Parallel Lines

I came in heavily biased to this one, and really wanted to let loose with a 5. Blondie is a blind spot for me that's always seemed ripe for uncovering some real tasty gems that perhaps even the most elitist music snobs wouldn't fuck with because they were massively successful and led by a woman. I held my hand out with 5 fat stars. It was there for Blondie to take. Hit play. Blondie didn't want the 5. By the middle of the album Blondie reached in for the stars but I quickly pulled my hand back to my hair and said "too slow!" I gave a star away to my neighbor who stopped by for dinner. I put another star on the WalMart grill and cooked it for 45 minutes. Blondie pretended not to care about the leftover stars. I think we're all just ok with how things worked out. B-

Everyone knows all the Blondie staples, most of us don't realise they all lived on one album. This might be one of the best albums ever created. I forget how great this stuff is, it's not until you sit and pay attention that you realise how awesome it is. Not a bad track in the bunch.

What a terrific album. Front to back, every song on here is worth listening to - Debbie Harry's voice is fantastic and oscillates seamlessly between the punk-ier vibes of a song like 'One Way or Another' to the lighter, airy vibes of songs like 'Fade Away and Radiate' or 'Heart of Glass'. The album ends perfectly with the delightfully melodic and catchy 'Just Go Away'. Worth many, many listens.

The perfect pop rock album. Blondie is mostly seen as the epitome of early New Wave alongside The Talking Heads and Devo, but they were able to blend countless genres in a way that was still consistent and accessible to most audiences. Beyond the synth-heavy New Wave, these tracks are full of power pop, punk, and pure rock. "Sunday Girl" takes inspiration from 60s R&B, while "Heart of Glass" is the perfect disco song despite contemporary resentment, and classic Buddy Holly is covered in the rockabilly "I'm Gonna Love You Too." Blondie would further show later skills in their reggae "The Tide is High" and hip hop "Rapture." One of the best track placements I've ever seen. Starts off with a banger of an intro, which is apparently a cover. It has all punk energy with appropriate synths and catchy lyrics (both chorus and verses). Then it just transitions straight into an even more intense and catchier classic, "One Way or Another" which is more rock and less punk, but matches the first track's strengths in every way. Things tone down slightly in "Picture This." I'm really glad that Debbie Gray is the vocalist of all these songs, she's able to sing to such a range of moods that it keeps the audience looking forward to each track. There is no filler in this album. Sure, there are tracks I'm not a huge fan of, but I still like them all, and in fact, I would listen to the majority on their own casually. That's how great all of them stand out. In case you're curious, the one song I'm indifferent about is "I Know But I Don't Know." I like the wacky vocals and sound that almost reminds me of Devo, but the beginning is a tad bit annoying, and the rock solo is generic, but I really like the last minute. I love how the album ends with two more punk-like tracks, as if there's no need for the full pop facade (excluding the "Just Go Away" rock solo), going back to punk roots. I probably would have swapped these two tracks since the Buddy Holly cover is a slightly better closer. Favorite tracks: One Way or Another, Picture This, Fade Away and Radiate, 11:59, Sunday Girl, Heart of Glass (I had trouble excluding some as my "favorite" cause nearly the entire album would be on here)

Debbie Harry, the legend! Blondie is cited so often as an '80s staple that I didn't realize they began making music in the '70s. This sounds a lot more rock-oriented than I expected, it makes me wish we'd get some other, older Blondie records on the list. Anyway, I dig this one. It's got two classic hits and plenty of excellent album cuts. Long live Debbie Harry. Favorite tracks: Heart of Glass, 11:59, One Way or Another, Sunday Girl, Hanging on the Telephone. Album art: Iconic. It's black and white without being black and white. Debbie front and center AS SHE SHOULD BE. Perfect color contrast, and the red font is great. This could be an all-timer. 4.5/5

Obvi so good! And finally a strong female presence!

I came into this album expecting the hits to be good and the deep tracks to be mediocre and uninteresting, but man was I wrong. I loved how different each song was and how different the lead singer sounded in each song. Blondie shows off her true talent in this album that I didn’t know she had. Also the guitar work and production on this album are solid. This album stays interesting throughout making it the perfect length.

