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This 30th anniversary DVD/CD set includes the CD re-issue of Blondie's classic album features bonus tracks and a booklet containing the original Parallel Lines photo session. Also included is a bonus DVD of music videos from the release and a previously unreleased performance video from Top Of The Pops for 'Sunday Girl.'
Blondie: Deborah Harry (vocals); Chris Stein (guitar, 12-string guitar, E-bow); Frank Infante (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Nigel Harrison (bass); Clem Burke (drums).
Producer: Mike Chapman.
Reissue producer: Kevin Flaherty.
Recorded at The Record Plant, New York, New York in June & July, 1978. Originally released on Chrysalis (1192). Includes liner notes by Mike Chapman.
All tracks have been digitally remastered using 24-bit technology.
Blondie: Debbie Harry (vocals); Christ Stein, Frank Infante (guitar); Jimmy Destri (keyboards); Nigel Harrison (bass guitar); Clem Burke (drums).
Blondie turned to British pop producer Mike Chapman for their third album, on which they abandoned any pretensions to new wave legitimacy (just in time, given the decline of the new wave) and emerged as a pure pop band. But it wasn't just Chapman that made Parallel Lines Blondie's best album; it was the band's own songwriting, including Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, and James Destri's "Picture This," and Harry and Stein's "Heart of Glass," and Harry and new bass player Nigel Harrison's "One Way or Another," plus two contributions from nonbandmember Jack Lee, "Will Anything Happen?" and "Hanging on the Telephone." That was enough to give Blondie a number one on both sides of the Atlantic with "Heart of Glass" and three more U.K. hits, but what impresses is the album's depth and consistency -- album tracks like "Fade Away and Radiate" and "Just Go Away" are as impressive as the songs pulled for singles. The result is state-of-the-art pop/rock circa 1978, with Harry's tough-girl glamour setting the pattern that would be exploited over the next decade by a host of successors led by Madonna. ~ William Ruhlmann
Madonna and Michael Jackson aside, this is supreme pop music and as good as the genre can ever get. Everybody loved Blondie; fans, children, critics, other musicians and senior citizens - and not just because Debbie Harry was its frontperson. This is an unintentional greatest hits record that doesn't let up until the last note of 'Just Go Away' has died. If one wanted to carp, you could have asked for 'Denis' and 'Call Me' to have been included, but that would be just plain greedy. One of the greatest 'up' records of all time.
Rolling Stone (10/31/02, p.135) - Ranked #6 in Rolling Stone's "Women In Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...[Featuring] gemlike visions of obsessive love, equal parts jangle and reverie..."
Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.106) - Ranked #6 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records".
Rolling Stone (6/8/00, p.129) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...Black and white and saucy all over....ripping [New Wave's] mask off...[showing] that the music had never been anything but contagious, glossy melodics, some of which one could dance too....a hash of genre distinctions..."
Spin (11/01, p.137) - "...The perfect pop-rock record..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/21/01, p.85) - "...Full of sublime trashiness and sharply etched tunefulness..." - Rating: B
Q (10/01, p.143) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses. 6 of the 12 tracks were released as singles..."
Alternative Press (7/01, p.96) - Included in AP's "10 Essential Women's Rock Albums" - "...Blondie's breakthrough third album..."
CMJ (1/6/03, p.10) - Included in CMJ's list of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time"
CMJ (1/5/04, p.6) - "Ranked #1 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1979".
NME (Magazine) (9/18/93, p.19) - Ranked #16 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s.
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #52 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of All Time. Parallel Lines Review
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