| Eat to the Beat | ||||
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| Studio album by Blondie | ||||
| Released | October 1979 | |||
| Recorded | May - June 1979 at The Power Station, Electric Lady Studio and Media Sound, New York, NY |
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| Genre | New wave, pop rock | |||
| Length | 43:01 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
| Producer | Mike Chapman | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| Rolling Stone | [2] |
| Robert Christgau | (A-)[3] |
Eat to the Beat is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Blondie. It reached no.1 on the UK album charts in October 1979 (a rare joint number one with The Police album Reggatta de Blanc)[4]. It also reached no.9 in Australia and no.17 in the US.
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Blondie released three singles in the UK from this album ("Dreaming", "Union City Blue" and "Atomic"). "The Hardest Part" was released as the second single from the album in the US instead of "Union City Blue". The album includes a diverse range of styles as pop, punk, reggae, and funk as well as a lullaby. A "video album" was released on home video cassette in conjunction with the record, featuring a promotional video for each song.
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 a 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 of Slow Motion 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 1990s.
Eat to the Beat was digitally remastered and reissued by EMI in 1994, and EMI-Capitol in 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 of the long-since deleted Eat To The Beat video album, marking the first time it had been made available on the DVD format.
| Year | Country | Position |
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| 1979 | United Kingdom | #1[5]. |
| Sweden | #2 | |
| Norway | #6 | |
| Australia | #9 | |
| United States | #17 | |
| Austria | #19 | |
| Germany | #23 |
| Preceded by The Pleasure Principle by Gary Numan |
UK Albums Chart number one album (joint no.1 with Reggatta de Blanc by The Police 13 October 1979 |
Succeeded by Reggatta de Blanc by The Police |