A perfect Pop Rock album? Definitely a solid track list with timeless classics like "One Way or Another" and "Heart of Glass" but solid gold behind it like "Hanging on the Telephone" and "Sunday Girl", though for that song you should make sure you get the Frenglish version that inexplicable s'est mis au français à mi-chemin. Pourquoi? Je n'en ai aucune idée, c'est vraiment super mimi et bien plus tard Zooey Deschanel a repris cette chanson avec She & Him et elle correspond parfaitement à son esthétique. Mais je m'égare... 4 étoiles

Nr. 144/1001 Hanging On The Telephone 3/5 One Way Or Another 3/5 Picture This 3/5 Fade Away And Radiate 3/5 Pretty Baby 2/5 I Know But I Don't Know 2/5 11:59 3/5 Will Anything Happen 3/5 Sunday Girl 3/5 Heart Of Glass 4/5 I'm Gonna Love You Too 3/5 Just Go Away 3/5 Average: 2,92 New-Wave is just a genre I can't seem to really enjoy.

Loved this Album. Debbie Harry has such a powerful voice and she wasn’t afraid to be different in a very tumultuous time for rock and roll, and thus helped to influence a revolution. Add that to Chris Stein’s unique guitar compositions and you have a band that was made to break the mold of rock in the 70s and open up a new era of punk and pop rock music.

Probably the band's best album. It's got most of the band's hits, and they're great, but it also shines with its lesser known songs. The album is just a great listen from start to finish. Debbie Harry has a wonderful range, from a little rasp that shines through when she gets louder to the soft whispers in the quieter moments.

What I took away from my most recent listen was irrepresible urgency. If you don't answer, she'll ring your phone right off the wall. To get ya, she'll follow your bus downtown (and spy you in the supermarket buying rat food?!). She'll "wait until morning [to] take tomorrow by the hand" because "today can last another million years". She wants you to make it, but if you do "will anything happen?" For these fatefully spirirted youngsters Something. Must. Always. Be. Happening. We're all dying to live, rushing straight ahead in our own parrallel lines. This catalsym of sexual, intellectual and emotional energy is the sound of those lines converging.

This is just a really good album. High points include the hits ("One Way or Another" and "Heart of Glass"), and tracks like "Hanging on the Telephone" and "Fade Away and Radiate" (I hear Fripp, I like). I've been listening to it repeatedly for several days now and I keep noticing all kinds of great touches and I'm not remotely getting tired of it. Most albums I rate as a 5 really have some aspect that blows me away and I can't say this album has that, but it's just good start to finish. That's worth a 5 also.

fantastic. so re-listenable. he voice is everything

- 'Hanging on the telephone' is a good opener - Did NOT know 'One Way or Another' was their song, ICONIC!! - 'Picture This' really conveys what I want in life: "All I want is 20/20 vision" - 'Fade Away and Radiate', 'Pretty Baby','11:59' - very good run - HEART OF GLASS IS ALSO THEIRS AND FROM THE SAME ALBUM??? WHAT?? How in the world have I never heard their name? Another ICONIC song!!!! - 'Once I Had A Love' may I use the word iconic again?? Never heard of Blondie before, but today I can surely say what an amazing album this is, of course the word to summarize it all is definitely ICONIC, the only reason it didn't had 5 stars is that it could be done without one or two songs that were subpar but overall GREAT

Really solid album. It starts of strong right from the get go. A ton of catchy tracks on here as well, especially Heart of Glass. It does have a few songs, that didn't catch my attention, as some of the other tracks did, but none of them were terrible. Definitely listening to it again.

If you don't like this album you hate women I'm sorry

Parallel Lines is the album where Blondie transcended the NYC punk scene and became one of the biggest pop groups in the world. They didn't abandon that aggressive, slightly weird, punk/new wave ethos of previous albums but built on it, with more emphasis on their Phil Spector 'Wall of Sound' influences, which had always been there but really fill out the soundscape on this album. There isn't a bad song here and so many hits it is like a best of - Hanging on the Telephone, One Way or Another, Picture This, 11:59, Sunday Girl, Heart of Glass - all of them played by a really tight band, Mike Chapman's '60s pop production, great drumming, crunchy guitars and, in Deborah Harry, the most charismatic, captivating front woman in rock and pop history!

