INFO
length (album version): 3:54 & 5:47-50 [depending on edition]
written by: Deborah Harry & Chris Stein
produced by: Mike Chapman
released: January 1979
highest Australian singles chart position:#1
highest Billboard adult contemporary chart position:#44
highest Billboard hot 100 chart position: #1
highest Billboard hot dance club play chart position:#1
highest Billboard pop chart position: #1
highest UK singles chart position: #1
Copyright © 1978 Rare Blue Music, Inc./Monster Island Music (ASCAP)
(sheet music)
FEATURED ON
Parallel Lines [album] (1978)
At The BBC [CD + DVD] (2010)
No Exit [album] (1999)
Live In Toronto [live album] (2006)
Live By Request [live album] (2004)
Philadelphia 1978/Dallas 1980 [live album] (1999)
Livid/Live [live album] (2000)
Picture This Live [live album] (1997)
Remixed Remade Remodeled [remix album] (July 18, 1995)
Beautiful - The Remix Album [remix album] (1995)
Once More Into The Bleach [remix album] (1988)
Heart Of Glass (Blondie vs Edison) [single] (2006)
Heart Of Glass (remix) [single] (1995)
I Can See Clearly [single] (1993)
Denis (the '88 remix) [single] (1988)
The Tide Is High [single] (1980)
Picture This [single] (1978)
Heart Of Glass [single] (1978)
Sunday Girl [single] (1978)
REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS
■ Blondie vs Edison (dub mix) (7:09)
■ Blondie vs Edison (Electro Disco mix) (5:18)
■ Blondie vs Edison (Electro Disco radio edit) (3:20)
■ Blondie vs Edison (Quattro remix) (7:56)
■ Blondie vs Edison (radio edit) (3:20)
■ Blondie vs Edison (vocal mix) (7:45)
■ Diddy's Adorable edit (aka Diddy's remix edit) (3:57)
■ Diddy's Adorable Illusion instrumental (7:33)
■ Diddy's Adorable Illusion mix (remixed by Diddy) (7:33)
■ E-Smoove's Beat vocal mix
■ long disco version (9:00)
■ MK 12" mix (7:16)
■ MK dub (6:59)
■ original 12" instrumental (aka instrumental) (5:17)
■ original 12" mix (aka long version aka original disco version aka vocal) (5:50)
■ original single version (4:10)
■ Richie Jones club mix (8:42)
■ Richie Jones dub (6:53)
■ Shep Pettibone remix (6:40)
■ single version 1 (3:22)
■ single version 2 (3:54)
MUSIC VIDEO
Heart Of Glass
directed by: Stanley Dorfman
produced by: PVS
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HEART OF GLASS
Once I had a love and it was a gas soon turned out had a heart of glass seemed like the real thing only to find mucho mistrust love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine soon found out I was losing my mind it seemed like the real thing but I was so blind mucho mistrust love's gone behind
In between what I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine love is so confusing there's no peace of mind if I fear I'm losing you it's just no good you teasing like you do
Once I had a love and it was a gas soon turned out had a heart of glass seemed like the real thing only to find mucho mistrust love's gone behind
Lost inside adorable illusion and I cannot hide I'm the one you're using please don't push me aside we coulda made it cruising yeah yeah riding high on love's true blueish light
Once I had a love and it was a gas soon turned out to be a pain in the ass seemed like the real thing but I was so blind mucho mistrust love's gone behind |
COMMENTS
quoted from the book 'Making Tracks' - 1982
"When we did 'Heart Of Glass' it wasn't too cool in our social set to play disco, but we did it because we wanted to be uncool. "Heart Of Glass" was based around a Roland Rhythm Machine and the backing took over ten hours to get down. We spent three hours just getting the bass drum. It was the hardest song to do on the album and took us the longest in studio hours."
source: wikipedia.org
"'Heart of Glass' was originally recorded in 1975 under the name 'Once I Had a Love' (also known as 'The Disco Song'), and was much slower with a blues/reggae vibe to it. The song was frequently performed on tours, then was re-recorded with the same title in 1978, when the song was made a bit more rock-oriented. When Blondie recorded the album 'Parallel Lines,' disco was big on the music scene, and producer Mike Chapman decided to give the song the disco twist that made the song what it is today, and probably one of the best-known Blondie songs ever.
The song was also remixed and re-released in July 1995 reaching number fifteen in the United Kingdom. It has been covered by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, on their album Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah.
The song was covered by The Puppini Sisters on their debut album Betcha Bottom Dollar, Paris Hilton on her debut album Paris, Skye Sweetnam on her debut album Noise from the Basement, French fusion band Freedom For King Kong, Nouvelle Vague on their second album Bande à Part and The Bad Plus on their albums These Are the Vistas and Blunt Object - Live In Japan.
Almost immediately after its release, 'Heart of Glass' became the subject of controversy due to its disco sound. Blondie (at the time was one of the bands at the forefront of the growing new-wave/punk musical movement coming out of New York City) found themselves accused of 'selling out' for recording a disco song, let alone releasing the song as a single. According to Blondie frontwoman Deborah Harry, the song made the band pariahs in the eyes of many of their fellow musicians in the New York music scene and the band was accused of pandering to the mainstream that many punk/new wave bands at the time were actively rebelling against.
Despite the controversy, the song was a huge hit and helped propel Blondie from cult group to mainstream icons. The band itself has acknowledged the success of the song in helping their careers and have downplayed criticism of the song by pointing out that Blondie has always experimented with different styles of music and that 'Heart of Glass' was their take on disco. The band itself has jokingly taken to referring to the song as 'The Disco Song' when referring to it in interviews, as a means to laugh at the controversy." |
