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Parallel Lines

January 01, 1970

This article is about the Blondie album. For the geometry term, see Parallel (geometry). For other uses, see Parallel Lines (disambiguation).

Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 23, 1978, by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success. The album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in April 1979. In Billboard magazine, Parallel Lines was listed at No. 9 in the top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit "Heart of Glass".

Parallel Lines
Studio album by
Blondie
ReleasedSeptember 23, 1978
RecordedJune–July 1978
StudioRecord Plant (New York City)
Genre
Length39:06
LabelChrysalis
ProducerMike Chapman
Blondie chronology
Plastic Letters
(1977) 		Parallel Lines
(1978) 		Eat to the Beat
(1979)
Singles from Parallel Lines
  1. "Picture This"
    Released: August 1978
  2. "I'm Gonna Love You Too"
    Released: September 1978
  3. "Hanging on the Telephone"
    Released: October 30, 1978
  4. "Heart of Glass"
    Released: January 3, 1979
  5. "Sunday Girl"
    Released: May 1979
  6. "One Way or Another"
    Released: May 14, 1979

Background edit

"Musically, Blondie were hopelessly horrible when we first began rehearsing for Parallel Lines, and in terms of my attitude they didn't know what had hit them. I basically went in there like Adolf Hitler and said, 'You are going to make a great record, and that means you're going to start playing better.'"

—Mike Chapman, in an interview for Sound on Sound, recalling Blondie's initial musical inexperience[1]

Blondie's second studio album Plastic Letters was their last album produced by Richard Gottehrer, whose sound had formed the basis of Blondie's new wave and punk output. During a tour of the west coast of the US in support of Plastic Letters, Blondie encountered Australian producer Mike Chapman in California. Peter Leeds, Blondie's manager, conspired with Chrysalis Records to encourage Chapman to work with Blondie on new music. Drummer Clem Burke recalls feeling enthusiastic about the proposition, believing Chapman could create innovative and eclectic records. However, lead vocalist Debbie Harry was far less enthusiastic about Chapman's involvement as she knew him only by reputation; according to Chapman, her animosity towards him was because "they were New York. [He] was L.A.". Harry's cautiousness abated after she played Chapman early cuts of "Heart of Glass" and "Sunday Girl" and he was impressed.[2]

Recording edit

In June 1978 the band entered the Record Plant in New York to record their third album, and first with Chapman.[2] However, Chapman found the band difficult to work with, remembering them as the worst band he ever worked with in terms of musical ability, although praising Frank Infante as "an amazing guitarist". Sessions with Chris Stein were hampered by his being stoned during recording, and Chapman encouraged him to write songs rather than play guitar. Similarly, according to Chapman, Jimmy Destri would prove himself to be far better at songwriting than as a keyboardist, and Clem Burke had poor timing playing drums. As a result, Chapman spent time improving the band, especially Stein with whom Chapman spent hours rerecording his parts to ensure they were right.[1] Bassist Nigel Harrison became so frustrated with Chapman's drive for perfection that he threw a synthesizer at him during recording.[2] Chapman recalls the atmosphere at the Record Plant in an interview for Sound on Sound:

The Blondies were tough in the studio, real tough. None of them liked each other, except Chris and Debbie, and there was so much animosity. They were really, really juvenile in their approach to life—a classic New York underground rock band—and they didn't give a fuck about anything. They just wanted to have fun and didn't want to work too hard getting it.[1]

Chapman took an unorthodox approach when recording with Harry whom he describes as "a great singer and a great vocal stylist, with a beautifully identifiable voice. However ... also very moody". Chapman was far more cautious of demanding much from Harry as he saw her as a highly emotional person who would vest these emotions in the songs they made. He remembers Harry disappearing into the bathroom in tears for several hours at a time during recording.[1] During a day of recording, Harry sang two lead parts and some harmonies, less work than she did previously with Gottehrer. This was due to Chapman encouraging her to be cautious about the way she sang, particularly to recognise phrasing, timing and attitude.[2]

Blondie recorded Parallel Lines in six weeks, despite being given six months by Terry Ellis, co-founder of Chrysalis Records, to do so.[1][2] For the drums, a traditional set-up was used and Chapman fitted Neumann microphones to the toms, snare and hi-hat, as well as several above the site. When recording, Chapman would start with the bass track, which was difficult to record at the time, by way of "pencil erasing". Chapman explained in an interview for Sound on Sound, "that meant using a pencil to hold the tape away from the head and erasing up to the kick drum. If a bass part was ahead of the kick, you could erase it so that it sounded like it was on top of the kick. That's very easy to do these days, but back then it was quite a procedure just to get the bottom end sounding nice and tight." A combination DI/amp method was used to record Harrison's bass and Destri's synthesizer. Shure SM57 and AKG 414 microphones were used to capture Infante's Les Paul guitar.[1] King Crimson leader Robert Fripp makes a guest appearance on guitar on "Fade Away and Radiate".

