PARALLEL LINES
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by the American rock band Blondie, released in September 1978 by Chrysalis Records. The album reached #1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and proved to be the band’s commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached #6 in April 1979. As of 2008, the album had sold over 20 million copies worldwide. (More from Wikipedia)
The lead song on the Nerves’ EP, “Hanging on the Telephone” was gloriously covered by Blondie and became the opening track on their breakthrough album Parallel Lines.
(April 2010)
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As a collector, I also keep my eyes open, and I actually did have a chance to get the famous Andy Warhol banana cover of The Velvet Underground & Nico album for a halfway reasonable price. (I’m just as happy that I didn’t buy that one and just got the reissue album instead, since it would have gone down in Katrina like all the rest). My attitude is this: Why buy the same old Parallel Lines album that everyone else has, when I can get the Brazilian import for practically the same price? (Thus, I don’t consider the Blondie album that Ernie Guyton gave me to be a duplicate.)
To return to the present that Ernie Guyton bought me, one of the albums was a long-time favorite that had not yet surfaced for clean-up from Katrina – Blood, Sweat & Tears’ Child Is Father to the Man – and I almost immediately played it. I waxed enthusiastically about that album a couple of months back, and that was due in no small part to being reacquainted with that wonderful music. Two other old friends that hadn’t come up for cleaning either were also included: Blondie’s Parallel Lines, and Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
(November 2012)
