They subsequently moved to Europe where they believed their music would be more widely accepted.
When the Half-Nelson LP stiffed, their manager covinced them to change their name to Sparks, under which they released A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing before being dropped from Bearsville. (Among the members of Half Nelson was Earle Mankey, who would later go on to be a hit record producer.) They caught the attention of emerging rock icon Todd Rundgren, who got them a deal on his own Bearsville-Warner Brothers Records, and who also produced the band's 1971 debut. While at UCLA, they formed Half-Nelson (a reference to a wrestling hold), and started gigging around LA. While growing up in the City of the Angels, they were constantly exposed to the most explosive rock music coming out, among them the Venice Beach-based superstars, the Doors. The Mael brothers had spent their childhood as young models in mail order clothing catalogs. Sparks, which has been together in one form or another for the better part of four decades, originated when brothers Ron and Russell Mael were attending UCLA and decided to form a band.
Dumb pop, this is not.Ron Mael - keyboards, vocals Russell Mael - vocals Sal Maida - bass Hilly Michaels - drums Jeff Salen - guitar How about Photoshop - a tale of the ease with which we airbrush our past lives, or Let The Monkey Drive, which may or may not be about srvitude and decadence? There's even a song about the Rennaisance, called simply This Is The Renaissance. And then there's the evisceration of modern manners. There's the guy whose girlfriend rejects him because he's not as deep as Morrissey (Lighten Up Morrissey) the amnesiac party animal who can't remember the identity of the girl next to him (Good Morning) the complete non-party animal (I Never Got High) or even the porn star at the center of The Director Never Yelled 'Cut'.
The title is presumably a reference to the characters dredged up in the songs therein. Exotic Creatures is filled with yet more biting commentary. Davinci resolve studio 14 0 1 – professional color correction. The last two albums, Lil' Beethoven and Hello Young Lovers, were filled with cod-operatic, Reichian repetitive odes to fickle humanity, love and vanity.
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