Perhaps inspired by my recent minor episode of automotive damage, I pulled out my handy combo reissue of Sparks' first, self-titled album (actually, I think it was released originally under their first name, Halfnelson) and the second, A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing, since that CD contains the charmingly and cheerfully mad "Here Comes Bob," whose protagonist has, as the judge observes, "a bad means to a worthwhile end." But as Bob notes, how else can you make friends in car-crazed LA?
From the first, slightly more subtle in its ways of making friends album, we have the veering-toward-psychedelic song "Fletcher Honorama." I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. I'm particularly fond of the way the instrumental interlude keeps threatening to fade out, only to return with the annoyingly jaunty tack piano part, over and over again.
Returning to the second album, you could arguably call "Angus Desire" slightly psychedelic as well, although Sparks is hardly the first band to leap to mind when thinking of psychedelic music. Regardless, this track has that slightly slowed-down, narcotic vibe characteristic of some psych varieties. Unlike "Fletcher Honorama," this song is pretty self-evident in its subject: a guy who really wants to be the lead guitarist with AC/DC. Okay, I'm kidding: he's in love with the original drummer of the Velvet Underground.
Sparks "Here Comes Bob"
Sparks "Fletcher Honorama"
Sparks "Angus Desire"
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