Blondie Albums Ranked From Worst to Best 

Fun fact, "Maria" was their sixth UK No. 1, making them one of the few groups to have a UK No. 1 in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

I for one am glad Blondie got back together because they’ve entertained thousands with their brilliant live shows.

Really looking forward to this one. I never thought they'd make the rotation so quickly.

Parallel Lines is a perfect pop masterpiece. All killer. Even the Buddy Holly cover is killer and it's filler. The album is that killer. Mike Chapman deserves a ton of credit for the production.

Great video guys. :D I have loved Blondie from an early age. I first saw them on TOTP with Heart of Glass when I was around 4 and it was number 1. I fell in love with Debbie Harry and had the poster given away with "The best of Blondie" on my wall growing up. I think you nailed it with Parallel lines - gorgeous album and fade away and radiatde has to e one of my favorite songs from the album. x

You nailed Blondie's run of albums. I love this band's early period.

I’m with Kramzer this week. Love Blondie, especially Parallel Lines and Eat To The Beat, which are two near perfect albums. No one mentioned The Hardest Part, one of my favourite tracks, there’s a great music video for that one too (the whole Eat to the Beat album track by track has great music videos). I also don’t know how Jason dislikes Atomic, such a cool track!

First comment since I think my first watch from Listography, the Queen video, but I've watched a whole bunch of these ranking videos since and I must say, I really appreciate you guys going through these large discographies. I feel like I'm learning something about artists who I largely ignored, except maybe for a few albums, which tends to happen with large discographies, especially when there's a clear divide between their "good" and "bad" material. I'm someone who listens to a lot of hard rocka nd metal but grew up with jazz, got introduced to new wave, and finally got more into punk much later in life (hey, what can i say? You want shorter songs when you realise you're getting old and tomorrow might be your last day on earth!). Blondie's a perfect example of the kind of band I mostly ignored, as I only have Plastic Letters and Parallel Lines, and to date these are still the only ones I've listened to. Interesting how the band would probably just tell you they were being creative with mashing together all these disparate styles, whereas most of us would say, they have no filter. It's great that you love reggae, but that doesn't mean you have to incorporate it into your band's music.

Just finished listening to all 11 and Joe and Jason are on the money here... the first five albums then forget the rest which stuffed up their legacy... great video guys are per normal...loved it

The tide is low so I'm mooooving slow. I'm going to be your number ze-ro.

Autoamerican is underrated as hell

I always liked the band and had all their albums (except one). One of the few pop-oriented CBGB bands, they were a lot of fun over the years. I still listen to them even though they are not top shelf albums. 10. Panic of Girls (3,5) 9. The Curse of Blondie (3,5) 8. No Exit (3,5) 7. The Hunter (3,5) 6. Pollinator (3,5) 5. Blondie (More of a promise of what was to come, it has not aged too well for me) (3,5) 4. Autoamerican (The first half of the album - LP side 1 - was really great, side 2 was almost unlistenable) (3,5) 3. Plastic Letters (3,5) 2. Parallel Lines (This is almost a greatest hits album...a bit too light to be my #1 but still I sing along with every song - bad for the rest of the world. Even Robert Fripp liked it enough to do a great appearance.) (4) 1. Eat to the Beat (Not a single bad track on this one and a few more edges than on Parallel Lines.) (4,5)

Great t-shirt Joe!

I'm really sad they don't talk about how good of a drummer clem is. Clem burke is underrated as hell as a drummer

Been listening to them since 78. Blondie is impossible for me to view objectively because I have such great memories as a kid. It's a very personal band to me. I dig that every song sounds very different, the Anti-Ramones if you will. That makes for incredible replayability. It's funny because when you said she wasn't a great singer I felt a little offended. Makes no logical sense of course, but 40 years of loving a band will do that to you. In full agreement about the reformed band though, some things are better left in history, and there is no way they could recapture the magic. I'm always fascinated by bands that have huge hits, but so many stinkers. Like how could the creative team responsible for something that feels transcendent also create such dreck? I'm thinking of Blondie, Boston, Van Halen and Rush as the worst offenders out of the bands I like. "Union City Blue" can't possibly be from the same band that created "Take it Back" Makes me respect a band like Led Zeppelin even more. Such a great run from start to finish, and even their worst songs are pretty damn good in context.