After the basic track was complete, Chapman would record lead and backing vocals with Harry. However, this process was hampered by many songs not being written in time for the vocals to be recorded. "Sunday Girl", "Picture This" and "One Way Or Another" were all unfinished during the rehearsal sessions. When recording vocal parts, Chapman remembers asking Harry if she was ready to sing, only for her to reply "Yeah, just a minute" as she was still writing lyrics down. Chapman notes that many "classic" songs from the album were created this way.[1]

During the last session at the Record Plant, the band were asleep on the floor only to be awakened at six o'clock in the morning by Mike Chapman and his engineer Peter Coleman leaving for Los Angeles with the tape tracks.[2] Despite Blondie's belief that Parallel Lines would resonate with a wider audience, Chrysalis Records was not as enthusiastic; label executives told them to start again, only to be dissuaded by Chapman's assurance that its singles would prove popular.

Music and lyrics edit

According to music journalist Robert Christgau, Parallel Lines was a pop rock album in which Blondie achieved their "synthesis of the Dixie Cups and the Electric Prunes".[3] Its style of "state-of-the-art pop/rock circa 1978", as AllMusic's William Ruhlmann described it, showed Blondie deviating from new wave and emerging as "a pure pop band".[4] Ken Tucker believed the band had eschewed the "brooding artiness" of their previous albums for more hooks and pop-oriented songs.[5] Chapman later said, "I didn't make a punk album or a New Wave album with Blondie. I made a pop album."[6] The album's eleven pop songs have refined melodics, and its sole disco song, "Heart of Glass", features jittery keyboards, rustling cymbals by drummer Clem Burke, and a circular rhythm.[7] Burke credited Kraftwerk and the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever as influences for the song and said that he was "trying to get that groove that the drummer for the Bee Gees had".[8]

Lyrically, Parallel Lines abandoned what Rolling Stone magazine's Arion Berger called the "cartoonish postmodernist referencing" of Blondie's previous new wave songs in favor of a "romantic fatalism" that was new for the band.[7] "Sunday Girl" deals with the theme of teen loneliness. Music critic Rob Sheffield said that the lyric "dusty frames that still arrive / die in 1955", in "Fade Away and Radiate", is the "best lyric in any rock'n'roll song, ever, and it's still the ultimate statement of a band that always found some pleasure worth exploiting in the flashy and the temporary."[9]

Title and packaging edit

Parallel Lines took its name from an unused track written by Harry, the lyrics of which were included in the first vinyl edition of the album. The cover sleeve image was photographed by Edo Bertoglio and was chosen by Blondie's manager, Peter Leeds, despite being rejected by the band. The photo shows the band posing in matching dress suits and smiling broadly in contrast to Harry who poses defiantly with her hands on her hips while wearing a white dress and high heels.[2] According to music journalist Tim Peacock, the cover became "iconic – and instantly recognisable".[10]

Release and promotion edit

The album was released by Chrysalis in September 1978,[10] to international success.[11] The album entered the Billboard album chart the week ending September 23, 1978, at No. 186, reflecting retail sales during the survey period ending September 10, 1978.[12] In the United Kingdom, it entered the albums chart at No.13, eventually reaching the no.1 spot in February 1979 after the band had scored hits with the singles "Picture This" (UK #12), "Hanging on the Telephone" (UK #5), and "Heart of Glass" (UK #1). "Sunday Girl" was released in the UK as a fourth single from the album in May 1979 and also reached no.1, and Parallel Lines became the UK's biggest selling album of the year. Blondie embarked on a sold-out tour of the UK and appeared at an autograph signing event for Our Price Records on Kensington High Street; according to Peacock, it "descended into Beatlemania-esque chaos when the band were mobbed by thousands of fans".[10]

Parallel Lines was also a commercial success elsewhere in Europe, Australia, and the United States, where the band had struggled to sell their previous records. "Heart of Glass" became their first number-one hit on the American Billboard Hot 100, with help from a promotional video directed by Stanley Dorfman depicting Blondie in a performance of the song at a fashionable nightclub in New York. The single was "responsible for turning the band into bona fide superstars", Peacock said.

Reception and legacy edit

The album was met with universal acclaim from critics.[10] Writing in The Village Voice in 1978, Robert Christgau said although Blondie still could not write a perfect hit single, the record was a consistent improvement over Plastic Letters.[3] Years later, he wrote in Blender that it was "a perfect album in 1978" and remained so with "every song memorable, distinct, well-shaped and over before you get antsy. Never again did singer Deborah Harry, mastermind Chris Stein and their able four-man cohort nail the band's signature paradoxes with such unfailing flair: lowbrow class, tender sarcasm, pop rock."[22] New York Times critic John Rockwell named Parallel Lines the eighth best album of 1978.[23] Daryl Easlea from BBC Music, who felt the record combined power pop and new wave styles, credited Mike Chapman's production and flair for pop songwriting for helping make Parallel Lines an extremely popular album in the United Kingdom, where it was a number-one hit and charted for 106 weeks during the late 1970s.[24] Q magazine called the album "a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses."[18]

