release date: 2005
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5]
producer: various
label: EMI / Capitol Records - nationality: USA
22 track compilation album by Blondie. This is one of the better compilations with Blondie, although, it still miss several great compositions. The last three tracks are not any of the band's best, and it's really a mystery how they ended up here. Two are taken from the most recent come-back album The Curse of Blondie from 2003, which doesn't contribute with great material, and the last track is a remix of The Doors "Riders on the Storm" and Blondie's track "The Rapture", a really odd inclusion. Luckily they come at the end so may just skip them, but then tracks like "In the Sun", "Fan Mail", "I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No", "Die Young Stay Pretty" should be here to call it a true best of album. The album was released in an expanded version called Greatest Hits (Sight & Sound) with a dvd containing 17 video tracks.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]