Parallel Lines The best of Blondie was one of the official minidisc albums I got when I got my minidisc player for Christmas in 1998. Nothing to do with Parallel Lines but whenever I hear Blondie I think about that Minidisc player. Sweet memories aside this album is just a terrific rush of pop perfection, right in the sweet spot of new wave, disco, reggae, pop, power pop, little bits of country and rock, with a slightly crazy number of classic bangers: Hanging on the Telephone, One Way or Another, Picture This, Fade Away & Radiate, Pretty Baby, Sunday Girl, Heart of Glass, I’m Gonna Love You To. Some of the less famous songs are great as well, I Know but I Don’t Know has a great seedy pop snark to it, 11.59’s slight doo wop wedded to power pop is super, Will Anything Happen is an excellent bit of new wave vaguely rockabilly synth pop and Just Go Away is a lovely bit of attitude. All bangers, all the time 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 Playlist submission: Heart of Glass the obvious one, but I love Fade Away & Radiate.

Masterpiece of new wave music. Almost a greatest hits album

I first heard Blondie on the Muppet Show when I was a child in around 1981, but let's not dwell on that. When I was teenager, my mate Shawn's parents had a caravan at Kendall's Beach, near Kiama, and they kindly let Shawn and his friends (including me, Philippa, Tim, Jessica, Irina, and few others) head down there for the occasional weekend, unsupervised. We were generally a well-behaved bunch, and didn't get up to much trouble beyond splitting a bottle of lambrusco between of us (which is not a lot of cheap wine per person). We would often go hang out at the pizza place at Surf Beach, just over the headland, eat pizza and feed coins into the jukebox. A vinyl jukebox was almost an anachronism by then, so it was a bit special. They didn't update the singles very often, if at all, so it usually had the same reliable songs available whenever we visited, including a bunch of Blondie singles. We always played the Blondie singles. Always. When Shawn and Tim and I formed a band a few years later, we mostly played (terrible) originals, but Heart of Glass was a regularly featured cover. As a result, I mainly think of Blondie as a singles band. The Best of Blondie is a guaranteed good time, and a record I keep in my DJ crates for dance floor emergencies. They had a magnificent streak of amazing pop singles through the late 70s into the early 80s. I own a few of their albums (including Parallel Lines) but I rarely play them because I live under the misapprehension that they just were a singles band, and that the albums are full of filler. So, giving Parallel Lines a proper listen today was quite a surprise. Blondie _are_ a phenomenal singles band, and they were at the height of their powers here. There were six (SIX!) singles released from the album, and they are all pretty great (with chart-topper Heart of Glass the clear standout). But even the album tracks are pretty damn strong. This is a really consistent album of power pop all the way through. The songs are awash with hooks and strong melodies and a beat you can bug out to. The covers are well chosen and sit well with the originals. Their cover of Buddy Holly's 'I'm Gonna Love You Too' is my deep cut discovery from this listen (although, in fairness, it was released as a single. I didn't know that). Mike Chapman had a hard time wrangling the famously undisciplined band into playing, you know, _well_, which he managed to do without smoothing off all their energetic edges. The band is muscular and taut and melodic. Debbie Harry's vocals are tough and expressive and charismatic, even if not always technically perfect. Charles Shaar Murray famously wrote in a 1975 overview of the CBGB's scene that Debbie Harry was cute, but lacking star power. By 1978, I'm sure he was eating his words. Fade Away and Radiate is a bit of the odd track out, and I understand why some people don't like it, but I love the moody weirdness, embellished by Robert Fripp and his idiosyncratically Fripp-y guitar playing. Always love a bit of Robert Fripp. Based on this listen, I am prepared to re-evaluate my prejudices about Blondie. They were an outstanding singles band, one of the best of all time, _and_ capable of producing high quality pop albums as well. All killer, no filler (as they say). Five stars.

As a female who plays bass and loves tempo experiments, this album has been a favourite for years now. I've tried today to analyse why. It's Blondie's 3rd album, and it shows in its confident production and aural layering. Thematically they're still experimenting, not settling on one emotion or vibe for too long. Listening through headphones I can hear multiple understated stabby guitars & sparkly synths. The bass has a really fun bouncing energy in most tracks (which is guaranteed to hook me). Several of the songs have a schoolyard teasing vibe ("nyer nyer!"), especially noticeable in One Way Or Another after the lyrics change from "I'm gonna getcha" to "I'm gonna lose ya". This is a band that doesn't take themselves too seriously :) But then! Oh, they follow up with Picture This, a sweet nostalgic longing, with a hint of desperation. Heart of Glass is wonderfully polished, with a trip hazard in the first half of the bridge where the tempo loses a beat (7/8 time not standard 4/4): a reminder that life isn't smooth & predictable, so take care not to drop & shatter the heart. To follow this up with I'm Gonna Love You Too and its wild, unrestrained, loose energy is just lovely. My favourite of the Blondie albums, and when my vinyl wears out from overuse I'll be replacing it for sure :)

Fantastic album. It starts with a phone ring and then punches straight into Hanging on the telephone. One of the best "intros" of any album. The album continues with a mix of punk and new wave, fast and slow. All in all, a very well put together album.

