Blondie - Parallel Lines (w/ guest Jonathyne Briggs)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Music, Music Commentary

4.3 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Author and professor Jonathyne Briggs joins Bill and Brian to discuss Blondie's breakthrough third album Parallel Lines (1978, Chrysalis). Jonathyne talks about underestimating the band as a singles band in his youth before really digging into their catalog after they reformed in the late 90s. Then Bill, Brian, and Jonathyne discuss sexism in the NYC punk scene, Mike Chapman's dictatorial production, Debbie Harry's voice, the excellent rhythm section - Clem Burke and Nigel Harrison, Robert Fripp's guest spot, disco and racism, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.7	1978's parallel lines by Blondie.
0:37.4	I'm, What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:43.2	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we follow that up with a track by track review.
0:45.1	Sounds good.
0:46.1	And we're not going to do it alone this week, Brian.
0:49.2	Not this week, Bill.
0:50.2	Who's our guest this week?
0:51.8	Our guest this week is a college professor, university professor.
0:57.1	He's a really smart guy.
0:58.6	And author, published author, named Jonathan Bricks.
1:02.6	Yes, and if that name sounds vaguely familiar, that's because he is a returning guest.
1:07.8	Yeah, a couple years ago, we had Jonathan join us to kind of give Brian and I a bit of a
1:13.9	lecture.
1:14.1	Yeah, like he taught us a few things.
1:17.6	Like how to pronounce Francois Zaradi's name correctly.
1:21.7	True.
1:22.5	Because Jonathan's book is a book called Sounds French, and then there's a subtitle that is kind of long.
1:29.0	The history of French pop music or something like that, yeah, and social culturalism and stuff like that.
1:35.8	But I wish Jonathan lived here. I know, right? So that I could really like take up more of his time than I do.
1:43.2	But he came on and he kind of gave us a bit of a rundown
1:47.6	of the history of rock and roll in France,
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