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.
3 Singing in the Shower (With Sparks) - By Les Rita Mitsouko
4 National Crime Awareness Week (Psycho Cut)
5 When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"
6 (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing [Radio Edit]
7 Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat
8 The Calm Before the Storm
9 The Rhythm Thief
10 Suburban Homeboy
11 Dick Around
12 Perfume
13 Good Morning
14 Lighten Up, Morrissey
15 Johnny Delusional - By FFS
16 Missionary Position
17 Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)
18 Check Out Time 11Am
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.