In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post-punk albums, Spin magazine's Sasha Frere-Jones said Parallel Lines may have been "the perfect pop-rock record" and Blondie's best album.[25] Christian John Wikane from PopMatters later called it "a creative and commercial masterpiece by Blondie ... indisputably one of the great, classic albums of the rock and roll era."[26] In the opinion of Pitchfork critic Scott Plagenhoef, the album popularized "the look and sound of 1980s new wave" with classic songs that showcased the depth and complexity of Harry's sexuality and singing.[17] Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine was also impressed by her singing, which he felt varied from "purring like a kitten and then building to a mean growl", and cited "Heart of Glass" as the album's best track because of her "honey-dipped vocal".[20]

In 2000, Parallel Lines was voted number 57 in Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums.[27] Three years later, it was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[8] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list;[28] an accompanying essay said the album was "where punk and New Wave broke through to a mass U.S. audience".[8] It has also been placed at number 18 and 45 on NME's 100 Best Albums of All Time (2003)[29] and 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2013) lists,[30] respectively; number 7 on Blender's 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time;[31] number 94 on Channel 4's 2005 list of the 100 greatest albums of all time;[32] and number 76 on Pitchfork's list of the best albums from the 1970s.[33]

Accolades edit

In 2024, "Parallel Lines" was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[34][35]

Reissues edit

The album was reissued and remastered in 2001 along with Blondie's back catalog, and featured four bonus tracks: a 1978 demo of "Heart of Glass", a live cover of T. Rex's song "Bang a Gong (Get It On)", and two live tracks taken from the Picture This Live live album.[36]

On June 24, 2008, an expanded 30th Anniversary Edition of the album was released,[37] which featured new artwork[38] and bonus tracks along with bonus DVD.[39] The liner notes once again featured lyrics to the unfinished "Parallel Lines" song. The Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Edition included the 7″ single version of "Heart of Glass", the French version of "Sunday Girl" and some remixes, plus a DVD with albums, promo videos and TV performance.

The band also launched a world tour of the same name to promote the re-release and celebrate the event.[40]

Track listing edit

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hanging on the Telephone" (The Nerves cover)Jack Lee2:17
2."One Way or Another"
3:31
3."Picture This"
2:53
4."Fade Away and Radiate"Stein3:57
5."Pretty Baby"
  • Harry
  • Stein
3:16
6."I Know but I Don't Know"Frank Infante3:53
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."11:59"Destri3:19
8."Will Anything Happen?"Lee2:55
9."Sunday Girl"Stein3:01
10."Heart of Glass"
  • Harry
  • Stein
3:54
11."I'm Gonna Love You Too" (Buddy Holly cover)
2:03
12."Just Go Away"Harry3:21
2001 remastered reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Once I Had a Love (aka The Disco Song)" (1978 version) (recorded June 3, 1978, at The Record Plant, NYC[41])
  • Harry
  • Stein
3:18
14."Bang a Gong (Get It On)" (recorded live November 4, 1978, at The Paradise in Boston, MA)Marc Bolan5:30
15."I Know but I Don't Know" (recorded live November 6, 1978, at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Infante4:35
16."Hanging on the Telephone" (recorded live 1980 in Dallas, Texas)Lee2:21
2008 deluxe collector's edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."Heart of Glass" (7″ single version)4:10
14."Sunday Girl" (French version) (from "Sunday Girl" 12″ single)3:04
15."Hanging on the Telephone" (Nosebleed Handbag Remix) (from Beautiful: The Remix Album)6:14
16."Fade Away and Radiate" (108 BPM Remix) (from Beautiful: The Remix Album)5:16
2008 deluxe collector's edition bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Heart of Glass" 
2."Hanging on the Telephone" 
3."Picture This" 
4."Sunday Girl" (live on Top of the Pops) 
2010 Mail on Sunday promo bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."What I Heard"
3:15
14."Girlie Girlie" (Sophia George cover)
  • Anthony Davis
  • Lloyd Douglas
  • Steve Golding
3:25

Notes edit

  • The album version of "Heart of Glass" was replaced with the disco version (5:50 long) on pressings of the album from March 1979 onward. The original length version of "Heart of Glass" appeared on the original US CD release in 1985 (Chrysalis VK 41192, later F2 21192) although the CD artwork proclaimed it was the disco version. Later editions of the Capitol disc had the mistake removed from the inlay but it remained on the disc until its deletion. The 1994 DCC Compact Classics Gold CD release (Capitol Special Markets USA GSZ 1062) features the original version with the disco version as a bonus track.
  • A promotional CD of the album was given away free with the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday on December 5, 2010, including the bonus tracks "What I Heard" and "Girlie Girlie" from the band's 2011 album Panic of Girls.[42]

Personnel edit

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Parallel Lines.[43]

Blondie edit

Additional personnel edit

  • Robert Fripp – guitar on "Fade Away and Radiate"
  • Mike Chapman – production, backing vocals on "Hanging on the Telephone"[a] and "Heart of Glass"[44]
  • Pete Coleman – production assistance, engineering
  • Grey Russell – engineering assistance
  • Steve Hall – mastering at MCA Whitney Studio (Glendale, California)
  • Edo Bertoglio – photography
  • Ramey Communications – art direction, design
  • Frank Duarte – illustration
  • Jerry Rodriguez – lettering
  • Kevin Flaherty – production (2001 reissue)

Charts edit

Certifications and sales edit

Certifications and sales for Parallel Lines
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[72] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[73] 4× Platinum 400,000^
Netherlands (NVPI)[74] Gold 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[75] Platinum 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[77] Platinum 1,694,353[76]
United States (RIAA)[79] Platinum 1,500,000[78]
Yugoslavia[80] Platinum 100,000[80]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Notes edit

  1. ^ In the documentary Blondie's New York... and the Making of Parallel Lines (2014), Mike Chapman states his additional vocals were overdubbed to the outro of the song. He also proves this by playing the master track isolated during the interview in his studio.

