Blondie Live, At Last

09/22/1999 7:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(9/22/99, 4 p.m. PDT) - With the reunion album No Exit and subsequent tour, Blondie once again won its way into the hearts of rock fans and critics alike. From the No Exit tour, the band has compiled its first-ever "official" live album, taken from various concert dates.

Blondie Live features 19 tracks, including such hits as "Dreaming," "Rapture," and "Heart Of Glass," as well as newer material like "Maria" and "Screaming Skin." Also included is the rarely performed live version of "No Exit" with the Loud Record Allstars--featuring rappers Coolio and members of Mobb Deep and the Wu-Tang Clan.

In other Blondie news, Emmy Award-winning television producer David E. Kelly has chosen the band's hit "One Way Or Another" as the theme song to his latest series, Snoops.

The track listing for Blondie Live, due out Nov. 23, includes "Dreaming," "Hangin' On The Telephone," "Rapture," "Heart Of Glass," "Shayla," "Union City Blues," "Call Me," "Atomic," "Sunday Girl," "Maria," "The Tide Is High," "One Way Or Another," "Rip Her To Shreds," "In The Flesh," "X Offender," "Boom Boom," "Screaming Skin," "Forgive And Forget," and "No Exit" (Loud Allstars version).

To read a Blondie feature, click here. A transcript of an exclusive chat with Coolio is also available.

-- Barry Jeckell, New York

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