Plastic Letters

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Plastic Letters
Plastic Letters cover
Studio album by Blondie
Released October 1977 (1977-10)
Recorded June–July 1977 at Plaza Sound Studio, New York
Genre Punk rock
Length 34:46
Label Chrysalis (1166)
Producer Richard Gottehrer
Professional reviews
Blondie chronology
Blondie
(1976)		 Plastic Letters
(1977)		 Parallel Lines
(1978)

Plastic Letters is the second studio album by American New Wave band Blondie, released in 1977 on Chrysalis Records. It contained two top-ten UK singles and was the last Blondie album to be produced by Richard Gottehrer. "Denis", a cover of the Randy & the Rainbows' 1963 hit "Denise", was a hit all over Europe; reaching number two in February 1978 in the United Kingdom. "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" was the second single from the album, reaching number ten in May 1978. The song was written by the band's bass guitar player Gary Valentine, shortly before his departure from the band, just before the album was recorded. (So Chris Stein not only played guitar on the album, but also the bass guitar.) Plastic Letters has been digitally remastered and re-issued twice. The first time was by Chrysalis Records in 1994 with two bonus tracks, and the second, in 2001 by EMI-Capitol with four bonus tracks.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

Side one
  1. "Fan Mail" (James Destri) – 2:38
  2. "Denis" (Neil Levenson) – 2:19
  3. "Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)" (Chris Stein) – 2:49
  4. "Youth Nabbed as Sniper" (Stein) – 3:00
  5. "Contact in Red Square" (Destri) – 2:01
  6. "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" (Gary Valentine) – 2:43
  7. "I'm on E" (Deborah Harry, Stein) – 2:13
Side two
  1. "I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No" (Destri, Harry) – 2:51
  2. "Love at the Pier" (Harry) – 2:27
  3. "No Imagination" (Destri) – 2:56
  4. "Kidnapper" (Destri) – 2:37
  5. "Detroit 442" (Destri, Stein) – 2:28
  6. "Cautious Lip" (Stein, Ronnie Toast) – 4:24
CD reissue bonus tracks (1994 UK)
  1. "Poets Problem" (Destri) – 2:20
  2. "Denis" (alternative version) (Levenson) – 2:22
CD reissue bonus tracks (2001)
  1. "Once I Had a Love" (a.k.a. "The Disco Song") (Harry, Stein) – 3:58
  2. "Scenery" (Valentine) – 3:10
  3. "Poets Problem" (Destri) – 2:20
  4. "Detroit 442" (live) (Destri, Stein) – 2:33

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Production

  • Richard Gottehrer - record producer.
  • Recorded at Plaza Sound Studio, New York, New York in June & July 1977. Originally released on Chrysalis (1166)
  • Kevin Flaherty - 2001 reissue producer.

[edit] Chart Peaks

  • Germany: 9
  • UK: 10
  • Sweden: 33
  • Australia: 64
  • USA: 72
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