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Bibliography edit

Further reading edit

  • Olliver, Alex (September 20, 2017). . Louder. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved February 22, 2020.

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This article is about the Blondie album For the geometry term see Parallel geometry For other uses see Parallel Lines disambiguation Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie released on September 23 1978 by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success The album reached No 1 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1979 and proved to be the band s commercial breakthrough in the United States where it reached No 6 on the Billboard 200 in April 1979 In Billboard magazine Parallel Lines was listed at No 9 in the top pop albums year end chart of 1979 The album spawned several successful singles notably the international hit Heart of Glass Parallel LinesStudio album by BlondieReleasedSeptember 23 1978RecordedJune July 1978StudioRecord Plant New York City GenreNew wavepop rockpower popdiscoLength39 06LabelChrysalisProducerMike ChapmanBlondie chronologyPlastic Letters 1977 Parallel Lines 1978 Eat to the Beat 1979 Singles from Parallel Lines Picture This Released August 1978 I m Gonna Love You Too Released September 1978 Hanging on the Telephone Released October 30 1978 Heart of Glass Released January 3 1979 Sunday Girl Released May 1979 One Way or Another Released May 14 1979 Contents 1 Background 2 Recording 3 Music and lyrics 4 Title and packaging 5 Release and promotion 6 Reception and legacy 6 1 Accolades 7 Reissues 8 Track listing 8 1 Notes 9 Personnel 9 1 Blondie 9 2 Additional personnel 10 Charts 10 1 Weekly charts 10 2 Year end charts 11 Certifications and sales 12 Notes 13 References 13 1 Bibliography 14 Further readingBackground edit Musically Blondie were hopelessly horrible when we first began rehearsing for Parallel Lines and in terms of my attitude they didn t know what had hit them I basically went in there like Adolf Hitler and said You are going to make a great record and that means you re going to start playing better Mike Chapman in an interview for Sound on Sound recalling Blondie s initial musical inexperience 1 Blondie s second studio album Plastic Letters was their last album produced by Richard Gottehrer whose sound had formed the basis of Blondie s new wave and punk output During a tour of the west coast of the US in support of Plastic Letters Blondie encountered Australian producer Mike Chapman in California Peter Leeds Blondie s manager conspired with Chrysalis Records to encourage Chapman to work with Blondie on new music Drummer Clem Burke recalls feeling enthusiastic about the proposition believing Chapman could create innovative and eclectic records However lead vocalist Debbie Harry was far less enthusiastic about Chapman s involvement as she knew him only by reputation according to Chapman her animosity towards him was because they were New York He was L A Harry s cautiousness abated after she played Chapman early cuts of Heart of Glass and Sunday Girl and he was impressed 2 Recording editIn June 1978 the band entered the Record Plant in New York to record their third album and first with Chapman 2 However Chapman found the band difficult to work with remembering them as the worst band he ever worked with in terms of musical ability although praising Frank Infante as an amazing guitarist Sessions with Chris Stein were hampered by his being stoned during recording and Chapman encouraged him to write songs rather than play guitar Similarly according to Chapman Jimmy Destri would prove himself to be far better at songwriting than as a keyboardist and Clem Burke had poor timing playing drums As a result Chapman spent time improving the band especially Stein with whom Chapman spent hours rerecording his parts to ensure they were right 1 Bassist Nigel Harrison became so frustrated with Chapman s drive for perfection that he threw a synthesizer at him during recording 2 Chapman recalls the atmosphere at the Record Plant in an interview for Sound on Sound The Blondies were tough in the studio real tough None of them liked each other except Chris and Debbie and there was so much animosity They were really really juvenile in their approach to life a classic New York underground rock band and they didn t give a fuck about anything They just wanted to have fun and didn t want to work too hard getting it 1 Chapman took an unorthodox approach when recording with Harry whom he describes as a great singer and a great vocal stylist with a beautifully identifiable voice However also very moody Chapman was far more cautious of demanding much from Harry as he saw her as a highly emotional person who would vest these emotions in the songs they made He remembers Harry disappearing into the bathroom in tears for several hours at a time during recording 1 During a day of recording Harry sang two lead parts and some harmonies less work than she did previously with Gottehrer This was due to Chapman encouraging her to be cautious about the way she sang particularly to recognise phrasing timing and attitude 2 Blondie recorded Parallel Lines in six weeks despite being given six months by Terry Ellis co founder of Chrysalis Records to do so 1 2 For the drums a traditional set up was used and Chapman fitted Neumann microphones to the toms snare and hi hat as well as several