SPARKS - PAST TENSE - THE BEST OF SPARKS

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.

Tracklist

• — Disc 1 —
• 1. Amateur Hour
• 2. Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
• 3. Something for the Girl with Everything
• 4. Get in the Swing
• 5. Looks, Looks, Looks
• 6. Big Boy
• 7. Forever Young
• 8. Tryouts for the Human Race
• 9. Funny Face
• 10. Angst in My Pants
• 11. I Predict
• 12. Cool Places (With Jane Wiedlin)
• 13. I Wish I Looked a Little Better
• 14. With All My Might
• 15. Change
• — Disc 2 —
• 1. Music That You Can Dance to
• 2. So Important
• 3. Singing in the Shower (With Sparks) - By Les Rita Mitsouko
• 4. National Crime Awareness Week (Psycho Cut)
• 5. When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"
• 6. (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing [Radio Edit]
• 7. Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
• 8. The Calm Before the Storm
• 9. The Rhythm Thief
• 10. Suburban Homeboy
• 11. Dick Around
• 12. Perfume
• 13. Good Morning
• 14. Lighten Up, Morrissey
• 15. Johnny Delusional - By FFS
• 16. Missionary Position
• 17. Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)
• 18. Check Out Time 11Am

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