I imagine these are pre recorded, but I still feel like there is a goofiness here connected to the date it was posted. :D This video has inspired me to revisit their first six plus try the newest one so I'm excited for that! For me definitely a songs not albums band: My most listened to Blondie album is "The Best of Blondie" (the 1981 version), which is definitely a strong 5 star! Even though while at the record store I delightedly bought the first four on Vinyl and marveled at those great album covers, I only really remember Parallel Lines, which I historically thought of more like a 4 out of 5 album. Time to dig in! OH forgot, saw them in 1999 or 2000 touring behind Last Exit, and it was good not great, but glad I got to see them in action live nonetheless.

Great summation as always. Kinda hilarious how their second run gets treated, heh.. I especially love ‘this is what we were and look how bad we are now!’ 🤣 Anyway, I personally would put the debut in my Top 3. In my opinion it’s on a par with Eat To The Beat and certainly better than Plastic Letters which I never really connected with. I just love the punky CBGB’s vibe the debut has.

I only had their Greatest Hits on tape when I was a kid but I did listen to it a lot. Never got a regular studio album.

Blondie's later stuff is uneven. A really fun band to see perform.

Nick Cave’s back catalogue would make a fantastic discography, guys.. 😆😉

I was waited for this one guys. Can u do phish next or grateful dead

One of the first CDs I ever owned was The Best of Blondie that was released in the 80s and I've had Autoamerican and Eat to the Beat on vinyl for as long as I can remember. I had no idea they had so many modern albums but to be honest after these reviews I kinda want to hear them just to hear some of this for myself. Your reviews were hilarious.

I love the hunter album. My favorite blondie album.Way underrated album,some of their best most creative sounding album.

I am glad they got back together as they are great live.

For me all you really need is a Greatest hits album, though i do quite like pollinator.

Ha! Loved the comment on Harry’s uninspired rapping. BTW Please rank Seals and Croft albums; can’t find an analysis of their work anywhere, Thanks!!

Fun Fact: 'Maria' seems to be more popular in Germany than 'Heart of Glass' is. At least in the last 20 years. Heard it a couple of times on the radio still to this year. 'Heart of Glass' not so much. I also think 'Maria' is better but we will come to that tomorrow.

1. Parallel Lines (1978) 5/5 2. Blondie (1976) 4.5/5 3. Eat To The Beat (1979) 4/5 4. Plastic Letters (1977) 3/5 5. Autoamerican (1980) 3/5 6. Pollinator (2017) 3/5 7. Panic Of Girls (2011) 3/5 8. No Exit (1999) 2.5/5 9. The Hunter (1982) 2.5/5 10. The Curse Of Blondie (2003) 2/5 11. Ghosts Of Download (2014) 1/5 I think it's fair to say that without Blondie the New Wave movement as we know it would not have existed.

1. Parallel Lines 2. Plastic Letters 3. Eat To The Beat 4. Blondie 5. Autoamerican . (big drop) 6. The Hunter . (huge drop) 7. No Exit 8. Pollinator 9. The Curse Of Blondie 10. Panic Of Girls 11. Ghosts Of Download I grew up with Blondie as a kid - I turned 8 midway thru 1976 - as I gradually shifted from rock (think Zeppelin, Tull, Rush) to the new wave/punk sound. I still love the first 5 records, and I consider them to be formative new wave/punk classics. They can't hold up against Armed Forces, Fear of Music, or Look Sharp!, but they're surely on par with Rocket To Russia, Freedom of Choice, or Drums and Wires.. They all still sound great. the Hunter is ok, but a big drop off... the last 5 are kind of bad.

I tried hard but couldn't really get into them. Nevertheless, I enjoyed hearing you guys' commentary.

