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Graham Parker & the Rumour - Heat Treatment Audio CD

A fair review of the Graham Parker & the Rumour "Heat Treatment" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Graham Parker & the Rumour reviews here, or go back to the Graham Parker & the Rumour tabs.

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Title: Heat Treatment
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Release Date: 2001-07-09
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Heat Treatment 2: That's What They All Say 3: Turned Up Too Late 4: Black Honey 5: Hotel Chambermaid 6: Pourin' It All Out 7: Back Door Love 8: Something You're Going Through 9: Help Me Shake It 10: Fool's Gold 11: Hold Back the Night* - Graham Parker & the Rumour 12: (Let Me Get) Sweet on You [*] - Graham Parker & the Rumour

A Barely Dated Hybrid
Many call this classic rock 'n' roll. 4+, that is. If they're comparing it with Boston, Dave Matthews, or other such over-blowns/watered-downs, I see their point. However, I hear a delightful hybrid, the sort of merging more likely when most of the sources are faraway (as with the Beatles and black "girl groups," producing something derivative while different). Elvis Presley or Johnny Burnette & the Rock 'n' Roll trio, who in their day had never heard of Otis Redding, could still kick the Rumour's ass at bare-boned ROCK AND ROLL. But who cares? This is great stuff. Back when it came out, and my friends & I were 20-something, it revealed a mature yet fresh approach to what would later come to be called Alternative Rock, Rock - let's not start that whole argument again. While stages were being dominated by a bunch of boys, or boyish personas(the Ramones, Sex Pistols, et al) Parker & his cohorts, like distorted reincarnations of Frank Sinatra or Louis Jourdan, jumped up and said, "Wait a minute - we can play - and we have experience!" - very sexy. My girlfriends & I consistently helped pack sweaty dance floors at Parker's U. S. tours. Think we'd have trouble relating to the viewpoint of "Hotel Chambermaid"? The song, which is written & played in a wonderfully circular/resolving fashion, is so convincingly joyful as to transcend such considerations. Along with "Turned Up Too Late," "Back Door Love," "That's What They All Say," & a handful from Howlin' Wind & Stick to Me, it's a timeless reminder of the innocence, hope & raw oomph that lived before AIDS & a host of other plagues drained some of the roll out of rock. As to why Parker didn't make it "bigger," he was able to ride the New Wave's coattails but his aforementioned maturity (& lack of standout physical appeal - he was already going bald, for instance) placed the band in a relatively unmarketable nether zone. Elvis Costello was no handsomer but got lumped in with the New Wave and benefited from Stiff's dead-on marketing. Dave Edmunds had been around longer but was cuter and able to go in a more Pop direction. It didn't help that Parker was sometimes confused with Costello. Years later, I think Parker's music has aged better. And I'm certainly less sick of it - one of the benefits of lack of extended airplay? .


A Classic Remastered.
Anyone unfamiliar with GP should begin here. GP's "Heat Treatment" along with "Howling Wind" are considered 2 of the greatest records in the history of rock. These are the first 2 albums of a 30 year recording career that should have him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Yet, his name is almost never mentioned at voting time. The sound on these remasters is very good as well.


This is awesome...
Ahead of it's time in way of it's eclecticism mixed with punk rock. This sounds a lot like The Clash's London Calling. .


The way rock and roll was meant to be played
This album is the best piece of rock and roll Graham Parker ever did. OK, so I'm a boomer and this is a very nostalgic album for me. Mutt Lange back then was producing the best rock and roll records on the planet (now he just makes a ton of money producing sappy stuff for his wife Shania Twain). It was a great partnership, Parker and Lange. So what if a lot of the lyrics are inane. Every once in a while, a gem of a phrase comes through like a blast of cold air to the face. The posing and strutting are everywhere on this album. And that's what rock and roll is supposed to be.

It was the mid-1970s and Parker and Costello were making the most energetic and intelligent rock music around by far. They were playing small clubs and would own the joints by the time the night was over. And albums like this one were joys to listen to in a cinder block dorm. They made the Stones seem like plastic pieces of corporate trash in comparison. There's good pop music out there today that's got energy and some brains, Ben Folds for instance. And this stuff is just as good with a lot more punch. .


Incredible
Has there ever been so large a talent that has gone unrecognized in his lifetime ? Maybe Van Gogh is the only one. There is simply no way to describe the raw emotion and passion that GP has in his music. GP and the Rumour (the tightest back-up band this side of E-Street) rock out like their lives are on the line, with total commitment and a beat that won't quit. If you like Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen or Elvis Costello you'll love this. An Incredible CD.


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