Sparks Past Tense - Best Of Sparks CD

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.

1. Amateur Hour 2. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth 3. Something for the Girl with Everything 4. Get in the Swing 5. Looks, Looks, Looks 6. Big Boy 7. Forever Young 8. Tryouts for the Human Race 9. Funny Face 10. Angst in My Pants 11. I Predict 12. Cool Places (with Jane Wiedlin) 13. I Wish I Looked a Little Better 14. With All My Might 15. Change 16. Music That You Can Dance To 17. So Important 18. Singing in the Shower (with Sparks) á- By Les Rita Mitsouko 19. National Crime Awareness Week (Psycho Cut) 20. When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" 21. (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing [Radio Edit] 22. Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat 23. The Calm Before the Storm 24. The Rhythm Thief 25. Suburban Homeboy 26. Dick Around 27. Perfume 28. Good Morning 29. Lighten Up, Morrissey 30. Johnny Delusional á- By FFS 31. Missionary Position 32. Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) 33. Check Out Time 11am