This was one of the very first albums I bought - actually my brother bought it, I bought ELO's Discovery, the only time he has demonstrated better taste. Only two things to note on one of the easiest 5 star reviews: I never knew that Hanging on the Telephone was a cover until very rcently, and you need to make sure your copy has the 5:50 disco mix of heart of Glass and not the single edit some early pressings of both vinyl and CD use (including my brother's copy I quickly inherited and still have).

Glittery pop-rocking set of songs. “Heart of Glass” makes me happy. The rest is solidly enjoyable.

Tough one as I'm a bit ambivalent about Blondie. Parallel Lines rightfully deserves its classic status and boasts a handful of cracking hit singles. Somehow though, for me, that still doesn't add up to an album I want to have on heavy rotation. So, I enjoy hearing it now and then but not really enough to compel me to score it more highly.

Didn't hate it. 2.7

Part of me wanted to like this bit I didn't that much

Way more punk rock than I was expecting. The singles naturally stood out, heart of glass is a great song. Catchy and warm throughout, but very “of the time” sounding. Still enjoyed but probably wouldn’t listen to it again.

This was a good album. I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it again, but it wasn't bad. The hits are classic ofc, and there weren't any necessarily bad songs. Just kinda a regular album.

I've come to the conclusion that Blondie sounds like something you'd hear playing at your local worn-down rock pub. 'Heart of Glass' and 'One Way Or Another' are a step up and really catchy songs, the rest I could do without. Not consistent enough to warrant any higher rating really, so will have to land in the middle.

Pretty enjoyable even outside of the obvious hits. Can't say it's something I'd listen to off-hand, but pleasant overall.

"Cool" rhymes with "fool"

Just full of Blondie bangers.

Oozes cool

album concept: five goobers who look like they work at a pizza parlor dress as tarantino characters and put on a power pop hook clinic while a golden haired demi-goddess (i love you deborah) whirls, sneers, and wails her way through twelve excellent songs. i can remember the exact moment i fell in love with debbie harry as a boy in the back of the minivan listening along to Q104.1 FM: the second chorus of "one way" when she starts letting her voice do that growly thing. probably 7 years old. floored. slack-jawed. what is this weird feeling? who is this lady who's gonna get me? god, i hope she does. i didn't know who she was or what she looked like for another seven years. didn't matter. imprinted. apparently they caught shit for "heart of glass." too commercial or disco, not close enough to what the post-punk art rock world thought was legit. goes to show the value of a dogmatic view of music. any musician who wanted to rob the world of THAT groove (nice one, goobers) deserves to have their card revoked. plus it fits perfectly with the album's sequence. not a dull moment. gets better with every listen. makes me love rock and roll, debbie, and even disco a little more. what more could i ask for?

one of the coolest bands to ever do the damn thing. i love this record from top to bottom.

Power-pop masterpiece and their best album. 5 stars.

Yes

Thumping new wave with disco influence and yet another classic album that Robert Fripp has turned up to offer a bit of texture to. What's not to like?

good

Amazing ALbum. Some classic hits and fun rock music!

LOVED!!!!

A classic new wave album. Lots of Blondie’s best songs are from here. Heart of Glass is a top tier song.

absolutely a great album

One of the defining albums for punk/new wave. Very solid!

Rare, I know.

Wow I think the keyword is 'fun,'. This is a super fun record, filled with massive hit singles. For a pop record, it meshes a lot of different genres together. One of the best female frontmen ever. Just super fun Maybe one of the best so far. Heart of Glass is a stone cold classic. Sunday Girl is brilliant. All good

I really enjoyed this one

Wonderful!! I love them. I had so many of these songs on the back of my mind. Even the Deep cuts (non singles) are great. I had to go after this and check out their Greatest Hits (2002) album to see how many songs I already knew. Turns out it was most of them. I think I like this band a lot, even if I never really paid attention to them. I even love Deborah's terrible rapping on Rapture. So awful but so iconic lol.

