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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Parallel Lines rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 16/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 30 Music Albums of 1978 | 3/30 | 5 |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 51 Music Albums of 1978 | 1/51 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Artists Pt 2 | 13/100 | - |
| 2026 | Strixen | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 25/40 | 38 |
| 2026 |  baystateoftheart | My AA Roster: 201-300 All-Time | 36/81 | - |
| 2026 | henrygreen0203 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 47/100 | 11 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 40 Music Albums of 1978 | 17/40 | 3 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 97/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 99 Music Albums of 1978 | 49/99 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 875 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 6,171 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/07/2026 19:17 | youtoom | 298 | 100/100 |
| ! | 10/07/2026 02:48 | OldWiseOne1969 | 160 | 82/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2026 08:48 | Siromynian | 1,786 | 74/100 |
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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 81.0/100, a mean average of 80.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Parallel Lines forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 5 days ago in Chart of the day (#5462): By henrygreen0203View latest topic →
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Parallel Lines comments
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Brad1770 TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/30/2018 07:47 | #223571 | TOP COMMENT
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I've always respected Blondie as a singles band and pick any one of the plethora of Blondie Best Of's out there and you've got yourself a slam dunk winner
Having said that 'Parallel Lines' is a great album as an album and is easily their best
'Parallel Lines' is some thing of a strange beast that some how works brilliantly with not 1 but 2 obscure Nerves covers in opener "Hanging on the Telephone" and side 2 opener "Will Anything Happen?" , plus a 3rd cover version this time Buddy Holly's "I'm Gonna Love You Too". The album also includes IMHO 2 perfect 100/100 tracks in "Picture This" and the legendary "Heart of Glass"
This album gets me every time
75/100
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Norman Bates 03/22/2013 19:32 | #69547 | TOP COMMENT
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However cheesy you might think some of the songs are (and some very well might be), frankly, this record is irresistible.
planetneutral 01/13/2018 02:21 | #205341 | TOP COMMENT
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Generally great songs, punctuated by a couple of exceptional ones.
~SMiLE~ 03/01/2013 17:23 | #66550 | TOP COMMENT
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Parallel Lines is Blondie at their best.
Born out of the New York punk rock scene of the mid-1970s, Blondie made a astonishing shift toward pop-oriented material releasing "Parallel Lines" in the fall of 1978. There were nods to Buddy Holly , the girl groups of the 60's, as well as touches of reggae and disco. It was an album of Rock 'n' Roll which balanced everything from surf to edgy punk to sixties pop brilliance and rolled up in downtown New York chic. A well written, well played, well produced pop rock gem.
Space-Dementia 11/24/2015 18:45 | #153406 | TOP COMMENT
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It has some catchy songs on there, like One Way or Another, or Heart of Glass, but overall there's a lot of filler. Not bad, though.
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