Sparks

Sparks - Past Tense: The Best of Sparks (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at Dec. 28, 2019

Sparks - Past Tense: The Best of Sparks (2019)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 03:49:12 | 530 Mb
Glam Rock, Pop Rock, New Wave, Synthpop | Label: BMG Rights Management

Past Tense is a brand new career-spanning collection by the provocateurs of pop - Sparks. Masters of reinvention, with an unappeasable ambition and a ravenous hunger for the now, Sparks – brothers Ron and Russell Mael – have been creating eye-poppingly brilliant pop music for more than 50 years. PAST TENSE: THE BEST OF SPARKS is an immaculate lesson in how to stay consistently interesting for fifty years. With sleeve-notes by Simon Price*, each track is hand-picked by Ron and Russell to best epitomise the era of Sparks from which they are drawn - forerunners of art rock, inventors of the synth duo, masters of new wave pop, Europop experimentalists and self-revisionists, in the 21st century they pioneered the electronic opera before delivering 2017’s pop masterpiece Hippopotamus.

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Sparks - MAD! (2025) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at May 22, 2025

If the world is a cafe, its ridiculous patrons babbling ridiculously all day long, then Ron Mael is the guy on his own in the corner that you don't notice, quietly sipping his coffee. But he's watching, listening, making notes. Those notes become songs for his band, the legendary Sparks, to be sung by his brother Russell in his unmistakeable falsetto.

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Bobby Sparks II - Schizophrenia - The Yang Project (2019) Music

Posted by pyatak at March 27, 2019

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Graham Parker & The Rumour - Squeezing Out Sparks + Live Sparks (1979) 2 LP in 1 CD, 1996 Music

Posted by Designol at May 9, 2022

Arista remastered Graham Parker's masterpiece, Squeezing Out Sparks, for CD reissue, adding the previously promotional-only live album Live Sparks as an added bonus. Though it is somewhat disconcerting to hear the same songs in the same order in a row, it's an excellent addition for hardcore collectors, especially since the sound on the original album is considerably improved. And, Live Sparks is a nervy, energetic live recording, especially with the addition of "I Want You Back (Alive)" and "Mercury Poisoning".

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Sparks: Collection Part 04: Singles & Video (1994-2015) [3CD + 4DVD + HDTV] Music

Posted by v3122 at March 14, 2022

Sparks: Collection Part 04: Singles & Video (1994-2015)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
3CD | Label: Various | ~ 365 or 136 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 50 Mb
4xDVD: PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR / NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR
Dolby AC3, 2 ch / Dolby AC3, 6 ch / MPEG1, 2 ch
HDTV: TS, Mpeg4 AVC, 1280x720, 50 fps | AC3, 448 kbps, 48 kHz, 5.1 ch
Glam Rock, Art Pop, Synth Pop, Experimental

Brothers Ron and Russell Mael from Los Angeles, USA have been making diverse music since 1969 under various incarnations of Sparks. In 1979 they ditched the guitars and keyboards of glam geek rock and started working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, beginning a love affair with electronic music. Since then they have worked with a variety of people including Finitribe, Les Rita Mitsouko, Erasure and Faith No More.

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Sparks: Collection Part 01 (1972-2017) [13CD, Original pressings & Reissues] Music

Posted by v3122 at Feb. 25, 2022

Sparks: Collection Part 01 (1972-2017)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
13CD | Label: Various | ~ 4221 or 1835 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 584 Mb
Glam Rock, Art Pop, Disco, Synth Pop, Experimental

Brothers Ron and Russell Mael from Los Angeles, USA have been making diverse music since 1969 under various incarnations of Sparks. In 1979 they ditched the guitars and keyboards of glam geek rock and started working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, beginning a love affair with electronic music. Since then they have worked with a variety of people including Finitribe, Les Rita Mitsouko, Erasure and Faith No More.

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Bear McCreary, Sparks & Shadows - Foundation Season 3 Soundtrack (2025) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Aug. 6, 2025

Bear McCreary, Sparks & Shadows - Foundation Season 3 Soundtrack (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:06:56 | 159 / 286 Mb
Genre: Soundtrack

Bear McCreary and Sparks & Shadows return for Foundation: Season 3 with a darker, more primal score that explores the psychological depths of its characters. Featuring eerie hybrid instrumentation, the music introduces the menacing presence of the Mule and his alien instrument, the Visi-sonor, pushing the boundaries of sound design in the Foundation universe.

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Melvin Sparks - Sparks! (1970) & Akilah! (1972) [1993, Reissue] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Jan. 12, 2021

Sparks! is a solid soul-jazz outing that looks to commercial material for the bulk of the set, but doesn't unduly compromise itself in a pop direction. Sparks was one of the bluesiest soul-jazz guitarists, and his tart tone shares space here with deep grooves from Leon Spencer on organ. The brass, handled by Virgil Jones (trumpet) Houston Person (tenor sax), and John Manning (tenor sax), is usually secondary to the guitar-organ riffs. Sparks remakes Sly Stone's "Thank You," and the Coasters' "Charlie Brown," and Eric Burdon & War's "Spill the Wine" as lengthy instrumentals - commercial choices, to be sure, but executed with relaxed grit. Rounding out the program is a Rodgers-Hart cover and a Leon Spencer original. BGP's reissue also includes Sparks' 1972 effort Akilah!

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Sparks - The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (2023) Music

Posted by popsakov at May 27, 2023

Sparks new album, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte', is a modern masterpiece. For the uninitiated, Sparks are an art pop duo comprised of brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Their influence on pop music cannot be overstated, having inspired everyone from Queen to Bjork. In Edgar Wright's Sparks documentary, super-producer Jack Antonoff states, "all pop music is re-arranged Sparks." 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' marks Sparks' first release on the venerable Island Records label in close to five decades, following such classics as 1974's landmark Kimono 'My House', highlighted of course by the indelible hit single 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us'. The album includes such instantly intriguing new musical vignettes as 'Mona Lisa's Packing, Leaving Late Tonight' and 'Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is', songs which once again display Sparks' seemingly ceaseless ability to craft complete, intricately detailed stories within perfect three-and-a-half minute pop masterpieces. Both characteristically timeless and unequivocally modern, 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' once again affirms that, after more than a half century making such masterpieces, Sparks remain inimitable, ingenious and, as ever, utterly one of a kind.

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Sparks: Collection Part 02 (1972-2017) [11CD, Remasters & Reissues] Music

Posted by v3122 at June 1, 2022

Sparks: Collection Part 02 (1972-2017)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
11CD | Label: Various | ~ 3558 or 1546 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 451 Mb
Glam Rock, Art Pop, Synth Pop, Experimental

Brothers Ron and Russell Mael from Los Angeles, USA have been making diverse music since 1969 under various incarnations of Sparks. In 1979 they ditched the guitars and keyboards of glam geek rock and started working with Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, beginning a love affair with electronic music. Since then they have worked with a variety of people including Finitribe, Les Rita Mitsouko, Erasure and Faith No More.

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