The best album I've heard all week. I'm definitely not exaggerating. Why didn't I listen to "Parallel Lines" sooner? Every song is very good at its worst. It's rare when the big hit is the least good. 5 stars for "Parallel Lines".

I'm not normally a fan of pop music, but I have to say Blondie does it for me. I tend to be a sucker for female lead singers, and Debbie Harry has a great voice. There is enough experimental stuff and variety in here to keep things interesting.

Pet fav song: Will Anything Happen One of the greatest, most perfect albums ever made. Pure joy. No notes.

I've actually been surprised how much New Wave stuff I know and enjoy, but only from hearing it play around me, not that I search it out. A solid album that will be making it in my rotations.

i love Blondie and i hate the cover of this album. it's like beetlejuice meets the beatles meets a bunch of fucking nerds. this album opens really strongly with Hanging on the Telephone and then moves straight into probably their most famous hit of all time. it keeps up with the high energy, more traditional-sounding rock for most of the album while keeping it interesting and creative. there's not a ton of variation in the sound on this album but when it's this good there doesn't need to be. overall this is super up my alley and this one squeaks just up to a 5 for me. 5/5 they should call the rest of them the brunette boys

Blondie is such an influential, interesting, and just awesome band. This album is badass and so well written and composed. So many absolute bangers on here too. Heart of Glass is a masterpiece.

LFG BLONDIE - I was itching to get some Blondie in here my mom put me on to this group via Autoamerican so I was expecting more experimental New Wave, but this was not quite that this album’s sound is slightly more straight ahead and there are elements peppered throughout that let Blondie be the freak that I was looking forward to hearing for me it’s an easy 5

This was my first college roommate’s favorite album. Played it truly every day. I like him but this is listen 300 something of this album. That said, phenomenal album. Debbie Harry is such a good vocalist and an icon for good reason. The fact that she is effectively a pop, punk, and rnb singer on this album is a feat, especially because she’s a perfect fit for every style. Quick shout out to Clem Burke who died literally today, great drummer, rip.

This is some of the best power-pop out there. Hanging on the Telephone is such a great opener from the staccato vocals to the sneaky little keyboards in there to the short and forceful guitar solo, its so good. It's a little harder to hear One Way or Another after growing up with it in so many movies and ads, but it's still a great song and you can't sleep on the guitar solo in this either. Fade away and radiate is a grower and a shower. Will anything happen is some good punky-pop, some might say pop-punk. Heart of Glass is one of the best pop songs. Is this what disco could've been? Every song on here does something for me. 5/5 Debbie Harry is so cool

I mean you know this a 5/5 so let's talk about Blondie. Did you know Blondie, specifically Debbie Harry, helped to put rap on national TV for the first time? In the early days of rap, it was the sound of the Bronx while New Wave and punk were appearing in Manhattan. Instead of staying completely separate, there were crossovers as the grafitti artists bridged the gap between the two art scenes. The downtown New Wave groups started to adopt rap styles in their songs. That's where Blondie's 1980 hit Rapture came from, and it was in 1981, on Valentines Day, that Debbie Harry, after bringing them onto the show herself, introduced the Funky 4+1 as they performed on SNL. That's The Joint by the Funky 4+1 is awesome by the way. Anyway, this isn't even Blondie's best album. That crown is held by the 2001 CD reissue of Autoamerican, which includes the first printing of their hit song "Call Me" on a Blondie album. Call Me fucking rules, it was produced by Giorgio Moroder and it fucking DRIVES, like all of Moroder's songs. It was also recorded for the soundtrack to the movie "American Gigolo" for some fuckin reason. A lot of the early synth masters did soundtrack work. Giorgio did Chase for Midnight Express. Jan Hammer did the theme to Miami Vice. Vangelis did Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, and Wendy Carlos did The Shining and Tron. Funny how that works.

Good.

Gotta love Blondie. Great proto-80's

straight fire

I saw Blondie live once and it took my virginity. Also, my boss said he was a groupie for Blondie for a summer in college and followed them around the prairie states and got to go backstage and party with them the entire time. That was cool to learn.

A lot of bangers in here. I also think the organization of tracks on the album was done really well. 4.5 rounded up

9/12, 75%

Cool as anything, this gets nine Debbies out of ten.

Banger after banger from Debbie Harry and company. The fact that they put a record out with this many hits was news to me. I’ll be listening to this again.

