ARTIST: Graham Parker
TITLE: Songs Of No Consequence
LABEL: Bloodshot Records
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 196kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-06-07
RIP DATE: 2005-06-06

Track List

01. Vanity Press                    3:47
02. Bad Chardonnay                  4:45
03. She Swallows It                 2:54
04. Chloroform                      5:15
05. Evil                            3:03
06. Dislocated Life                 3:59
07. Suck'N'Blow                     4:58
08. There's Nothing On The Radio    3:30
09. Ambivalent                      4:11
10. Go Little Jimmy                 3:43
11. Local Boys                      3:01
12. Did Everybody Just Get Old?     3:27

Release Notes:

Nearly 30 years after his debut LP Howlin' Wind piggybacked
Van Morrison's white man's soul with Mick Jagger's blue-eyed
snarl, Graham Parker continues to churn out records from a
thinking-man's songwriting stoop at the corner of Sarcastic
and Wry. His unyielding pub rock stature once ran in critical
circles with the likes of fellow Brits Elvis Costello and Nick
Lowe, and the fifty-something has aged with the same lyrical
elegance and literate style, chronicled in the Farfisa-led
life reflection "Did Everybody Just Get Old" and "There's
Nothing on the Radio," still another doubting Thomas diatribe
about the FM dial. Parker's nasally vocal delivery and lip-
smacking pop hooks recall Marah on the album's two catchiest
efforts: "Dislocated Life," which pokes fun at a day that's
anything but routine, and "Bad Chardonnay," where he unfurls
the secrets to a three-decade rock æn' roll life. That's
cigarettes and bad Chardonnay. And a songwriting dexterity
that, unlike that Chardonnay, gets better with age. r