singer is gonna get in my way. Russell Mael has claimed in reply: When he wrote "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both of Us", Ron could only play it in that key. It was so much work to transpose the song and one of us had to budge, so I made the adjustment to fit in. My voice ain't a "rock" voice. It's not soulful, in the traditional rock way; It's not about "guts". It's untrained, unschooled, I never questioned why I was singing high. It just happened, dictated by the songs. Ron has always written Sparks' lyrics and never transposed them into a rock key for me to sing. He always packed each line with words and I had to sing them as they were. Re-recordings An acoustic version of the song was recorded in 1985 for the B-side of the "Change" single. In 1997, Sparks recorded two new versions of the song for their album Plagiarism. The first was an orchestral reworking arranged and conducted by Tony Visconti which reinstated a verse that Winwood had cut from the original. The other was as a collaboration with Faith No More, which was released as a single and peaked at number 40 on the UK Singles Chart. Reception The Guardian said the song "was like a three-minute warning that Sparks were a band different from any other: octave-leaping vocals, gunshots, incomprehensible lyrics and an unrelenting sense of drama." Track listing 1974 original release. "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us – 3:06 "Barbecutie – 3:10 Personnel Russell Mael – vocals Ron Mael – keyboards Martin Gordon – bass Adrian Fisher – solo-guitar Norman "Dinky" Diamond – drums Chart positions Original release (1974) Sparks Vs. Faith No More (1997) Certifications Cover versions Siouxsie and the Banshees included a rendition of the song on their 1987 covers album Through the Looking Glass as the opening track. British Whale (recording alias of The Darkness singer/songwriter Justin Hawkins) released a version as his debut single in August 2005, which peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart. Ron and Russell Mael appear in the video for the song, as game show hosts. Portuguese band Humanos in their concerts performed a live version, mashing it with "O Corpo É Que Paga" by Portuguese 1980's icon António Variações, which is available on their live DVD. In live concerts, the Los Angeles/San Francisco