Parallel Lines
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| Studio album by Blondie | ||
| Released | 23 September 1978 | |
| Recorded | 1978 | |
| Genre | New Wave | |
| Length | 38:11 | |
| Label | Chrysalis Records | |
| Producer(s) | Mike Chapman | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Blondie chronology | ||
| Plastic Letters (1977) |
Parallel Lines (1978) |
Eat to the Beat (1979) |
Parallel Lines, released in 1978, was the third album from the band Blondie, and also their most popular and best selling. It was the first album to be produced by Mike Chapman, who continued producing the band's albums until The Hunter in 1982. The album reached number 1 in the United Kingdom in September 1978 and has one of the most recognised and era-defining album covers of all time. It contains several of the best-known Blondie hits, including "Heart of Glass," "Hanging on the Telephone", "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another."
Left to right on the cover are Infante, Stein, Destri, Harry, Burke, Harrison.
Robert Fripp played guitar on "Fade Away and Radiate."
Parallel Lines was also ranked 94th in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, the album was ranked number 140 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Hanging on the Telephone" (Jack Lee) – 2:17
- "One Way or Another" (Nigel Harrison, Debbie Harry) – 3:31
- "Picture This" (Jimmy Destri, Harry, Chris Stein) – 2:53
- "Fade Away and Radiate" (Stein) – 3:57
- "Pretty Baby" (Harry, Stein) – 3:16
- "I Know But I Don't Know" (Frank Infante) – 3:53
- "11:59" (Destri) – 3:19
- "Will Anything Happen" (Jack Lee) – 2:55
- "Sunday Girl" (Stein) – 3:01
- "Heart of Glass" (Harry, Stein) – 5:50
- "I'm Gonna Love You Too" (Joe Mauldin, Norman Petty, Niki Sullivan) – 2:03
- "Just Go Away" (Harry) – 3:21
[edit] Bonus Tracks (2001 CD reissue)
- "Once I Had a Love (aka The Disco Song)" [1978 Demo Version] (Harry, Stein) – 3:18
- "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" [Live] (Marc Bolan) [Original song performed by T. Rex] – 5:30
- "I Know But I Don't Know" [Live] (Infante) – 4:35
- "Hanging on the Telephone" [Live] (Lee) – 2:21
[edit] Trivia
- The video game, Driver: Parallel Lines which shares the same name with this album, also features the song One Way or Another during the in-game 1978 timeline.
- Clash of the Tritons, an episode of The CW Television Network drama Veronica Mars, features Veronica performing One Way or Another at a karaoke night as a message of intent to the shadowy Tritons who she believes have framed her.
- Although the sleeve for the record features lyrics for a song "Parallel Lines", no such song exists even though it is the album title.
