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Nel 1978, dall'alto dei suoi tacchi di plexiglass, la mechatissima, griffatissima, e fichissima Debbie Harry iniziava a guardare con un po' di sufficienza i suoi vecchi colleghi di garage (rock), ormai stufa della polvere dei soliti scantinati, e inesorabilmente attratta dalla capacità riflettente degli specchi di certi attici...
Secondo i più intransigenti contemporanei quest'album era una schiacciante prova di reato a carico dalla band, accusata di aver tradito il sanguigno rock'n'punk venato di frivolezze sixties degli esordi, a favore di un avvicinamento (orrore!) alla disco-music; ecco che oggi, caduti cappelli d'asino e steccati critici fra generi buoni e cattivi, pare arrivato il momento per togliere questo disco dall'Indice...
Detto per inciso che, a causa di imperscrutabili corsi e ricorsi storici, nel 2005 ci sarebbero decine di gruppi e gruppetti capaci di privarsi dei propri organi vitali pur di produrre una simile raccolta di scoppiettanti canzoni in bilico fra disco-wave e rock'n'roll, bisogna considerare che un album come Parallel Lines poteva essere liquidato come "commerciale" soltanto in una stagione così densa di capolavori come il quadriennio newyorkese 77-80...
Ai Blondie quindi l'arduo compito di aprire le dogane fra New Wave pura e "degenerazioni" pop-dance, stesse dogane che saranno varcate negli anni immediatamente successivi da altri (ci arriveranno, con esiti diversi anche i Talking Heads e Patti Smith).
Eccoci alle canzoni dunque; ad una sempreverde Heart Of Glass ancora capace di spingere verso il dance floor il più incartapecorito degli critici fa da contrappeso l'inattesa ventata di sperimentalismo della cupa Fade Away And Radiate, con un insospettabile Robert Fripp (stavolta in versione tascabile) a smanettare sui suoi loop... Nel mezzo filastrocche al vinavil come Pretty Baby, l'irresistibile 11:59 (...se sapeva anche cantare!), la perfetta leggerezza di I Know But I Don't Know e Hanging On The Telephone, tutte condite da una voce sempre più capace di destreggiarsi fra opportuni miagolii, squittii e ruggiti.
La perfezione del maquillage di questa Biondina resisterà egregiamente ancora per un pugno di hits, grazie al magico tocco di Giorgio Moroder, poi saranno altri tempi, altre mode, altre occhiaie...
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01 Hanging on the Telephone (02:24)
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
I know he's there, but I just had to call
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I heard your mother, now she's going out the door
Did she go to work or just go to the store
All those things she said, I told you to ignore
Oh, why can't we talk again
Oh, why can't we talk again
Oh, why can't we talk again
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
It's good to hear your voice, you know it's been so long
If I don't get your calls then everything goes wrong
I want to tell you something you've known all along
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
I had to interrupt and stop this conversation
Your voice across the line gives me a strange sensation
I'd like to talk when I can show you my affection
Oh, I can't control myself
Oh, I can't control myself
Oh, I can't control myself
Don't leave me hanging on the telephone
Hang up and run to me (oh)
Hang up and run to me (oh)
Hang up and run to me (oh)
Hang up and run to me (oh-oh-woah-oh)
Hang up and run to me
02 One Way or Another (03:35)
One way,or another, I'm gonna find ya;
I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya;
I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna see ya;
I'm gonna meet ya meet ya meet ya meet ya!
One day, maybe next week,
I'm gonna meet ya, I'm gonna meet ya, I'll meet ya!
{Bridge #1}
I will drive past your house,
And if the lights are all down,
I'll see who's around...
One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya;
I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya;
I'll get ya! I'll get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna see ya;
I'm gonna meet ya meet ya meet ya meet ya!
One day, maybe next week, I'm gonna meet ya;
I'll meet ya! Ahhh...
{Bridge #2}
And if the lights are all out,
I'll follow your bus downtown,
See who's hangin' 'round!
One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya;
I'm gonna give you the slip!
A slip of the hip for another;
I'm gonna lose ya, I'm gonna trick ya!
I'll trick ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya;
I'm gonna trick ya trick ya trick ya trick ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya;
I'm gonna give you the slip!
I walked down the hall,
Stand over by the wall,
Where I can see it all,
Find out who ya call!
Lead you to the supermarket checkout,
See specials on rack
Then get lost in the crowd!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;
I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;
I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;
I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;
I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;
I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
03 Picture This (02:57)
All I want is a room with a view
a sight worth seeing
a vision of you
All I want is a room with a view
I will give you my finest hour
the one I spent
watching you shower
I will give you my finest hour
All I want is a photo in my wallet
a small rememberance
of something more solid
all I want is a picture of you
Picture this - a day in December
Picture this - feezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids if it
weren't for your job at the garage
if you could only,
Picture this - a sky full of thunder
Picture this - my telephone number
One and One is what I'm telling you
All I want is 20-20 vision
a total portrait
with no omissions
All I want is a vision of you
If you can...
