The Lady's Comprehensive Guide to Sparks

Unknown Soldier · 04-05-2015, 05:12 PM

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)