OH, YOUR POLL IS BEAUTIFUL - ILM Artist Poll #83 - BLONDIE - RESULTS THREAD

I think this was top 5 for me

Pretty baby was my number 3, y'all are crazy for not getting it to the top ten

pretty baby would have been high on the ballot i didn't send in.
that melody over the simplest of shuffles...
tmw words fall away and there's nothing left but whoa...

http://i.imgur.com/wVVnOmL.jpg

13. Just Go Away [12 votes | 0 #1 votes | 241 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

My number 2!!!

Perfect closer to a perfect album

#4 on my ballot. So many bands would be fortunate to have a song anywhere near this good anywhere on an album. Blondie crafts an album so great they can save it for the very end.

Huh. Another of my least favorites. Different strokes.

GO AWAY AND STAY AWAY

love the call and response, peak petulance in rock and roll

http://i.imgur.com/HkH7vb8.jpg

12. Sunday Girl [11 votes | 1 #1 vote | 252 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

First time I ever heard this was the "Greatest Hits" version that combined the English and French, and was surprised/confused to discover they weren't actually recorded that way on the album! The idea of a song that changed languages halfway through struck me as really cool (I was 14). And I was taking French in school, so I could at least understand phrases like "Depeche-toi, depeche-toi attends."

http://i.imgur.com/XKXdKjp.jpg

11. X Offender [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 256 points]
Blondie, Dec 1976

"Sunday Girl" was my number 1, the perfect pop song. Can't believe it's not in the Top 10.

http://i.imgur.com/Nw0uwgg.jpg

10. Rapture [11 votes | 0 #1 votes | 258 points]
Autoamerican, Nov 1980

TOO LOW

Shayla and Just Go Away are only faintly known to me so they're a surprise to be just outside of the Top 10 certainly.

http://i.imgur.com/EQrpoGl.jpg

09. (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 280 points]
Plastic Letters, Feb 1978

My #1 - only 6 others voted for this?!

― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, July 14, 2017 4:25 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't get around to voting, but Pretty Baby would have been my #1 as well. Starting to worry that No Imagination isn't going to place

http://i.imgur.com/sxp1Ous.jpg

08. 11:59 [11 votes | 1 #1 vote | 292 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

Shayla would have been my no. 1 and 11.59 my no. 2. Both could have been singles. Shayla is massively underrated but almost any time I've played it to anyone who only knows the singles they have been blown away by it.

I love "X Offender," and "In the Flesh," but it took me a little while. The first time I ever heard them (on Rhino's DiY punk series) they sounded like weird parodies of pop songs, to me. "Denis" has a bit of this as well.

http://i.imgur.com/YrX28Lq.jpg

07. Fade Away and Radiate [12 votes | 1 #1 vote | 305 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

i didn't vote, but "11:59" at only #8 is insane. also insane: blondie released six (!) singles from parallel lines and "11:59" wasn't one of them.

xp now we're talking

http://i.imgur.com/3Jp1lzb.jpg

06. Picture This [14 votes | 0 #1 votes | 332 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

exactly right.

http://i.imgur.com/eCLuy6Y.jpg

05. Hanging on the Telephone [14 votes | 1 #1 vote | 336 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

http://i.imgur.com/2fLEy3l.png

04. Union City Blue [15 votes | 2 #1 votes | 386 points]
Eat to the Beat, Oct 1979

i can guess the last three but it could go either way on which of the last two will be no. 1.

http://i.imgur.com/O9H6Lm9.png

03. Atomic [14 votes | 3 #1 votes | 391 points]
Eat to the Beat, Oct 1979

oh! i was wrong. i thought this would be 2 or maybe even 1.

Gotta be Dreaming

http://i.imgur.com/IaIiS3l.jpg

02. Heart of Glass [16 votes | 3 #1 votes | 414 points]
Parallel Lines, Sep 1978

http://i.imgur.com/budpqKD.png

01. Dreaming [16 votes | 2 #1 votes | 517 points]
Eat to the Beat, Oct 1979

ATOMIC

Dreaming was the first song I ever heard in concert. They opened with this at Edinburgh Odeon on January 1st, 1980 and blew my 11 year old self’s mind. I had never experienced such excitement or euphoria before in my life and can remember those 3 minutes more clearly than countless live moments I’ve been part of since; pure, unadulterated joy, way better than any drug anyone could ever invent and a pretty good way to start the 1980s. I still get a hint of that feeling every time I hear “Dreaming”. Debbie wore the same outfit she wore the night before in Glasgow when they said goodbye to the 1970s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sDYyHub8A

I didn't vote in this, but Presence Dear would have been my 1.

Thanks loads for the poll. I wish I had contributed. Had I submitted a ballot, this would have been it. I maybe prefer “Pretty Baby” or “Victor” over say “I’m On E” but wanted to spread the love across the first four albums all of which I adore in their own way. Blondie will forever be my no. 1 if only because they were my first musical love affair and kickstarted a passion for music I hadn’t realised I had lurking in me.

5) Autoamerican
4) Blondie
3) Plastic Letters
2) Parallel Lines
1) Eat To The Beat

20) I'm on E
19) Rifle Range
18) Rapture
17) Denis
16) X Offender
15) Living In The Real World
14) The Hardest Part
13) Fade Away and Radiate
12) Rip Her to Shreds
11) Slow Motion
10) Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
9) Union City Blue
8) Heart of Glass
7) (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear
6) Picture This
5) Hanging on the Telephone
4) Atomic
3) Dreaming
2) 11.59
1) Shayla

How were they live at their peak?

I don't even wanna know :)

it was my first concert so i had nothing to compare it with but i'd still put it in my all time top 5 several thousand concerts later. they were on fire.

stirmonster thanks so much for that memory, great stuff and I posted that "Dreaming" link on FB

:-)

The best outcome possible!

this was so much fun nate woolls, thanks for taking over this poll. wish it was a bit more festive and had more time during the day to post.

Spotify is not updated, let me fit that...

*fix

Great result. That top 10 shows what a wonderful band they were. Every song is a classic.

Fade Away & Radiate was my number one. It has probably my favourite guitar solo of all time.

Thanks for running this Nate!

Spotily: ILM Blondie

i was also able to add "Under the Gun."

Great poll Nate, kept moving things around but my number one was never in doubt

Hanging on the Telephone
Just Go Away
Pretty Baby
11:59
Atomic
Dreaming
Heart of Glass
Fade Away and Radiate
Shayla
Sunday Girl
I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No
Rip Her to Shreds
Union City Blue
Picture This
Eat To The Beat
Bermuda Triangle Blues
Accidents Never Happen
In The Sun
Slow Motion
Contact in Red Square

Sunday Girl
11:59
Dreaming
In the Flesh
Pretty Baby
Picture This
The Tide is High
One Way or Another
Fade Away and Radiate
Heart of Glass
The Hardest Part
Atomic
Shayla
Just Go Away
Rip Her to Shreds
X Offender
(I’m Always Touched By You) Presence Dear
Union City Blues
T-Birds
Call Me

Albums:

Parallel Lines
Eat to the Beat
Blondie
Autoamerican