Eat to the Beat [Original recording reissued, Import]

Blondie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000006T0D
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,943 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dreaming

2. The Hardest Part

3. Union City Blue

4. Shayla

5. Eat To The Beat

6. Accidents Never Happen

7. Die Young Stay Pretty

8. Slow Motion

9. Atomic

10. Sound-A-Sleep

11. Victor

12. Living In The Real World

Editorial Reviews

1987 U.K. reissue on Chrysalis of their top 20 1979 albumfor the label. Out of print in the U.S., it features all 12original tracks, including the top 30 hit 'Dreaming' and thetop 40 'Atomic'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How did such a great album go out of print in America?, November 10, 1999

By 

George Frobig (Glens Falls NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat to the Beat (Audio CD)

I first heard EAT TO THE BEAT on the radio twenty years ago, and that night I decided to take Blondie seriously. Of course the songs are catchy, everybody remembers "Dreaming" and "Atomic." But the singing and musicianship were utterly top notch, even in the year that gave us Joe Jackson and the Pretenders, along with Elvis' GET HAPPY!, and the production put it over the top. Every note on this album is HUGE! Who would doubt it if he were told Phil Spector had a hand in it? The songs are just as good as those on PARALLEL LINES, with a little less cuteness, and the whole set sounds much more unified without all sounding the same--sometimes dreamy, like "Shayla," sometimes driving, like "Living in the Real World," and always sounding exactly the way it should. It's great that almost all of Blondie's work is available in one set; but this is such a tight and of-a-piece set that it's a shame it's so hard to experience it in its original form. Buy it and see.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Just Thought I Was Weird...., April 22, 2000

By 

Kelly Sibson (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat to the Beat (Audio CD)

The first album I ever bought with my own money was "Eat To The Beat". I must have been 9 years old and I didn't take the record off the stereo for almost a year. "Eat To The Beat" rescued me from Casey Kasem and Rick Springfield. I didn't know that girls could get mad until I heard Deborah Harry rage away on "The Hardest Part". There's not alot of overt references to sex, like most songs back then had, so my virgin mind could grasp the stories being told, for the most part: Shayla worked in a factory and she was just a number, the hardest part had something to do with an armed guard and Ms.Harry knew someone who liked peanut butter and so did I, so she was COOL! I didn't know ANYone who knew about this album, much less had it or thought it was as great as I did, so I just assumed I was weird... Now I know I just had good taste. It's STILL a masterpiece and worth every penny!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A CLASSIC - ANTHEMS FOR A GENERATION, September 15, 2001

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Jorge Monserrate (Miami, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eat to the Beat (Audio CD)

Deborah Harry's face on the cover of this album still hypnotizes me. I can look at it forever.
After this legend band's first 3 albums, what would they come up next? They had achieved fame, Deb had become an icon, they had joined the NY avante-garde artsy crowd. The band evolved and gave us the sublime Eat to the Beat, undeniably still a Blondie album but ahead of it's time. Harry's voice becomes a miracle, but I've always felt that Clem Burke's amazing drumming drove this band and this becomes clear on the album's first
cut "Dreaming". The funk/rock sound of "The Hardest Part" was new for the band and they successfully explode from your headphones. "...Nitro and acetalyne, open la machine" - are these perfect lyrics or what? The reggae/punk sound of "Die Young, Stay Pretty" is also new, and ROCKS. Deb calls you ".. a dried-up twig in your family tree". Damn! Her voice in "Shayla" haunts you. The perfection of "Atomic" and "Union City Blue" makes these tunes eternal. "Slow Motion" is pure Blondie pop. And they perfectly describe being famous on "(I'm Not)Living in the Real World".
Eat to the Beat changed my "musical expectations" forever. Listen to it and grow.