Parallel Lines [CD/DVD]

Artist	Blondie
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Caroline
Release Date	2008 06 24
Song List	1: Hanging on the Telephone (2:21) 2: One Way or Another (3:33) 3: Picture This (2:55) 4: Fade Away and Radiate (3:58) 5: Pretty Baby (3:17) 6: I Know But I Don't Know (3:55) 7: 11:59 (3:20) 8: Will Anything Happen? (2:59) 9: Sunday Girl (3:05) 10: Heart of Glass (5:48) 11: I'm Gonna Love You Too (2:06) 12: Just Go Away (3:24) 13: Heart of Glass [7" Single Version][*] (4:09) 14: Sunday Girl [French Version][*] (3:03) 15: Hanging on the Telephone [Nosebleed Handbag Remix] (6:13) 16: Fade Away and Radiate [108 BPM Remix] (5:15) 17: Heart of Glass [DVD][*] 18: Hanging on the Telephone [DVD][*] 19: Picture This [DVD][*] 20: Sunday Girl [DVD][Live]
Style.Categories	Dance-Rock, American Punk, New York Punk, Pop/Rock, New Wave, Punk

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Blondie turned to Britain-based 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 style) and emerged as a mainstream, contemporary pop/rock band. But it wasn't just Chapman's influence that made Parallel Lines Blondie's best album; it was also the band's own songwriting, including Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, and Jimmy Destri's "Picture This"; Harry and Stein's disco-styled "Heart of Glass"; and Harry and new bass player Nigel Harrison's "One Way or Another"; plus two contributions from non-band member Jack Lee, "Will Anything Happen?" and "Hanging on the Telephone." Together, they were 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. Still, Chapman's contribution is not to be discounted; a producer with a track record full of punchy British pop hits with his former partner Nicky Chinn for Suzi Quatro, Mud, the Sweet, and Smokie, he brought his sense of precise arranging and playing to a band that previously had been quite sloppy in execution, and he did it without sacrificing the group's spirit, particularly Harry's snotty yet sophisticated vocal style. 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. (The 2008 reissue adds four different bonus tracks than the 2001 reissue: the 7" single version of "Heart of Glass," the French version of "Sunday Girl" and remixes of "Hanging on the Telephone" and "Fade Away and Radiate" done in 1995. It also adds a DVD with videos and a Top of the Pops performance of "Sunday Girl".) ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide