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Old 8th February 2025, 10:19 PM
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Sparks are an act i always seem to enjoy whenever i hear or see them, this is no exception, and yet i've never owned any of their records. I'd love to rectify that.

Is anyone into them? What is seen as their best work? As a band i'm sure they'd just like me to buy their new album when it comes out.
I'm the same as you, I like Sparks but I don't have any of their albums, but I do have the documentary that came out a couple of years back which is excellent, it's a 2-disc set with a concert film on the second disc.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sparks-Brot...ps%2C89&sr=8-1
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Old 8th February 2025, 10:31 PM
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I'm the same as you, I like Sparks but I don't have any of their albums, but I do have the documentary that came out a couple of years back which is excellent, it's a 2-disc set with a concert film on the second disc.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sparks-Brot...ps%2C89&sr=8-1
Thanks, that sound interesting. Especially the live show. I've added it to my wishlist.
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Old 9th February 2025, 10:04 AM
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Sparks are an act i always seem to enjoy whenever i hear or see them, this is no exception, and yet i've never owned any of their records. I'd love to rectify that.

Is anyone into them? What is seen as their best work? As a band i'm sure they'd just like me to buy their new album when it comes out.
My brother was a huge Sparks fan, back in the days when they were a glam band, and had a lot of their early albums

I would recommend 'Kimono My House' (1974) and 'Propaganda' (1974).

I also think that the Edgar Wright directed documentary 'The Sparks Brothers' is well worth getting
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Tigertailz - Creeping Death



Banzai! (1991)

I remember this when it was released. It's surprisingly very good.
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ZZ Top - Big Shiny Nine



La Futura (2012)
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Something very different here tonight. I came across this project a couple of years back and never really paid much attention until a video of youtube popped up about it saying it was a very hard listen so obviously i had to check for myself. This is from Wikipedia

The Caretaker was a long-running project by English ambient musician, James Leyland Kirby. His work as the Caretaker is characterized as exploring memory and its gradual deterioration, nostalgia, and melancholia.

The whole Caretaker project seems is a series of albums amounting to six and a half hours broken up in to the phases of dementia its a pretty haunting listen each part gets less and less coherent like the memories fading its actually quite terrifying. Not really something that will appeal to many but its a very interesting concept. From my research the inspiration came from the works of William Charles Utermohlen who after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's he painted self portraits as his illness progressed and those are pretty haunting also.

Anyway if you fancy feelig a bit shit or freaked out have a listen or not
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Old 18th February 2025, 11:10 AM
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Iron Maiden - Coming Home



The Final Frontier (2010)
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Sparks - Do Things My Own Way



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Sparks are an act i always seem to enjoy whenever i hear or see them, this is no exception, and yet i've never owned any of their records. I'd love to rectify that.

Is anyone into them? What is seen as their best work? As a band i'm sure they'd just like me to buy their new album when it comes out.
I have been a Sparks fan since This Town.. was released. Kimono My House and Propaganda are brilliant, although I think their best album from the early years is Indiscreet.
The two albums they made in America before Kimono are also worth checking out, particularly A Woofer In Tweeter?s Clothing which I love.
I went off them when they went through their Europop years, but got back into them with the wonderful Hello Young Lovers album ( I saw them live on this tour and it is one of the best concerts I have seen ) and have loved their stuff ever since.
Totally unique. Looking forward to the new album.
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Old 18th February 2025, 05:02 PM
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January - February Album Listens.

Night Ranger - Somewhere in California
White Lion - Big Game
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man
Lita Ford - Black
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh!
Poison - Flesh and Blood
Vixen - Tangerine
David Bowie - Heathen
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead
Led Zeppelin - III
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant - No Quarter
Mastodon - The Hunter
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma
Danzig - Circle of Snakes
Sourvein - Black Fang
Ministry - Animositisomina
Dark Funeral - Teach Children to Worship Satan
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Sex Pistols - Kiss This
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Whitesnake - Restless Heart
ZZ Top - Deguelo
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Body Count - Body Count
Black Label Society - Mafia
My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
Mayhem - Chimera
Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
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