Parallel Lines [VINYL]

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Daryl Easlea from BBC Music, who felt the record combined power pop and new wave styles, credited Mike Chapman's production and flair for pop songwriting for helping make Parallel Lines an extremely popular album in the United Kingdom, where it was a number-one hit and charted for 106 weeks during the late 1970s. Three years later, it was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone 's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [8] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list; [28] an accompanying essay said the album was "where punk and New Wave broke through to a mass U. Peter Leeds, Blondie's manager, conspired with Chrysalis Records to encourage Chapman to work with Blondie on new music. A promotional CD of the album was given away free with the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday on December 5, 2010, including the bonus tracks "What I Heard" and "Girlie Girlie" from the band's 2011 album Panic of Girls.

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This was due to Chapman encouraging her to be cautious about the way she sang, particularly to recognise phrasing, timing and attitude. Similarly, according to Chapman, Jimmy Destri would prove himself to be far better at songwriting than as a keyboardist, and Clem Burke had poor timing playing drums. As a result, Chapman spent time improving the band, especially Stein with whom Chapman spent hours rerecording his parts to ensure they were right.Ken Tucker believed the band had eschewed the "brooding artiness" of their previous albums for more hooks and pop-oriented songs. The photo shows the band posing in matching dress suits and smiling broadly in contrast to Harry who poses defiantly with her hands on her hips while wearing a white dress and high heels.

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Parallel Lines was a significant turning point for Blondie, though to be thoughtful, everyone should have seen this outing barreling at them like a suburban commuter train, a shift in the direction of more new wave pop oriented material, defined by a stylish blend of disco and radio friendly numbers that radiated with swirling synths, Chic induced guitar riffs, along with a relentless beat (drum machine) that stood in stark contrast to the nearly honey dripping sweetness of Deborah Harry’s vocals. in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. Its style of "state-of-the-art pop/rock circa 1978", as AllMusic's William Ruhlmann described it, showed Blondie deviating from new wave and emerging as "a pure pop band". Without having the US white label or test pressing or the picture disk, I like the non-white label US promo and the Japanese white label promo copies that I have the best. They were really, really juvenile in their approach to life—a classic New York underground rock band—and they didn't give a fuck about anything.

Harry's cautiousness abated after she played Chapman early cuts of "Heart of Glass" and "Sunday Girl" and he was impressed.

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and the Making of Parallel Lines (2014), Mike Chapman states his additional vocals were overdubbed to the outro of the song. However, lead vocalist Debbie Harry was far less enthusiastic about Chapman's involvement as she knew him only by reputation; according to Chapman, her animosity towards him was because "they were New York. Over the last few months he has disarmed packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung. Still gonna' hold on to your masterpiece (cd version), however, can you shead some light on which picture disc you are referring to?I suspect this was as a transitional release, where they changed the version on the record, but used up the old labels.

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Until 1978, Blondie was perceived mostly as a '60s-referencing, British-invasion-meets-girl-groups band. A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential.Despite Blondie's belief that Parallel Lines would resonate with a wider audience, Chrysalis Records was not as enthusiastic; label executives told them to start again, only to be dissuaded by Chapman's assurance that its singles would prove popular. The Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Edition included the 7″ single version of "Heart of Glass", the French version of "Sunday Girl" and some remixes, plus a DVD with albums, promo videos and TV performance. You all are aware that the current Capitol remaster uses the second mastet, with the replaced disco mix of HoG (unlike Steve's version, which uses the original album and adds the disco mix as a bonus at the end), right?