Drawing perspective is a method of portraying objects on a flat surface so that the dimensions shrink with distance. Each set of parallel, straight edges of any object, whether a building or a table, follows lines that eventually converge at a vanishing point. Typically this convergence point is somewhere along the horizon, as buildings are built level with the flat surface. When multiple structures are aligned with each other, such as buildings along a street, the horizontal tops and bottoms of the structures typically converge at a vanishing point. When both the fronts and sides of a building are drawn, then
Parallel Lines make "Parallel Lines" an extremely popular album in the United Kingdom, where it was a number-one hit and charted for 106 weeks during the late 1970s. "Q" magazine called the album "a crossover smash with sparkling guitar sounds, terrific hooks and middle-eights more memorable than some groups' choruses." In a retrospective appraisal of 1970s post-punk albums, "Spin" magazine's Sasha Frere-Jones said "Parallel Lines" may have been "the perfect pop-rock record" and Blondie's best album. Christian John Wikane from "PopMatters" later called it "a creative and commercial masterpiece by Blondie ... indisputably one of the great, classic albums of the rock