I'm married to the band. If all they had ever written was Dreaming they'd still be in my top 3 artists. Autoamerican is their opus, I think. Plastic Letters has some of my favorite songs, and some of their best songs, and it might tie w/Eat to the Beat as my fave album because of some of those songs. But Eat to the Beat would be my pick for #1 album. Best drum intro on an album ever. The album goes from punk to ballads to reggae to pop. I love the juxtapostion of putting Sound-a-Sleep and Victor on the same album. I love the song Eat to the Beat...it's not everyone who can throw "alka seltzer" into a song and make it work, and the song is right on point w/Debbie's lyrical cleverness and penchant for smuttiness. And the gold star goes to whoever thought "you know what this song needs? Harmonica!" The album, itself, shows off Jimmy's superb writing, and the man could give lessions in how to use a synthasizer in a band w/out taking over. The album displays Chris' deep rooted influence in their sound -the spaghetti western guitar hook in Atomic just slays me. There's fantastic guitar licks all over the album. And those gorgeous vocals that just seem to hang there on Union City Blue and Shayla. Agh! That album is stellar. Sorry for the novel I just wrote!

Blondie didn't really break up in 1982. Chris Stein got sick. Debbie Harry went solo for a few albums. They probably had a bad early record deal with the first six. Not sure if they made any money then. Debbie Harry also acted a lot in the 1980s.

Ooooh Jason ranking a rap group's discography... now THAT would be a fun watch. I'd suggest Run the Jewels, Tribe Called Quest or Public Enemy for that venture (that may never happen).

1. AutoAmerican. 2. Blondie. 3. Parallel Lines 4. Eat to the Beat. 5. Plastic Letters. Her first five albums are her most inspired and most important. On her sixth album, there was a noticeable drop in quality and importance. For me, and for a lot of long time devoted Blondie fans, she never released anything on par after that point. But those first five albums, though.... P.S. Can't forget that she had some great singles during this period too. 'Call Me' was huge....

A great video this chaps & i have to say Debbie Harry was the sole cause of Global Warming in the late 70s to mid 1980s & even today she looks great.... Saw them on The Hunter Tour when it was coming to an end first time around & what an appalling album it was but thankfully all the classic songs were played also! My Top 5 albums are... 1 - Parallel Lines 2 - Eat To The Beat 3 - Blondie 4 - Plastic Letters 5 - Autoamerican...

love the intensity of this one

I just got into Blondie this past year. Eat To The Beat is my favorite album and contains at least three of my favorite Blondie songs, Dreaming, Accidents Never Happen and Atomic. I also quite like their debut album and The Hunter. Parallel Lines has one song that I absolutely hate and that is One Way Or Another. That’s why I don’t think Parallel Lines it their best, though I do love quite a few songs from it, like Fade Away and Radiate, Hangin’ on the Telephone and I Know But I Don’t Know. The only reunion album is like is No Exit.

Can you guys consider album rankings for Amy Macdonald and Patti Rothberg please

I think Blondie is a great hit singles band that made one classic album. You three know which one I'm talking about. Thank you for this interesting episode.

Blondie is an unusual band. You could choose to buy only their greatest hits or their entire discography, and it doesn't really make that much difference which you go for. The hits are essential and represent the best of what the band has to offer, but they also have a lot of worthwhile deep cuts spread out among the filler. Whether you buy everything or just the hits, you still, of course, get the hits. But the deep cuts both matter and don't matter, somehow. You'll still get the complete Blondie experience without delving deeper, but if you delve deeper, then you get "more" Blondie. And that's a good thing, but also not necessary... I don't know where I'm going with this...

I was a teen through the initial run and stopped buying the albums after Autoamerican. Your reviews tell me that was probably a good decision. Why cloud the waters and sully the memory? I've never actually drafted a list but I'm sure Parallel Lines would make my top 50 albums of all time. I love Eat to the Beat almost as much. And I think "Rapture" is great fun. :D 1. Parallel Lines 2. Eat to the Beat 3. Blondie 4. Plastic Letters 5. Autoamerican

16:04 ❤the art work by Chris Berens . And D-day is a fun punkish on this awesome project a throwback,kinda like Debbie’s song, comic books from def dumb and blonde ,it’s a fun album. ❤You have to be a blondie fan to get it.

You have to be a fan to appreciate them . Your exactly where you need to be.

IMO, the official live version of the song No Exit is actually really cool. DH raps Collio’s verses.

