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Last month, New York post-punk survivors Blondie announced the planned release next year of High Noon, a new studio album that reportedly features the final performances of founding drummer Clem Burke, who died of cancer earlier this year. Before that, however, BMG will revisit their first major comeback with an expansion of 1999’s No Exit.

Coming to shops October 24, the expanded No Exit will pair the remastered original album with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and rarities – three of which are previously unreleased. Among the highlights is a new mix of “Hot Shot,” a Japanese bonus track from the album sessions; the mix is now streaming. (It’s one of four tracks included as a bonus side on the attendant 2LP vinyl release – the first time No Exit is available in this format.) A packshot indicates new liner notes, but no press materials indicate who wrote them.

Blondie split up in 1982, and singer Debbie Harry embarked on a solo career – but their influence was only more pronounced as the ’90s went on, thanks to a spate of popular female-fronted rock bands like No Doubt and Garbage. Harry, who’d toured earlier that decade with guitarist Chris Stein and drummer Burke in tow, decided to reform the band, recruiting the pair alongside keyboardist Jimmy Destri. (Founding bassist Gary Valentine did contribute some early demos to the reformed group, but did not stay for the No Exit sessions. Valentine’s replacement Nigel Harrison and guitarist Frank Infante unsuccessfully sued to block the group from performing, and session musicians Paul Carbonara and Leigh Foxx were hired as new guitarist and bassist.)

It was Destri who contributed one of No Exit‘s key tracks: “Maria,” a soaring power-pop ode to a high-school girlfriend. Elsewhere, the record dabbles in styles from classic pop (the group covers The Shangri-Las’ “Out in the Streets,” a track featured on an early demo of the band’s) to hip-hop (featuring a verse from “Gangsta’s Paradise” rapper Coolio on the title track.) The sessions were overseen by Craig Leon, who produced the Ramones’ debut and co-produced the early Blondie single “X Offender.” No Exit became a Top 20 hit on both sides of the Atlantic – the first to do so since 1980’s Autoamerican – and “Maria” became a smash single in England, soaring all the way to the top of the charts, Blondie’s first U.K. No. 1 since “The Tide Is High.” The band toured in support of the album for over a year and stayed together, releasing additional albums up to 2017’s Pollinator. (The 2026 release of High Noon will put the band at as many albums since reuniting as they did in their original incarnation.)

Your off-ramp to No Exit comes up on October 24. Pre-order links and the full track list are below. (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

No Exit (Expanded Edition) (BMG 538965092, 2025)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Crystal Glass clear vinyl)

* previously unreleased
+ included on 2LP version

Disc 1: Remastered album (released as Beyond 63985 78003-2, 1999)

1. Screaming Skin
2. Forgive and Forget (Pull Down the Night)
3. Maria
4. No Exit
5. Double Take
6. Nothing is Real But the Girl
7. Boom Boom in the Zoom Zoom
8. Night Wind Sent
9. Under the Gun
10. Out in the Streets
11. Happy Dog (for Caggie)
12. The Dream’s Lost on Me
13. Divine
14. Dig Up the Conjo

Disc 2: Bonus material

1. Hot Shot (David Wrench 2025 Remix) * +
2. Maria (Ether Dub Mix) +
3. Nothing is Real But the Girl (Boilerhouse Lounge Mix) +
4. No Exit (Urban Version Main Mix) * +
5. Maria (Talvin Singh Rhythmic Remix Edit)
6. Nothing is Real But the Girl (Danny Tenaglia House of Trance)
7. Forgive and Forget (Pull Down the Night) (Ben’s Mix) *
8. Maria (White Trash Mix)

Original mix of Track 1 released on Japanese pressings of album – Beyond BVCP-21037, 1999
Tracks 2 and 8 released as Logic 12″ LGSP-78040-1, 1999
Track 3 released on Beyond cassette single 74321 66948-4, 1999
Track 5 released on Logic/Beyond CD single 74321 78040-2, 1999
Track 6 released on Beyond U.K. 12″ 74321 66949-1, 1999