| Beautiful: The Remix Album | |
| Type: | Remix |
| Artist: | Blondie |
| Cover: | Blondie - Beautiful - The Remix Album.jpg |
| Released: | June 18, 1995 |
| Label: | Chrysalis/EMI Records (UK) Disky (Netherlands) |
| Prev Title: | The Platinum Collection |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Beautiful: The Remix Album is a remix album of recordings by American band Blondie, released by Chrysalis/EMI Records in the UK during 1995. Several remix singles were released from the album in various formats: "Atomic" '94, which reached number 19 in the UK Singles Chart the previous year, "Heart of Glass" '95, which reached number 15, and "Union City Blue" '95 which reached number 31.[1]
The album was re-released by Dutch budget label Disky in 1999.
Upon its release, Andrew Mueller of Melody Maker called the album an "even more heinous and pointless desecration" of Blondie's material than on their previous remix album Once More into the Bleach (1988) and noted that those involved have "just basically put on their pantomime bull outfits and bolted through Blondie's china shop". He concluded, "If Beautiful precipitates a full-scale Blondie revival, then the ends will just about justify the means. If not, then Chrysalis would be best advised to cease trying to fix what isn't broken."[2] Dele Fadele of NME noted how "various clubland luminaries have re-score[d] your favourite memories in electronic Technicolor, to hideously variable effect" and concluded, "The fact remains that the past should be allowed to remain untarnished, and anyone who wants to discover Blondie only need trawl through secondhand shops to get full satisfaction." He picked "Union City Blue" and "Dreaming" as two tracks which "survive [their] mauling, thanks to the pop sensibilities of the hired hands involved" and noted "Fade Away and Radiate" as a "futuristic noir chiller", but felt the rest of the tracks "give 'bilge' a new meaning".
"Union City Blue" (Diddy's Power and Passion Mix):
"Dreaming" (Utah Saints Mix):
"Call Me" (Debbie Does Dallas):
"Atomic" (Diddy's 12" Mix):
"The Tide Is High" (Sand Dollar Mix):
"Hanging on the Telephone" (Nose Bleed Handbag Mix):
"Dreaming" (The Sub-Urban Dream Mix):