If you had told me, 20 years ago when I first laid eyes on bizarro brother pop act
Sparks that they were someday going to achieve no small amount of critical acclaim late in their career, I would have punched you in the larynx. But here's where it gets really weird: their latest album gets hoisted upon the public by punk scuzz noise merchants
In The Red Records (
wha..?) followed by
Wounded Bird Records reissuing their first two albums, the self-titled
Sparks and
A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing. Most surprising is just how good these two early efforts are. The former chugs along nicely thanks to
Girl From Germany and
Whippings And Apologies, while the latter boasts the heavy hooks of
Wonder Girl and
Saccharin And The War. Neither reissue provides much-needed liner notes, but considering my man
Ron Mael was rockin' the
Hitler mustache when these two albums were recorded circa 1972, it's a wonder they've survived to tell the tale this long after the fact.
If you had told me, 20 years ago when I first laid eyes on bizarro brother pop act Sparks that they were someday going to achieve no small amount of critical acclaim late in their career, I would have punched you in the larynx. But here's where it gets really weird: their latest album gets hoisted upon the public by punk scuzz noise merchants In The Red Records (wha..?) followed by Wounded Bird Records reissuing their first two albums, the self-titled Sparks and A Woofer In Tweeter's Clothing. Most surprising is just how good these two early efforts are. The former chugs along nicely thanks to 
3 comments:
Ah Sparks. The Village People meet The Tubes. Fun band.
Mark
Their later years become too fey for my taste but these two early albums nicely feed into my love of early 70's (power?) quirk pop.
Congratulations on your blog! Keep on the good work!
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