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Which Is The Best Of Sparks' Albums? (Ultra Final... Thing)
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The Best.......................................
Indiscreet
22%
 22%  [ 7 ]
No. 1 In Heaven
16%
 16%  [ 5 ]
Lil' Beethoven
61%
 61%  [ 19 ]
Total Votes : 31

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The Blue Prince
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Re-Sparked wrote:
Blue Prince, put it on. I loved it at the time & after a 30 year break it's wormed it's way into me once again. At Indiscreet/21 I was hearing some of the songs anew.


OK, I just re-visited Indiscreet and here's my worthless opinion:

The album starts out really strong with 2 or 3 typical Sparks rockers. Then they start bouncing from one genre to another. Most of the songs are good, but they don't inspire me to want to listen to them over and over. The album doesn't have a cohesive sound (IMWO) like their greater albums: Lil Beethoven and Kimono My House.

Now I'm going to post my own rating thread in the Music Only forum. I hope you all will contribute your opinions there.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, for what it's worth. I think cohesive albums can & often are, overated. The very fact that it skips from style to style & genre to genre is one of it's strengths. Visconti's come in for a lot of undeserved criticism as far as I'm concerned & anyway, Ron wrote the songs didn't he (though I also love 'Pineapple' Russ)? Concept albums can (not always) be boring & anyway, variety is the spice of life. The fact that 'Get in the swing' & 'Looks, Looks, Looks'/'It ain't 1918' are on the same album & were written by the same guy in the same period is, to me, amazing. I need to hear some more of the albums before I can contribute to the poll but I heard the Island records when they were released so nostalgia will always keep a special place in my heart for them.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you very much to everyone who voted on my polls in the last 5 weeks.
The GRAND winner is...
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LIL BEETHOVEN!
With 19 votes.

And also, a BIG thank you to Ian Hampton, I am honoured to have you voting here.
Thank you all.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lil'Beehoven has the best album cover?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

E-Clect-Eddy wrote:
Lil'Beehoven has the best album cover?


This is the best album, not the best album cover!

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Still not making sense to me.
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