Graham Parker & the Rumour - Not If It Pleases Me: BBC Live 76-77 Audio CD
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Band: Graham Parker & the Rumour
Title: Not If It Pleases Me: BBC Live 76-77
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Release Date: 2003-07-28
Media: Audio CD
Tracks: 1: White Honey 2: Back Door Love 3: Don't Ask Me Questions 4: Soul Shoes 5: Hotel Chambermaid 6: Pouring It All Out 7: Help Me Shake It 8: Heat Treatment 9: Lady Doctor 10: Silly Thing 11: Fool's Gold 12: Gypsy Blood 13: Not If It Pleases Me 14: New York Shuffle 15: Kansas City
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Hard to top I hope these recordings don't go out of print. This is one of the best rock albums I own. This is the great Rumour lineup and Parker is at his peak during the Howlin Wind, Heat Treatment, Stick to Me era (of course he did great stuff after, too). I'd get it before it disappears.
It pleases me.
The British Broadcasting Corporation recorded all these tracks. These songs were recorded in 1976 and 77 when Graham Parker & the Rumour were at their peak. Half in the studio for a radio broadcast and the other half for a concert also broadcast. This CD is a timely reminded of just how good Graham Parker & the Rumour were. Parker may not have been the most powerful singer in the world (and very often his voice is drowned out by the band), but he sang his heart out with a soul inflected style that oozed passion. His main strengths lay in his song writing. Apart from Lieber and Stoller's Kansas City, all the songs are his. Like other songwriters from that period - Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, Steve van Zandt, - he was swinging rock music away from extended jams and focusing on actual songs, and what excellent songs he wrote: White Honey, Soul Shoes, Silly Thing, Gypsy Blood, New York Shuffle, and many others which all appear on this CD. The Rumour were the perfect foil for Parker. They match his passion with a real ability to play their instruments, especially the lead guitarist, Brinsley Schwarz, who has never played better than on this album. Listen to his blistering guitar on Soul Shoes or his Cooderesque accompaniment on Back Door Love to see what I mean. Graham Parker & the Rumour were always under-rated. Maybe this CD will rekindle interest in him. I hope so.
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