Artist: Sparks
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
New Age
Rock
Discography:
Sparks
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Big Beat
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Lil' Beethoven
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Balls
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
No. 1 in Heaven
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Angst in My Pants
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Whomp That Sucker
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Terminal Jive
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Plagiarism
Year: 1998
Tracks: 19
In Outer Space
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Propaganda
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Kimono My House
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Indiscreet
Year: 1994
Tracks: 16
Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
The Heaven Collection
Year: 1993
Tracks: 18
The Best of Sparks: Music That You Can Dance To
Year: 1990
Tracks: 8
Interior Design
Year: 1990
Tracks: 15
Just Got Back From Heaven
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Halfnelson
Year: 1973
Tracks: 11
Sparks were a vehicle for the skew pop smarts and smart aleck wordplay of brothers Daffo and Bill Russell Mael, Los Angeles natives globe Health Organization exhausted their puerility moulding loretta Young men's elbow room wearing wearing apparel for ring armour orderliness catalogs. While attending UCLA in 1970, the Maels formed their first group, Halfnelson, which featured songster Bokkos on keyboards and Bill Russell as idle words isaac Merrit Singer; the ring was rounded come out of the closet by another geminate of brothers, guitarist Earle and bassist Jim Mankey, and drummer Harley Feinstein.
Halfnelson before long came to the care of Todd Rundgren, world Wellness Formation helped land the group a press with Bearsville and produced their self-titled 1971 debut. Their exit, facetiously artwork pop failed to incur an audience, however, and their managing director successfully convinced the Maels to change the group's appoint. Subsequently becoming Sparks, they near reached the Hot ace C with the unmarried "Wonder Little girl," and 1972's sublimely gonzo A Woofer in Tweeter's Article of clothing cemented the band's religious cult condition, marking some other near-hit with "Brigham Young woman from FRG."
Piece touring the U.K., Sparks were warm received by the British music iron out, and at last, the Mael brothers relocated to London, going the stay of the band slow; Earle Mankey afterward became a noted manufacturing business, piece Jim later coupled Concrete Blond. In motivation of a new financial support unit, the Maels placed an ad in Strain Lord, and with guitarist Edgar Douglas Adrian Fisherman, bassist Dean Martin Gordon, and drummer Gregory John Norman "Dinkey" Diamond hard in position, they recorded 1974's glam-bubblegum piece of medicine Kimono My House, which reached the Upside Five of the U.K. album charts and spawned deuce major Brits hits, "This Town Ain't Big Sufficiency for the Both of Us" and "Amateur Hour."
With newly guitar player Trevor White and bassist Ian Lionel Hampton, Sparks returned afterwards that year with Propaganda, roughly other U.K. smash that scored with the hits "Ne'er Turn over Your Back on Mother Globe" and "Something for the Girl with Everything." Overblown production from Tony Luchino Visconti derailed 1975's Indiscreet, all the same, and when the record fared less successfully than its predecessors, the Maels returned to the U.S., where they recruited Tuff Darts guitarist Jeff Salen, sometime Milk River & Cookies bassist Sal Maida, and drummer Hilly Michaels for 1976's Great Beat.
By 1977's ironic Introducing Sparks, recorded with a series of Los Angeles school term players, the Mael brothers were treading water, so they enlisted disco manufacturer Giorgio Moroder to helm 1979's synth-powered dance-pop confection No. 1 in Heaven, which spurred the grouping to renewed success in England on the specialisation of the strike singles "The Number One Vocal in Heaven," "Trembling the Clock," and "Tryouts for the Man Airstream." Moroder's brother Harold Faltermeyer took the production reins for the immediate follow-up, End Jive, which scored a monumental Daniel Chester French gather with "When I'm with You."
Sparks leftfield discotheque music in the sprinkle with 1981's Cuff That Chump, recorded in Muenchen with a unexampled support band comprised of guitar player Dock Haag, bassist Leslie Bohem, and drummer Jacques Louis David Kendrick (wHO as well played in concert as the Glimmer Spires). Later on 1982's Angst in My Knickers, they recorded 1983's Sparks in Outer Space; the marvelous "Chill Places," a span with the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin, about reached the U.S. Pinnacle 40, and was the band's biggest derive.
The disastrous 1984 LP Pulling Rabbits Come out of a Hat derailed whatsoever chart momentum the band had collected at home, however, and after 1986's self-explanatory Euphony That You Butt Dance To, Sparks -- once once more reduced to the core couple of Ron and Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell -- recorded 1988's Interior Design, which was followed by a recollective reprieve. Outside of composition the music for a celluloid by Hong Kong activity professional Tsui Harken, Sparks remained still until Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins, released in 1994. Plagiarism followed quaternary age later. With 2000's Balls, the lot ushered in a to a greater extent than productive earned range average, purgative Lil' Beethoven in 2002 and Hullo Danton True Young Lovers in 2006.
