Sparks, "So Tell Me Mrs. Lincoln Aside from That How Was the Play?" and "A Little Bit Like Fun"
With a remarkable 45+ year career as trailblazers in glam rock, eurodisco, and new wave, Sparks certainly deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by now. But brothers Ron and Russell Mael always been a bit too idiosyncratic to get embraced by the mainstream.
Sparks have just released their 23rd studio album, Hippopotamus, and it's got some great songs, enough that I couldn't choose just one. So I've got one track that shows off the maximalism Sparks is best known for, a song that's so chock full of ideas and melodies and musical flourishes and words that they struggle to get the cram the whole chorus into a single breath:
And then there's "A Little Bit Like Fun," which shows off Sparks' gift for minimalism, especially when performing slightly off-kilter love songs. This one reminds me of one of my all-time favorites, their 1980 single "When I'm With You":
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