Sparks Sparks Sparks

Had completely forgotten I'm seeing these guys tonight! On the train to London now, wishing I weren't so hungover.

Apparently Thurston Moore joined them onstage at the last London show to play guitar on This Town!

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So jazzed for this. I'm listening to Real Extended, the comp of 12-inch mixes and holy fucking shit

the extended mixes of the moroder tunes

are

EVERYTHING

This is happening
20 mins
You guys

SO FUCKIN GOOD

opened with "your call is v important to us" and I was p much hooked throughout. Popularity, tryouts, heaven, my way: I think the thing that will stick most from the 2h1m project is the reimagining of their fun ones as kinda drive soundtrack torch songs

And they are great for that! Glad you had a good time. Pity I had to miss the LA date for this version of the tour but it couldn't be helped!

Really hoping for a sequel album, setlist was kinda perfect imo. I used "heaven" as shorthand above assuming ppl would know I meant #1 but it could also refer to "here in heaven", which they did along with falling in love with myself, bc, Carnegie, I mean this is about as precision-targeted winsbait as is possible without throwing in whomp & balls faves

i had never seen this thanks to dumb SNL music performance sharing/licensing/whatever but it's pretty great. Sparks playing "Mickey Mouse" on SNL, introduced by Danny DeVito and then Ron Mael giving a short speech about mice. https://my.mail.ru/mail/legych6621/video/3502/6358.html

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I'm listening to the reviled "Puling Rabbits Out of A Hat" while working, and it's...kind of going down easy? The songs are certainly peppier than the midtempo plod of some of their other lesser albums. Ned called me mad for finding "Angst in My Pants" tough to get through, and I guess I'm mad for kind of liking "Rabbits".

Chaos reigns etc