Against the Odds: 1974–1982

Tracklist

• CD 1: Out in the Streets
• 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 (1975 Betrock demo)
  3:58
• 8
  Out in the Streets (1975 Betrock demo)
  2:21
• CD 2: Blondie
• 1
  X Offender
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Little Girl Lies
  2:07
  5.0 ★
• 3
  In the Flesh
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Look Good in Blue
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 5
  In the Sun
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 6
  A Shark in Jets Clothing
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Man Overboard
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Rip Her to Shreads
  3:22
  3.3 ★
• 9
  Rifle Range
  3:41
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Kung Fu Girls
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The Attack of the Giant Ants
  3:25
• 12
  X Offender (intro)
  0:17
• 13
  X Offender (Private Stock single version)
  3:14
• 14
  In the Sun (Private Stock single version)
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Little Girl Lies (Private Stock mix)
  2:08
• 16
  In the Flesh (extended intro)
  2:51
• 17
  A Shark in Jets Clothing (take 2)
  3:42
• 18
  Kung Fu Girls (take 8)
  2:27
• 19
  Scenery (Plaza Sound outtake)
  3:09
• CD 3: Plastic Letters
• 1
  Fan Mail
  2:40
  1.5 ★
• 2
  Denis
  2:19
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Youth Nabbed as Sniper
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Contact in Red Square
  2:02
  3.6 ★
• 6
  (I’m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 7
  I’m on E
  2:17
  2.0 ★
• 8
  I Didn’t Have the Nerve to Say No
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Love at the Pier
  2:29
  2.5 ★
• 10
  No Imagination
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Kidnapper
  2:39
  1.0 ★
• 12
  Detroit 442
  2:28
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Cautious Lip
  4:23
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Denis (Terry Ellis mix)
  2:22
• 15
  Moonlight Drive
  3:00
• 16
  Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45) (take 1)
  2:38
• 17
  I Didn’t Have the Nerve to Say No (take 1)
  2:59
• 18
  I’m on E (take 2)
  2:37
• 19
  Kidnapper (take 2)
  2:32
• 20
  Detroit 442 (take 2)
  2:56
• 21
  Poet’s Problem
  2:21
• CD 4: Parallel Lines
• 1
  Hanging On the Telephone
  2:25
  4.3 ★
• 2
  One Way or Another
  3:37
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Picture This
  2:58
  3.6 ★
• 4
  Fade Away and Radiate
  4:03
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Pretty Baby
  3:23
  4.0 ★
• 6
  I Know but I Don’t Know
  3:56
  3.4 ★
• 7
  11:59
  3:20
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Will Anything Happen
  3:02
  3.8 ★
• 9
  Sunday Girl
  3:06
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Heart of Glass
  3:49
  4.3 ★
• 11
  I’m Gonna Love You Too
  2:10
  3.4 ★
• 12
  Just Go Away
  3:27
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Once I Had a Love (Mike Chapman demo)
  3:18
• 14
  Sunday Girl (French version)
  3:14
• 15
  I’ll Never Break Away From This Heart of Mine (Pretty Baby) (take 1)
  3:36
• 16
  Hanging On the Telephone (Mike Chapman demo)
  2:20
• 17
  Will Anything Happen (instrumental)
  2:54
• CD 5: Eat to the Beat
• 1
  Dreaming
  3:08
  3.8 ★
• 2
  The Hardest Part
  3:42
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Union City Blue
  3:22
  3.2 ★
• 4
  Shayla
  3:58
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Eat to the Beat
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Accidents Never Happen
  4:15
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Die Young Stay Pretty
  3:34
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Slow Motion
  3:29
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Atomic
  4:40
  3.9 ★
• 10
  Sound‐a‐Sleep
  4:18
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Victor
  3:18
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Living in the Real World
  2:44
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Call Me
  3:32
  4.2 ★
• 14
  Spaghetti Song (Atomic, Pt. 2)
  2:05
• 15
  Die Young Stay Pretty (take 1)
  3:35
• 16
  Underground Girl
  3:52
• 17
  Union City Blue (instrumental)
  2:50
• 18
  Llámame
  6:18
• CD 6: Autoamerican
• 1
  Europa
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Live It Up
  4:09
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Here’s Looking at You
  2:58
  2.0 ★
• 4
  The Tide Is High
  4:40
  4.1 ★
• 5
  Angels on the Balcony
  3:47
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Go Through It
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Do the Dark
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Rapture
  6:30
  4.2 ★
• 9
  Faces
  3:52
• 10
  T‐Birds
  3:56
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Walk Like Me
  3:45
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Follow Me
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Autoamerican Ad
  1:07
• 14
  I Love You Honey, Give Me a Beer (Go Through It)
  2:42
• 15
  Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder demo)
  4:03
• 16
  Angels on the Balcony (Giorgio Moroder demo)
  4:17
• 17
  The Tide Is High (demo)
  3:59
• 18
  Suzy & Jeffrey
  4:09
  2.8 ★
• 19
  Rapture (disco version)
  10:00
• CD 7: The Hunter
• 1
  Orchid Club
  5:44
• 2
  Island of Lost Souls
  4:42
• 3
  Dragonfly
  6:00
  3.0 ★
• 4
  For Your Eyes Only
  3:07
• 5
  The Beast
  4:54
• 6
  War Child
  4:00
  1.0 ★
• 7
  Little Caesar
  3:00
• 8
  Danceway
  3:18
• 9
  (Can I) Find the Right Words (to Say)
  3:07
• 10
  English Boys
  3:49
• 11
  The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game
  3:36
• 12
  Yuletide Throwdown
  4:50
• CD 8: Home Tapes
• 1
  Nameless (home tape)
  1:42
• 2
  Mr. Sightseer
  3:45
• 3
  Sunday Girl (home tape)
  2:50
• 4
  Theme From Topkapi (home tape)
  2:57
• 5
  The Hardest Part (home tape)
  3:32
• 6
  Ring of Fire (home tape)
  2:48
• 7
  Heart of Glass (Chris Stein mix)
  6:14
• 8
  Call Me (Chris Stein mix)
  5:15
• 9
  War Child (Chris Stein mix)
  5:20

