Pet_Sounds

I've been working through their discography (up to Kimono My House now), so this is perfect. I look forward to reading.

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Everybody's dying just to get the disease

ladyislingering

Awesome! You're the perfect example of someone who can really understand and appreciate Sparks.

"Kimono" was a groundbreaking album, even with its similarity to the theatrical, glam stuff that was going on at the time.

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Unknown Soldier

Great intro LIL and you'll be reviewing albums that I mostly still have on vinyl, I played this band to death back in the 80s and so know most of these albums song by song and in some cases lyric for lyric, I used to play my favourite bands to death back then until scratches appeared on the vinyl.

I would add though to your great intro, that Sparks were an extremely accessible band by the time of Kimono My House despite all their weirdness, as by that time they knew what their gimmick was and quickly exploited it. They also finally made their breakthrough which like with a lot of American bands was actually here in the UK and were really big here in 1974 and 1975 before they kind of disappeared.

Also when I got into them in the 1980s they were already regarded as an old band and also it was really easy to pick up all their earlier albums (mostly)

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Metal Wars

Power Metal

Pounding Decibels- A Hard and Heavy History

ladyislingering

It was a semi-difficult feat for me when I started collecting their albums on vinyl in 2008. Some are incredibly difficult to find. I still haven't scored a copy of Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins but my first two were Angst in My Pants and Whomp That Sucker.

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