Introducing Sparks
- 艺人
- Sparks
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Epic Records
- 发行时间
- 1977年02月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Alex Henderson
By calling this 1977 release Introducing Sparks, the Mael siblings were being ironic -- this was their seventh album, and they were famous in England even though they only had a small following in their own country. The second of two albums that Sparks recorded for Columbia, Introducing Sparks gained a reputation for being its least essential album of the 1970s. To be sure, this LP isn't in a class with either Big Beat (Sparks' previous Columbia release) or Island gems such as Propaganda and Kimono My House. But it isn't a bad album either -- uneven and imperfect, yes, but generally decent. Some of the album's more memorable songs range from the opener &A Big Surprise& and the Beach Boys-minded &Over The Summer& (a '60s-like ode to summer love) to the Greek-influenced &Goofing Off.& On the hilarious &Occupation,& Sparks outlines various career options and has fun lampooning all of them -- for example, Russell Mael says of athletes: &We athletes run around and round/We moan and groan and hit the ground/And when we get to 35/We sell cosmetics and survive.& Although not recommended to casual listeners, Introducing Sparks has more plusses than minuses and is worth hearing if you're a hardcore Sparks aficionado.
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