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| From | "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu> |
| Subject | Re: audities-digest V1 #575 (10 msgs) |
| Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:21:53 -0500 |
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Talk about making a fool of yourself in public - In paragraph two of the
previous email, read "I've always loved Indiscreet because..." instead
of Propoganda.
I'm on digest and just read Steve Durben's response in which he gives
props to Indiscreet as well. It's good to know that I'm not alone in my
feelings, as this seems to be an album where the words "disappointing
followup" always seem to show up in the review/discussion.
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:21:54 -0500
> From: "Jim Kosmicki" <jkosmicki@cccneb.edu>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>, <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: Kimono type Sparks
> Message-ID:
<6D7F88CBCCA7DA4B9F73588C727A414A14A036@mail1.nt.cccneb.edu>
>
> 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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