SPARKS

@highersynth, the question, buried and not quite honed, is this: Why did Sparks decide to use an old Tom Lehrer song in Annette?

I don't think Brits will know who Tom Lehrer is, but Americans migh ...

Bummer. I went from only rarely getting one to getting them most of the time. It was fun!

Obviously since I only became aware of Sparks this year, this was the first album I heard along with the rest of the world when it came out. I also was a bit worried that I would not like it. There ...

I also have sentimental attachment to A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip. It was the first full Sparks album I heard. I had been jumping around on Past Tense and then got FFS before I committed to getting to k ...

There is something about "a little bit like fun/joy/love" that really gets me. Such subtle phrasing to basically say it is NOT fun/joy/love. And to have a whole song where it is sweetly sun ...

I guess it is time for me to give thoughts. I feel like I need to come back to all of these albums later to get a more accurate rating and ranking, especially the ones I really like.

I really li ...

"The Amazing Mr. Repeat" is kind of like "More Than a Sex Machine," except this guy is a sex machine, almost literally. There are people who want to profit off of his abilities, bu ...

Most of the songs seem to be about aging and being boring. Most of the ones that are not explicitly about that might have some indirect connection.

The inclusion of the reference to sundown make ...

Now we've skipped Seduction anyway, why not go with highersynth's original plan, which polishes off the "traditional" albums before Christmas, and then tackles the rest of the Maels' oeuvre ...

I love this album. It is one of the reasons I decided to go all in on Sparks. I liked FF's first album but didn't really follow them that closely after that. But I knew they were a band I liked and ...

ECD has really grown on my over the past week. I was expecting more similarities to LB and HYL. There are certainly echos of them here but ECD sounds more like their two most recent albums to me than ...

I don't have too much unique to add to the discussion of HYL. Another great album that has some new wrinkles to elements that have been part of other albums. Dick Around is my favorite, but I listen ...

I really envy those who were Sparks fans before this album came out and then were able to hear it from start to finish fresh. What a mind blowing experience that would have been. It is strange that ...

I must have had low expectations for this album before I started listening to it because I was so pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I think the comparison to Big Beat makes a lot of sense ...

I found this interpretation of Balls interesting. Maybe some over interpretation and I don't know if it is consistent with facts of the band at the time, but a lot of it seems plausible.

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Is "I Thought I Told You To Wait In The Car" told from the perspective of the narrator in Madonna? Or some other guy? It is about Madonna, right? She and Warren Beaty were a thing back in ...

The intentional writing of a sequel to an earlier song makes me like Madonna more. Especially since they are so starkly different in tone. It’s like the same story told from two different perspectiv ...

Is "I Thought I Told You To Wait In The Car" told from the perspective of the narrator in Madonna? Or some other guy? It is about Madonna, right? She and Warren Beaty were a thing back in ...

I'm still digesting the album and I expect this will be one that I listen to frequently over the years. But I can say that it is really great. It feels like a Sparks album again, not just some hints ...

I have listened to this a lot but still can't think of much to say. None of the songs really affect me emotionally in either way. I guess Lots of Reasons and A Walk Down Memory Lane are the ones I p ...