スパークス(Sparks)は2000年代にリリースしたスタジオ・アルバム5タイトルのデラックス・リイシューについて詳細を発表。また、ボーナス・トラックとして収録される曲のひとつで、これまで未リリースだった「It's a Sparks Show」の音源が公開されています。この曲は2000年代のコンサートでのバンドの紹介曲です。
<4月29日発売> ●Balls (2000) ●Lil' Beethoven (2002) ●Hello Young Lovers (2006)
<5月27日発売> ●Exotic Creatures of the Deep (2008) ●The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (2009)
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■Balls (2022 remaster - originally released in 2000) * First Time on Vinyl *
1. Balls 2. More Than A Sex Machine 3. Scheherazade 4. Aeroflot 5. The Calm Before The Storm 6. How To Get Your Ass Kicked 7. Bullet Train 8. It’s A Knockoff 9. Irreplaceable 10. It’s Educational 11. The Angels
CD Bonus Tracks: 12. It's A Sparks Show [Opening theme for Sparks live shows; Previously unreleased] 13. Calm Before The Opera [Reworking of the song ‘The Calm Before The Storm’] 14. The Angels (Sparks Alternative Version) 15. More Than A Sex Machine (Sparks Definitive Version - Radio Edit) 16. The Angels (Tony Visconti version) 17. The Oblongs [Proposed pilot theme song for the animated TV series The Oblongs; Previously released in Japan] 18. A Cute Candidate [Opening Theme From In Entertainment We Trust: Music From The Motion Picture A Cute Candidate by Kuntzel+Deygas] 19. The Race For President [From In Entertainment We Trust: Music From The Motion Picture A Cute Candidate by Kuntzel+Deygas]
■Lil’ Beethoven (2022 remaster - originally released in 2002)
1. The Rhythm Thief 2. How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall? 3. What Are All These Bands So Angry About? 4. I Married Myself 5. Ride ‘Em Cowboy 6. My Baby’s Taking Me Home 7. Your Call’s Very Important To Us. Please Hold. 8. Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls 9. Suburban Homeboy
CD Bonus Tracks: 10. The Legend Of Lil' Beethoven [The story of ‘Lil’ Beethoven’ read by Ron Mael] 11. Wunderbar (Concerto In Koch Minor) [Originally commissioned for Günther Koch Revisited: Voll in den Mann by Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel und Medienkunst; Features the sampled voice of Günther Koch] 12. Kakadu [Originally commissioned for one word one sound by Bayerischer Rundfunk / Hörspiel und Medienkunst Concept: a song created from an assigned word and sound, Word: “Kakadu” (voice of Richard Huelsenbeck). Sound: papier schnippen / snip paper. Reading by Tammy Glover] 13. Suburban Homeboy (Extended "Ron Speaks" Version) 14. The Rhythm Thief (Instrumental Version)
■Hello Young Lovers (2022 remaster - originally released in 2006)
1. Dick Around 2. Perfume 3. The Very Next Fight 4. (Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your Country 5. Rock, Rock, Rock 6. Metaphor 7. Waterproof 8. Here Kitty 9. There’s No Such Thing as Aliens 10. As I Sit Down to Play the Organ at the Notre Dame Cathedral
CD Bonus Tracks: 11. We Are The Clash [Originally released on White Riot, Vol.2: A Tribute to The Clash, issued by Uncut Magazine in November 2003] 12. (Baby, Baby) Can I Invade Your Country (Alternative Lyrics)
■Exotic Creatures of the Deep (2022 remaster - originally released 2008)
1. Intro 2. Good Morning 3. Strange Animal 4. I Can’t Believe That You Would Fall for All the Crap in This Song 5. Let the Monkey Drive 6. Intro Reprise 7. I’ve Never Been High 8. (She Got Me) Pregnant 9. Lighten Up, Morrissey 10. This Is the Renaissance 11. The Director Never Yelled ‘Cut’ 12. Photoshop 13. Likeable
CD Bonus Tracks: 14. Brenda is Always in the Way [B-side of the 7” single ‘Lighten Up, Morrissey’] 15. Islington N1 [Written to commemorate the concert event Sparks Spectacular: 21 Albums in 21 Nights (May-June 2008) in Islington, London; Originally available only for “Golden Ticket” holders] 16. Mr. Hulot [Unused theme song written for the documentary The Magnificent Tati] 17. I Am A Bookworm [End theme song of the radio show Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt, and broadcast weekly on National Public Radio member station KCRW in Los Angeles] 18. Where Would We Be Without Books [Main theme song of the radio show Bookworm, as above]
■The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (2022 remaster – originally released in 2009)
1. 1956 Cannes Film Festival 2. “I Am Ingmar Bergman” 3. Limo Driver (Welcome To Hollywood) 4. “Here He Is Now” 5. “Mr. Bergman, How Are You?” 6. “He’ll Come ‘Round” 7. En Route To The Beverly Hills Hotel 8. Hollywood Welcoming Committee 9. “I’ve Got To Contact Sweden” 10. The Studio Commissary 11. “I Must Not Be Hasty” 12. “Quiet On The Set” 13. “Why Do You Take That Tone With Me?” 14. Pleasant Hotel Staff 15. Hollywood Tour Bus 16. Autograph Hounds 17. Bergman Ponders Escape 18. “We’ve Got To Turn Him ‘Round” 19. Escape (Part 1) 20. Escape (Part 2) 21. “Oh My God” 22. Garbo Sings 23. Almost A Hollywood Ending 24. “He’s Home”