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| 1. The Rhythm Thief |
| 2. How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall? |
| 3. What Are All These Bands So Angry About? |
| 4. I Married Myself |
| 5. Ride Em Cowboy |
| 6. My Baby’s Taking Me Home |
| 7. Your Calls Very Important To Us. Please Hold |
| 8. Ugly Huys with Beautiful Girls |
| 9. Suburban Homeboy |
| 10. The Legend Of Lil’ Beethoven (Bonus Track) |
| 11. Wunderbar (Bonus Track) |
| 12. The Rhythm Thief (Instrumental Version) (Bonus Track) |
| 13. The Rhythm Thief (Bonus Video) |
| 14. Inspiration Behind Lil Beethoven: ‘Fear Of A Blank Page’ (Bonus Visual) |
| 15. Lil Beethoven Screen Saver |
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An amazing album,
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This review is from: Lil' Beethoven Deluxe Edition (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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This record is very important to you. Please buy.,
By Elliott Markham (Dun Laoghaire, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lil' Beethoven Deluxe Edition (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!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lil' bit of pure magic,
By sonik57 "sonik57" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lil' Beethoven Deluxe Edition (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 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.
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