https://open.spotify.com/album/5Z7xUQSGqT92mworLybrZ7?si=rN7lCEMcQt6r1-gEsNuPWg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A5Z7xUQSGqT92mworLybrZ7
The germans really had it in the 70s. They would scam record labels into giving them a bunch of money, so they could purchase old houses and schools, all in an effort to live communally and record the most mind bending music of the decade.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A band of brothers that truly just did what they did for the enjoyment of making music. My passion for Sparks has been undying since I first began listening to them back in high school. Their sound and style totally blew my mind. Refusing to be held hostage to the inclinations of the music industry, like Frank Sinatra and Sid Vicious say ”they did it their way” sailing off on a slow boat and leaving a discography rich with a uniquely cinematic & whimsical world vision in their wake. Spanning decades and the confines of genre with a sharp comedic wit, throughout their prolific career they have always been simultaneously a little ahead of their time but still little rooted in the past. This was a great strength of theirs in the long run - nobody did it quite like Ron & Russel Mael.
The Stones go psychadelic, had never really explored this one before recently. They didn’t really explore this stuff further after this album and the album was the panned as a rip off of those trends of the time and the what the Beatles had done, but still give this a listen, cool stuff. This is what digging into discographies and less popular stuff is all about, finding these fun one offs.
