By Baptiste 1978
Rock
" Once I had a love and it Was a gas,
Soon Turned Out to Be a pain in the ass!
Seemed like the real thing only to find
Much of mistrust, love's gone behind! "
I inserted
Parallel Lines in the drive of my PC without much conviction. of Blondie I knew that Call Me and Heart of Glass, later renamed Once I Had a Love (aka the Disco Song) . Two tracks cults, but that's not enough to make a career right? An hour of listening later, I returned to the library to borrow the rest of their discography. Parallel Lines is excellent.
The album begins with Hanging On The Telephone . The tone is set entry: Debbie Harry wants to show it is not simply a former Bunny Girl, but a great rock singer. The mission is fully completed as this is passed back to its original B-side of the 60's. When Nerves had composed this piece in 1976, their influences have long since belonged to the past while Blondie Only two years later, his eyes fixed on the next decade. With this album, the New Yorkers have made their pop and rock of the 70's, and erecting the foundations for what would become the sound of the 80's. Parallel Lines ranks somewhere between Suffragette City by David Bowie (1972) and Radio Ga Ga Queen of (1984).
For his texts as its melody, Heart of Glass has attained the status of worship song. It's well deserved success but unfortunately obscures the rest of the album is nevertheless admirable. The rest is a roller tube. One Way or Another, Picture This, I Know But I Do not Know, 11-59, Sunday Girl etc.. The criticism could stop there. Listen to them, you understand. This album has more great songs than most Best Of
Only after long plays that I have found some flaws in this album. Introduction Picture This song may suggest a generic series produced by AB. Of course, with the arrival of the song, that impression fades to disappear completely with the apotheosis of the last chorus. Some pieces also tend to ease. Many, like Fade Away and Radiate , know no real purpose and end with a lower volume lazy.
I repeat again: I searched long Advent to find fault with this album. It is absolutely essential in a nightclub worthy of the name.
The best conditions for listening to this album :
As usual, the best conditions are expensive ... This time, I suggest you rent a convertible old American and roll the hair in the wind on the Pacific Coast Highway.
The song of the album: Hanging On The Telephone . Even if the choice was very difficult, I think this song is the best.
The sequence of good taste: With album 16 Lovers Lane the Australian The Go-Betweens , the group least charismatic of the world, were clearly within the tradition of Blondie - with 10 years late, but with talent.
The album begins with Hanging On The Telephone . The tone is set entry: Debbie Harry wants to show it is not simply a former Bunny Girl, but a great rock singer. The mission is fully completed as this is passed back to its original B-side of the 60's. When Nerves had composed this piece in 1976, their influences have long since belonged to the past while Blondie Only two years later, his eyes fixed on the next decade. With this album, the New Yorkers have made their pop and rock of the 70's, and erecting the foundations for what would become the sound of the 80's. Parallel Lines ranks somewhere between Suffragette City by David Bowie (1972) and Radio Ga Ga Queen of (1984).
For his texts as its melody, Heart of Glass has attained the status of worship song. It's well deserved success but unfortunately obscures the rest of the album is nevertheless admirable. The rest is a roller tube. One Way or Another, Picture This, I Know But I Do not Know, 11-59, Sunday Girl etc.. The criticism could stop there. Listen to them, you understand. This album has more great songs than most Best Of
Only after long plays that I have found some flaws in this album. Introduction Picture This song may suggest a generic series produced by AB. Of course, with the arrival of the song, that impression fades to disappear completely with the apotheosis of the last chorus. Some pieces also tend to ease. Many, like Fade Away and Radiate , know no real purpose and end with a lower volume lazy.
I repeat again: I searched long Advent to find fault with this album. It is absolutely essential in a nightclub worthy of the name.
The best conditions for listening to this album :
As usual, the best conditions are expensive ... This time, I suggest you rent a convertible old American and roll the hair in the wind on the Pacific Coast Highway.
The song of the album: Hanging On The Telephone . Even if the choice was very difficult, I think this song is the best.
The sequence of good taste: With album 16 Lovers Lane the Australian The Go-Betweens , the group least charismatic of the world, were clearly within the tradition of Blondie - with 10 years late, but with talent.
The opinion of Fred A
Blondie Knowing that some tubes for these planets, listen to "follow parallel Lines " struck me as a cold water on my ideas. Come a time when electronic tweaks were not made at the expense of traditional instruments, this album is more than a shower, a veritable deluge pop.
From the first song (Hanging On The Telephone ), Debbie Harry makes goes inside and picks the listener by the timid hand to invite waddle merrily. With its frenetic pace, its cascading guitars, his melodies and choruses omnipresent light, the proposal is enticing and promises are kept. After a thunderous start, the zenith is reached with Pretty Baby, Will Anything Happen? and Sunday Girl.
Despite its strong fundamentals, the album misses nothing of the last step in his rise to stratospheric levels of instant classics. The main defect is usually calibrated for a group of radio as Blondie : it lacks a bit of consistency and binder between songs. Heart of Glass, for example, arrives like a hair in the soup after the excellent Sunday Girl eclipse and the following songs while Fade Away And Radiate fall clearly set the pace early in the album.
Nevertheless, follow parallel Lines is a must-70s and is highly recommended listening morning depressed days of greyness. In the shower, give yourself a few minutes to whisper "La dolce vita Is A Magic Dance No One Is listenning " and everything will be better. It's the magic Blondie.
From the first song (Hanging On The Telephone ), Debbie Harry makes goes inside and picks the listener by the timid hand to invite waddle merrily. With its frenetic pace, its cascading guitars, his melodies and choruses omnipresent light, the proposal is enticing and promises are kept. After a thunderous start, the zenith is reached with Pretty Baby, Will Anything Happen? and Sunday Girl.
Despite its strong fundamentals, the album misses nothing of the last step in his rise to stratospheric levels of instant classics. The main defect is usually calibrated for a group of radio as Blondie : it lacks a bit of consistency and binder between songs. Heart of Glass, for example, arrives like a hair in the soup after the excellent Sunday Girl eclipse and the following songs while Fade Away And Radiate fall clearly set the pace early in the album.
Nevertheless, follow parallel Lines is a must-70s and is highly recommended listening morning depressed days of greyness. In the shower, give yourself a few minutes to whisper "La dolce vita Is A Magic Dance No One Is listenning " and everything will be better. It's the magic Blondie.
