Blondie: Parallel Lines Poll

i have just purchased this album and i can't stop listening to it. i think i'm voting for "Pretty Baby" but going to wait until later in this week to vote.

it seems wrong to choose a cover but 'telephone' is just awesome

my vote for most overrated trk on this album = one way or another

"Fade Away And Radiate"

1. "Picture This"
2. "Picture This"
3. "Picture This"
4. "Picture This"
5. "Picture This"
6. "Picture This"
7. "Picture This"
8. "Picture This"
9. "Picture This"
10. "Picture This"
11. "Picture This"
12. "Picture This"

The only song less than awesome is "I'm Gonna Love You Too."

I picked "11:59" over "Pretty Baby," the American singles," and "I Know But I Don't Know" because I relate to its hysteria all too well.

i don't think anything on this album could be overrated. i couldn't rate it high enough. i love all the hits, especially "picture this" and "hanging on the telephone" but it's gotta be "11.59".

eh, i suppose it's just another way of saying 'this song i don't really like gets lots of attention'

it seems wrong to choose a cover but 'telephone' is just awesome

Clem Burke's drum fill right in the middle there is one of my favorite couple seconds of rock music ever.

ok. i see. i've always dug it but i'm not sure why it's the one that always gets used on tv here.

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extremely tough call as many have noted but 11:59 features one of the most emotional final-verse modulations I've ever heard - so often, modulation just comes off like total cheese, force-feeding you a response, but in 11:59 the modulation conspires with the sadness of the lyric to sound like a moment of almost exhilarated resignation - just an incredible moment, the crowning glory of a vocal performance that numbers among DH's best in my opinion. People gotta show more love for "Sunday Girl" here too though, it's a good one.

i'm tempted to go for "Heart of Glass" due to the lack of love it's getting here

i have nothing but love for "heart of glass". i have listened to this album more times in my life than any other except possibly "eat to the beat".

sidewalk social scientists don't get no satisfaction from your cigarette

but yeah, all the singles are great too. (i like the greatest-hits version of "sunday girl" with the verse in french more than the album version.)

i don't want to overthink it so "I Know But I Don't Know"

I wrote this on some other forum last month.

She is waiting for the phone to ring across the hall, she's going to stalk you around town (New York City). If she could have some souvenirs, or your number so she wouldn't have to wait on you to call. She sees you late at night on television, thinks you're James Dean or somebody, it's hazy. She knows it hopeless, but she wants to make you notice, maybe flirting with a girl will turn you on, she's retreating deeper into fantasy. She realizes you are unaware. More nights on the town, stalking and dreaming, losing her mind. She thinks you are a girl again. She is bitter used and wasted, time to go dancing. One last chance. Now it is over, you escaped. just go away.

Pretty Baby you look so heavenly.

Heart of Glass is pretty much a perfect song, guys. That neat beat-missing trick is some good icing, too.

Used to love Sunday Girl but it seems a bit... thin now, somehow.

.. and if I do... Will anything happen?

Completely impossible ... "One Way or Another" is definitely the most overrated song on the album, most underrated I'd say is "Will Anything Happen?"

Sidewalksocialscientist don't get no satisfaction, from your cigarette.

Six of the twelve tracks were issued as singles, either in the U.S. or the UK.

can anyone name these 12 songs? i'm curious to see what songs were singles here and in the UK.

or six tracks rather

"Picture This" (UK), "I'm Gonna Love You Too" (US), "Hanging" (UK/US), "Heart of Glass" (UK/US), "Sunday Girl" (UK) and "One Way or Another" (US).

I knew "One Way" wasn't a UK single cos I didn't hear it until the late 80s but I'm surprised "Sunday Girl" (and to a lesser extent "Picture This") were never US singles.

11:59

New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation by Gary Valentine has made an unlikely appearance, perched atop piles of Patricia Cornwells and Stephen Kings, in my local bargain bookshop. Worth reading?

^Definitely! He was always my favorite of the Blondie bass players. Although it's a little surprising how '60s-obsessed he admits to being in that book.

very surprised that "One Way or Another" wasn't a single both places, that seems to be the biggest hit on here besides "Heart of Glass."

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"Sunday Girl"

"Sunday Girl"

i just heard the original incarnation of heart of glass and it only took me 31 years. its nice.

Clem Burke's drumming in "Heart of Glass" outro = best ever.

If "Sunday Girl" was the Best Of version with the French verse/chorus grafted in, I'd pick that. Since it's not, I vote for "Pretty Baby."

is there an outro drumming thread/poll? xpost

good idea!

(im not qualified for a poll list)

(i did just hear will rigby do the outro raveup drum thing on black and white and it was not bad i guess)

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so i'm voting for this:

Someone dug up the Blur picture!!! FANTABULOUS!

Oh wait...we're having a Blondie poll! Excellent! I'll take Fade Away & Radiate or Will Anything Happen please. Probably will end up voting for the latter.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

or should this be the real winner?:

heart of glass video by david lynch is subliiime (pls ignore gucci part at the end):

One vote for One Way Or Another

Hanging on the Telephone. Great song by the Nerves, even better cover by Blondie.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

woo

woo (again)

no surprises

Ha ha... and the first US single from the album was... ?

boooooo

I guess folks are tired of One Way Or Another, now, eh? I am too, but it's the guitar solo that saves it every time.

reminds me of that commercial

I don't even remember what commercial, really

How did "One Way or Another" end up doing so poorly? Zounds!

'Cause it reminds everybody of that commercial

Alex in NYC, I missed you on the last Britney thread <3

just listened to this album today, my top three would be: "11:59, Sunday Girl" and "Pretty Baby." ha pretty much in order.

i see Bimble was in this thread, still miss that guy :-(

Pumping like a fugitive in cover from the night
Take it down the freeway like a bullet to the ocean
Wait until the morning, take tomorrow by the hand
Take it down the highway like a rocket to the ocean, we can run
Today can last another million years
Today could be the end of me
It's 11:59, and I want to stay alive

i love the kinetic way harry sings these verses, like the syllables are trying to get ahead of themselves.

just go away should have gotten more than 1 vote

the bridge is like

First thought on seeing the thread title: "Will Anything Happen?" But it seems I am very, very rong.

First impression on seeing your user name was "Nagl Nagl Nagl" but hey..

I still think it's funny that "I'm Gonna Love You Too" was the first US single off of this. Like "yeah guys, nice work but it's a little short on original tunes… let's put out the Buddy Holly cover."

I think the group explains that it was because that was the year of The Buddy Holly Story but still…

my least favorite song too

"11:59" is full of great lines. Sidewalk social scientist don't get no satisfaction from your cigarette.