{"id":8865,"date":"2013-02-06T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8865"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:24:42","slug":"graham-parker-and-the-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/graham-parker-and-the-rumour\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8866\" title=\"GRAHAM-PARKER-AND-THE-RUMOUR-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GRAHAM-PARKER-AND-THE-RUMOUR-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GRAHAM-PARKER-AND-THE-RUMOUR-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GRAHAM-PARKER-AND-THE-RUMOUR-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>G<\/strong><strong>RAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Three Chords Good<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Primary Wave]<\/p>\n<p>Reunion albums naturally make listeners nervous. A record might be good, or it might be embarrassingly lame. Or it might be <em>Three Chords Good<\/em>, the first new record by Graham Parker and the Rumour in more than 30 years. Rich and exciting, it sounds at first like a long-lost gem. Then the words sink in. While the venom of Parker\u2019s punky New Wave-era work hasn\u2019t disappeared, it\u2019s tempered by nostalgia befitting men in their 60s. Still, some songs have a topical bent, and \u201cA Lie Gets Halfway \u2019Round the World\u201d and the Dylan-circa-\u201965-esque \u201cArlington\u2019s Busy\u201d take on warmongers and misery profiteers. The scorching \u201cCoathangers\u201d skewers lawmakers who would tell a woman what to do with her body. But it\u2019s not all finger-pointing. \u201cShe Rocks Me\u201d and \u201cThat Moon Was Low\u201d are sweet love songs, and a couple\u00a0 of tunes incorporate kazoo, which immediately strips them of gravity. This is a band most people probably didn\u2019t realize they missed. Good thing they came back to remind us of their greatness. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAHAM PARKER AND THE RUMOUR Three Chords Good [Primary Wave] Reunion albums naturally make listeners nervous. A record might be good, or it might be embarrassingly lame. Or it might be Three Chords Good, the first new record by Graham Parker and the Rumour in more than 30 years. Rich and exciting, it sounds at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,5951,5885,5953,5952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8867,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8865\/revisions\/8867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}