Call Me and the excellent b-side Suzy & Jeffrey are on the remastered version of Autoamerican, making a great Blondie album even better!

Jason - good call on the Bowie influence on Autoamerican.

Hearing "Call Me" by Debbie and Giorgio Moroder is missing from Parallel Lines, is so weird for me. That song was made for American Gigolo, the essence of Call Me is totally different than any song from Parallel Lines. Also rating Autoamerican so down below just goes to show that this video wasn't thought that much. And Jason not liking Blondie, like I can see that, but giving the Album "Blondie" so much bad reviews being their first album, like come on, is way better than most albums for other artist today.

Speaking of bands who broke up and came back from a classic period. Echo & the Bunnymen. That would also be highly entertaining for me to see you guy rank.

I love thier comeback albums

Know you’ve done Simon and Garfunkel, but have you ranked Paul Simons solo albums?

Great ranking gentlemen! And generally Im right there with you. Parallel Lines is tops. Pollinator is a worthy addition, perhaps No Exit...the other new ones...Meh. Cheers Matt

Parallel Lines is my 2nd favorite Blondie album. just inching past it is Eat to the Beat. "Victor" is one of my favorite ever Blondie songs (it's not about Frankenstein, Joe. I don't fully know what it's about, but the gist is someone fleeing from their country and their lover into the arms of their new lover). Parallel is undeniably great, however, and I like every album until I get to the Hunter. Debbie Harry also made some pretty bad solo records, but I saw her live 3 times and she is a DYNAMITE performer-the 1st time I saw her, she opened for Tears for Fears and blew them off the stage!

Parallel Lines actually won 1978 for me, though that was easily my least favorite year of the 70’s, as my 4-1/2 star albums (also including The Man-Machine from Kraftwerk and The Cars debut) were on the lower end. I do really like their debut a lot as my second favorite - the mix of girl group, proto-punk and New Wave influences is really appealing to my ears, and I like the various “perky” synth tones. 😉 I still haven’t gotten around to listening to Panic of Girls and Ghosts of Download like I said I would, but I agree with Kramzer that No Exit and Pollinator are perfectly good albums that give their comeback years some merit for me. My ranking so far: 1. Parallel Lines (4.5 stars) 2. Blondie (4) 3. Eat to the Beat (4) 4. Plastic Letters (3.5) 5. Autoamerican (3.5) (corny as the rap section might be, I still really like “Rapture” a lot) 6. Pollinator (3.5) 7. No Exit (3.5) 8-9. I haven’t listened to The Curse of Blondie in awhile, so I’m not sure if it’s a low 3 or high 2.5, but The Hunter from recent listening is a low 3 for me, so the jury’s still out on this one.

I love the way Blondie's music riles some people and they don't care they just keep don't going.

The first 4 albums were great. Some of their newer albums are not going to be great but that is how it goes. Some singles did not make it on these albums maybe if they had the albums later on would have better. Food for thought.

Interesting talk. Have never really considered Blondie a top notch albums band but they actually did have a couple of good ones. Parallel Lines and Plastic Letters

I believe it was Joe who mentioned listening to some of these on RU-vid with the commercials in between the songs. You know it is a bad album when the commercials sound better than the album you are listening to.