above the site When recording Chapman would start with the bass track which was difficult to record at the time by way of pencil erasing Chapman explained in an interview for Sound on Sound that meant using a pencil to hold the tape away from the head and erasing up to the kick drum If a bass part was ahead of the kick you could erase it so that it sounded like it was on top of the kick That s very easy to do these days but back then it was quite a procedure just to get the bottom end sounding nice and tight A combination DI amp method was used to record Harrison s bass and Destri s synthesizer Shure SM57 and AKG 414 microphones were used to capture Infante s Les Paul guitar 1 King Crimson leader Robert Fripp makes a guest appearance on guitar on Fade Away and Radiate After the basic track was complete Chapman would record lead and backing vocals with Harry However this process was hampered by many songs not being written in time for the vocals to be recorded Sunday Girl Picture This and One Way Or Another were all unfinished during the rehearsal sessions When recording vocal parts Chapman remembers asking Harry if she was ready to sing only for her to reply Yeah just a minute as she was still writing lyrics down Chapman notes that many classic songs from the album were created this way 1 During the last session at the Record Plant the band were asleep on the floor only to be awakened at six o clock in the morning by Mike Chapman and his engineer Peter Coleman leaving for Los Angeles with the tape tracks 2 Despite Blondie s belief that Parallel Lines would resonate with a wider audience Chrysalis Records was not as enthusiastic label executives told them to start again only to be dissuaded by Chapman s assurance that its singles would prove popular Music and lyrics editAccording to music journalist Robert Christgau Parallel Lines was a pop rock album in which Blondie achieved their synthesis of the Dixie Cups and the Electric Prunes 3 Its style of state of the art pop rock circa 1978 as AllMusic s William Ruhlmann described it showed Blondie deviating from new wave and emerging as a pure pop band 4 Ken Tucker believed the band had eschewed the brooding artiness of their previous albums for more hooks and pop oriented songs 5 Chapman later said I didn t make a punk album or a New Wave album with Blondie I made a pop album 6 The album s eleven pop songs have refined melodics and its sole disco song Heart of Glass features jittery keyboards rustling cymbals by drummer Clem Burke and a circular rhythm 7 Burke credited Kraftwerk and the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever as influences for the song and said that he was trying to get that groove that the drummer for the Bee Gees had 8 Lyrically Parallel Lines abandoned what Rolling Stone magazine s Arion Berger called the cartoonish postmodernist referencing of Blondie s previous new wave songs in favor of a romantic fatalism that was new for the band 7 Sunday Girl deals with the theme of teen loneliness Music critic Rob Sheffield said that the lyric dusty frames that still arrive die in 1955 in Fade Away and Radiate is the best lyric in any rock n roll song ever and it s still the ultimate statement of a band that always found some pleasure worth exploiting in the flashy and the temporary 9 Title and packaging editParallel Lines took its name from an unused track written by Harry the lyrics of which were included in the first vinyl edition of the album The cover sleeve image was photographed by Edo Bertoglio and was chosen by Blondie s manager Peter Leeds despite being rejected by the band The photo shows the band posing in matching dress suits and smiling broadly in contrast to Harry who poses defiantly with her hands on her hips while wearing a white dress and high heels 2 According to music journalist Tim Peacock the cover became iconic and instantly recognisable 10 Release and promotion editThe album was released by Chrysalis in September 1978 10 to international success 11 The album entered the Billboard album chart the week ending September 23 1978 at No 186 reflecting retail sales during the survey period ending September 10 1978 12 In the United Kingdom it entered the albums chart at No 13 eventually reaching the no 1 spot in February 1979 after the band had scored hits with the singles Picture This UK 12 Hanging on the Telephone UK 5 and Heart of Glass UK 1 Sunday Girl was released in the UK as a fourth single from the album in May 1979 and also reached no 1 and Parallel Lines became the UK s biggest selling album of the year Blondie embarked on a sold out tour of the UK and appeared at an autograph signing event for Our Price Records on Kensington High Street according to Peacock it descended into Beatlemania esque chaos when the band were mobbed by thousands of fans 10 Parallel Lines was also a commercial success elsewhere in Europe Australia and the United States where the band had struggled to sell their previous records Heart of Glass became their first number one hit on the American Billboard Hot 100 with help from a promotional video directed by Stanley Dorfman depicting Blondie in a performance of the song at a fashionable nightclub in New York The single was responsible for turning the band into bona fide superstars Peacock said Reception and legacy editRetrospective professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 4 Blender nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 13 