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The song was taken from the album No. 1 in Heaven and produced by Giorgio Moroder. During the late 1970s he was one of the premier producers, his working relationship grew from Sparks' appreciation of Donna Summer's dynamic "I Feel Love" which Moroder co-wrote and co-produced. The 12" remix was the first of the group's extended remixes.
1982 - worked with Lio on her album Suite Sixtine, which was a compilation of French rarities and English versions (translated by Sparks) of tracks from her first album. 1984 - co-wrote a song called "Yes or No" for The Go-Go's album Talk Show. 1987 - Russell Mael provided backing vocals for Salon Music for This Is Salon Music.
Sparks is an American pop and rock duo formed by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals) in Los Angeles. The duo is noted for their quirky approach to songwriting; [1] their music is often accompanied by sophisticated and acerbic lyrics—often about women, and sometimes containing literary or cinematic references [2] —and an idiosyncratic, theatrical stage presence, typified by ...
The album's title is a line from the song on the album "Hasta Mañana, Monsieur", and a pun on the title of the song "Come On-a My House", made famous by Rosemary Clooney. [2] The pun has a precedent, however, in the title of the track "Kimona My House" on jazz guitarist Dick Garcia 's 1956 album A Message from Garcia .
Angst in My Pants is the eleventh studio album by American pop and rock band Sparks.The album was released in 1982 by Atlantic Records in both the US and UK, and this was the sixth overall label that the band was signed to in the US, and, for the first time since the mid-1970s, the band would be signed to the same label in both the US and UK for three consecutive studio albums.
The song's music video features Sparks on board an animated 'BBC ship'. It was directed by Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas, who were also responsible for the video's animation. [3] In 2024, to mark the 30th anniversary of the parent album, the original music video was released in HD on the band's YouTube channel.
A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip is the 24th studio album by American rock group Sparks.Recorded in gaps between Sparks' film projects, the album uses a full rock-group format to draw on the band's full range of musical styles and was universally acclaimed by critics, who praised both its lyrical and melodic content.
It's not like a live band sound at all. The guitar parts are really deliberate. The recording has a real character to it.” Ron Mael: "The keyboard on that was the Wurlitzer. It was always difficult for me to figure out how a keyboard really worked with a band. So in that particular song, it was kind of a two-note riff.” [4]