Artist: Sparks

Title: Past Tense: The Best Of Sparks

Year Of Release: 2019

Label: BMG

Genre: Pop, Synth-pop, Disco

Quality: MP3 320kbps stereo

Total Time: 3:49:09

Total Size: 529.9 MB



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.





Disc 1



01. Computer Girl (3:13)

02. Wonder Girl (2:19)

03. (No More) Mr. Nice Guys (5:47)

04. Girl From Germany (3:30)

05. Beaver O'Lindy (3:45)

06. This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us (3:04)

07. Amateur Hour (3:35)

08. Here In Heaven (2:47)

09. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (2:29)

10. Something For The Girl With Everything (2:17)

11. Achoo (3:32)

12. Get In The Swing (4:06)

13. In The Future (2:13)

14. Looks, Looks, Looks (2:34)

15. I Want To Hold Your Hand (2:55)

16. Big Boy (3:29)

17. I Bought The Mississippi River (2:28)

18. Occupation (5:13)

19. Those Mysteries (5:01)

20. Tryouts For The Human Race (6:07)

21. Beat The Clock (4:22)



Disc 2



01. The Number One Song In Heaven (7:28)

02. When I'm With You (Single Version) (4:06)

03. Tips For Teens (3:34)

04. Funny Face (3:26)

05. Angst In My Pants (3:28)

06. I Predict (2:52)

07. Sherlock Holmes (3:37)

08. Cool Places (3:24)

09. Popularity (3:52)

10. I Wish I Looked A Little Better (3:00)

11. With All My Might (3:43)

12. Change (5:26)

13. Music That You Can Dance To (4:22)

14. So Important (4:31)

15. Singing In The Shower (4:24)

16. National Crime Awareness Week (Psycho Cut) (3:29)

17. When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' (4:38)

18. (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing (Radio Edit) (3:46)

19. Let's Go Surfing (5:03)



Disc 3



01. Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat (3:36)

02. The Calm Before The Storm (4:04)

03. It's A Knockoff (3:42)

04. The Rhythm Thief (5:20)

05. My Baby's Taking Me Home (4:43)

06. Suburban Homeboy (2:57)

07. Dick Around (6:36)

08. Perfume (5:00)

09. Islington N1 (2:35)

10. Good Morning (3:54)

11. Lighten Up, Morrissey (4:16)

12. Two Hands One Mouth (5:26)

13. Piss Off (Original Sparks Version) (4:21)

14. Johnny Delusional (3:13)

15. Missionary Position (4:18)

16. Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) (4:33)

17. I Wish You Were Fun (4:05)

18. Check Out Time 11am (3:34)