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Blondie Parallel Lines Vinyl
Blondie's third and best full-length-- a whipsmart album from the days when there was chart pop made by and for adults-- is an oddly undiscovered gem with charms that extend far beyond its iconic, oft-compiled singles.
'Blondie is a band,' read the group's initial press releases. The intent of this tagline was clear, as was the need for it: 'This is an accomplished bunch of musicians, a tight, compact group versed in everything from surf to punk to girl group music to erstwhile new wave,' it seemed to say, 'but, oh-- I'm sure you couldn't help but focus on blonde frontwoman Debbie Harry.' In America, however, people didn't notice the group quite so quickly. Their first two records-- a switchblade of a self-titled debut and its relatively weak follow-up Plastic Letters-- birthed a pair of top 10 hits in the UK but had been, at best, minor successes in the U.S.; the debut didn't chart, while Plastic scraped the top 75. Despite savvy marketing-- the group filmed videos for each of its singles, that now-iconic duochromatic cover photo-- the group's third and easily best album, Parallel Lines, didn't take off until they group released 'Heart of Glass', a single that abandoned their CBGB roots for a turn in the Studio 54 spotlight. Though its subtle charms included a bubbling rhythm, lush motorik synths, and Harry's remarkably controlled and assured vocal, 'Heart of Glass' started as a goof, a take-off on the upscale nightlife favored outside of Blondie's LES home turf.
The swift move from the fringes to the top of the charts tagged Blondie as a singles group-- no shame, and they did have one of the best runs of singles in pop history-- but it's helped Parallel Lines weirdly qualify as an undiscovered gem, a sparkling record half-full of recognized classics that, nevertheless, is hiding in plain sight. Landing a few years before MTV and the second British Invasion codified and popularized the look and sound of 1980s new wave, Parallel Lines' ringing guitar pop has entered our collective consciousness through compilations (built around 'Heart' plus later #1s 'Call Me', 'Rapture', and 'The Tide Is High'), ads, film trailers, and TV shows rather than the album's ubiquity. Time has been kind, however, to the record's top tier-- along with 'Heart of Glass', Parallel boasts 'Sunday Girl' and the incredible opening four-track run of 'Picture This', 'Hanging on the Telephone', 'One Way or Another', and 'Fade Away and Radiate'. The songs that fill out the record ('11:59', 'Will Anything Happen?', 'I'm Gonna Love You Too', 'Just Go Away', 'Pretty Baby') are weak only by comparison, and could have been singles for many of Blondie's contemporaries, making this one of the most accomplished pop albums of its time.
In a sense, that time has long passed: Blondie-- like contemporaries such as the Cars and the UK's earliest New Pop artists-- specialized in whipsmart chart music created by and for adults, a trick that has all but vanished from the pop landscape. Parallel Lines, however, is practically a blueprint for the stuff: 'Picture This' and 'One Way or Another' are exuberant new wave, far looser than the stiff, herky-jerky tracks that would go on to characterize that sound in the 80s; 'Will Anything Happen?' and the band's cover of the Nerves' 'Hanging on the Telephone' are headstrong rock; '11:59' does run-for-the-horizon drama, while 'Sunday Girl' conveys a sense of elegance. The record's closest thing to a ballad, the noirish 'Fade Away and Radiate', owes a heavy debt to the art-pop of Roxy Music.
Harry herself was a mannered and complex frontwoman, possessed of a range of vocal tricks and affectations. She was as at home roaming around in the open spaces of 'Radiate' or 'Heart of Glass' as she was pouting and winking through 'Picture This' and 'Sunday Girl' or working out front of the group's more hard-charging tracks. That versatility and charm extended to her sexuality as well-- she had the sort of gamine, sophisticated look of a French new wave actress but always seemed supremely grounded and approachable, almost tomboyish. (That approachability was wisely played up in the band's choice of key covers throughout its career-- 'Hanging on the Telephone', 'Denis', and 'The Tide Is High' each position Harry as a romantic pursuer with a depth and range of emotions rather than simply as an unattainable fantasy.)