1. Parallel Lines . . . 5/5 2. Eat to the Beat . . . 5/5 3. Plastic Letters . . . 5/5 4. Debut . . . 4.5/5 5. Autoamerican . . . 4.5/5 6. The Hunter . . . 4/5 7. Panic of Girls . . . 3.5/5 8. No Exit . . . 3.5/5 9. Curse of Blondie . . . 3.5/5 10. Pollinator . . . 2.5/5 11. Ghosts of Download 1.5/5 Yeah. I'm a huge fan, so I found myself agreeing more with Kram here. A top 10 band for me. Some commentary if I may. Parallel Lines: The best, but close among the top 3 classics. The album cover art defines "skinny tie" music. Boys, unless I missed it, I don't recall anyone mentioning "country" among all of the genres that Blondies dabbles in. "Picture This" has a country feel. My two personal faves "11:59" (the perfect pop song) and "Fade Away and Radiate", the James Dean tribute. Eat to the Beat: Yes, Boys. Terrible title. Not a great song; but a great album. This is the band at the absolute peak. They also released a promotional video for every damn song on the freakin album. That's ambition. "Atomic" a fave; with "Accidents Never Happen" a great deep dive. (Roulette wheel drums.) Plastic Letters: Some amazing and bizarre song subjects. I think Jason singled out "Bermuda Triangle Blues". Awesome song. "I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No" - best outro ever, maybe. Debut: Nearly another 5 star album. "Kung Fu Girls" a classic. Autoamerican: The band wanted to go into a different direction here. (They said so at the time.) I'm okay with the fact that they hit just about every possible genre. Did them all well, here. The hidden gem: "Angels on the Balcony". Also, my favorite album cover art. The Hunter: A step down from the first five classics but still a very good album. "English Boys", the Beatles tribute, my favorite. Panic of Girls: That's right, Boys. Their best reunion phase album. Sorry, Joe and Jason. I hear what you guys are sayin but gotta disagree. I think it is such a joyful, fun album. Kind of hit or miss. Some bittersweet, beautiful gems such as "The End The End" and "China Shoes". No Exit: A bit of a bloated mess with many bad songs but the good ones outnumber the low points. The country styled "The Dream's Lost on Me" is a fave. The Curse of Blondie: Many people think they were Cleopatra in a past life; but in Debbie's case it is probably true. "Rules for Living" and "The Tingler" are two standouts here. Pollinator: Here's the one album where most people actually like it better than I do. The sound was an improvement but the songwriting is overall weak here. Ghosts of Download: Can't say anything that Joe hasn't already said in a funnier way. The only truly bad album in their discography.

Funny how Call Me is singled out as a missing ingredient on Parallel Lines. It appeared a year and a half later inbetween Eat To The Beat and Autoamerican.

Damn, Jason talking about how they packaged ghost of download with their greatest hits was the most emotion I’ve ever seen him 😂

Call Me was recorded in 1980. It should have been on Autoamerican. BTW, Clem Burke is one of the most underrated drummers in rock.

I really thought "Hello Joe" was gonna be Joe's all-time favorite Blondie song.

What amazes me about Blondie is how awesome they were in the 70s, even their 80s releases were good. However their modern stuff is some of the worst albums I can think of by a band I like lol 1. Eat to the Beat 2. Parallel Lines 3. Plastic Letters 4. Autoamerican 5. Blondie 6. The Hunter 7. Pollinator 8. No Exit (just for Maria) 9. Panic of Girls (bad but the next two are worse) 10. The Curse of Blondie 11. Ghost of Download

I've come to the opinion that the first album is great. It has a lot of good songs: Rifle Range, Kung Fu Girls, and Man Overboard are great, in addition to X Offender, Rip Her to Shreds, and In the Flesh. It's easily my #2 album of theirs.

When are you guys going to do David Lee Roth solo albums??

Autoamerican was a "wrong direction" album that spawned two Number One hits. Would have been three if they'd included Call Me.

Lester Bangs praised the debut a lot

12:37 I’m a faithful blondie fan and hello Joe is a homage ❤ to Joey Ramone

10:11 see it’s so funny how we see some albums I liked it! Undone, a fantastic song!

I was never a Blondie fan. I always felt they were overrated, and their popularity in the late 70s early 80s was due more to Debbie Harry's sexuality than the band's music. When most people discussed Blondie, they were talking about Debbie Harry, and not the band. I resented the fact that they were more popular and more highly regarded in the press than their contemporaries and my favorite band at the time, Talking Heads. I got over that resentment, and I have come to like some of their songs, but I still feel they were overrated.

