HALFNELSON RARE 1971 SPARKS RELATED LP STILL FACTORY SEALED TODD RUNDGREN
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HALFNELSON~RARE 1971 SPARKS RELATED LP~STILL FACTORY SEALED~TODD RUNDGREN
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HALFNELSON "HALFNELSON" BEARSVILLE RECORDS BV 2048 VERY RARE, FACTORY SEALED SPARKS-RELATED LP FROM 1971! COVER IS MINT!! The first Sparks album by any other name, this then-curious offering hit American stores in 1970, flopped around unnoticed for a few months, and was then repackaged under the now-familiar new band name -- at which point it promptly spawned a hit single. "Wonder Girl" topped the local chart in Montgomery County, AL. "They were a funny band," producer Todd Rundgren once mused, "and a lot of their stuff was strange, the words were strange and the whole approach was very left field." It would take several years more before the Mael brothers' quirky visions even began to connect with the mainstream and, if reports from the actual recording sessions are to be believed, a less strong-willed overseer might have allowed them to stray from even the furthest reaches of contemporary credibility. As it is, Halfnelson remains an uncompromising vision, as "the hit" was joined by the spookily tuneful "Fletcher Honorama," the Russell Mael vocal showcase "High C," and guitarist Earle Mankey's "Biology 2," a love song for chromosomes. "Oh hold me," pipes Mael, "You know you are my one and only phenotype and together we can have a genotype." Weird and wonderful, then, but if you have the first Sparks album, you already knew that. Seek out this version for its collectibility, and wonder whether the band would ever have gotten so far if it hadn't changed its name. "Wonder Girl" (Ron Mael) - 2:15 "Fa La Fa Lee" (Ron Mael) - 2:54 "Roger" (Russell Mael) - 2:30 "High C" (Ron Mael) - 3:03 "Fletcher Honorama" (Ron Mael) - 4:01 "Simple Ballet" (Russell Mael and Ron Mael) - 3:50 Side 2 "Slowboat" (Russell Mael and Ron Mael) - 3:50 "Biology 2" (Earle Mankey) - 3:00 "Saccharin and The War" (Russell Mael) - 3:57 "Big Bands" (Ron Mael and Russell Mael) - 4:15 "(No More) Mr. Nice Guys" (Jim Mankey and Ron Mael) - 5:45The image included with the auction is a scan of the actual item but, due to size limitations of the scanner, the edges of the item may have been cropped.
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