Title: Past Tense - Best Of Sparks Artist: Sparks Label: BMG Rights Managemen Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4050538529166 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2019-11-15 Number of Discs: 2
Past Tense is a brand new career-spanning collection by the provocateurs of pop - Sparks. Masters of reinvention, with an unappeasable ambition and a ravenous hunger for the now, Sparks - brothers Ron and Russell Mael - have been creating eye-poppingly brilliant pop music for more than 50 years. PAST TENSE: THE BEST OF SPARKS is an immaculate lesson in how to stay consistently interesting for fifty years. With sleeve-notes by Simon Price*, each track is hand-picked by Ron and Russell to best epitomise the era of Sparks from which they are drawn - forerunners of art rock, inventors of the synth duo, masters of new wave pop, Europop experimentalists and self-revisionists, in the 21st century they pioneered the electronic opera before delivering 2017's pop masterpiece Hippopotamus.
Tracks: 1.1 Amateur Hour 1.2 Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth 1.3 Something for the Girl with Everything 1.4 Get in the Swing 1.5 Looks, Looks, Looks 1.6 Big Boy 1.7 Forever Young 1.8 Tryouts for the Human Race 1.9 Funny Face 1.10 Angst in My Pants 1.11 I Predict 1.12 Cool Places (with Jane Wiedlin) 1.13 I Wish I Looked a Little Better 1.14 With All My Might 1.15 Change 2.1 Music That You Can Dance To 2.2 So Important 2.3 Singing in the Shower (with Sparks) - By Les Rita Mitsouko 2.4 National Crime Awareness Week (Psycho Cut) 2.5 When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" 2.6 (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing [Radio Edit] 2.7 Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat 2.8 The Calm Before the Storm 2.9 The Rhythm Thief 2.10 Suburban Homeboy 2.11 Dick Around 2.12 Perfume 2.13 Good Morning 2.14 Lighten Up, Morrissey 2.15 Johnny Delusional - By FFS 2.16 Missionary Position 2.17 Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) 2.18 Check Out Time 11am
