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Originally Posted by Josef K
Nice journal, will be following. Hopefully you stick with it long enough to get to Lil Beethoven - that's pretty solidly their best IMO.
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It'll come.
L'il Beethoven was a bizarre, incredible album - yet another sharp turn for Sparks' musical style, but they managed to pull it all together as if it wasn't anything new to them. We'll get there, man.
I think we'll wrap up
Woofer tonight.
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"Batteries Not Included/Whippings and Apologies"
"Batteries Not Included" is a brief reflection of childhood rage.
Then follows
"Whippings and Apologies" - a blunt nod to nutso Christian parents and child abuse, daughter in question perhaps pursuing a boy her parents didn't think was holy enough.
Both Halfnelson/Sparks and A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing were, to put it gently, unsuccessful in the united states. Ron and Russell would soon part ways with the Mankey brothers and Harley Feinstein in order to relocate to London - their mother's homeland. Having grown up especially amorous of the English way, it seemed the perfect plan.
By the way, Ron and Russell actually did visit the Louvre a couple years later.