release date: 1997
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5]
producer: various
label: EMI - nationality: USA
14 track best of compilation by Blondie. The album is identical to two other best of albums: Denis, a Dutch release issued in 1996 by Disky Records, and the 2006 album The Blondie Collection released by EMI. It's really hard to find one fine best of album with Blondie, and it doesn't help much that a vast number of so-called best of Blondie albums have been issued. Most of these releases have 4-5 great tracks and a number of misplaced not-best-of songs, and then always miss several great tracks as well - or so it seems. This is not better or worse than most other compilations by Blondie. However, here I miss great songs like "In the Sun", "Fan Mail", "I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No", "Heart of Glass", "Dreaming", and "Atomic", which sort of tells what kind of release it really is, or: not. The album comes with two different front covers, and: it's really NOT essential.
[ allmusic.com 2 / 5 stars ]
