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Heat Treatment | 
| Artist: Graham Parker & The Rumour
Label: Polygram UK
Category: Music
Buy New: $11.98
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 44851
Format: Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.6 x 0.5
UPC: 731454868228
EAN: 7314548682288
ASIN: B00005LP1I
Release Date: July 9, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 9 to 13 days
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| 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, Harris | | • | (Let Me Get) Sweet on You |
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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 A Barely Dated Hybrid October 23, 2005
Reviewer (United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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. September 6, 2005
Karl R. Jahnke (Irvine, CA)
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... May 11, 2005
Mikey Scars (Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
The way rock and roll was meant to be played November 23, 2004
moose_of_many_waters (Palo Alto, CA United States)
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.
Incredible August 21, 2004
Carlos Allen (Omaha, NE USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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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