@@BraveSquaw67 "A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip" - it's a masterpiece, you're going to love it! You should also check out their channel, as Ron releases a video every Sunday where he speaks lyrics from their songs which is very cool :-) ua-cam.com/users/SparksOfficialVideovideos?view=0&flow=grid
In 1971 our home "music centre" was a 1947 mono radio cabinet (Radionette). It was state-of-art when it was new. In 1971 I was 16 years and was begging for a Hi-Fi system. My father gave in, and we got a Tandberg Sølvsuper 11 stereo radio (2 x 30 watt RMS/sinus!) , a Garrard turntable and 2x50 liter speakers! I was in heaven! My first record was the double-LP "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" by Joe Cocker. After attending a live pubconcert in 1973 in London with the Sparks (they were living in UK at the time) I bougth my first Sparks-album the year after; Kimono My House. From that moment I became a true Sparks-fan ever since. I was living in a small town (Porsgrunn, Norway, population of 20.000) at the time, and the main record store ordered two of every new Sparks albums; One for me, and one for a another person (which remains unknow until this day). I think the two brothers, Ron and Russel Mael, havn't got the credit they deserve. As of March this year, they are part of a supergroup called FFS together with Franz Ferdinand. There are not many musicans with a career like the Maelbrothers.
I was about 10 years old in the middle of the 70s and when I first saw Sparks, on TV, I thought that Ron Mael was blind, but after a while I realised that he was just... strange. I think that maybe today it's hard to fully understand how strange, and out, their music was back then. Sid Vicious and the rest of them were mainstream in comparison.
i have nether been blessed with the pleasure of seeing this band before, now that i have i really can appreciate the brilliance of everything in the world
This is very bizarre. A very happy guy singing la dolce vita and another one with a strange and maniac face. LOL! The instrumental is fantastic. Funny and interesting!
@@ladyrose7793, When you see Ron in interviews you'll meet a very calm, collected, warm and humorous gentleman. Very sympathic! Russell seems equally warm and humorous, less collected with a much higher level of energi. And equally sympathic!
@@rojinaaktar4536,??? Was that supposed to be a joke? Or?? If so, next time you make a bad one, use a '😉' to clarify. I consider myself a very humorous person, but when someone makes just one statement out of the blue, it's difficult to identify if it's supposed to be irony or simple stupidity. 🤔🤔😆 I mean a written joke when one can't see your facial expression. To everybody else: Ron (keyboardist) was born 1945, August 12, and Russell (singer) was born 1948, October 5. Brothers. Last name is Mael.
He didn't sing anything (in public) until much later (The seduction of Ingmar Bergman 2009, FFS "Collaborations don't work', 2017 'Bummer' on 'Hippopotamus'. What I can recall), but he mimed like a silent movie actor.
Good luck!! Have you heard their sweetest little song ever "Marry me"? I could almost said "Yes!" if Russell had sung that to me 😂 Now I'm happily married to myself, and that will last for ever, not even Russell's vocal cords could change my mind 😊
@@jamiewesson6606, it's called "exploring" when it come to Sparks. They say "This looks fun, let's try it and find out how we can make something new of it.". Or they do their own thing first and others follow, which is more usual. 💖
Haha! I'm seven something years late to answer, but I think the cartoon to 'The calm before the storm' is the best video ever! But who am I to tell, also loving the FFS video with 'Piss off'! 🤣 I have always wanted to take a look inside Ron's brain, but after seen Russell's four songs (Roger, Saccharin and the war, Pineapple and Gone with the wind) I'm not sure who is the weirdest brother 🤣
+Foxtrot Hotel That's obviously because Russ has got European style teeth ie. not fixed up perfect Californian teeth, and Ron's facial hair reminds one of some historic European genocidal maniac...
