Parallel Lines

1974年成立的Blondie，是纽约朋克的代表人物，也是朋克新浪潮的主力军之一，乐队女主唱Deborah Harry造型性感，唱功一流，曲风多变，所以乐队非常受欢迎，成为7、80年代纽约最具影响力的乐队之一。 专辑首发于1978年，这里发布的是2001年重新灌录的版本，增加4首Bonus Track。 本专辑在滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第140位。 Blondie turned to British 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 new wave) and emerged as a pure pop band. But it wasn't just Chapman that made Parallel Lines Blondie's best album; it was the band's own songwriting, including Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, and James Destri's "Picture This," and Harry and Stein's "Heart of Glass," and Harry and new bass player Nigel Harrison's "One Way or Another," plus two contributions from nonbandmember Jack Lee, "Will Anything Happen?" and "Hanging on the Telephone." That was 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. 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.