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- Original Release Date: 1 Jan 2002
- Format - Music: MP3
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- Also available in CD Format
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| Play | 1. The Rhythm Thief | 5:18 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 2. How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall? | 3:50 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 3. What Are All These Bands So Angry About? | 3:32 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 4. I Married Myself | 4:59 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 5. Ride 'Em Cowboy | 4:20 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 6. My Baby's Taking Me Home | 4:42 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 7. Your Call's Very Important To Us Please Hold | 4:13 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 8. Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls | 7:08 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 9. Suburban Homeboy | 3:00 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 10. The Legend of Lil' Beethoven | 2:06 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 11. Wunderbar | 3:53 | £0.69 | ||
| Play | 12. The Rhythm Thief (Instrumental) | 5:24 | £0.69 |
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I suppose we all come back periodically to listen to our favourite albums. Kimono My House has rarely been off my player since 1974 and I maintained an interest in Sparks up to the release of Big Beat, in 1979. Recently I heard "Suburban Homeboy" being played on BBC Radio 2 and was curious. Searching for "Lil' Beethoven" on Amazon and seeing the amazing comments being made for this album, I was intrigued but ready to be disappointed. I wasn't. This is astonishing stuff: here the Maels have produced a truly amazing, ground-breaking album which deserves all the superlatives: masterpiece, classic - what you will. Why hasn't it reached a larger audience? There isn't a bad track here, but for me the highlights were "Your Call's Very Important To Us. Please Hold" and "Ugly Guys with Beautiful Girls". All the wit, satire, bravery and downright fun that was present in "Kimono My House" is in abundance here - and yet in a radically different album which is quite unlike anything else you will hear. Magnificent.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album shows that not only can they still cut it after 30 years, but they can be boldly experimental to boot. These songs are structured in a way so unusual that, as one reviewer already pointed out, it can seem a bit underwhelming first time around, but oh! how it gets under the skin and stays there. The songs...unspool, and mesmerisingly. Verse-chorus-verse is decidedly not the template on Lil Beethoven.
Sparks have always dared to be humorous and satirical too, parlaying the mundane into the joyously surreal and dramatic. In a music business choked by the conformity of melancholy-lite (absolutely the easiest and safest emotion to work up) this is even more refreshing and necessary, and Ride 'Em Cowboy and Your Call is Very Important To Us. Please Hold are prime examples of how they can turn up high pop drama in the everyday comings and goings of life.
But really the album doesn't flag for a second, and its songs' unique structures allow for multiple listens.
Bring on 2006, and Hello Young Lovers!
Sparks have always dared to be humorous and satirical too, parlaying the mundane into the joyously surreal and dramatic. In a music business choked by the conformity of melancholy-lite (absolutely the easiest and safest emotion to work up) this is even more refreshing and necessary, and Ride 'Em Cowboy and Your Call is Very Important To Us. Please Hold are prime examples of how they can turn up high pop drama in the everyday comings and goings of life.
But really the album doesn't flag for a second, and its songs' unique structures allow for multiple listens.
Bring on 2006, and Hello Young Lovers!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The Maels are a class act. Returning to the fray with the incredible Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins in '94, they reconnected me with the feelings I'd had about them when I was just a sprog of 13 and Number 1 in Heaven was one of my fave albums.
Followed by the awesome Balls in 2000, Russell and Ron really hit their stride with Lil' Beethoven in 2002. It's quite simply like nothing else around and very them. In a sea of the manufactured, the formulaic and the bland, Sparks throw down a creative gauntlet.
Every track here is a winner. To see them do this live - which I have now four times! - is quite something. Not only do they give full rein to the songs but there's an added theatricality
with Ron acting out various mimes: playing his master keyboard with oversized arms on How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall?, strolling around the stage with a stunning blonde on Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls and appearing in a vest on the superb closing track, Surburban Homeboy. It is said that Britain is unsure of what makes up its identity now: a track like that shows you that
some shamefully ape America because someone else's (sub) culture is better than having none at all! The lyrics say far more than any empty rap and are devastating in their merciless sarcasm. Even this here Amazon get name-checked!
You want to know whether to buy this? Since I bought it, it's hardly been off my player so yes! yes! yes! Quite how Sparks will top this is anyone's guess as it's a masterpiece.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Sparks best offering yet
Several years on from its release, this CD is still one of my most played. Here, Sparks have moved on from the great little pop tunes of the 70's (and their generally forgettable... Read more
Published 7 months ago by AJW
Drove me nuts...
I find it hard to believe people think this a masterpiece. It's truly dreadful! I've loved Sparks since 'Kimono My House', but this just drove me nuts listening to it. Read more
Published 10 months ago by the AC chrysalis
Yes, it really is that good
I'm not surprised that this amazing album has collected nothing but 5-star reviews. It is just gob-smackingly wonderful. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Liz
MASTERPIECE!!! A must buy for absolutely everyone in the whole wide...
This is an album that should be in everyone's collection whether you are a Sparks fan or not. I cannot stress enough how magnificent and important this album is. Read more
Published 15 months ago by K. J. Greenland
The Mael brothers have written a page in contemporary music's...
..., and this is due to this excellent album. "Kimono my house" or "Propaganda" are little masterpieces, but "'Lil Beethoven" is THE Sparks album without a doubt. Read more
Published on 23 May 2009 by Trebla777
Best old band ever
I remember when I was a younger version of myself,old bands that had been around for years generally seemed to sound like a second rate facsimile of their old selves. Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2008 by D. L. Wilkinson
fantastic
everybody should have this album, it is a genuine masterpiece. The only problem is that you have to restrict the amount of times you listen to it, otherwise it starts messing with... Read more
Published on 17 Nov 2004 by d p batty
Still cutting edge after 30 years
A band like Sparks are a truly rare commodity and this album sounds as fresh now as Kimono My House did on it's release. Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2004 by Freddie Valentine
Quite simply - One of THE GREATEST albums of all time!!!!
This is a real grower- the first time I listened to it I was a little disappointed -- it didn't seem to be a step forward from the previous album "Balls" which was, unfortunately,... Read more
Published on 11 July 2004 by Mr. S. Fraser
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