Kimono My House [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
Digitally remastered reissue of 1974 album includes two unmarked bonus tracks, 'Lost & Found' & 'Barbecutie'. 12 tracks total including 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us', which Siouxsie & The Banshees covered in 1987. Island. 1994.

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Kimono My House [Original recording remastered] [Import]

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Best Kept Secret
And now for something completely different . . .
Yes I Think I'M Falling In Love With Myself Again..The HPD CD of the century.
Good but a word of caution
Wow.

Kimono My House
Sparks
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007UQ4
Release Date: 1994-08-15

Tracks:

This Town Ain't Be Enough For Both Of Us
Amateur Hour
Falling In Love With Myself Again
Here In Heaven
Thank God It's Not Christmas
Hasta Manana Monsieur
Talent Is An Asset
Complaints
In My Family
Equator
Barbecutie
Lost And Found

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue of 1974 album includes two unmarked bonus tracks, 'Lost & Found' & 'Barbecutie'. 12 tracks total including 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us', which Siouxsie & The Banshees covered in 1987. Island. 1994.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered and Includes the Bonus Tracks 'Barbecutie' and 'Lost and Found'.

Customer Reviews:

Best Kept Secret.......2006-08-02

I believe it was a night in mid December 1974 when I had my first Sparks experience. It was a live concert on some obscure late night music special. Suddenly I was face to face with with Ron Mael, slouched over his keyboards and looking like the love child of Adolph Hitler and David Byrne. I was intrigued. Then came Russel Mael's warbling falsetto layered over some of the quirkiest lyrics I'd ever heard. I believe the song was Talent Is An Asset. I had to know more.

I bought Kimono My House, dropped the needle and opened my mind. This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us hit my ears with it's steady beat and clever arrangement. I remember being struck by Russel's vocal work on this song. It was unlkine anything I'd ever heard. Amateur Hour was the next Sparks nugget to strike a chord. The hook going into the chorus is what caught me. I went back and listened to the lyrics and nearly laughed myself sick. "when you turn a pro you'll know, she'll let you know!" The lyrics took me back to every nervous "encounter" I'd ever had. Thank God It's Not Christmas held the same comic appeal. Talent Is An Asset sounds like the Christy Minstrels meet the B52s. The drums kick start this musical frolic with Ron's keyboards, bass and lead guitars to follow.

What amazes me to this day is how far ahead of the game this band was. What frustrates me is that American audiences never really caught on. Before the Talking Heads and the B52s, Sparks was bending melodies and planting their lyrical tounges firmly in their cheeks. They weren't new wave, they weren't glam, and they weren't pop. They were, and still are unique and undeniably origional. The band is ambiguous,fun and fresh. Kimono My House is an ecclectic mix of black comedy lyrics and superb musicianship. I played the gooves out of this record and never grew tired of it. It's the best kept secret that I have stored in my stacks of vinyl.

And now for something completely different . . ........2006-04-08

These Brits were just as odd to music in the mid 70s as the Monty Python Brits had been to television a few years earlier. Their group of songs blended together as connected and disjointedly as the skits in a Python show. I saw Sparks in concert in the summer of '76 or '77 or was it '78(?) (so long ago.) I was given a free ticket, and so off I went. Columbus, Ohio, and I expected nothing (had never heard of the band), but to have a few drinks in the Agora theater on High St. I was happily surprised. Many of the songs from Kimono My House and Propaganda were featured. Falsetto-voiced singer with Hitler at the keyboards. Great . Both child-like and adult at the same time. One of the best shows ever, and I've seen the Stones four times. They did a TV video, and were featured in the movie Roller Coaster. One of 70's rock's best kept secrets. NOTE: Some with be emarrased to listen to this band just because the singer's voice is so high pitched, but give the guitarist and the lyrics a chance and they'll hook ya. their release entitled, Indiscreet, is also worthy of a listen or two or three or more.

Five stars for both originality and quality.

Yes I Think I'M Falling In Love With Myself Again..The HPD CD of the century........2005-08-18

Yes,that is a title of one of the songs from the band of ultimate actors(Histrionic Personality DisOrder diagnosed)..Sparks were a quirky bunch, a high pitched warbler,his brother a mad looking keyboard genius looking like a cross between a demented Hitler and Charlie Chaplain(coming to think of it their music was a bit fascistic with it's reliance on style and elegance combined with the irony and parody of Chaplain)Nonetheless, their music rocked hard with Continental flashes of brilliant crescendos in the right places...This CD was their best batch of songs and for a look at the UK music scene in 1974 you need not look further to see the other acts of the genre such as T-Rex,Roxy Music,Gary Glitter the look of Slade to see the amazing amount of acting and sexual posturing that went into the dash for international attention,stardom these acts left as a legacy in music history.
The remastering is fine and bonus tracks good...Their next Propoganda is like Kimono but this is a bit better in my opinion.

Good but a word of caution.......2005-08-07

I bought this cd because i like angst in my pants so much since i was a kid so i wanted another cd by Sparks i heard this one is the there best so i bought it. I cant really understand what the singer is saying he is very high pitchey sounds like Tiny Tim so the good sparks lyrics that are on this cd get lost in his funny voice luckly this cd comes with the lyrics. The good thing about this cd though is the music the guitars, bass and drums are quite good.

Wow........2005-01-22

I just listened to this again, and there are so many subtleties that I somehow missed when I was younger and more naive. Pick up ANY album by Sparks and I can guarantee it will be so good that it will make you nauseous. This is so ahead of its time, it puts everyone else to shame. To shame.

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Wonderful
These Times Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Them!

Kimono My House
Sparks
Manufacturer: Ume Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000I8NGIW
Release Date: 2006-10-09

Tracks:

This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us
Amateur Hour
Falling in Love with Myself Again
Here in Heaven
Thank God It's Not Christmas
Hasta Ma, Monsieur
Talent Is an Asset
Complaints
In My Family
Equator
Barbecutie [*]
Lost and Found [*]
Amateur Hour [Live at Fairfield Halls 09/11/75][*]

Album Description

Digitally remastered and expanded reissue of Ron and Russell Mael's 1974 breakthrough album featuring three bonus tracks: 'Barbecutie', 'Lost And Found' and 'Amateur Hour' (Live). Island. 2006.

Album Details

2006 Issued Digitally Remastered "21st Century Edition" of the Brothers Mael's Fourth Opus. After Touring in the UK, the Brothers Transplanted Themselves to the Land of the Union Jack and Repopulated their Backing Band to Create What is One of the Many Bright Highlights in their Long Career. The Album Yielded the Hit "This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us" as Well as "Hasta Manana Monsieur" and "Thank God It's Not Christmas" and "Falling in Love with Myself Again". When Listening to Sparks, It's Essential to Remember that Tongue Should Be Planted Firmly in Cheek. This Special Edition Adds Two Single B-sides ("Barbecutie" and "Lost and Found") Along with a Live Version of "Amateur Hour".

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful.......2007-07-01

This is probably the best Sparks album, IMHO. Buy it, listen to it, cherish it forever.

These Times Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Them!.......2007-01-02

Sparks were in their heyday when I was in college in the Seventies, but somehow I managed to avoid them until Siouxie and the Banshees covered "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us." On the basis of that cover, I finally got around to Sparks in 2006....and wish I'd stuck to Siouxie instead! If you can stomach the Mael's annoying vocal hijinx, more power to ya, bunky, but don't try and tell me it's not an acquired taste. Which I haven't acquired!

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Kimono My House
Sparks
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Visi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000E10J
Release Date: 1996-11-21