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| From | "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu> |
| Subject | Re: Kimono type Sparks |
| Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:21:54 -0500 |
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Kimono and Propaganda are basically it for the more "glammy" sound of
Sparks -- they tended to morph quite a bit, while still clearly sounding
like the same band (I know that sounds paradoxical, but it isn't when
discussing this band).
I've always loved Propaganda because it was an album that I heard before
Kimono and Propaganda, but it's more like their first two than they "big
two" in their catalog. (My actual first Sparks album was their first,
which I bought for 69 cents at Woolworths -- It was years before I heard
Kimono or Propaganda, so I'm pretty much the opposite of most people who
know of Sparks).
If you like the sound of Kimono/Propaganda, you might want to
investigate their post-disco stuff when the Gleaming Spires backed up
the Mael Brothers. Whomp That Sucker and Angst in my Pants aren't as
glammy, but they do have more of a band and guitar sound than what
they've done in the past 20 years or so. The later albums by this
configuration In Outer Space and Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat get
progressively less interesting and more synthesizer based.
By the way, for those of you who like Sparks first two albums and other
bands of that ilk, try to find the first eponymous album by the band
Skafish. This is an album I want on CD -- if Tin Huey can make it, so
can this one!
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