Track Listing

1. Hanging On The Telephone
2. One Way Or Another
3. Picture This
4. Fade Away And Radiate
5. Pretty Baby
6. I Know But I Don't Know
7. 11.59
8. Will Anything Happen
9. Sunday Girl
10. Heart Of Glass
11. I'm Gonna Love You Too
12. Just Go Away
13. Once I Had A Love
14. Bang A Gong (Get It On)
15. I Know But I Don't Know
16. Hanging On The Telephone

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1542 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
The third album from the most successful of all the bands to spring from the New York punk scene, Parallel Lines is perhaps the definitive Blondie album. Produced by pop svengali Mike Chapman, it epitomises the astute mix of new wave chic and pop sensibility that spawned four hit singles from the album, and gives Debbie Harry's voice a platform of sleek professional pop that it had previously lacked. "Hanging On The Telephone" is a driven, up-tempo gem, "Picture This" soars deliciously around blissful melodies, while "Heart Of Glass" flirts seductively with disco. And it's proof of the album's mettle that tracks like "Fade Away And Radiate" are just as impressive as the singles. --Amber Cowan

CD Description
'Parallel Lines' was originally released in 1978 from new wave/punk band Blondie. This was their third album and the one which broke the band internationally. Includes their two 1979 number one singles 'Hanging On The Telephone' and 'Sunday Girl', as well as 'One Way Or Another' and 'Heart Of Glass'. This remastered version includes four bonus tracks previously unavailable on the CD originally released in 1994.

Customer Reviews

Pop Perfection
Blondie never got better than this. I don't think there's a track on here that I have to skip past. Every one really is a winner.

Parallel Lines is by a band at the peak of their powers. They couldn't do any wrong and the quality of their songwriting on this album is stunning. Singles are: "Hanging On The Telephone", "Picture This", "Sunday Girl" and of course, the Disco Song, "Heart Of Glass". There's more to this that a clutch of fine singles though, some of the album tracks are simply stunning: "One Way Or Another", "Will Anything Happen" and my personal favourite Blondie song "11:59", three minutes of pop perfection from Jimmy Destri.

It's nice to get a few extra unreleased mixes, demos and that, but at the end of the day, they're unnecessary. The 12 tracks are enough.

Pop perfection.

one of THE classic pop albums
PARALLEL LINES is Blondies best well known and most successful album, which is very deserving as it is probably their strongest and most consistent album that does not contain a bad track! There are a variety of styles explored, as they started to move away from the elements of punk that were present in the first two albums, BLONDIE and PLASTIC LETTERS.
The album starts well with the highly adrenalized roch anthems, HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE and ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.For me the latter is classic Blondie and probably the most effective track they could have chosen to open the album with. ONE WAY OR ANOTHER i dont like quite as much, but it is still a great rock track and tends to be one of their more popular songs.
This album also contains some dreamy, slinky mid-tempo drawls such as SUNDAY GIRL and PICTURE THIS, which are both incredibly catchy numbers, as well as the frisky disco/rock infusion that is HEART OF GLASS, their best selling and arguably most popular song.
Some of the less well known tracks are equally as impressive, such as 11:59 which is almost combining the styles of HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE and SUNDAY GIRL. There is also FADE AWAY AND RADIATE which is possibly one of Blondies most experimental songs and is almost spooky in its simplistic melody and beat. IM GONNA LOVE YOU TWO is an admirable cover of a Buddy Holly song, and JUST GO AWAY is a great song to end the album with, as it is worth listening to for the superb guitar that is heard after every line during the verses.
There is not a bad song on the album, but rather than talking about them all, i will end by saying that PARALLEL LINES is one of the great pop albums from one of the great bands of punk/new wave and pop music! This is definately an album that all fans of good music should own!!!!

Blondie's Finest Hour
Parallel Lines is a Masterpiece. Blondie soared to superstar status not only on the music charts in 1978-79 with this album, but forever placed them as POP ICONS. If ever there was a perfect album of Pop songs, this is absolutely it. In a time where 6 Hit Singles from 1 album was unthinkable, Blondie did it with Parallel Lines. Deborah Harry is simply sweet as honey, on songs like "Pretty Baby" and "Sunday Girl". Sunday Girl was the 5th biggest song of the year, in the british charts in 1979. The album is certainly not without it's edge, on songs like "11:59", "One Way or Another" and "Hanging on the Telephone", we see Deborah Harry singing with frantic release. The world was changed with the release of the Mega Smash "Heart of Glass", without a doubt, one of the Top 100 songs of all time. The Techno Beat of "Heart of Glass" sold millions of copies Internationally and was the #2 UK biggest song of 1979. Parallel Lines was also the #1 Selling Album of 1979 in the UK. Parallel Lines was produced by legendary producer Mike Chapman, the album went on to sell 20 million copies worldwide. Parallel Lines is a outstanding album, full of intelligent and catchy lyrics, and great grooves. This album does not have a weak track on it. This is a consumers dream, full of value.