Christgau s Record GuideA 14 Encyclopedia of Popular Music nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 15 Entertainment WeeklyB 16 Pitchfork9 7 10 17 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 18 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 7 The Rolling Stone Album Guide nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Slant Magazine nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 20 Spin Alternative Record Guide10 10 21 The album was met with universal acclaim from critics 10 Writing in The Village Voice in 1978 Robert Christgau said although Blondie still could not write a perfect hit single the record was a consistent improvement over Plastic Letters 3 Years later he wrote in Blender that it was a perfect album in 1978 and remained so with every song memorable distinct well shaped and over before you get antsy Never again did singer Deborah Harry mastermind Chris Stein and their able four man cohort nail the band s signature paradoxes with such unfailing flair lowbrow class tender sarcasm pop rock 22 New York Times critic John Rockwell named Parallel Lines the eighth best album of 1978 23 Daryl Easlea from BBC Music who felt the record combined power pop and new wave styles credited Mike Chapman s production and flair for pop songwriting for helping make Parallel Lines an extremely popular album in the United Kingdom where it was a number one hit and charted for 106 weeks during the late 1970s 24 Q magazine called the album a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds terrific hooks and middle eights more memorable than some groups choruses 18 In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post punk albums Spin magazine s Sasha Frere Jones said Parallel Lines may have been the perfect pop rock record and Blondie s best album 25 Christian John Wikane from PopMatters later called it a creative and commercial masterpiece by Blondie indisputably one of the great classic albums of the rock and roll era 26 In the opinion of Pitchfork critic Scott Plagenhoef the album popularized the look and sound of 1980s new wave with classic songs that showcased the depth and complexity of Harry s sexuality and singing 17 Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine was also impressed by her singing which he felt varied from purring like a kitten and then building to a mean growl and cited Heart of Glass as the album s best track because of her honey dipped vocal 20 In 2000 Parallel Lines was voted number 57 in Colin Larkin s book All Time Top 1000 Albums 27 Three years later it was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time 8 maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list 28 an accompanying essay said the album was where punk and New Wave broke through to a mass U S audience 8 It has also been placed at number 18 and 45 on NME s 100 Best Albums of All Time 2003 29 and 500 Greatest Albums of All Time 2013 lists 30 respectively number 7 on Blender s 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time 31 number 94 on Channel 4 s 2005 list of the 100 greatest albums of all time 32 and number 76 on Pitchfork s list of the best albums from the 1970s 33 Accolades edit In 2024 Parallel Lines was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally historically or aesthetically significant 34 35 Reissues editThe album was reissued and remastered in 2001 along with Blondie s back catalog and featured four bonus tracks a 1978 demo of Heart of Glass a live cover of T Rex s song Bang a Gong Get It On and two live tracks taken from the Picture This Live live album 36 On June 24 2008 an expanded 30th Anniversary Edition of the album was released 37 which featured new artwork 38 and bonus tracks along with bonus DVD 39 The liner notes once again featured lyrics to the unfinished Parallel Lines song The Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Edition included the 7 single version of Heart of Glass the French version of Sunday Girl and some remixes plus a DVD with albums promo videos and TV performance The band also launched a world tour of the same name to promote the re release and celebrate the event 40 Track listing editSide oneNo TitleWriter s Length1 Hanging on the Telephone The Nerves cover Jack Lee2 172 One Way or Another Deborah HarryNigel Harrison3 313 Picture This HarryChris SteinJimmy Destri2 534 Fade Away and Radiate Stein3 575 Pretty Baby HarryStein3 166 I Know but I Don t Know Frank Infante3 53 Side twoNo TitleWriter s Length7 11 59 Destri3 198 Will Anything Happen Lee2 559 Sunday Girl Stein3 0110 Heart of Glass HarryStein3 5411 I m Gonna Love You Too Buddy Holly cover Joe B MauldinNiki SullivanNorman Petty2 0312 Just Go Away Harry3 21 2001 remastered reissue bonus tracksNo TitleWriter s Length13 Once I Had a Love aka The Disco Song 1978 version recorded June 3 1978 at The Record Plant NYC 41 HarryStein3 1814 Bang a Gong Get It On recorded live November 4 1978 at The Paradise in Boston MA Marc Bolan5 3015 I Know but I Don t Know recorded live November 6 1978 at the Walnut Theatre in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Infante4 3516 Hanging on the Telephone recorded live 1980 in Dallas Texas Lee2 21 2008 deluxe collector s edition bonus tracksNo TitleLength13 Heart of Glass 7 single version 4 1014 Sunday Girl French version from Sunday Girl 12 single 3 0415 Hanging on the Telephone Nosebleed Handbag Remix from Beautiful The Remix Album 6 1416 Fade Away and