1978
2001 [reissue]
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To be honest, I’ve never been too concerned with Blondie. I’ve certainly never hated them, nor even disliked them. It’s simply been a case of if I want to hear any Blondie I can just tune into any one of many commercial radio stations and be guaranteed to hear them, so I really have no need to own anything of theirs.
In going through my reviews I completely forgot I even had this album. The reason I bought Parallel Lines was because I really wanted a copy of One Way Or Another.
I have now, in doing this review, listened to the entire album for the first time.
It’s good. It’s actually damn good.
What I like about Blondie is that they’re hard to describe and even harder to categorise. I can hear sounds of Bow Wow Wow, The Shangrilas, Wanda Jackson, but also classic pop, new wave and punk (I say ‘influences’ but Blondie were actually pioneers in pop & new wave).
Parallel Lines was Blondies ‘break though’ album into mainstream radio, and rightly so. I can tell you now this won’t be the last time this CD gets played.
Standout tracks are One Way Or Another, Fade Away And Radiate, I Know But I Don’t Know, 11:59, Will Anything Happen, Heart Of Glass and I’m Gonna Love You Too.
7/10
