Eat To The Beat
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| Studio album by Blondie | ||||
| Released | October 1979 | |||
| Recorded | May–June 1979 | |||
| Studio | The Power Station, Electric Lady Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | New wave | |||
| Length | 43:01 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
| Producer | Mike Chapman | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
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| The Village Voice | A− |
Eat to the Beat is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Blondie. It was certified Platinum in the United States, where it spent a year on the Billboard album chart. Although it peaked at No.17, it was one of Billboard's top 10 albums of 1980. It also reached No.1 on the United Kingdom album chart in October 1979 and was certified Platinum by the BPI.
The album includes a diverse range of styles as pop, punk, reggae, and funk as well as a lullaby. Three singles were released in the UK from this album ("Dreaming", "Union City Blue" and "Atomic"). "The Hardest Part" was released as the second single from the album in the US instead of "Union City Blue". According to the liner notes of the 1994 compilation The Platinum Collection, the song "Slow Motion" was originally planned to be the fourth single release from the album, and producer Mike Chapman even made a remix of the track, but following the unexpected success of "Call Me", the theme song to movie American Gigolo, these plans were shelved and the single mix of "Slow Motion" remains unreleased. An alternate mix of the track entitled The Stripped Down Motown Mix did however turn up on one of the many remix singles issued by Chrysalis/EMI in the mid 1990s.
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