Against the Odds 1974-1982 [Super Deluxe Collector's Edition 10LP/10"/7"]

	£		220
	$		292

Against the Odds 1974-1982 [Super Deluxe Collector's Edition 10LP (10" album, 33 1/3 rpm), 7", Box Set]
The first ever authorized and in-depth archive in Blondie's history, a rarity for a band almost 50 years into their career with 40 million records sold. Featuring 124 songs - including 36 previously unreleased - Blondie 1974-1982: Against The Odds features tracks remastered from the original analog tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios. Includes their first 6 albums, expanded to include over four dozen demos, alternate versions + outtakes, a 120 page discography book & 144 page hardback book.

The 10LP super deluxe set offers all six studio albums – Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican and The Hunter – and includes four additional LPs of session outtakes, B-sides, and demos. These rarities are titled ‘Plaza Sound’, ‘Parallel Beats’, ‘Coca Cola’, ‘Home Tapes’. This vinyl box comes with a bonus 10-inch of outtakes called ‘Out In The Streets’ and a seven-inch single featuring the band’s cover of The Doors’ ‘Moonlight Drive’ and demo of ‘Mr. Sightseer’. In total, it contains 124 studio tracks.

The vinyl super deluxe comes with two books: a 144-page hardcover book with session commentary from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Frank Infante, Nigel Harrison, and Gary Valentine, and essays from producers Richard Gottehrer and Mike Chapman and a 120-page volume which gives a discographical overview of the period via hundreds of pic sleeves, 45 labels, international sleeve variants, flexis, cassettes, and even 8-tracks.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1             X Offender

2             Little Girl Lies

3             In the Flesh

4             Look Good in Blue

5             In the Sun

6             A Shark in Jets Clothing

7             Man Overboard

8             Rip Her to Shreds

9             Rifle Range

10           Kung Fu Girls

11           The Attack of the Giant Ants

Disc: 2

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

Disc: 3

1             Hanging On the Telephone

2             One Way Or Another

3             Picture This

4             Fade Away and Radiate

5             Pretty Baby

6             I Know But I Don't Know

7             11:59

8             Will Anything Happen

9             Sunday Girl

10           Heart of Glass

11           I'm Gonna Love You Too

12           Just Go Away

Disc: 4

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

Disc: 5

1             Europa

2             Live It Up

3             Here's Looking at You

4             The Tide Is High

5             Angels On the Balcony

6             Go Through It

7             Do the Dark

8             Rapture

9             Faces

10           T-birds

11           Walk Like Me

12           Follow Me

Disc: 6

1             Orchid Club

2             Island of Lost Souls

3             Dragonfly

4             For Your Eyes Only

5             The Beast

6             War Child

7             Little Caesar

8             Danceway

9             (Can I) Find the Right Words (To Say)

10           English Boys

11           The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game

Disc: 7

1             Moonlight Drive

2             Mr. Sightseer

Disc: 8

1             Out in the Streets (1974)

2             The Disco Song

3             Sexy Ida

4             Platinum Blonde

5             The Thin Line

6             Puerto Rico

7             Once I Had a Love (1975)

8             Out in the Streets (1975)

Disc: 9

1             X Offender (Intro)

2             X Offender (Private Stock Single)

3             In the Sun (Private Stock Single)

4             Little Girl Lies (Private Stock Mix)

5             In the Flesh (Extended Intro)

6             A Shark in Jets Clothing (Take 2)

7             Kung Fu Girls (Take 8)

8             Scenery

9             Denis (Terry Ellis Mix)

10           Bermuda Triangle Blues - Flight 45 (Take 1)

11           I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No (Take 1)

12           I'm On E (Take 2)

13           Kidnapper (Take 2)

14           Detroit 442 (Take 2)

15           Poets Problem

Disc: 10

1             Once I Had a Love (Mike Chapman Demo)

2             Sunday Girl (French Version)

3             I'll Never Break Away from This Heart of Mine (Pretty Baby)

4             Hanging On the Telephone (Mike Chapman Demo)

5             Will Anything Happen (Instrumental)

6             Underground Girl

7             Call Me

8             Spaghetti Song (Atomic Part 2)

9             Die Young Stay Pretty (Take 1)

10           Llámame

Disc: 11

1             I Love You Honey, Give Me a Beer (Go Through It)

2             Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder Demo)

3             Angels On the Balcony (Giorgio Moroder Demo)

4             Tide Is High

5             Susie & Jeffrey

6             Rapture (Disco Version)

7             Autoamerican Ad

8             Yuletide Throwdown

Disc: 12

1             Nameless (Home Tape)

2             Sunday Girl (Home Tape)

3             Theme from Topkapi (Home Tape)

4             The Hardest Part (Home Tape)

5             Ring of Fire (Home Tape)

6             War Child (Chris Stein Mix)

7             Call Me (Chris Stein Mix)

8             Heart of Glass (Chris Stein Mix)