Sparks - Past Tense: The Best of Sparks (2019)

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.

Tracklist:
1. Sparks – Computer Girl (03:12)
2. Sparks – Wonder Girl (02:19)
3. Sparks – (No More) Mr. Nice Guys (05:47)
4. Sparks – Girl from Germany (03:29)
5. Sparks – Beaver O'Lindy (03:45)
6. Sparks – This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both of Us (03:03)
7. Sparks – Amateur Hour (03:35)
8. Sparks – Here in Heaven (02:46)
9. Sparks – Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth (02:29)
10. Sparks – Something for the Girl with Everything (02:16)
11. Sparks – Achoo (03:32)
12. Sparks – Get in the Swing (04:06)
13. Sparks – In the Future (02:13)
14. Sparks – Looks, Looks, Looks (02:34)
15. Sparks – I Want to Hold Your Hand (02:55)
16. Sparks – Big Boy (03:28)
17. Sparks – I Bought the Mississippi River (02:28)
18. Sparks – Occupation (05:13)
19. Sparks – Those Mysteries (05:00)
20. Sparks – Tryouts for the Human Race (06:07)
21. Sparks – Beat the Clock (04:23)
22. Sparks – The Number One Song in Heaven (07:27)
23. Sparks – When I'm With You (04:06)
24. Sparks – Tips for Teens (03:33)
25. Sparks – Funny Face (03:26)
26. Sparks – Angst in My Pants (03:28)
27. Sparks – I Predict (02:52)
28. Sparks – Sherlock Holmes (03:36)
29. Sparks – Cool Places (with Jane Wiedlin) (03:23)
30. Sparks – Popularity (03:51)
31. Sparks – I Wish I Looked a Little Better (02:59)
32. Sparks – With All My Might (03:42)
33. Sparks – Change (05:25)
34. Sparks – Music That You Can Dance To (04:22)
35. Sparks – So Important (04:31)
36. Les Rita Mitsouko – Singing in the Shower (with Sparks) (04:23)
37. Sparks – National Crime Awareness Week (Psycho Cut) (03:29)
38. Sparks – When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" (04:37)
39. Sparks – (When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing [Radio Edit] (03:46)
40. Sparks – Let's Go Surfing (05:02)
41. Sparks – Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat (03:35)
42. Sparks – The Calm Before the Storm (04:03)
43. Sparks – It's a Knockoff (03:42)
44. Sparks – The Rhythm Thief (05:20)
45. Sparks – My Baby's Taking Me Home (04:43)
46. Sparks – Suburban Homeboy (02:57)
47. Sparks – Dick Around (06:35)
48. Sparks – Perfume (04:59)
49. Sparks – Islington N1 (02:34)
50. Sparks – Good Morning (03:54)
51. Sparks – Lighten Up, Morrissey (04:15)
52. Sparks – Two Hands, One Mouth (05:25)
53. Sparks – Piss Off (Demo) (04:21)
54. FFS – Johnny Delusional (03:12)
55. Sparks – Missionary Position (04:18)
56. Sparks – Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) (04:32)
57. Sparks – I Wish You Were Fun (04:04)
58. Sparks – Check Out Time 11am (03:33)