Radiate 108 BPM Remix from Beautiful The Remix Album 5 16 2008 deluxe collector s edition bonus DVDNo TitleLength1 Heart of Glass 2 Hanging on the Telephone 3 Picture This 4 Sunday Girl live on Top of the Pops 2010 Mail on Sunday promo bonus tracksNo TitleWriter s Length13 What I Heard Matt Katz BohenLaurel Katz Bohen3 1514 Girlie Girlie Sophia George cover Anthony DavisLloyd DouglasSteve Golding3 25 Notes edit The album version of Heart of Glass was replaced with the disco version 5 50 long on pressings of the album from March 1979 onward The original length version of Heart of Glass appeared on the original US CD release in 1985 Chrysalis VK 41192 later F2 21192 although the CD artwork proclaimed it was the disco version Later editions of the Capitol disc had the mistake removed from the inlay but it remained on the disc until its deletion The 1994 DCC Compact Classics Gold CD release Capitol Special Markets USA GSZ 1062 features the original version with the disco version as a bonus track A promotional CD of the album was given away free with the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday on December 5 2010 including the bonus tracks What I Heard and Girlie Girlie from the band s 2011 album Panic of Girls 42 Personnel editCredits adapted from the liner notes of Parallel Lines 43 Blondie edit Jimmy Destri electronic keyboards Frank Infante guitar co lead vocals on I Know but I Don t Know Chris Stein guitar 12 string E bow Nigel Harrison bass Clem Burke Premier drums Deborah Harry vocals Additional personnel edit Robert Fripp guitar on Fade Away and Radiate Mike Chapman production backing vocals on Hanging on the Telephone a and Heart of Glass 44 Pete Coleman production assistance engineering Grey Russell engineering assistance Steve Hall mastering at MCA Whitney Studio Glendale California Edo Bertoglio photography Ramey Communications art direction design Frank Duarte illustration Jerry Rodriguez lettering Kevin Flaherty production 2001 reissue Charts editWeekly charts edit 1978 1979 weekly chart performance for Parallel Lines Chart 1978 1979 Peakposition Australian Albums Kent Music Report 45 2 Austrian Albums O3 Austria 46 24 Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 47 2 Dutch Albums Album Top 100 48 7 Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 49 11 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 50 9 Italian Albums Musica e dischi 51 13 New Zealand Albums RMNZ 52 3 Norwegian Albums VG lista 53 16 Portuguese Albums Musica amp Som 54 7 Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 55 9 UK Albums OCC 56 1 US Billboard 200 57 6 2018 weekly chart performance for Parallel Lines Chart 2018 Peakposition Scottish Albums OCC 58 29 UK Physical Albums OCC 59 33 UK Vinyl Albums OCC 60 4 2023 weekly chart performance for Parallel Lines Chart 2023 Peak Position Greek Charts Top 75 Albums Sales 61 10 Year end charts edit 1978 year end chart performance for Parallel Lines Chart 1978 Position Dutch Albums Album Top 100 62 49 UK Albums BMRB 63 38 1979 year end chart performance for Parallel Lines Chart 1979 Position Australian Albums Kent Music Report 64 12 Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 65 27 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 66 17 New Zealand Albums RMNZ 67 9 UK Albums BMRB 68 1 US Billboard 200 69 9 1980 year end chart performance for Parallel Lines Chart 1980 Position UK Albums BMRB 70 42 US Billboard 200 71 40Certifications and sales editCertifications and sales for Parallel Lines Region Certification Certified units sales Australia ARIA 72 Platinum 70 000 Canada Music Canada 73 4 Platinum 400 000 Netherlands NVPI 74 Gold 50 000 New Zealand RMNZ 75 Platinum 15 000 United Kingdom BPI 77 Platinum 1 694 353 76 United States RIAA 79 Platinum 1 500 000 78 Yugoslavia 80 Platinum 100 000 80 Shipments figures based on certification alone Notes edit In the documentary Blondie s New York and the Making of Parallel Lines 2014 Mike Chapman states his additional vocals were overdubbed to the outro of the song He also proves this by playing the master track isolated during the interview in his studio References edit a b c d e f g Buskin Richard June 2008 Blondie Hanging on the Telephone Sound on Sound Cambridge Retrieved July 1 2014 a b c d e f g Porter Dick Needs Kris 2012 Blondie Parallel Lives 1st ed Omnibus Press ISBN 9781780381299 a b Christgau Robert October 30 1978 Consumer Guide The Village Voice New York Retrieved June 30 2013 a b Ruhlmann William Parallel Lines Blondie AllMusic Retrieved June 30 2014 Tucker Ken November 3 1982 Parallel Lines Rolling Stone New York Retrieved July 9 2012 Bangs 1980 p 62 a b c Berger Arion June 8 2000 Blondie Parallel Lines Rolling Stone New York p 129 Archived from the original on April 1 2007 Retrieved July 25 2016 a b c 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Parallel Lines Blondie Rolling Stone New York November 18 2003 Archived from the original on December 20 2010 Retrieved June 30 2013 Sheffield Rob January 1995 The Go Go s Return to the Valley of the Go Go s Blondie The Platinum Collection Spin Vol 10 no 10 New York pp 72 74 ISSN 0886 3032 via Google Books a b c d Peacock Tim September 23 2018 How Parallel Lines Led Blondie Straight To The Top uDiscover Retrieved December 3 2018 Blondie AllMusic Retrieved March 16 2016 Whitburn Joel 2001 Top Pop Albums 1955 2001 Menomonee Falls Wisconsin Record Research Inc p 80 ISBN 0 89820 147 0 Weiner Jonah