The title is also rather ironic – Introducing Sparks was not only not their first album, it wasn't even the first for their label, Columbia (it was their second and, furthering the irony, their last).

Introducing Sparks was no more a success in terms of chart performance than their previous album Big Beat.

"[6] Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote, "On its five albums for Bearsville and Island, this skillful brother act compounded personal hatefulness with a deliberately tense and uninviting take on pop-rock.

But with their Columbia debut, Big Beat, they began to loosen up, and here one cut actually makes surf music history, in the tending-to-hyperconsciousness section.

The album was later re-released again in Japan on SHM-CD, touted as a superior sounding CD format, the same vinyl remaster was still used.