"Change" b/w "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us (Acoustic)"
Released: July 1985
"Music That You Can Dance To" b/w "Fingertips"
Released: November 1986
"Fingertips" / "The Scene"
Released: 1986
"Rosebud" b/w "Theme for Rosebud (Cinematic Mix)"
Released: January 1987

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The Best of Sparks: Music That You Can Dance To

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Music That You Can Dance To is the fourteenth studio album by American pop band Sparks. It was originally released in September 1986, on the label MCA in the US and Consolidated Allied in the UK, two years after their previous album, Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat.

Music That You Can Dance To released 1986 was the band's most dance music inspired album since 1979's No. 1 in Heaven. The overall sound of the album was dominated by synthesizers and sequencers like the 1979 album but it differed from that release by the inclusion of the heavily distorted bass guitar of Leslie Bohem, and the emphasis on discordant sound effects. "Music That You Can Dance To", "Fingertips" and "The Scene" represent some of Sparks' most Hi-NRG dance music leanings. "Shopping Mall of Love", "Let's Get Funky", and (on the original US edition) "Change" present a side of the band's sound that is discordant and experimental. Whereas "Rosebud" and the rerecording of their 1982 single "Modesty Plays" are not dissimilar from the synth-pop sound that the band had pursued on their previous two albums. "Armies of the Night" had been recorded for Fright Night (1985), the version that appeared on the European editions of Music That You Can Dance To was a re-recording.

The recording of the album was the last time that the Mael brothers worked with the line up of guitarist Bob Haag, bassist Leslie Bohem, and drummer David Kendrick. This line-up had been in place since 1981's Whomp That Sucker. Sparks next album was recorded as a duo with some guest musicians. David Kendrick joined Devo and appeared on their 1988 album Total Devo.

Music That You Can Dance To was no more successful on the album charts than their previous album, Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat, had been. It was released on a number of different record labels across different territories: MCA Records in the US, Consolidated Allied Records in the UK and Curb Records in Germany. In the US and Germany, the album substituted "Armies of the Night" for the 1985 single "Change".

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