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Squeezing Out Sparks [Import, Live]

Graham Parker & the Rumour (Performer) | Format: Audio CD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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1. Discovering Japan
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5. Passion Is No Ordinary Word
6. Saturday Night Is Dead
7. Love Gets You Twisted
8. Protection
9. Waiting For The UFO's
10. Don't Get Excited
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12. Local Girls
13. Nobody Hurts You
14. You Can't Be Too Strong
15. Passion Is No Ordinary Word
16. Saturday Night Is Dead
17. Love Gets You Twisted
18. Protection
19. Waiting For The UFO's
20. Don't Get Excited
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Squeezing Out Sparks was not only Parker's finest moment, but it still stands up today as one of rock's best albums. When it was first released in 1979, Arista simultaneously issued Live Sparks, a collection of live radiocasts that featured the same 10 songs in the same order plus the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" and Parker's kiss-off to his former label, "Mercury Poisoning." The latter package was made available only to radio stations and critics, but it was a riveting live record worth all of the $40 it commanded on the collectors' market. Now Arista has reissued the 10 studio tracks and the dozen live tracks on an invaluable single CD. Included are two versions each of rock's best pro-choice abortion song ("You Can't Be Too Strong") and best Hiroshima song ("Discovering Japan"). --Geoffrey Himes

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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4.0 out of 5 stars New wave classic Feb 2 2013
By mike279
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had a copy of this as a vinyl album and practoically wore it out playing it in my (distant) youth. Nice to get a digital copy and get it on to my iPod.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Parker is no Ordinary Musician Feb 4 2002
By 1
Format:Audio CD
It pains me to see artists such as Graham PArker ignored while the world fawns on no talent acts that have all the substance of a breakfast cereal with no fiber. All you have to do is to restrain the airheads that buy all that other music, make 'em listen to a few cuts from this record and you've done your good deed for the day.

Parker is an angry guy - but better than that, he's a literate angry guy who actually has a point to make. Many can say the same thing - but it's his essemtial sense of style and wit that makes it happen so well.

"When I pretend to touch, you pretend to feel" can sum up so much in such a short space. This album pushes and tugs at you with a relentless fury and it simply demands that you listen to it. It won't allow you to put it on as background muzak - it gets in your face and says _HEAR THIS NOW!.

Of course, some folks might not want a CD to be in their face and might find a CD doing this to them to be a tad scary - but hey - it's Graham Parker and you have been warned. Listen to the record at least three times and it'll be on your short list forever.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Graham Parker Album Jun 28 2004
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS was a great Graham Parker album as it was originally issued, and with a previously unreleased live album of its songs, plus two others, added to it, it gives you two albums for the price of one. Get it while it's still in print.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Get Ready to Program Your CD Player
Squeezing Out Sparks is regarded by most critics as the zenith of Parker's creative genius. And indeed the first five songs: "Discovering Japan", "Local... Read more
Published on Mar 8 2004 by I Feel Free
3.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant enough, but Parker ain't no Joe Jackson.
This is a passable album. Indeed, the appeal of songs the likes of 'Discovering Japan,' 'Local Girls,' and 'Mercury Poisoning' is manifestly apparent, even if I can't get quite... Read more
Published on Jan 12 2004 by GeoX
3.0 out of 5 stars Three excellent songs and some that are alright
Graham Parker is indeed an interesting artist, refusing to be labelled. His mix of different musical styles like rock, soul, pop, punk is usually very attractive and it's a shame... Read more
Published on Nov 26 2003 by L. B. Ivarsson
5.0 out of 5 stars yes, a classic, but...
this does indeed rate five stars, but then "howlin' wind" and "heat treatment," by the same standard, rate six. Read more
Published on Sep 29 2003 by John Rosemond
5.0 out of 5 stars As Good as Rock Gets
When SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS appeared in 1979, it quickly became one of my all-time favorite rock albums. Read more
Published on Aug 13 2003 by Wiki
4.0 out of 5 stars The Original Angry White Man
Seething, intense, heartfelt vitriol spewed over some of the catchiest, hard-rocking pop concoctions of the 1970s. Read more
Published on July 26 2002 by Lypo Suck
5.0 out of 5 stars A New Wave Classic
Without a doubt, "Squeezing Out Sparks" is Graham Parker's finest work. He most thoroughly demonstrates his versatile songwriting abilities here. Read more
Published on July 3 2002 by Dave Yoerke
5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Album From An Unheralded Song Writer
It is amazing that of all the names that emerged from the New Wave era that Graham Parker's name hasn't figured more prominently in North America. Read more
Published on April 25 2002 by Gordon S. Clarry
5.0 out of 5 stars High Tide for Parker and the Rumour
Ah, to have a touchstone like this in your career: an album that clearly defines you as an artist, and is a critical or financial success (or both!), to boot. Read more
Published on Feb 12 2002 by Timothy P. Young
5.0 out of 5 stars SQUEEZING OUT MOTTS
If they ever write the film score to Pattaya, they do not need to look any further than this album for the soundtrack, just take a look at the song titles to get a quick idea, in... Read more
Published on Oct 17 2001 by Kim Fletcher
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