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Indiscreet | 
| Artist: Sparks
Label: Commercial Marketing
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 24810
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 51
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498434116
EAN: 0602498434116
ASIN: B000I8NGJG
Release Date: October 9, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Hospitality On Parade | | • | Happy Hunting Ground | | • | Without Using Hands | | • | Get In The Swing | | • | Under The Table With Her | | • | How Are You Getting Home ? | | • | Pineapple | | • | Tits | | • | It Ain't 1918 | | • | The Lady Is Lingering | | • | In The Future | | • | Looks, Looks, Looks | | • | Miss The Start, Miss The End | | • | Profile | | • | The Wedding Of Jacqueline Kennedy To Russell Mael | | • | Looks, Looks, Looks |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The final installment of Sparks' so-called 'British Trilogy', before they returned to the US is also in many ways the strangest and the strongest. It certainly contains all their hallmarks - mundane or lascivious lyrical content, a unique way with a rock arrangement, Russell Mael's trademark falsetto delivery - but the input of producer Tony Visconti has gone some way to making this a far more sonically interesting album. Jazz arrangements and flourishes show up in many of the songs, most explicitly in "Without Using Hands" and the singles "Get in the Swing" and "Looks, Looks, Looks", while the charming "Under The Table With Her" shows great sophistication in its string quartet arrangement. The lyrical content is also among the band's strongest and most diverse - the very un-PC "Happy Hunting Ground" bemoans the fact that it's harder to get girls now that school days are long gone, "Pineapple" is nothing more than a close-harmony tribute to the titular fruit... you get the idea. When put together, it's impossible to pigeonhole the result - it is pure Sparks, and as such should be an essential addition to any self-respecting CD collection. The addition of three excellent bonus tracks is simply the icing on the cake. --Thom Allott
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| Customer Reviews:
 Happy Hunting Ground - in parts April 25, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
After the splendour of the two Muff Winwood produced albums, this was one was a bit of a disappointment. Sure, there are a number of highlights but, sorry, the songs just weren't consistently strong enough for me. They also suffered from Tony Viscounti's production that seemed to dictate that the styles and arrangements should be unique to each track - great if you can pull it off. Alas, it doesn't work for me - in short, the album doesn't have a soul. On the plus side, the repackaging is good and the extra tracks are of interest to the completists. It's a shame that the overly schmaltsy version of I Wanna Hold Your Hand which featured in the last CD edition has not made the cut this time. Maybe they realised that Russell's vocal sounded decidedly out of tune. Sorry Russ!
 Sparks at their most Spark-ish!!! January 16, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Growing up in the 80's in Los Angeles I discovered Sparks during there "Whomp that Sucker" and "Angst in my Pants" New Wave period. After the quality of the next two records dwindled, I kind of lost interest, until a girl I met in London turned me on to "Kimino my House" and "Propaganda". Here was the pure genius of Rock and Pop I'd been looking for! It was a little like Queen,The Sweet and Bowie but weirder and better! Then in the 90's I bought the rest of their records for my collection and "Indiscreet" was the strangest and most glorious one of all. A regal, let them eat cake, kind of record! "Happy Hunting Ground" is a blast of operatic, pop, rock pre-punk madness.!! "In the Future" pre-dates 80's new wave (and their own 80's song "I Predict") and "Tits" is a classic! If you're into Sparks, buy this genius record right away!!
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