Description
Track Listings
Disc: 1
| 1 | Wonder Girl |
| 2 | Girl from Germany |
| 3 | This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us |
| 4 | Amateur Hour |
| 5 | Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth |
| 6 | Something for the Girl with Everything |
Disc: 2
| 1 | Get in the Swing |
| 2 | Big Boy |
| 3 | Forever Young |
| 4 | The Number One Song in Heaven |
Disc: 3
| 1 | Tryouts for the Human Race |
| 2 | When I’m With You |
| 3 | Funny Face |
| 4 | I Predict |
| 5 | Cool Places (with Jane Wiedlin) |
Disc: 4
| 1 | With All My Might |
| 2 | Change |
| 3 | Music That You Can Dance To |
| 4 | So Important |
Disc: 5
| 1 | When Do I Get to Sing “My Way” (2019 – Remaster) |
| 2 | Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat |
| 3 | The Calm Before the Storm |
| 4 | The Rhythm Thief |
Disc: 6
| 1 | Dick Around |
| 2 | Good Morning |
| 3 | Johnny Delusional – By FFS |
| 4 | Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) |
Editorial Reviews
Past Tense is a brand new career-spanning collection by the provocateurs of pop – Sparks. Masters of reinvention, with an unappeasable ambition and a ravenous hunger for the now, Sparks – brothers Ron and Russell Mael – have been creating eye-poppingly brilliant pop music for more than 50 years. PAST TENSE: THE BEST OF SPARKS is an immaculate lesson in how to stay consistently interesting for fifty years. With sleeve-notes by Simon Price*, each track is hand-picked by Ron and Russell to best epitomise the era of Sparks from which they are drawn – forerunners of art rock, inventors of the synth duo, masters of new wave pop, Europop experimentalists and self-revisionists, in the 21st century they pioneered the electronic opera before delivering 2017’s pop masterpiece Hippopotamus.
