Blondie – Japanese Box Set
Released early in 2006 by Toshiba-EMI in Japan, this special Album Box Set includes Blondie’s first 6 original studio albums plus The Best Of Blondie. Inside each Mini Album is the CD, Lyrics Sheets and Inner Sleeves if and when available on the original releases. The 7 CD set is housed in a special Box and each CD is wrapped in a clear plastic sleeve. All have been reproduced identical to the original 12″ vinyl releases together with Obi strips. For those of you who don’t know what an Obi strip is, here is a brief explanation. The Obi strip is the small outer piece of paper wrapped around most of the Japanese books, CDs and 12″ vinyls. These small paper strips provide information such as the catalogue number, a barcode, the release date, the price (with or without tax) , the song titles, artist name, album name, a small Japanese discography of the artist . Though this is a purely functional item in Japan, products that feature an obi strip have become somewhat desirable to collectors in other countries.
Outer Box Packaging
Blondie – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Richard Gottehrer
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67891
This edition of Blondie was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold seperately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
Track listing:
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
BONUS TRACKS:
12. Out In The Streets (Original Instant Records Demo)
13. The Thin Line (Original Instant Records Demo)
14. Platinum Blonde (Original Instant Records Demo)
15. X Offender (Original Private Stock Single Version)
16. In The Sun (Original Private Stock Single Version)
Plastic Letters – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Richard Gottehrer
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67892
This edition of Plastic Letters was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold separately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
Track listing:
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
BONUS TRACKS:
14. Once I Had A Love (aka The Disco Song) (1975 Version)
15. Scenery
16. Poets Problem
17. Detroit 442 (Live) Recorded live 11/6/78 at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia, PA. Previously Unreleased
Paralle Lines – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Mike Chapman
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67893
This edition of Parallel Lines was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold seperately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
Track listing:
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
BONUS TRACKS:
13. Once I Had A Love (aka The Disco Song) (1978 Version) Previously Unreleased
14. Bang A Gong (Get It On) (Live) Recorded Live 11/4/78 at The Paradise in Boston, MA
15. I Know But I Don’t Know (Live) Recorded Live 11/6/78 at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia, PA
16. Hanging On The Telephone (Live) Recorded Live 1980 in Dallas, TX
Eat To The Beat – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Mike Chapman
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67894
This edition of Eat To The Beat was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold seperately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
Track listing:
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
BONUS TRACKS ON THE 2001 release:
13. Die Young Stay Pretty (Live BBC 12/31/79) Recorded live New Year’s Eve ’79 at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. Previously unreleased in the U.S.
14. Seven Rooms Of Gloom (Live BBC 12/31/79) Recorded live New Year’s Eve ’79 at The Apollo Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland. Previously unreleased in the U.S.
15. Heroes (live) Recorded live 1/12/80 at The Hammersmith Odeon, UK
16. Ring Of Fire (live)
Autoamerican – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Mike Chapman
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67895
This edition of Autoamerican was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold seperately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
Track listing:
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
BONUS TRACKS:
13. Call Me (Original Long Version)
14. Susie And Jeffrey
15. Rapture (Special Disco Mix)
The Best Of Blondie – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Mike Chapman, Richard Gottehrer & Giorgio Moroder
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67896
This edition of The Best Of Blondie was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold seperately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
(Please note the track listing is different on this version. This version also comes with a one-sided paper insert inside the sleeve with the original back cover artwork track listing. Neither this nor the actual sleeve give the right track listing information for this CD.)
Track listing:
1. Heart Of Glass
2. Dreaming
3. The Tide Is High
4. In The Flesh
5. Sunday Girl
6. Hanging On The Telephone
7. Rapture
8. One Way Or Another
9. (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear
10. Call Me (Theme from American Gigolo)
11. Atomic
12. Rip Her To Shreds
13. Denis
14. Picture This
15. Union City Blue
The Hunter – Japanese CD 2006
Producer: Mike Chapman
Released on: Toshiba-EMI
Date of release: 2006
Japan 2006 CD Cat No: TOCP-67897
This edition of The Hunter was sold as part of a Japanese Box Set in early 2006. These mini albums have also been sold seperately as well as a full collection in the Box Set.
Track listing:
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
BONUS TRACK:
12. War Child (Extended Version)
