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Lil' Beethoven Deluxe Edition [Enhanced]

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Product details

  • Audio CD (22 Mar 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced
  • Label: Absolute
  • ASIN: B0001M1JRK
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,002 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

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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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing album, 15 May 2005
By Mr. Gary Simpson "gary4" (Ormskirk, England) - See all my reviews
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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.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This record is very important to you. Please buy., 27 Dec 2005
By Elliott Markham (Dun Laoghaire, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite simply - One of THE GREATEST albums of all time!!!!, 11 Jul 2004
By Mr. S. Fraser "sharksareverycool" (Glasgow Scotland) - See all my reviews
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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, rather poor by Sparks' standards. However, listen to this album a few times and you will appreciate the simple brilliance of many of these fantastic tracks. As mentioned in earlier reviews, many simply build (albeit brilliantly) on their titles over a number of minutes, but to fantastic effect. The old Sparks humour is there in abundance; ther are guitars on a couiple of tracks, and there are some excellent bonuses on this version. The album proper is the fist nine tracks, and is undoubtedly Sparks' best ever - and I own all 19 of them! This album has woken me up on my CD alarm clock every morning since I bought it, and I see no reason for that to change. Do yourself a favour and buy this now!!!!!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Mael brothers have written a page in contemporary music's history...
..., 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 1 month ago by Trebla777

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure class
In my opinion this is Sparks' finest hour to date. It is certainly the one that is always near the top of my cd pile by the computer. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Kirk St Moritz

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 16 months ago by D. L. Wilkinson

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

5.0 out of 5 stars A lil' bit of pure magic
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... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2004 by sonik57

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