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. One regular stamped copy and one with the picture as a cardboard inside two halves of transparent vinyl. Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine was also impressed by her singing, which he felt varied from "purring like a kitten and then building to a mean growl", and cited "Heart of Glass" as the album's best track because of her "honey-dipped vocal". He remembers Harry disappearing into the bathroom in tears for several hours at a time during recording. For the drums, a traditional set-up was used and Chapman fitted Neumann microphones to the toms, snare and hi-hat, as well as several above the site.

Blondie – Parallel Lines (1979, Disco Version, Vinyl) - Discogs Blondie – Parallel Lines (1979, Disco Version, Vinyl) - Discogs

In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post-punk albums, Spin magazine's Sasha Frere-Jones said Parallel Lines may have been "the perfect pop-rock record" and Blondie's best album. During a tour of the west coast of the US in support of Plastic Letters, Blondie encountered Australian producer Mike Chapman in California. According to music journalist Robert Christgau, Parallel Lines was a pop rock album in which Blondie achieved their "synthesis of the Dixie Cups and the Electric Prunes". Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released in September 1978, by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success. Not a bad word to say about this one, lacquer cut by the legend ‘Tone’ quality pressing- It was bought in 78, still sounds great.The album was reissued and remastered in 2001 along with Blondie's back catalog, and featured four bonus tracks: a 1978 demo of "Heart of Glass", a live cover of T. On the rear side of the cover, there is a printed triangle with the text "High Quality Pressing Made In Germany". The original length version of "Heart of Glass" appeared on the original US CD release in 1985 (Chrysalis VK 41192, later F2 21192) although the CD artwork proclaimed it was the disco version. The band also launched a world tour of the same name to promote the re-release and celebrate the event. I suspect this was as a transitional release, where they changed the version on the record, but used up the old labels.

Blondie – Parallel Lines (1978, Vinyl) - Discogs Blondie – Parallel Lines (1978, Vinyl) - Discogs

bit digitally remastered reissue of the 1978 LP, with four bonus tracks and new liner notes by producer Mike Chapman. in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. The cover sleeve image was photographed by Edo Bertoglio and was chosen by Blondie's manager, Peter Leeds, despite being rejected by the band. The album's eleven pop songs have refined melodics, and its sole disco song, " Heart of Glass", features jittery keyboards, rustling cymbals by drummer Clem Burke, and a circular rhythm.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.