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There's no Rumour to be found here, unless it's scuttlebutt that this is an excellent album. In fact, it's Graham Parker's third-best album, and his greatest without the storied backing band he started out with.
Acoustic guitar punctuated with dashes of electric are the order of the day on this, certainly a more songwriter type of record than Parker had released up until this time. The songs are almost all very good. Parker is generally more melancholy than angry, starting with "Don't Let It Break You Down," which asks us to buck up in relating darkness that amounts to "just everyday evil."
Parker isn't afraid to look inward here, as on "I Don't Know," which has a charming little guitar riff: "I don't know why it's not enough / To feel moments of mighty love / I can't think why I'm not fulfilled / I don't know why my heart is chilled."
Amid these midtempo strums are some really lovely, memorable melodies and some nicely varied approaches, such as bass-led "Get Started. Start a Fire" and the reggae lilt of "The Girl Isn't Ready."
Parker, who two songs earlier had spit out "Success" as "Suck-sess," closes with the inoffensive cover of "Cupid," and the little fella must wonder what he's doing on this album, just as we all are. Oh, well. No harm done, but it's an odd end on an album of such tuneful originality. Rate Your Music User Review
5014757071225
FIENDCD 122
Demon Records, 1988
Country: UK
Good condition; some surface scratches visible but plays through faultlessly
C01
