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Blondie - Parallel Lines
Music CD CoverArtist: Blondie Edition: Music CD Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2001-09-11 Music Label: Capitol Soundtracks: - Hanging On The Telephone
- One Way Or Another
- Picture This
- Fade Away And Radiate
- Pretty Baby
- I Know But I Don't Know
- 11:59
- Will Anything Happen?
- Sunday Girl
- Heart Of Glass
- I'm Gonna Love You Too
- , Just Go Away
- Once I Had A Love (The Disco Song 1976)
- Bang A Gong (Get It On; live)
- I Know But I Don't Know (live)
- Hanging On The Telephone (live)
Free Music Notes for Parallel LinesFree Music Review: Blondie opened a door with this album for pop music in the years to come. Hit: 5 StarsI have never been a huge fan of 70's music that was not made by bands like Pink Floyd or Joy Division. But Blondie made an album I realised as soon as I listened to it that created a path for a lot of bands in the years to come.
This is a fun album that has it all. Bubblegum songs to play on the radio, memorable ones meant to be timeless (a.k.a. Heart of glass, Picture this, Hanging on the telephone) and even other ones to take Blondie serious (Fade away and radiate, 11:59).
"Parallel lines" was an album that opened a door for bands like No doubt or Sublime (to mention relevant ones) in order to come up with an identity on punk, pop or even reggae. This said I must point out that this album was a pionner for many other ones with the same style and with the same attitude but, honestly as I read it in a book somewhere: "Parallel lines" has been an album that many bands have tried to "reproduce" but it has never been matched.
Parallel Lines Poster Blondie Photos  | ? |  | ? | More from Blondie  Blondie - Greatest Hits |  Eat to the Beat (CD+DVD) |  Blondie |  Autoamerican |  Plastic Letters |  The Hunter | Until 1978, Blondie was perceived mostly as a '60s-referencing, British-Invasion-meets-girl-groups band. With veteran producer Mike Chapman at the helm for their third album, though, everything changed for this group bred from the New York punk scene. Honing in on Blondie's strongest points--Deborah Harry's come-hither vocals and Clem Burke's powerhouse drumming--Chapman helped recast the band to the power pop side of new wave, and with impressive results. Driven by the punk-meets-disco chart-topping hit, "Heart of Glass," and the herky-jerky "One Way or Another," as well as a muscular cover of the Nerves' "Hanging on the Telephone," Parallel Lines established Blondie as major stars. --Billy Altman Until 1978, Blondie was perceived mostly as a '60s-referencing, British-Invasion-meets-girl-groups band. With veteran producer Mike Chapman at the helm for their third album, though, everything changed for this group bred from the New York punk scene. Honing in on Blondie's strongest points--Deborah Harry's come-hither vocals and Clem Burke's powerhouse drumming--Chapman helped recast the band to the power pop side of new wave, and with impressive results. Driven by the punk-meets-disco chart-topping hit, "Heart of Glass," and the herky-jerky "One Way or Another," as well as a muscular cover of the Nerves' "Hanging on the Telephone," Parallel Lines established Blondie as major stars. --Billy Altman
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