Alongside the smart, snarling, sardonic Brit singers like Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson sits Graham Parker. He should be way more popular than he is; just a tremendous songwriter.
From the incredible album Squeezing Out Sparks, this is a blueprint for making a raw stripped down slow burn nightcrawl rocker. Its main point is the way a word like passion gets tossed around so cavalierly that people don't know what passion actually means or feels like. Parker said, "People are dull, aren't they? People aren't living to their max, or to anywhere near it. They're just drones or clones. Especially in England - they're just walking zombies. They believe what the TV tells them. They're just put in a direction and led there".
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