Parallel Lines
by Blondie
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Parallel Lines is ranked as the best album by Blondie.
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Parallel Lines track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 01/05/2026 02:12 | subnam | 155 | 44/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2026 08:52 |  Milhaud | 1,714 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/27/2025 05:01 | AbsurdCheesecake | 331 | 87/100 |
| ! | 12/12/2025 19:57 | bonnequestion | 1,599 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/08/2025 03:59 | Exist-en-ciel | 6,112 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.9/100, a mean average of 80.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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Perhaps the greatest new wave album of all time. All songwriters and band members have a cohesive style that is endlessly enjoyable and unique. 9.5/10!
Boltzmann 11/29/2023 07:18 | #300198
I could do without their sorry attempts at metal in the first side. The latter side is a return to the simple rock tunes we love, but it doesn't hold up to their debut.
Tracks 1-2, 4-6 ??
Solid record
Very good album, influential for its time, I love One Way Or Another, Picture This and Heart Of Glass, but overall this album is not my thing.
Parallel Lines is a landmark album and more than forty years later it still rocks. Critic Robert Christgau was accurate when he called it "a synthesis of the Dixie Cups and the Electric Prunes"
This album is a killer synthesis of fast-paced rock with the sweetness of old school doo-wop and girl groups. The band and Debbie Harry's vocals have a slight retro sound, coming off as classy rather than musty. I especially love the Crickets / Buddy Holly cover, a very fitting choice for the group.
Harry's vocals are stunning and powerful. She has a confident, gentle delivery with a tasteful ragged edge, very reminiscent of Nanci Griffith.
The influence of Blondie on later bands is easy to spot, especially rock groups with a lead female singer like No Doubt and especially Paramore. Parallel Lines is a pivitol New Wave album.
Essential.
Condensed to a 7" Single:
A-Side: Heart of Glass
B-Side: Picture This
Album Rating: 73.33
(880/12)
1. Hanging On The Telephone. 73
2.One Way Or Another. 78
3.Picture This. 84
4.Fade Away And Radiate. 79
5.Pretty Baby. 71
6.I Know But I Don't Know. 69
7.11:59. 72
8.Will Anything Happen? 69
9.Sunday Girl. 70
10.Heart Of Glass. 78
11.I'm Gonna Love You Too. 67
12.Just Go Away. 70
Aside from a couple of dogs (I Know But I Don’t Know and Just Go Away), this is a really fun and well constructed record. There’s a lyric in 11:59 that captures the mood of the entire album: “Take me down the highway like a rocket to the ocean”.
That’s the essence. Fast, carefree, here to have a good time. Debbie Harry is perfect in the role of the girl who would give you so many headaches but is irresistible nonetheless.
teague 09/16/2021 16:48 | #273809
Heart of Glass and One Way or Another are superb, the rest are adequately enjoyable.
decent enough couple of major hits
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