Live Albums By Blondie
Looking back at the mainstream pop success enjoyed by Blondie, it’s hard to remember that the band came out of the CBGBs club along with The Ramones, Television and Talking Heads to front the American side of punk rock and new wave music.
It’s useful to look at the timing of the studio albums and the big hit singles before looking in detail at the live albums.
Studio Albums By Blondie
1976 Blondie
1978 Plastic Letters
1978 Parallel Lines
1979 Eat To The Beat
1980 Autoamerican
1982 The Hunter
1999 No Exit
2003 The Curse of Blondie
2011 Panic Of Girls
2014 Ghosts Of Dowload
As a singles band, Blondie had more success in the UK than in America so I’m going to focus on the top 20 hits there:
(I’ll give you the peak position if it reached the top 5)
1978 Denis Denis #2
1978 (I’m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear
1978 Picture This
1978 Hanging on the Telephone #5
1979 Heart Of Glass #1 (also #1 in the USA)
1979 Sunday Girl #1
1979 Dreaming #2
1980 Call Me #1 (also #1 in the USA)
1980 Atomic #1
1980 The Tide Is High #1 (also #1 in the USA)
1981 Rapture #5 (but #1 in the USA)
1982 Island of Lost Souls
1994 Atomic (remix)
1995 Heart Of Glass (remix)
1999 Maria #1
2003 Good Boys
Live Albums By Blondie
1977 The Old Waldorf San Francisco
1978 & 1980 Picture This Live / Live: Philadelphia 1978 / Dallas 1980
1978 & 1980 Picture This Live
1979 At The BBC
1982 Live in Toronto
1998-1999 Live
2004 Live by Request
Buying Albums By Blondie
You can get these albums by Blondie from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
The Best Live Albums Of All Time
I’ve included Blondie in the polls for both punk rock/new wave and power pop.
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Blondie Live is a live album by new wave turned power pop band Blondie.
It was recorded on the comeback tour between November 22, 1998 and August 14, 1999.
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Live By Request is a live album and DVD by Blondie.
It was recorded in New York City on May 7, 2004 for the Live By Request TV show on the A&E Network.
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Picture This Live is a live album by Blondie.
It was recorded at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia on 11/06/78 and at the McFarlin Auditorium in Dallas in 1980.
The album is also available as Blondie Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980.
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The Old Waldorf, SF CA, 21st September 1977 Early and Late Show is a live recording by new wave band Blondie. It was broadcast on KSAN-FM.
It was recorded in San Francisco when punk and new wave were the new big thing in 1977. At this stage they had released their debut studio album (Blondie in 1976) but their second, Plastic Letters didn’t appear until February 1978.
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Blondie At The BBC is a live album and DVD by new wave band Blondie.
The audio was recorded at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow on 31 December 1979 and broadcast on the BBC Radio 1.
The DVD has various appearances of Blondie on the BBC including the second half of the Glasgow performance that was broadcast on the Old Grey Whistle Test.
Live in Philadelphia 1978 & Dallas 1980 is an early live album by new wave / power pop group Blondie.
This album has also been packaged as Picture This Live.
I lost count of the number of posters of Debbie Harry i saw when I was a student between 1978-1981. Her face and body was virtually everywhere and her sex kitten image tended to overshadow what a good group Blondie were.
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