AVAILABLE NOW - AHEAD FORMAL RELEASE IN AUGUST!!

Against The Odds 1974-1982, the long-awaited  box set (originally announced ), will finally be released in August this year across four major physical formats.

The 10LP super deluxe set offers all six studio albums – Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican and The Hunter – and includes four additional LPs of session outtakes, B-sides, and demos. These rarities are titled ‘Plaza Sound’, ‘Parallel Beats’, ‘Coca Cola’, ‘Home Tapes’. This vinyl box comes with a bonus 10-inch of outtakes called ‘Out In The Streets’ and a seven-inch single featuring the band’s cover of  ‘Moonlight Drive’ and demo of ‘Mr. Sightseer’. In total, it contains 124 studio tracks.

The vinyl super deluxe comes with two books: a 144-page hardcover book with session commentary from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Frank Infante, Nigel Harrison, and Gary Valentine, and essays from producers Richard Gottehrer and Mike Chapman and a 120-page volume which gives a discographical overview of the period via hundreds of pic sleeves, 45 labels, international sleeve variants, flexis, cassettes, and even 8-tracks.

Track Listings Disc: 1 1X Offender2Little Girl Lies3In the Flesh4Look Good in Blue5In the Sun6A Shark in Jets Clothing7Man Overboard8Rip Her to Shreds9Rifle Range10Kung Fu Girls11The Attack of the Giant Ants Disc: 2 1Fan Mail2Denis3Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)4Youth Nabbed As Sniper5Contact in Red Square6(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear7I'm On E8I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No9Love at the Pier10No Imagination11Kidnapper12Detroit 44213Cautious Lip Disc: 3 1Hanging On the Telephone2One Way Or Another3Picture This4Fade Away and Radiate5Pretty Baby6I Know But I Don't Know711:598Will Anything Happen9Sunday Girl10Heart of Glass11I'm Gonna Love You Too12Just Go Away
Disc: 4 1Dreaming2The Hardest Part3Union City Blue4Shayla5Eat to the Beat6Accidents Never Happen7Die Young Stay Pretty8Slow Motion9Atomic10Sound-a-sleep11Victor12Living in the Real World Disc: 5 1Europa2Live It Up3Here's Looking at You4The Tide Is High5Angels On the Balcony6Go Through It7Do the Dark8Rapture9Faces10T-birds11Walk Like Me12Follow Me Disc: 6 1Orchid Club2Island of Lost Souls3Dragonfly4For Your Eyes Only5The Beast6War Child7Little Caesar8Danceway9(Can I) Find the Right Words (To Say)10English Boys11The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game Disc: 7 1Moonlight Drive2Mr. Sightseer Disc: 8 1Out in the Streets (1974)2The Disco Song3Sexy Ida4Platinum Blonde5The Thin Line6Puerto Rico7Once I Had a Love (1975)8Out in the Streets (1975) Disc: 9 1X Offender (Intro)2X Offender (Private Stock Single)3In the Sun (Private Stock Single)4Little Girl Lies (Private Stock Mix)5In the Flesh (Extended Intro)6A Shark in Jets Clothing (Take 2)7Kung Fu Girls (Take 8)8Scenery9Denis (Terry Ellis Mix)10Bermuda Triangle Blues - Flight 45 (Take 1)11I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No (Take 1)12I'm On E (Take 2)13Kidnapper (Take 2)14Detroit 442 (Take 2)15Poets Problem Disc: 10 1Once I Had a Love (Mike Chapman Demo)2Sunday Girl (French Version)3I'll Never Break Away from This Heart of Mine (Pretty Baby)4Hanging On the Telephone (Mike Chapman Demo)5Will Anything Happen (Instrumental)6Underground Girl7Call Me8Spaghetti Song (Atomic Part 2)9Die Young Stay Pretty (Take 1)10Llámame Disc: 11 1I Love You Honey, Give Me a Beer (Go Through It)2Live It Up (Giorgio Moroder Demo)3Angels On the Balcony (Giorgio Moroder Demo)4Tide Is High5Susie & Jeffrey6Rapture (Disco Version)7Autoamerican Ad8Yuletide Throwdown Disc: 12 1Nameless (Home Tape)2Sunday Girl (Home Tape)3Theme from Topkapi (Home Tape)4The Hardest Part (Home Tape)5Ring of Fire (Home Tape)6War Child (Chris Stein Mix)7Call Me (Chris Stein Mix)8Heart of Glass (Chris Stein Mix)