Sunday, March 8, 2015

Mixerr Album Reviews #522

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review Pleasure Sparks - Something Ta "Smok" To (The Pure Sound).  Something Ta "Smok" To (The Pure Sound) was released on cassette in 1994 by Apple Pie Recordings out of Saginaw, Michigan. Pleasure Sparks is Charles Pleasure Sparks out of Saginaw, Michigan. The album was mastered at U Be U Inc. as most Apple Pie Recordings products were. Bay Music lent a hand in production as usual. Think about a mixture of Soul, Easy Listening, Rap, R&B, Hip Hop, and Rock as you listen to this album.


Charles Pleasure Sparks showcases and displays his smooth "Pleasure Sparks" sound which he is infamous for on Something Ta "Smok" To (The Pure Sound). Get funky! Fire it up! Sit back on this laid back track as Pleasure Sparks will give you ta "smok" to. Pleasure Sparks needs to make his day easy. Things will surely get dope. As Pleasure Sparks will obviously go around the corner to the local convenience store to buy and obtain a 5 oz. pack of cigarettes (smokes). Pleasure Sparks is high. Everyone just needs to be calm in these times. Something Ta "Smok" To (The Pure Sound) is an Easy Listening track filled with lazy stoner rap and smooth sounding soul.

Lonely Heart is an R&B song filled out with some Soul and of course that smooth "Pleasure Sparks" sound. Lonely Heart is sad R&B song filled with sorrow and mourning. It seems to be one of those infamous "breakup and makeup" R&B/Soul songs.

Charles Pleasure Sparks showcases and displays his smooth "Pleasure Sparks" sound on Smooth Dogg. Pleasure Sparks shows off his "smooth side" on Smooth Dogg. Yeah I know. Smooth Dogg sounds like a name of another rapper from the 90s era of gangsta rap. Some rap heads may think this track sounds corny but I don't care. Pleasure Sparks is an overlooked and underrated producer anyway. He does not get the credit he deserves.


Charles Pleasure Sparks showcases and displays his smooth "Pleasure Sparks" sound which he is infamous for throught out his entire album. He should have dropped 2 or 3 more albums after this one. [Something Ta "Smok" To (The Pure Sound)]. Pleasure Sparks is an overlooked and underrated producer who does not get the credit he deserves as he made a staple for himself in the Michigan music scene and Saginaw rap frontier along with Gee Pierce, Don Q, Crazy Al, Mack Tha Jacka, Daddy Madd, and too many others to name. From a production aspect, Pleasure Sparks is often overlooked very much. Saginaw in general often gets overlooked in the Michigan music scene.
I rare this album, Something Ta "Smok" To (The Pure Sound), 5/5*****!!

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