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Release credits

• Addie Harris
  background vocals [3, 7, 16]
• Alan Betrock
  producer [4-8]
• Alex Acuña
  guest [4], percussion [4]
• Billy O’Connor
  drums (drum set) [1-3]
• Chris Stamey
  mix [4-8]
• Chris Stein
  12 string guitar [13-17], bass guitar [2.1, 2.13-19, 8.1-6, 3.1-19, 3.21], drum machine [2-6], drums (drum set) [1], ebow [4.13-17, 3.4, 3.14-19, 3.21], electric guitar [1-13], guitar [2.2-11, 2.13-19, 5.1-15, 5.17-18, 3.14-19, 3.21, 1.1-8, 8.1-9, 4.1-17, 6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.14, 6.17-18, 6.18, 7.1-12], harmonica [14-19, 21], producer [1.1-3, 8.1-6, 6.14, 6.17], timpani [1-5, 7-8, 10-12, 18], vibraphone [1-13], whistling [14-19, 21]
• Clem Burke
  background vocals [3.1-21, 4.13-16, 6.18], drums (drum set) [3.1-14, 3.16-17, 3.20, 8.7-9, 1.4-8, 7.1-12, 4.1-17, 5.1-15, 5.17-18, 2.1-11, 2.13-19, 6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.14-15, 6.17-18, 6.18], percussion [13-19], timpani [18]
• Craig Leon
  engineer [1-14, 16-19], producer [1, 5, 14], remixer [1-11, 15]
• Dale Powers
  background vocals [11]
• Darryl Tookes
  background vocals [11]
• David Tickle
  engineer [1-12, 14-15, 17-18]
• Deborah Harry
  background vocals [6.4, 5.8], lead vocals [6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.18, 2.1-11, 3.1-13, 7.1-11, 5.1-13, 4.1-9, 4.11-12], performer [11], vocal [6.8, 6.14-15, 6.17-18, 2.12-19, 4.10, 4.13-16, 7.12, 8.1-6, 3.14-21, 1.1-8, 5.14-15, 5.18]
• Don Hünerberg
  assistant [1-11, 15]
• Donna Destri
  background vocals [12], guest [12]
• Doug Schwartz
  assistant [1-5, 7-8, 10-12, 18], engineer [1-11]
• Ed Sprigg
  engineer [15, 17]
• Elda Gentile
  background vocals [1-3]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [2.3, 2.7, 2.16, 5.1, 5.9]
• Emil Richards
  guest [4], percussion [4]
• Eric Emerson
  engineer [1-3]
• Fab 5 Freddy
  vocal [12]
• Frank Infante
  additional [14, 16, 19-20], background vocals [4.13-16, 5.7, 5.11, 6.18], bass guitar [1-13, 19], electric guitar [1-13], guitar [5.1-15, 5.17-18, 6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.14-15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 4.1-17, 7.1-12, 3.14, 3.16, 3.20], lead vocals [6]
• Fred Smith
  bass guitar [1-3]
• Gary Boatner
  assistant [1-5, 7-8, 10-12, 18]
• Gary Valentine
  bass guitar [2.2-11, 2.13-19, 1.4-8], guitar [1, 13-19], piano [4-8]
• Giorgio Moroder
  additional [13], producer [6.15, 5.13], synthesizer [5.13, 8.7-9]
• Gray Russell
  assistant [1-17]
• Greg Calbi
  mastering [11]
• Harold Faltermeyer
  engineer [13]
