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The Best of Blondie (released in Germany and the Netherlands as Blondie's Hits) is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Blondie. It was released in October 1981, by Chrysalis Records. [5] The album peaked at number four in the United Kingdom and number 30 in the United States, while becoming the band's only number-one album in ...
The Best of Blondie: Released: October 1981; ... In 2021, Blondie's song was released digitally and as a limited edition 12" vinyl single by Blondie themselves.
Blondie performed the Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire", and the live recording was featured on the film soundtrack and on a later CD reissue of the Eat to the Beat album. [4] In November 1980, Blondie's fifth studio album and third with Chapman, Autoamerican (UK number three, [26] US number seven, Australia number eight [24]), was released.
Following the re-issue of the six original studio albums in 2001, this was the first Blondie "Best of" compilation to be digitally remastered, the first Blondie "Best of" to be officially sanctioned by the band for over 20 years, and also the first to include their comeback hit "Maria", a UK #1 in February 1999.
Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie includes the band's best known songs from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as two new remixes of the title track. The compilation reached number 12 on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
In 1981, the Village Voice ranked "Call Me" as the third-best song of the year 1980 on its annual year-end critics' poll, Pazz & Jop. [19] In 2017, Billboard ranked the song number three on their list of the 10 greatest Blondie songs, [20] and in 2021, The Guardian ranked the song number four on their list of the 20 greatest Blondie songs. [21]
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Reviewing Blondie in 1977 for Rolling Stone, Ken Tucker called the album "a playful exploration of Sixties pop interlarded with trendy nihilism" and found that all the songs "work on at least two levels: as peppy but rough pop, and as distanced, artless avant-rock". He noted that Harry performed with "utter aplomb and involvement throughout ...