Against the Odds: 1974–1982

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  Out in the Streets (1974 session)
  2:24
• 2
  The Disco Song (1974 session)
  3:56
• 3
  Sexy Ida (1974 session)
  3:59
• 4
  Platinum Blonde (Betrock demo)
  2:18
• 5
  The Thin Line (Betrock demo)
  2:27
• 6
  Puerto Rico (Betrock demo)
  2:08
• 7
  Once I Had a Love (Betrock demo)
  3:58
• 8
  Out in the Streets (Betrock demo)
  2:22
• 9
  X Offender (intro)
  0:17
• 10
  X Offender (Private Stock single version)
  3:14
• 11
  In the Sun (Private Stock single version)
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Little Girl Lies (Private Stock mix)
  2:08
• 13
  In the Flesh (extended intro)
  2:51
• 14
  A Shark in Jets Clothing (take 2)
  3:42
• 15
  Kung Fu Girls (take 8)
  2:27
• 16
  Scenery (Plaza Sound outtake)
  3:09
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Denis (Terry Ellis mix)
  2:23
• 2
  Moonlight Drive
  3:00
• 3
  Bermuda Triangle Blues / Flight 45 (take 1)
  2:38
• 4
  I Didn’t Have the Nerve to Say No (take 1)
  2:59
• 5
  I’m on E (take 2)
  2:37
• 6
  Kidnapper (take 2)
  2:32
• 7
  Detroit 442 (take 2)
  2:56
• 8
  Poet’s Problem
  2:21
• 9
  Once I Had a Love (Mike Chapman demo)
  3:18
• 10
  Sunday Girl (French version)
  3:14
• 11
  I’ll Never Break Away From This Heart of Mine (Pretty Baby) (take 1)
  3:36
• 12
  Hanging on the Telephone (Mike Chapman demo)
  2:20
• 13
  Will Anything Happen (instrumental)
  2:52
• 14
  Call Me
  3:32
  4.2 ★
• 15
  Spaghetti Song (Atomic, Pt. 2)
  2:05
• 16
  Die Young Stay Pretty (take 1)
  3:35
• 17
  Underground Girl
  3:52
• 18
  Union City Blue (instrumental)
  2:50
• 19
  Llámame
  6:18
• Digital Media 3
• 1
  I Love You Honey, Give Me a Beer (Go Through It)
  2:42
• 2
  Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder demo)
  4:03
• 3
  Angels on the Balcony (Giorgio Moroder demo)
  4:17
• 4
  The Tide Is High (demo)
  3:59
• 5
  Suzy & Jeffrey
  4:09
  2.8 ★
• 6
  Rapture (disco version)
  10:00
• 7
  Autoamerican Ad
  1:07
• 8
  Yuletide Throwdown

  Blondie & Fab 5 Freddy
  4:50
• 9
  War Child (Chris Stein mix)
  5:19
• 10
  Call Me (Chris Stein mix)
  5:15
• 11
  Heart of Glass (Chris Stein mix)
  6:14
• 12
  Nameless (home tape)
  1:41
• 13
  Mr. Sightseer
  3:45
• 14
  Sunday Girl (home tape)
  2:50
• 15
  Theme From Topkapi (home tape)
  2:57
• 16
  The Hardest Part (home tape)
  3:32
• 17
  Ring of Fire (home tape)
  2:48

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Release credits

• Addie Harris
  background vocals [13]
• Alan Betrock
  producer [4-8]
• Billy O’Connor
  drums (drum set) [1-3]
• Chris Stamey
  mix [4-8]
• Chris Stein
  12 string guitar [9-13], bass guitar [1.10-16, 2.1-6, 2.8, 3.12-17], drum machine [13-17], drums (drum set) [12], ebow [1-6, 8-13], guitar [3.1, 3.4-5, 3.5, 3.8-17, 2.1-6, 2.8-16, 2.18-19, 1.1-8, 1.10-16], harmonica [1-6, 8], producer [1.1-3, 3.1, 3.4, 3.12-17], timpani [5], whistling [1-6, 8]
• Clem Burke
  background vocals [3.5, 2.1-12], drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.7, 2.9-16, 2.18-19, 1.4-8, 1.10-16, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.5, 3.8-11], percussion [10-16], timpani [5]
• Craig Leon
  engineer [9-11, 13-16], producer [11], remixer [12]
• David Tickle
  engineer [15-16, 18-19]
• Deborah Harry
  lead vocals [3.5, 2.14], vocal [1.1-16, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.8, 3.12-17, 2.1-12, 2.15-16, 2.19]
• Don Hünerberg
  assistant [12]
• Doug Schwartz
  assistant [5]
• Ed Sprigg
  engineer [2, 4]
• Elda Gentile
  background vocals [1-3]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [13]
• Eric Emerson
  engineer [1-3]
• Fab 5 Freddy
  vocal [8]
• Frank Infante
  additional [1, 3, 6-7], background vocals [3.5, 2.9-12], bass guitar [6], guitar [3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.5, 3.8, 2.1, 2.3, 2.7, 2.9-16, 2.18-19]
• Fred Smith
  bass guitar [1-3]
• Gary Boatner
  assistant [5]
• Gary Valentine
  bass guitar [4-8, 10-16], guitar [10-16], piano [4-8]
• Giorgio Moroder
  additional [14], producer [2.14, 3.2], synthesizer [2.14, 3.9-11]
• Gray Russell
  assistant [9-13]
• Harold Faltermeyer
  engineer [14]
• Hilda Harris
  background vocals [13]
• James A. Farber
  assistant [15-16, 18-19]
• Jimmy Destri
  analog synthesizer [3.2, 2.1-8], background vocals [2.1-12, 3.1, 3.4-5, 3.8], bell [5], electric piano [1.10-16, 2.9-16, 2.18-19], farfisa [2.2-8, 1.10-16, 3.1, 3.4, 3.8], grand piano [1.10-16, 2.1-8], keyboard [5], organ [3.5, 2.9-13, 2.15-16, 2.18-19], pipe organ [10-16], synthesizer [3.5, 3.9-11, 2.1-13, 2.15-16, 2.18-19, 1.10-16], vocal [2-3]
• Jon Smith
  assistant [2]
• Kevin Kelley
  engineer [4-8]
• Lenise Bent
  engineer [5]
• Mike Chapman
  producer [2.9-13, 2.15-16, 2.18-19, 3.5]
• Nigel Harrison
  background vocals [5], bass guitar [2.9-16, 2.18-19, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.5, 3.8]
• Pete Coleman
  engineer [9-10]
• Peter Coleman
  assistant [15-16, 18-19], engineer [11-13]
• Richard Gottehrer
  producer [9-16]
• Rob Freeman
  engineer [12]
• Snooky
  background vocals [1-3]
• Steve Rosenthal
  mix [1.1-3, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14-15, 3.2, 3.12-17, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11-13]
• Terry Ellis
  mix [1]
• Tish
  background vocals [1-3]
• Tom Camuso
  mix [2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11-13, 1.1-3, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14-15, 3.2, 3.12-17]
• Walter Steding
  violin [4]
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Issues

• 

  A
  (Combined release view)
• 

  A
  Against the Odds: 1974–1982

  8x CD (deluxe edition)
  8 June 2022
• 

  A
  Against the Odds: 1974–1982

  3x Digital Media
  26 August 2022
• A
  Against the Odds 1974–1982

  8x Digital Media
  26 August 2022
• A
  Against the Odds: 1974–1982

  11x 12" Vinyl, 7" Vinyl (super deluxe edition)
  26 August 2022
• 

  A
  Against the Odds: 1974–1982

  3x CD (3‐CD edition)
  2022