• Hilda Harris
  background vocals [3, 7, 16]
• Howard Kaylan
  guest [10]
• James A. Farber
  assistant [14-15, 17-18]
• Janice Pendarvis
  background vocals [11]
• Jimmie Haskell
  instrument arranger [1, 3-4]
• Jimmy Destri
  analog synthesizer [6.15, 3.14-21], background vocals [6.14, 6.17-18, 7.12, 4.13-16, 3.1-21, 5.7, 5.11], bell [18], electric piano [4.13-17, 5.13-15, 5.17-18, 2.13-19], farfisa [6.14, 6.17, 2.1-11, 2.13-19, 7.12, 3.1-13, 3.15-21], grand piano [2.1-11, 2.13-19, 3.1-21], keyboard [4.1-12, 5.1-12, 6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.18, 7.1-11], organ [4.13-17, 5.14-15, 5.17-18, 6.18], piano [1-11], pipe organ [13-19], strings [1-13], synthesizer [8.7-9, 4.13-17, 5.14-15, 5.17-18, 3.1, 3.1-2, 3.2-3, 3.3-4, 3.4-5, 3.5-6, 3.6-7, 3.7-8, 3.8-9, 3.9-10, 3.10-11, 3.11-12, 3.12-13, 3.13-21, 6.18, 2.1-11, 2.13-19], vocal [15-16]
• Jon Smith
  assistant [15]
• Kevin Kelley
  engineer [4-8]
• Lani Groves
  background vocals [11]
• Lenise Bent
  engineer [1-5, 7-8, 10-12, 18]
• Lorna Luft
  background vocals [6, 8]
• Mark Volman
  guest [10]
• Markie Iannello
  engineer [1-11]
• Melvin “Wah Wah” Watson
  guest [2], guitar [2]
• Mike Chapman
  background vocals [7, 11], guest [7, 11], producer [4.1-17, 5.1-12, 5.14-15, 5.17-18, 6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.18, 7.1-11]
• Nigel Harrison
  background vocals [18], bass guitar [4.1-17, 5.1-15, 5.17-18, 6.1-5, 6.7-8, 6.10-12, 6.14-15, 6.17-18, 6.18, 7.1-12]
• Ollie E. Brown
  guest [4], percussion [4]
• Pete Coleman
  engineer [13-14]
• Peter Coleman
  assistant [5.14-15, 5.17-18, 4.1, 4.1-2, 4.2-3, 4.3-4, 4.4-5, 4.5-6, 4.6-7, 4.7-8, 4.8-9, 4.9-11, 4.11-12, 4.12], engineer [5.1-12, 4.1-12, 4.15-17]
• Randy Hennes
  guest [5], harmonica [5]
• Richard Gottehrer
  producer [2.1-19, 3.1-13]
• Rob Freeman
  engineer [3.1-13, 2.1-11, 2.15], recording [1-11]
• Robert Aaron
  guest [1-11], instrument arranger [1-11], saxophone [1-11]
• Robert Fripp
  guitar [4], misc [4]
• Scott Lesser
  percussion [2]
• Snooky
  background vocals [1-3]
• Steve Goldstein
  guest [12], synthesizer [12]
• Steve Rosenthal
  mix [6.15, 4.13, 4.15-17, 1.1-3, 2.12, 2.14, 2.17-18, 8.1-6, 3.15-18, 3.20]
• Terry Ellis
  mix [14]
• The ‘B’ Girls
  background vocals [2, 4]
• Tish
  background vocals [1-3]
• Tom Camuso
  mix [1.1-3, 6.15, 3.15-18, 3.20, 4.13, 4.15-17, 8.1-6, 2.12, 2.14, 2.17-18]
• Tom Scott
  Lyricon [7], guest [7], saxophone [8]
• Walter Steding
  violin [17]
• Zachary Sanders
  background vocals [11]
• Show all credits (64)

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