1975-1976 Indiscreet & Big Beat

Name: Sparks - 1975-1976 Indiscreet & Big Beat - Cd Set
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SKU: VT1760000353811
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Artist Sparks	Title 1975-1976 Indiscreet & Big Beat
Format CD Set	Label Edsel
Country Europe	Year 2025
Genre Pop Rock and Art-Pop	Grade NEW
Catalogue Number EDSL0269
Comments 3CD set in tri-fold 7" package

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Artist

Sparks

Title

1975-1976 Indiscreet & Big Beat

Format

CD Set

Label

Edsel

Country

Europe

Year

Epic

Genre

Pop Rock and Art-Pop

Grade

NEW

Catalogue Number

EDSL0269

Comments

3CD set in tri-fold 7" package

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Following the success of 2024’s 50th celebrations for ‘Kimono My House’ and ‘Propaganda’ and a career-best No. 2 UK chart placing for latest studio album ‘MAD’, Demon are delighted to announce a suite of products celebrating the band’s next two catalogue classics. The 3CD Sparks 1975-1976brings together the fifth and sixth studio albums from Sparks (their '71debut was released under the name Halfnelson) alongside a third disc containing single B-Sides, rarities and a live performance. Following the success of their previous releases, Kimono My House and Propaganda(compiled as Sparks 1974 on the Demon 3CD set EDSL0228), this was a period of extraordinary creativity and dramatic change for the group - over the course of the next 50 years we would come to expect nothing less from brothers Ron and Russell Mael. Indiscreet saw the group work with producer Tony Visconti for the first time (described in Simon Price's insightful new sleeve notes as "the architect of Glam's greatest moments"), but confounding expectations they delivered an album where no two songs were in the same style, drawing on influences ranging from Classical to Jazz, music hall to marching bands. And even though it confounded the critics and some fans, it still managed to deliver the hit singles Get In The Swingand Looks, Looks, Looks. Big Beatfollowed in October 1976, and saw Ron and Russell move from the UK back to the US, leaving their established backing band behind, ditching the baroque stylings of Indiscreet for something all-together more back-to-basics, with the recording overseen by producer Rupert Holmes. Still three years away from topping the US chart with his single 'Escape (The Piña Colada Song)', 1976 also saw him contributing to Barbra Streisand's multi-million selling soundtrack to The Star Is Born. Quite where an energetic and muscular Sparks' collection that sat closer to the emerging Punk scene sits in all of this is open to debate.
Track List
Disc: 1 1 Hospitality On Parade 2 Happy Hunting 3 Without Using Hands 4 Get in the Swing 5 Under the Table With Her 6 How Are You Getting Home? 7 Pineapple 8 Tits 9 It Ain't 1918 10 The Lady Is Lingering 11 In the Future 12 Looks, Looks, Looks 13 Miss the Start, Miss the End Disc: 2 1 Big Boy 2 I Want to Be Like Everybody Else 3 Nothing to Do 4 I Bought the Mississippi River 5 Fill-Er-Up 6 Everybody's Stupid 7 Throw Her Away (And Get a New One) 8 Confusion 9 Screwed Up 10 White Women 11 I Like Girls Disc: 3 1 Profile 2 I Want to Hold Your Hand 3 England 4 The Wedding of Jacqueline Kennedy to Russell Mael 5 Looks, Looks, Looks (Live at Fairfield Halls 09/11/75) 6 Gone With the Wind 7 Intrusion/Confusion 8 Looks Aren't Everything 9 Tearing the Place Apart
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