Blondie 76-82 were a great band. In my top 20. 1. Blondie (not technically the best but my favorite) 2. Parallel Lines (hard to argue with this classic. everything works) 3. Autoamerican (dark horse of the catalogue) 4. Eat to the Beat (as good a sequel to a blockbuster as you can hope) 5. The Hunter (when i finally heard it i didn't get the bad reviews) 6. Plastic Letters 7. No Exit (i think Kramzer is right about this one) 8. Pollinator 9. Panic of Girls 10. The Curse of Blondie 11. Ghosts of Download

11) Panic of Girls (2 stars) 10) The Curse of Blondie (2 stars) 09) Pollinator (2 stars) 08) Ghosts of Download (2.25 stars) 07) The Hunter (3 stars) 06) Autoamerican (3.25 stars) 05) No Exit (3.5 stars) 04) Blondie (3.5 stars) 03) Plastic Letters (3.5 stars) 02) Eat to the Beat (4 stars) 01) Parallel Lines (4.5 stars) I was more methodical with this list. I rated every track and then averaged them to get the album rating. I will do all my album ratings like this from now on. Pretty much what you see is what you get, except I rated the lower albums lower than the average because too many less than good songs made the albums even worse. So instinct still comes into play. There were some stinker songs lower than two stars in there, but they didn't weigh their respective albums down enough to put them in the dreaded, deplorable, less-than-two-stars level.

I love Blondie, but I accept that it's based on a relatively small number of songs and really, only 4 albums, they lose me at Autoamerican. But their great stuff is so great that it contains multitudes so I don't bother with anything after Eat to the Beat aside from a handful of songs.

I'd argue despite The Hunters lack of great song....it's a nicer listen as a whole than Pollinator...

I only like their first five best to worest 1. Parellel lines 2. Eat to beat 3. Autoamerican 4. Blondie 5. Second album

was never interested in blondie enough to listen to a full album so i will defer to the judgement of the critics on this one.

I am surprised nobody mentioned Angels On The Balcony while talking about AutoAmerican

Guys - "Call Me" came AFTER "Eat to the Beat," which was AFTER "Parallel Lines." If anything, "Call Me" should have been on ETTB or Autoamerican.

I enjoy Blondie albums as a whole, but feel like "Parallel Lines" was another level of goodness from them, to the point where it kind of misrepresents the band. It's not my favorite of theirs ("Autoamerican" is), but it just has it all: great singles, terrific singing, a band that is in synch and worthy of Clem's drumming, fun lyrics, and a boatload of sexy attitude mixed with pop smarts.

Blondie is frigging awesome - Debbie Harry has an amazing combination of cool and awkward or nerdy - I love the science fiction in her lyrics sometimes - their second act is somewhat problematic but Pollinator is really good and the others have at least a few good songs on them - except for Ghosts of Download - that’s a dumpster fire -

I ran out of time for three albums but did my best....heres my list...and thoughts... Did they get their name from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? Would be cool if they did. Never been a true Blondie head....Suzie and the Banshees gave me my 80s new wave hit....along with Echo and The Bunnymen ... I did however fall for one album In a serious way and am impressed by frequency of hits...nearly every album has one or more... 8 No Exit 4/10 not the best...Maria highlight for sure...a bit stuck in it's 90s, out of tune on Double Take and many others but some risks worked. Gets a point for 'My little mutts gotta hairy butt'😂 Not aged well. 7 Pollinator 6/10 it's fine but I don't need to hear it again...liked last song Fragments ... find Best Day Ever most annoying ever - sry fans . 6 The Hunter 7/10 so 80s it's wearing a shell suite. A no hit Blondie album....? Still enjoyed. 5 Blondie 7/10 it's good sounding bluesy new wave but nothing exceptional. 4 Autoamerican 8/10 probably the most retro sounding record, smooth 50s jazz cafe/club with touches of jive and rock and early 60s psychedelia (Walk Like Me) . Pleasant and good quality album. The highlights are the less jazzy Tide is High, T-Birds, Call Me and the great use of orchestration throughout. 3 Parallel Lines 9/10 cannot argue with the quality of the hits. Very good album. 2 Eat To The Beat 9.5/10 excellent album....enjoyed more than Parallel Lines...darker - funkier and more energetic...yes! Title track ironically meh but only blip 1 Plastic Letters 10/10 I think this maybe their most diverse dark bluesy punky album song for song. I went back for more because it sounds so good.

