
1. Fan Mail
2. Denis
3. Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
4. Youth Nabbed as Sniper
5. Contact in Red Square
6. (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear
7. I'm on E
8. I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No
9. Love at the Pier
10. No Imagination
11. Kidnapper
12. Detroit 442
13. Cautious Lip
14. Poets Problem
15. Denis [Alternative Version]

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1994 Chrysalis reissue of their 1977 album, digitallyremastered with two unmarked bonus tracks, 'Poets Problem' &'Denis' (Alternative Version). 15 tracks total, alsoincluding the original version of the hit 'Denis', plus'(I'm Always Touched) By Your Prese


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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, excellent, excellent!, March 29, 2000

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This, along with Parallel Lines and Blondie, is my new favorite album. Although, I have to disagree with the other reviewer here. Blondie's later stuff, their so-called "commercial hits" (which they were), were still excellent. The album Autoamerican, although featuring all "commercial" songs, is also an incredible album. If you listen to just one Blondie album, chances are you'll end up like me and own all of them within the next year.

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5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECT POP WITH A PUNK FLAVOUR, August 23, 2000

By	Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Less polished than the megaselling Parallel Lines, this 1977 album nevertheless perfectly encapsulates the pop side of New York punk in its catchy pop-rock tunes. Besides the hits Denis and (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear, other great songs include Fan Mail, the wistful Bermuda Triangle Blues and I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No. The song I'm On E now sounds strangely prophetic although I think they were referring to the vitamin. The marriage of sometimes witty, always intelligent lyrics and clever melodies make a classic album that has aged very well.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Blondie's second album presents the band in its rawest form, December 31, 2004

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

"Plastic Letters," Blondie's second album, released in October 1977, was pretty much in a similar vein to their self-titled debut album. The cynical attitude is there in the songs and the production values are fine (Richard Gottehrer was the producer on both albums), but the album just sounds for the most part like these were the songs Chris Stein, Jimmy Destri, and Deborah Harry had left over when they did the first album. The exceptions that prove the rule this time around would be "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear," which is one of my favorite Blondie tunes (and which was covered in the U.K. by Tracey Ullman). Unfortunately that song was written by Gary Valentine, who left as the group's bass player at this point in Blondie's early history. Otherwise you have punk/new wave attitude in songs like "Youth Nabbed As Sniper," "I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No," "Love at the Pier," and "Fan Mail." "Bermuda Triangle Blues" is probably the best of the rest, but it depends on your taste.

Given what would happen with the next couple of Blondie albums when the group became a sextet and sharpened it sound, these first two albums clearly represent the band in its rawest form. "Plastic Letters" only reached #72 on the Billboard album charts and there were no singles released in the U.S. The U.K. saw "Presence, Dear" and "Denis" (which was a transgender cover of Randy and the Rainbows' 1963 hit "Denise") both make it to the Top 10. Since you already have the best song on the "Best of Blondie" hits collection, if you feel the need to pick up all of the group's albums then be sure you pick up this remastered version of "Plastic Letters" with the bonus tracks, because that is the one worth the having.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Blondie..A must buy
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