Blondie Parallel Lines Blender New York Archived from the original on August 18 2004 Retrieved July 25 2016 Christgau Robert 1981 Blondie Parallel Lines Christgau s Record Guide Rock Albums of the Seventies Ticknor and Fields ISBN 0 89919 026 X Retrieved June 30 2014 Larkin Colin 2011 Blondie The Encyclopedia of Popular Music 5th concise ed London Omnibus Press ISBN 978 0 85712 595 8 Weingarten Marc September 21 2001 Blondie Blondie Plastic Letters Parallel Lines Eat to the Beat Autoamerican The Hunter Entertainment Weekly New York p 85 a b Plagenhoef Scott August 1 2008 Blondie Parallel Lines Deluxe Edition Pitchfork Retrieved July 9 2012 a b Blondie Parallel Lines Q No 182 London October 2001 p 143 Coleman Mark Berger Arion 2004 Blondie In Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian eds The New Rolling Stone Album Guide 4th ed Simon amp Schuster pp 85 86 ISBN 0 7432 0169 8 Retrieved September 23 2011 a b Cinquemani Sal October 7 2003 Blondie Parallel Lines Slant Magazine Retrieved June 30 2014 Sheffield Rob 1995 Blondie In Weisbard Eric Marks Craig eds Spin Alternative Record Guide Vintage Books pp 49 50 ISBN 0 679 75574 8 Christgau Robert September 2008 Blondie Parallel Lines Blender No 73 New York Retrieved June 30 2013 Rockwell John December 22 1978 The Pop Life The New York Times Retrieved May 26 2020 Easlea Daryl 2007 Blondie Parallel Lines Review BBC Music Retrieved June 30 2014 Frere Jones Sasha November 2001 Destination Unknown Spin Vol 17 no 11 New York p 137 ISSN 0886 3032 via Google Books Wikane Christian John July 3 2008 Blondie Parallel Lines PopMatters Retrieved June 30 2013 Larkin Colin 2000 All Time Top 1000 Albums 3rd ed Virgin Books p 61 ISBN 0 7535 0493 6 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone New York May 31 2012 Retrieved September 18 2019 NME Writers All Time Top 100 Albums timepieces nl March 2003 Archived from the original on September 17 2014 Retrieved July 11 2012 The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time 100 1 NME London October 25 2013 Retrieved October 19 2020 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time Blender New York Archived from the original on November 12 2010 Retrieved July 11 2012 Radiohead top C4 albums poll Music Week London April 18 2005 Retrieved January 13 2014 The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s Pitchfork June 23 2004 p 3 Retrieved August 22 2017 National Recording Registry Inducts Sounds of ABBA Blondie The Cars The Chicks Juan Gabriel Green Day The Notorious B I G and Lily Tomlin LOC gov Library of Congress Retrieved April 16 2024 ABBA Blondie The Notorious B I G among 2024 s additions to National Recording Registry CBS News Parallel Lines album deborah harry com Archived from the original on February 4 2014 Retrieved 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Hits of the World Billboard Vol 91 no 23 June 9 1979 p 95 ISSN 0006 2510 via Google Books Swedishcharts com Blondie Parallel Lines Hung Medien Retrieved July 6 2017 Official Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved February 21 2020 Blondie Chart History Billboard 200 Billboard Retrieved July 6 2017 Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved June 16 2018 Official Physical Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved February 21 2020 Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40 Official Charts Company Retrieved February 21 2020 Official IFPI Charts Top 75 Albums Sales Chart IFPI Retrieved January 16 2023 Jaaroverzichten Album 1978 in Dutch Dutch Charts Retrieved February 21 2020 Scaping Peter ed 1979 Top 200 LPs in 1978 BPI Year Book 1979 4th ed London British Phonographic Industry pp 182 85 ISBN 0 906154 02 2 Kent 1993 p 431 1979 Top 100 Albums RPM Vol 32 no 13 December 22 1979 ISSN 0315 5994 via Library and Archives Canada Top 100 Album Jahrescharts 1979 in German GfK Entertainment Retrieved February 21 2020 Top Selling Albums of 1979 Recorded Music NZ Retrieved February 21 2020 Top Albums 1979 Music Week December 22 1979 p 30 ISSN 0265 1548 Billboard 200 Albums Year End 1979 Billboard Archived from the original on May 22 2020 Retrieved February 21 2020 Chart File Top 100 Albums 1980 PDF Record Mirror April 4 1981 p 38 ISSN 0144 5804 via World Radio History Billboard 200 Albums Year End 1980 Billboard Archived from the original on December 2 2020 Retrieved February 21 2020 Adams Cameron May 13 2015 Great albums to only reach number two in Australia The Daily Telegraph Sydney Retrieved April 9 2019 Canadian album certifications Blondie Parallel Lines Music Canada June 1 1980 Dutch album certifications Blondie Parallel Lines in Dutch Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld en geluidsdragers Retrieved August 5 2018 EnterParallel Lines in the Artiest of titel box Select 1979 in the drop down menu 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Bibliography edit Bangs Lester 1980 Blondie Simon amp Schuster ISBN 0 671 25540 1 Kent David 1993 Australian Chart Book 1970 1992 illustrated ed St Ives N S W Australian Chart Book ISBN 0 646 11917 6 Further reading editOlliver Alex September 20 2017 The New York punk albums you need in your record collection Louder Archived from the original on October 27 2021 Retrieved February 22 2020 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Parallel Lines amp oldid 1220066949, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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