Picture this - a day in December
Picture this - feezing cold weather
You got clouds on your lids and you'd be on the skids if it
weren't for your job at the garage
if you could only,
Picture this - a sky full of thunder
Picture this - my telephone number
One and One is what I'm telling you
get a pocket computer
try to do what ya used to do.
04 Fade Away and Radiate (04:01)
Ooh baby, I hear how you spend night-time:
Wrapped like candy in a pure blue neon glow.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Ooh baby, watchful lines vibrate soft in brainwave time.
Silver pictures move so slow.
Golden tubes faintly glow.
Electric faces seem to merge.
Hidden voices mock your words.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Beams become my dream.
My dream is on the screen.
The beams become my dream.
My dream is on the screen.
Dusty frames that still arrive
Die in nineteen fifty-five.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
The beam becomes my dream.
My dream is on the screen.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
Fade away and radiate.
06 I Know but I Don't Know (03:54)
"Hey, y'know?"
"Uh, I dunno."
I know but I don't know.
I know but I don't know.
I know but I don't know.
I know but I don't know.
I give but I don't get.
I will but I won't yet.
I lose but I don't bet.
I'm your dog but not your pet.
Now I know but I don't care.
Then I know but I don't see.
Now I see but I don't know.
I care but I don't care.
I could but I won't be.
You can but not with me.
It's all a mystery.
Locked out without a key.
Now I care but I don't care.
And I know but I don't see.
Now I see but I don't know.
I know but I don't know.
Now I know that you don't know.
And I see that you don't see.
I care but I don't care.
I don't care that you don't know.
08 Will Anything Happen? (03:01)
I always said you could make it
I know what I said and I meant it
I always liked the way you played guitar
I always knew that someday you'd go far
And if you do will anything happen?
Will it come true will anything happen?
Will I see you again?
You said you'd be through here again
Please don't forget I'm here waiting
You always said that you would never change
Like the people that you've met and the places that you've been
And if you do will anything happen?
Will it come true will anything happen?
Will I see you again?
Will I see you again?
I always said you could make it
Just don't forget that I said it
Cause I always liked the way you played guitar
And I always knew that someday you'd go far
And if you do will anything happen?
will it come true will anything happen?
Will I see you again?
Will I see you again?
Will I see you again?
And if I do will anything happen?
09 Sunday Girl (03:05)
I know a girl from a lonely street
Cold as ice cream but still as sweet
Dry your eyes sunday girl
Hey I saw your guy with a different girl
Looks like he's in another world
Run and hide sunday girl
Hurry up hurry up and wait
I stay away all week and still I wait
I got the blues
Please come see what your lovin means to me
She can't catch up with the working crowd
The weekend mood and she's feeling proud
Live in dreams sunday girl
"Baby I would like to go out tonight"
"If I go with you my folks'll get uptight"
Stay at home sunday girl
Hey, I saw your guy with different girl
Looks like he's in another world
Run and hide Sunday girl
When I saw you again in the summer time
If your love was as sweet as mine
I could be Sunday girl
Hurry up hurry up and wait
I stayed away all weekend
And still I wait
I got the blues, please come see what your loving means to me
Hurry up, hurry up hurry up and wait
I got the blues please, please
Please come see what you do to me
I got the blues
Hurry up,
Hurry up hurry up and wait.
Hurry up,
Please come see what you do to me
10 Heart of Glass (03:48)
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out, I had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Much of mistrust, love's gone behind
Once I had a love and it was divine
Soon found out I was losing my mind
Seemed like the real thing, but I was so blind
Much of mistrust, love's gone behind
In between, what I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine,
love is so confusing there's no peace of mind
If I fear I'm losing you
It's just no good, you teasing like you do
Once I had a love and it was a gas
Soon turned out I had a heart of glass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Much of mistrust, love's gone behind
Lost inside
Adorable illusion and I cannot hide
I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside
We coulda made it cruising, yeah
Yeah, riding high on love's true bluish light
Once I had a love and it was gas
Soon turned out, to be a pain in the ass
Seemed like the real thing, only to find
Much of mistrust, love's gone behind
11 I'm Gonna Love You Too (02:10)
You're gonna say you miss me
You're gonna say you'll kiss me
You're gonna say you love me
And I'm gonna love you too
I don't care what you told me
You're gonna say you'll hold me
You're gonna say you'll love me
Cause I'm gonna love you too
After all another fella took ya but I still can't overlook ya
I'm gonna do my best to hook ya
After all is said and done
I don't care what you told me
You're gonna say how you'll hold me
And you're gonna say you love me
Cause I'm gonna love you too
You're gonna tell me sweet things
You're gonna make my heart sing
And I'm gonna hear bells ring
Cause I'm gonna love you too
You're gonna say you'll kiss me
You're gonna say you'll miss me
You're gonna say you'll love me
Cause I'm gonna love you too
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