Already into her thirties-- ancient by pop music standards-- when Blondie released its debut album, Harry (and many of her bandmates) had years of industry experience and music fandom; at the turn of the next decade, they would combine pop and art impulses like few bands before or since. The lush, shiny sound of Blondie still greatly informs European pop-- which pulls less from hip-hop and R&B than its American counterpart-- as evidenced by the Continent's best recent pop architects and artists (producers Richard X and Xenomania, plus Robyn, Girls Aloud, and Annie); in America, however, the group is oddly seems tied to the past, a product of its era. Even the release of this record is built on the tentative need to celebrate its 30th anniversary. (An opportunity not fully explored: This latest reissue of the record includes a new album cover, as well as a DVD with four videos of television performances and a quartet of mostly unneeded extras-- the 7' edit of 'Heart of Glass', a French version of 'Sunday Girl', and a pair of remixes.) In that sense, this isn't a record that needs to be re-purchased-- if you own it already, skip this. Sadly, I get the feeling not many people under a certain age do own the record, however, which justifies the reason for trying to re-introduce it to a new audience-- it's still as sparkling and three-dimensional as ever.
Blondie Parallel Lines Cover
Back to homeHanging On The Telephone Blondie | 2:25 |
One Way Or Another Blondie | 3:37 |
Picture This Blondie | 2:59 |
Fade Away And Radiate Blondie | 4:04 |
Pretty Baby Blondie | 3:23 |
I Know But I Don't Know Blondie | 3:57 |
11:59 Blondie | 3:21 |
Will Anything Happen Blondie | 3:02 |
Sunday Girl Blondie | 3:07 |
Heart Of Glass Blondie | 3:49 |
I'm Gonna Love You Too Blondie | 2:10 |
Just Go Away Blondie | 3:25 |
UK Albums Chart - #1, 1978
Billboard 200 - #6, 1979
Billboard Hot 100 - #1, 1979 - Heart Of Glass
UK Singles Chart - #1, 1979 - Heart Of Glass
UK Singles Chart - #1, 1979 - Sunday Girl
UK Singles Chart - #5, 1978 - Hanging On The Telephone
Billboard Hot 100 - #24, 1979 - One Way Or Another
'Four Stars ... a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses.'
- Q
'... as close to God as pop-rock albums ever get, or got. Closer, actually ... on side two every song generates its own unique, scintillating glitz. What seems at first like a big bright box of hard candy turns out to have guts, feeling, a chewy centre and Deborah Harry's vocal gloss reveals nooks of compassion and sheer physical give ... plus the band really New Yawks it up: try the chorus of Just Go Away. A.'
- Robert Christgau
'This music had never been anything but contagious, glossy melodics ('pop'), some of which one could dance to (argh, 'disco'). Parallel Lines made a hash of the genre distinctions that kept snobs warm ... the melting, metallic Sunday Girl features Debbie Harry's voice at its thickest and most cynically sweet, proving she was always a one-girl girl group ... established Harry's persona firmly between vulnerable but skeptical lover and pop tigress ...'
- Rolling Stone
Blondie's 1978 breakthrough album Parallel Lines is packed with radio-ready songs, including two British number one singles and another top five UK hit. As a result, Parallel Lines made it all the way to the top of the UK Albums Chart while cracking the US top 10 and has sold over 20 million copies internationally. Both Rolling Stone and NME include Parallel Lines on their lists of the greatest albums of all time.
Billboard 200 - #6, 1979
Billboard Hot 100 - #1, 1979 - Heart Of Glass
UK Singles Chart - #1, 1979 - Heart Of Glass
UK Singles Chart - #1, 1979 - Sunday Girl
UK Singles Chart - #5, 1978 - Hanging On The Telephone
Billboard Hot 100 - #24, 1979 - One Way Or Another
'Four Stars ... a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses.'
- Q
'... as close to God as pop-rock albums ever get, or got. Closer, actually ... on side two every song generates its own unique, scintillating glitz. What seems at first like a big bright box of hard candy turns out to have guts, feeling, a chewy centre and Deborah Harry's vocal gloss reveals nooks of compassion and sheer physical give ... plus the band really New Yawks it up: try the chorus of Just Go Away. A.'
- Robert Christgau
'This music had never been anything but contagious, glossy melodics ('pop'), some of which one could dance to (argh, 'disco'). Parallel Lines made a hash of the genre distinctions that kept snobs warm ... the melting, metallic Sunday Girl features Debbie Harry's voice at its thickest and most cynically sweet, proving she was always a one-girl girl group ... established Harry's persona firmly between vulnerable but skeptical lover and pop tigress ...'
- Rolling Stone
Blondie's 1978 breakthrough album Parallel Lines is packed with radio-ready songs, including two British number one singles and another top five UK hit. As a result, Parallel Lines made it all the way to the top of the UK Albums Chart while cracking the US top 10 and has sold over 20 million copies internationally. Both Rolling Stone and NME include Parallel Lines on their lists of the greatest albums of all time.
Blondie Parallel Lines Full Album
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