Squeezing Out Sparks

Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks

Squeezing Out Sparks
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Artist: Graham Parker
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-08-04
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
  1. Discovering Japan
  2. Local Girls
  3. Nobody Hurts You
  4. You Can't Be Too Strong
  5. Passion Is No Ordinary Word
  6. Saturday Nite Is Dead
  7. Love Gets You Twisted
  8. Protection
  9. Waiting for the UFOs
  10. Don't Get Excited
  11. Discovering Japan [Live][#]
  12. Local Girls [Live][#]
  13. Nobody Hurts You [Live][#]
  14. You Can't Be Too Strong [Live][#]
  15. Passion Is No Ordinary Word [Live][#]
  16. Saturday Nite Is Dead [Live][#]
  17. Love Gets You Twisted [Live][#]
  18. Protection [Live][#]
  19. Waiting for the UFOs [Live][#]
  20. Don't Get Excited [Live][#]
  21. I Want You Back (Alive) [Live][#]
  22. Mercury Poisoning [Live][#]

Free Music Notes for Squeezing Out Sparks

Free Music Review: New wave R&B rocker drops the big one
Hit: 5 Stars

Graham Parker was always able to write just as smart a tune as Elvis Costello but rarley got the same notice. More loyal to his R&B roots, Parker had difficulty getting the same record deals and crowd appeal as McManus (E.C.) However, it was impossible to ignore this disc which represents Parker at his song-writing best.

Along with some pub rock touches left over from his preceeding albums, Parker branches out into experimental pop territory here. An interesting use of re-verb on Love Gets You Twisted, hook-laden pop with humerous social commentary on Local Girls (also exists as a sardonically funny video), another excursion into reggae influenced pop on Protection with intense lyrics of political overthrow. Parker's previous attempt utilizing reggae touches - Don't Ask Me Questions- and later songs - The Girl Isn't Ready - shows a flair displayed by other R&B and Reggae artists to code switch between the genres as when Bob Marley made the switch from his early covers of R&B hits to reformulating them using reggae rhythms.

Still other songs show great inventiveness in subject matter as on Waiting for the UFO's and Discovering Japan. The record's big moment comes on You Can't Be Too Strong. Some reviewers have narowly interpreted this song as an anti-abortion plea and evidence of his conservatism. But that would be narrow-minded. More likely Parker is referring as much to the universal and timeless idea of the removal of his lover's heart as of her fetus and of the narrator's determination to put the relationship behind him. Besides, how conservative could he be if he sings about making friends with aliens and, later, championing scorned women on The Mona Lisa's Sister cd?

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