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"One Way or Another" was released as a single in the United States and Canada in 1979, reaching No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 7 on Canada's RPM Top Singles chart. Interestingly, it was never officially released as a single in the United Kingdom at the time. However, following the release and success of One Direction's 2013 cover, the original Blondie recording entered the UK Singles Chart through download sales, peaking at No. 98. The lyrics were inspired by a real experience Debbie Harry had in the early 1970s when an obsessive ex-boyfriend stalked her, repeatedly calling and following her. The experience became so disturbing that Harry eventually moved away from New Jersey. She later turned the frightening experience into a song with a playful, defiant attitude, transforming a deeply unsettling situation into one of Blondie's most iconic tracks.

“Runaway” was written by Del Shannon and Max Crook and released in February 1961. It began as an earlier song, “Little Runaway,” rewritten to feature Crook’s Musitron, an electric keyboard he built from a clavioline. The solo, paired with Shannon’s falsetto, became the record’s signature. It spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and three weeks at No. 1 in the UK, and Billboard ranked it the No. 5 song of 1961. It remains Shannon’s biggest hit and one of the defining singles of the years just before the Beatles.

“Friday I’m in Love” is from The Cure’s 1992 album Wish. Robert Smith has called it a dumb pop song that is also excellent, precisely because it is so out of character: optimistic, naïve and happy.