ring of Fire" (Live, from the soundtrack to the 1980 film Roadie) (June Carter Cash, Merle Kilgore) – 3:30
DVD-Video tracks (2007 CD/DVD reissue)
  1. "Eat to the Beat" (Harrison, Harry)
  2. "The Hardest Part" (Harry, Stein)
  3. "Union City Blue" (Nigel Harrison, Harry)
  4. "Slow Motion" (Laura Davis, Destri)
  5. "Shayla" (Stein)
  6. "Die Young, Stay Pretty" (Harry, Stein)
  7. "Accidents Never Happen" (Jimmy Destri)
  8. "Atomic" (Destri, Harry)
  9. "Living in the Real World" (Destri)
  10. "Sound-A-Sleep" (Harry, Stein)
  11. "Victor" (Harry, Frank Infante)
  12. "Dreaming" (Debbie Harry, Chris Stein)

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[edit] Production

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Sample

"Atomic"

The first single released from the album, and a number one hit in the United Kingdom.
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