Parallel Lines

His face dropped a little.

I said, "I've got Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits." [laughing] "And I have, uh, Blondie, Parallel Lines." And he looked at me and he said, "You like Blondie?" [laughing] I said, "I do." He said, "But you're a Banner of Truth trustee." [laughing]

Not anymore.

[laughing]

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Parallel Lines, which is a-

Yeah, classic

... all-time storming record.

Um, so yeah, 1978 was a great year for, for Blondie.

Um, they'd already had some A-class singles with Denis and I'm Always Touched by Your Presence, Dear from Plastic Letters, and then they dropped this blastingly good album.

Um, they went on to do some more good stuff, but nothing quite managed to max out the brilliance that pa- Parallel, Parallel Lines achieved.

2017's Pollinator album was pretty good.

And, um, and got in there, and, uh, Blondie were playing.

Parallel Lines was on the stereo.

Oh.

And in this little tiny little-

I'm gonna get you, get you, get you, get you.

One Way or Another was released by Blondie in 1978 from their album Parallel Lines.

Debbie Harry actually has a pretty cool horror history, including her role in Videodrome, but I digress.

One Way or Another was actually inspired by a pretty terrifying experience that Debbie Harry had with an obsessive ex.

Do they? Okay.

Blondie totally got it because I remember loving Blondie, then, you know, then when Parallel Lines, it was great, but the, but no one knew who they w- none of the people I went to school with knew who Blondie were ex- till, um, Heart of Glass came out.

So, like, you know, I remember Johnny Ramone saying, "You know, Blondie's okay, you know, but, you know, th- they're gonna do a disco song to have it.

Well, whatever." He was, like, embittered by that and thought that they'd really sold out, even though it was just a, to me, it just seemed like it was, like, a token number on the album.