Blondie - Parallel Lines
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Artist: BlondieEdition: Music CD
Format: Collector's Edition, Deluxe Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- 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
- Heart Of Glass - 7" version (*Bonus Track)
- Sunday Girl - French version (*Bonus Track)
- Fade Away And Radiate (108 BPM remix) (*Bonus Track)
- Hanging On The Telephone (Nosebleed Handbag Remix) (*Bonus Track)
- Picture This (promo video) (DVD)
- Hanging On The Telephone (promo video) (DVD)
- Heart Of Glass (promo video) (DVD)
- Sunday Girl (TOP OF THE POPS) (DVD)
Free Music Notes for Parallel Lines
Free Music Review: Nice for the video
Hit: 4 Stars
Let's face it--there are a thousand versions of "Parallel Lines" available on CD by now--and almost all of the songs from it are on the more comprehensive compilations as well. This oddity has its pros and cons--I'll start from the outside in.
The original cover artwork has been kind of mangled, not quite sure what they were going for here. The album title is Parallel Lines and they removed the parallel lines. The lyrics for Debbie's unfinished poem from which the title came show the first three lines out of order (it should read, "the lines on the pages, the lines on the screen, the lines I have written that you read between...")
There are only 2 or 3 photos from the outtakes for the cover picture--aside from these the opportunities for an exciting booklet appear to have been wasted. The back cover picture by Roberta Bayley is a live shot from 1979--when Debbie was playing the shaggy-haired rock goddess, as opposed to the more retro and vampy pop siren of "Parallel Lines". Can't we keep the eras straight?
Lest I sound nitpicky, I'll get to some of the good aspects of this disc. The sound quality is great, just as good as (but no better than) the 2001 remaster. There are some good bonus tracks, most notably the all-French "Sunday Girl", although I have to say the mix on this song is vastly inferior to the one available on "Once More Into the Bleach", which boasts much higher fidelity coupled with a brighter vocal mix on Debbie. When the song fades with Debbie's forlorn "I got the blu-u-u-u-u-u-es...." you can really hear it on "Bleach"--here, its all but lost. Still, as they say in the video editing biz, "they won't miss what they never saw..." and it's still nice to have the song included.
The video disc is a nice consolation prize for a somewhat flimsy booklet & lack of extras--although most of them are available elsewhere, there's a great bonus in the form of a 1979 lip-synch appearance on "Top of the Pops" where the band performs "Sunday Girl", Debs in her black and white striped sailor dress, oversized sunglasses and red tights, Clem's drumset out front, the boys mugging playfully (Chris Stein was actually a handsome devil at the time!) I've seen this clip on bootleg TV compilations and it's always been one of my favorites. Top of the Pops was an excellently filmed show and I wouldn't mind having all of Blondie's appearances on it. (There's a particularly good live version of "Denis" with Debbie in red shirt and thigh boots that ranks as one of the bands best live TV appearances ever). Are you listening, BBC?
All in all, the low price makes it worth picking up for the video alone. But when is someone going to come up with a beautifully packaged, comprehensive book or box set on Blondie?
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