Graham Parker - These Dreams Will Never Sleep; The Best Of ... 1976-2015 [2016] (6 x CD's)

GRAHAM PARKER
Previously posted September 7, 2019

Graham Parker - These Dreams Will Never Sleep; The Best Of ... 1976-2015 [2016] (6 x CD's)

These Dreams Will Never Sleep: The Best Of Graham Parker 1976-2015 includes 90 tracks across six CDs, a compilation live DVD, a 36-page hardcover book featuring a new interview with Parker and an overview written by Holly A. Hughes, plus a poster and three postcards. These Dreams Will Never Sleep, The Best Of, 1976-2015 celebrates the incredible 40-year career of one of Britain's most seminal songwriters - Graham Parker. The 124-track box consists of three anthology discs with some of Graham's best loved recorded work as a solo artist and with The Rumour - one of the UK's pioneering pre-punk bands. The Live At The BBC 19 track disc includes very rare, choice picks from Graham Parker & The Rumour's 1979 Live At Hammersmith Odeon show, and Live From BBC Sight and Sound in 1977. Discs five and six are Live From The London Forum, these never before heard recordings are taken from Graham Parker & The Rumour's last ever live show in 2015, and also feature the legendary Rumour Brass Section for the first time since 1980. The whopping 34 track DVD (Not included here) is a perfect blend of old and new. A specially recorded live show taken from Graham Parker & The Rumour's last ever tour, last year at The Brook in Southampton makes up the first 21 tracks, and this is followed by rare archive solo performances in the late 70's on TV shows including Top of the Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test. Alongside this, there is a 36 page hardcover book, featuring a new interview with Graham and an overview written by Holly A. Hughes, as well as a poster and three postcards. (Amazon)

This is a stellar collection, very well thought out from beginning to end. If you are a fan, you have no business being on the fence. Beyond the sheer bliss of the anthology presented on disks 1-3, the live material from the 70s displays Parker and Rumour at the peak of their powers, which is to say it is relentless and everything you love about them.

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Track lists

CD1

01 Graham Parker - I Got My Soul 2:46

02 Graham Parker - That's When You Know 2:58

03 Graham Parker - Sunny Side Down 2:41

04 Graham Parker - The Raid 3:13

05 Graham Parker - Between You and Me 2:26

06 Graham Parker - Don't Ask Me Questions 5:37

07 Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind 3:58

08 Graham Parker - Nothing's Gonna Pull Us Apart 3:23

09 Graham Parker - Soul Shoes 3:06

10 Graham Parker - Pourin' it All Out 3:17

11 Graham Parker - Black Honey 3:58

12 Graham Parker - Turned Up Too Late 3:38

13 Graham Parker - Stick to Me 3:28

14 Graham Parker - Watch the Moon Come Down 4:49

15 Graham Parker - Thunder and Rain 3:16

16 Graham Parker - The Heat in Harlem 7:31

CD2

01 Graham Parker - Lady Doctor 2:49

02 Graham Parker - Gypsy Blood 5:01

03 Graham Parker - Fools Gold 4:16

04 Graham Parker - Nobody Hurts You 3:39

05 Graham Parker - You Can't Be Too Strong 3:17

06 Graham Parker - Passion is No Ordinary Word 4:25

07 Graham Parker - Love Gets You Twisted 3:01

08 Graham Parker - Empty Lives 5:09

09 Graham Parker - You Hit the Spot 3:33

10 Graham Parker - You Can't Take Love for Granted 4:37

11 Graham Parker - Wake Up (Next to You) 5:10

12 Graham Parker - Back in Time 3:24

13 Graham Parker - Under the Mask of Happiness 3:34

14 Graham Parker - Big Man on Paper 4:08

15 Graham Parker - The Kid With the Butterfly Net 3:53

16 Graham Parker - Weeping Statues 3:22

CD3

01 Graham Parker - Just Like Joe Meek's Blues 4:10

02 Graham Parker - Disney's America 4:48

03 Graham Parker - Honest Work 3:59

04 Graham Parker - Sharpening Axes 4:49

05 Graham Parker - Blue Horizon 5:18

06 Graham Parker - Cheap Chipped Black Nails 4:43

07 Graham Parker - Cruel Lips 4:02

08 Graham Parker - Nation of Shopkeepers 5:06

09 Graham Parker - Bad Chardonnay 4:46

10 Graham Parker - England's Latest Clown 4:53

11 Graham Parker - 1st Responder 3:13

12 Graham Parker - Long Emotional Ride 4:29

13 Graham Parker - Live in the Shadows 3:06

14 Graham Parker - What Do You Like 2:44

15 Graham Parker - Flying Into London 4:09

16 Graham Parker - Going There 3:39

CD4

01 Graham Parker - Discovering Japan 3:33

02 Graham Parker - Local Girls 3:39

03 Graham Parker - Thunder and Rain 3:11

04 Graham Parker - Don't Get Excited 3:41

05 Graham Parker - Back to Schooldays 2:41

06 Graham Parker - Passion is No Ordinary Word 4:31

07 Graham Parker - Mercury Poisoning 3:03

08 Graham Parker - Heat Treatment 3:06

09 Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind 4:45

10 Graham Parker - Stick to Me 3:18

11 Graham Parker - Love Gets You Twisted 3:09

12 Graham Parker - Crawling From the Wreckage 3:01

13 Graham Parker - Saturday Night is Dead 3:14

14 Graham Parker - Nobody Hurts You 3:58

15 Graham Parker - Protection 4:38

16 Graham Parker - White Honey 3:01

17 Graham Parker - Hotel Chambermaid 2:58

18 Graham Parker - Pourin' it All Out 3:53

19 Graham Parker - Don't Ask Me Questions 5:24

CD5

01 Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind 4:32

02 Graham Parker - Stop Cryin' About the Rain 3:44

03 Graham Parker - Thunder and Rain 3:30

04 Graham Parker - Long Emotional Ride 4:44

05 Graham Parker - Get Started, Start a Fire 5:18

06 Graham Parker - Pub Crawl 6:03

07 Graham Parker - Wall of Grace 4:22

08 Graham Parker - Stick to Me 3:45

09 Graham Parker - Passion is No Ordinary Word 4:56

10 Graham Parker - Watch the Moon Come Down 5:27

11 Graham Parker - Railroad Spikes 4:44

CD6

01 Graham Parker - Hotel Chambermaid 3:07

02 Graham Parker - Protection 5:06

03 Graham Parker - Pourin' it All Out 4:19

04 Graham Parker - Back to Schooldays 3:27

05 Graham Parker - Local Girls 4:32

06 Graham Parker - White Honey 3:10

07 Graham Parker - Fools Gold 3:42

08 Graham Parker - Heat Treatment 3:53

09 Graham Parker - You Can't Be Too Strong 4:21

10 Graham Parker - Hey Lord, Don't Ask Me Questions 6:16

11 Graham Parker - Hold Back the Night 3:04

12 Graham Parker - Soul Shoes 4:03

(DVD not included)

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