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This is awesome...
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Heat Treatment
Graham Parker & the Rumour
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
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Binding: Audio CD

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Howlin' Wind
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ASIN: B00005LP1I
Release Date: 2001-07-09

Tracks:

Heat Treatment
That's What They All Say
Turned Up Too Late
Black Honey
Hotel Chambermaid
Pourin' It All Out
Back Door Love
Something You're Going Through
Help Me Shake It
Fool's Gold
Hold Back the Night* - Graham Parker & the Rumour
(Let Me Get) Sweet on You [*] - Graham Parker & the Rumour

Album Description

Remastered reissue of 1976 release. 12 tracks in all featuring 2 bonus tracks 'Hold Back The Night' & '(Let Me Get) Sweet On You'. Mercury Records.

Album Details

Digitally remastered with new sleeve notes from Parker, bonus tracks, expanded booklets and photos.

Customer Reviews:

A Barely Dated Hybrid.......2005-10-24

4+, that is. Many call this classic rock 'n' roll. 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........2005-09-06

GP's "Heat Treatment" along with "Howling Wind" are considered 2 of the greatest records in the history of rock. Anyone unfamiliar with GP should begin here. 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..........2005-05-12

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

Incredible.......2004-08-22

There is simply no way to describe the raw emotion and passion that GP has in his music. Has there ever been so large a talent that has gone unrecognized in his lifetime ? Maybe Van Gogh is the only one. 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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The way rock and roll was meant to be played
GOD BLESS YOU GRAHAM
GOD BLESS YOU GRAHAM
An awesome follow up to Howlin Wind
exhilirating

Heat Treatment
Graham Parker & the Rumour
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Howlin' Wind
Squeezing out Sparks
Don't Tell Columbus

ASIN: B000001FF6
Release Date: 1990-02-21

Tracks:

Heat Treatment
That's What They All Say
Turned Up Too Late
Black Honey
Hotel Chambermaid
Pourin' It All Out
Back Door Love
Something You Are Going Through
Help Me Shake It
Fools' Gold

Customer Reviews:

The way rock and roll was meant to be played.......2004-11-23

OK, so I'm a boomer and this is a very nostalgic album for me. This album is the best piece of rock and roll Graham Parker ever did. 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.

GOD BLESS YOU GRAHAM.......2002-04-20

ANY 40+ WHO DOESN'T RESPECT THIS MANS' EFFORT IS A NUMBSKULL.
WHERE ARE YOU GRAHAM?, PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP
I HAVEN'T THANKED YOU ENOUGH YET FOR
'MAKING ME GLOW".
TWENY YEARS TODAY AND THIS GUY SAVED MY LIFE AGAIN! WITH A SNIPPET OF "FOOLS GOLD"

GOD BLESS YOU GRAHAM.......2002-04-20

An awesome follow up to Howlin Wind.......2000-06-26

If you have Howlin Wind, Stick to Me (which you may be able to find used) and this one, you have collected some of the best rock and roll of the last 30 years.

This one is not QUITE as good as Howlin Wind in my opinion, but that was a damn hard album to top.

GP came pretty close here. The songs here, especially Pourin It All Out, Thats What They All Say, Black Honey, and Fools Gold are truly GP at his most eloquent. The Rumour truly rock and are one of the most soulful bands I have ever heard. They will knock you down.

The man is an underrated genius who has spent the last 23 years trying to sell albums to people other than rock critics. Why don't people buy his music? I have no idea... but you should. If you like rock and roll, lyrics with an edge and music with soul (which is something music seems to lack these days) - then you will like Graham Parker.

exhilirating.......2000-03-07

This along with Struck by Lightning is Parker`s best album. His second and really the one that marked out Parker as something unique. It`s hot,sweaty--perfectly titled--with a great cover photo. It`s guys rock without being neanderthal. The Dylan,Stones and Van Morrison influences are more subdued, and gritty black soul makes its entrance. The stand-outs are Pourin It All Out and Fools Gold; truly you have never heard rock and roll until you have heard Pouting it All Out; a hardrocking riff,wounded Dylan lyrics spat out,a band so tight it`s unbelievable...you can almost hear the musicians scorching their instruments. Fools Gold is like Sam Cooke meets Otis Redding over Roy Orbison guitars and soul-boogie keyboards. Hotel Chambermaid,Heat Treatment,Something You`re Going Through (Van MOrrison meets ska and reggae) That`s What They All Say and Help Me shake It all drip passion,groove and gorgeous melodies. Produced wonderfully with a raw country-blues sound by Robert Mutt Lang,who incidentally is now married to and produces and writes with Shania Twain. Strangely enough this album isn`t that far away from the sounds Twain has,along with Sheryl Crow,Counting Crows,Shelby Lynn and a host of present day `country` rock type people. This just has a hell of a more kicking bass. The ballad side isn`t too represented; Turned Up Too Late and Black Honey; but they`re just breaks in an unbelievably intense group of songs. That intensity soul music is supposed to have,but rarely does? Here it is.

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Heat Treatment
Graham Parker
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002547YI
Release Date: 2004-01-20

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