Before there was Ween, there were Sparks, or rather the Mael Brothers, who cut a couple of records Stateside to little interest. UK audiences took more readily to their idiosyncratic sound which broke big during the glam era, but never above middling status in their native U.S.. In a way, this might have been the perfect glam rock record, but also contains a deeper thread of absurdity that's deceptively hard to crack, and warrants repeated listening. The big song was "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both of Us", which more than establishes sound and tone for what was to follow. All the innuendos, overtures, and bombast here feels strangely numbing as you move through the record, but the basic up-front premise of the Brothers Mael more than keeps you on your toes. The only thing I found odd about this record was, sometimes eccentricity no matter how impressive can be wearing after a while.
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