Very good

Awesome album from start to finish, every single track has something going for it, and Deborah Harry has a great voice, she did an awesome job going for a soft tone in "11:59" to and more aggressive delivery like in "One Way Or Another". This is just a fun album in general and I really appreciate it, it has a lot going for it and I can see why it is so loved, consider me a fan. Awesome album cover by the way. Rating: Fantastico (Decent ☆☆☆☆☆) Favorite Tracks: 11:59, I Know But I Dont Know, One Way Or Another, Fade Away and Radiate, and Will Anything Happen.

I've always loved this album

Why don't I listen to Blondie more?

Blistering new-wave post-punk rock-pop-disco

This album is just so listenable and is one I can never see myself not returning to. Yes, there are a few fillers on here, but it captures the post punk moment perfectly and is such a fun, fun, fun listen

Mästerverk, kan vara en av de mest perfekta popskivorna någonsin

Been years since I listened to this. I think my opinion has only grown. Freaking 🔥

4.5

I would never have listened to this on my own. I forgot how good One Way or Another is outside of movie needle drops. Debbie Harry has such a strong and commanding voice. Holy shit, that first minute of Fade Away and Radiate hits so good. Then you get the proggy I Know But I Don't Know. This album covers a lot of territory in the best way. I was all in by the time Heart of Glass hit, which sounded so good in the context of the whole album experience. 💯 Did not expect to dig this album so much

Heart Of Glass and One Way Or Another are classic jams but Will Anything Happen, Sunday Girl and Fade Away And Radiate are excellent deep cuts, so don't sleep on those. The whole album is solid from start to finish, down to the Buddy Holly cover

Great sound.

01) Hanging on the Telephone - 10,0 02) One Way or Another - 10,0 03) Picture This - 8,5 04) Fade Away and Radiate - 8,5 05) Pretty Baby - 8,0 06) I Know but I Don't Know - 8,5 07) 11:59 - 8,5 08) Will Anything Happen? - 8,5 09) Sunday Girl - 10,0 10) Heart of Glass - 10,0 11) I'm Gonna Love You Too - 8,5 12) Just Go Away - 8,5 TOTAL: 8,96 (90/100) Current ranking: 53/475

Even if every song isn't a total smash, you're never bored listening to this album as they veer from an almost 50s pop revival (Pretty Baby) to borderline punk (I Know but Don't Know.) The steady new wave thread is present through out, held down by ultimate cool girl Debbie Harry's vocals. Might be more like 4.5 stars, but rounding up because Debbie Harry is a bad bitch.

Some albums are just perfect aren't they?

This is a 4.5 for me, justice for half stars etc, but I love Queen Harry too much to round down here

Too cool

Absolutely fantastic album from the start to the finish. Watched Blondie on TOTP back in the day and was instantly in love with Debbie Harry!

Probably my favorite New Wave album I’ve listened to all the way through. As one of the creators of the genre, it’s only fitting that they do it the best. Parallel Lines doesn’t have the same punk attitude as their self-titled, but that anti-establishment flair does glimmer from time to time. 4.5/5

One of the best albums ever!

Dang. Banger after banger. The songs I hadn’t heard before were bangers. The hits were obviously bangers. A great album.

Geniales.

OMG, how long ago was it when I listened to this album? It must have been ages. It's still one of the greatest pop albums ever. Harry's voice and this almost crazy mix of different genres with a breadth and depth seldomly seen created something very special.

Great album, lots of variety and a great voice on Debbie Harry

Stone cold classic. First album in a minute that I finished listening and now it’s in my head.

blondie's third album, as well as their other early entries in the late 70s and early 80s are a spectacle. with plenty of generational hits and forgotten tracks as well, this is a really solid punk rock album. miss debbie harry alone has a tough and unbothered energy all her own, and even with tense recording sessions, the band and her voice go hand in hand. this album is significant in the fact that it played an absurd part in shaping the rebellious, counterculture new wave sound that would blossom like a rose in the 1980s.

Amazing amount of hits here in just one album, some absolute classics here as well 4.5*

Actually nice 70's rock. Enjoyable back to back.

This album feels it was put together by record execs and it was one of the times they got it absolutely right. They didn't know what to do with Blondie so they did everything and it worked.

Never listened to the whole album despite knowing and enjoying a bunch of the songs. So much of this can be heard as influencing what would come for the next 4 decades.

The less famous tracks are great, too.

Banger after banger of feel good new wave