1) AutoAmerican.....2) Parallel Lines.....3) Eat to the Beat

I was never considering it but Joe confirmed my fears to warn me off EVER listening to their 'comeback' albums. I don't care too much for the debut, Plastic Letters is good and Parallel Lines their peak. Eat To The Beat and Autoamerican is part of the slide downhill albeit with somre good tracks. I kind of agree with Jason that they are not a great band - not a new wave heavyweight like Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees or Talking Heads, for example - but Jason's measure of a band is all based on their albums (e.g. Todd Rundgren who had long since become irrelevant when Jason was giving him nominations for album and song of the year). He doesn't think singles exist unless they were on albums (Jason wouldn't rate Call Me because it doesn't texist unless he counts the American Gigolo soundtrack) So, from 1978-1980, I would call Blondie a great singles band, much like Abba but not at that level. But their consistent output in those years was pretty impressive and Parallel Lines brings it all together. They epitomised the accessibility of great pop music that exploded after punk in the new wave years (I think Kramzer might agree here) and it's a skill that hardly any of the prog bands of the early to mid seventies mastered. I know some of you rate Genesis' attempt at being cool and pop in the 80s but apart from Turn It On Again, it's pretty embarrassing compared to Blondie. If Blondie were embarrassing, Genesis even ironically referred to their lack of cool by naming their1991 album We Can't Dance, announcing their prog credentials 15 years after it all ended. Utterly cringeworthy.

Im somewhere in between Joe and Kramzer....I agree the top three albums are great album listens but I also agree there's too much unlikable mixed in for them to be a top 100 pick of mine... Plastic Letters is the great album I take from this though.

Here’s mine: 11. The Hunter 10. Pollinator (the crappy sound quality spoils it for me) 9. Ghosts of Download 8. Plastic Letters 7. No Exit 6. Eat to the Beat 5. The Curse of Blondie 4. Autoamerican 3. Panic of Girls (underrated, though the world music genre is an acquired taste) 2. Blondie (one of the best debut albums ever, pure surf/punk/pop) 1. Parallel Lines (still their undeniable best, though a LOT of people prefer Eat to the Beat)

One. Eat to the beat Two. Parallel lines Three. Blondie Four. AutoAmerican Five. Plastic letters Six. The Hunter I love classic Blondie. Reunion Blondie, not so much.

Love Joe's John Bonham shirt!

Love the phrase cool car wreck

One good thing I will say about Ghosts of Download....the album cover is fantastic.

Joe is awesome in this so far on number 9

The entire point of Blondie was experimentation. That's why fans love them. You don't know what you're getting til you play it. If you want the same sound over and over go listen to U2 Pretenders RHCP Coldplay and a 1000 others... Love there most recent albums except the awful songs Maria, Nothing's Real But The Girl, China Shoes, Diamond Bridge.

Has there ever been a band with a clearer first and a clearer last? Listography viewers want to know.

Blondie didn't jump on the Rap bandwagon later with No Exit. They had one of the earliest huge rap hits with "Rapture." Who doesn't like reggae? Punk in general picked up on the music of marginalized groups of people such as Disco, Reggae, and Hip Hop, because at the time punk itself was marginalized music by a marginalized group of people. The Clash followed a similar trajectory.

Atomic is a great song,how can anyone not like it,classic new wave disco,

1) FIRST 4 ALBUMS - you arrange them as you'd like. (I am partial to "Dreaming" as I remember when it came out and was just leaving "classic rock" and moving on to "punk/new wave". WHY did the title track not be a Number 1 song ?) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Autoamerican (has a few OK songs , oh Lord, I even like "Walk Like Me".) --------------------------------------------------------- Everything else ...CRAP .

Blondie had more than 2 albums? I like Heart of Glass and Dreaming. Debra Harry was probably the sexiest front person of all time!

Tide and Rapture, when they originally hit the radio, sounded more like cool New York insider vibey takes on emerging genres. Decades later , what was once fresh , has ,of course, staled through main stream overkill and mediocrity. It's like a magic trick that is no longer magic because you know how it's done.

1. Blondie * * * * 1/2 2. Parallel Lines * * * * 3. Plastic Letters * * * * 4. Eat To The Beat * * * 1/2

I like joes list best overall but I love jason gave auto american more credit

I Know But I Don't Know is not what I'd call a great song, but it's the exception, everything else works on PL.