ua-cam.com/video/Kprj6DCr8sA/v-deo.html look who is hot here. This is also a favorite clip because I love the songs and Russell’s dancing is happy and catchy🌞
@@velmad3091 Ooooh yes .... Russell bopping around in his sparkly suit and Ron is there looking smokin' hot and animated, aaaah, drives me crazy! So attractive! I can almost feel myself blushing when he is looking at the camera during that performance! Thanks for that, I'm trying to build up my playlists on here
Sparks started their synth era 1979, March 2, when they presented their 'No. 1 In Heaven', produced by no less than Georgio Moroder. (The album was recorded -78, but the record label didn't know how to... LABEL it😢😁😢😁😢so it took some extra months before it was out in the stores.) Before that they had regular setting with guitar, bass, drums and keyboard. During the three albums Moroder produced for them Ron and Russell learned how to make an orchestra out of one box with keys! Since then the technical standards have evolved and so has their music. Sparks started as a band in 1968, using the name 'Halfnelson', released their self named album 1971, that album was re-issued -72 as 'Sparks' as they changed the name of the group. That year they also let their second album 'A woofer in a tweeter's clothing' see daylight. And 1974; first 'Kimono My House', then 'Propaganda'. 1975 'Indiscreet', -76 'Big Beat' (very far from 'No. 1..'), -77 'Introducing Sparks'. Nothing that put keyboard in the first room, until the complete turn with help of Moroder -78/79.😃🤩💖💖💖 They did (their label) a video of 'This Town ain't big enough for the both of us' 1974. You can watch it on UA-cam. (Don't confuse the actual ALBUM 'A woofer in a tweeter's clothing' and an earlier demo album with the same name! Both are available on UA-cam.)
Ah, I only find it illogical because I have never been a fan of the genre. Yet you must be correct or else I wouldn't enjoy this so much..... I suppose if John Conner can send his own father back in time to inevitably father himself anything is possible.
@@Czah5 "The" gengre? Sparks do about as many gengres as albums, 24 I think (2018), not counting "best off" style ones. It's not as bands like The Stones (no offend, they are also legendaric!) when you have heard five different songs you heard them all. When you have heard ONE Sparks song, you have heard ONE. Filled of varity, wit, irony and humor!
Lmao!!! I love sparks. But the other brother on keyboards must've freaked out millions of kids & people in there career. They knew people found it funny, curious, scary ect. so they all agreed he should keep doing it. But brilliant memories. lol
Sparks & Gorgio Moroder is the one of most best music work's 70's
Ron sure is looking very pretty here ... I love all the camera attention he is given! Those gorgeous brown eyes are hypnotic
Cool! Ty for that info. Under what name?
@@BraveSquaw67 "A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip" - it's a masterpiece, you're going to love it! You should also check out their channel, as Ron releases a video every Sunday where he speaks lyrics from their songs which is very cool :-) ua-cam.com/users/SparksOfficialVideovideos?view=0&flow=grid
Oh, yes. Ron's eyes are absolutely beautiful. With his hair loose and natural, he is just as attractive as Russell, though in a different way.
@@donnacolwell3988 Exactly! 😊😘😍💖👍
El sonido de Giorgio⚡ Moroder 👍
The Number One Song In Heaven album was 6 songs of pure genius and way ahead of its time.
The NRG & Synhtpop Sound of Giorgio⚡Moroder father of EDM since 1977...
Still is 😂👍gazzz
Ron is handsome, charming, sweet, worrying and enigmatic at the same time.
80s Viktor 80s Hello😉I agree you know that😁watch Sparks interview Jonesy he is still goodlooking🥰
Producido por el padre del NRG, máximo desarrollador de música electrónica en los 70s 80s y pionero del EDM...Giorgio⚡Moroder
He is magical! ❤️✨
3:37 _Life isn't much but there's nothing else to do_
Most relatable line in a song I've ever heard.
Upstairs!! (Meaning the head)
"Crammed with common phobias
Still it's a Utopia
This is where you kill a guy
And you know he's still alive"
😂 😂 😂 👍
imagine sitting opposite him on a long train journey
haha even a short one.
what will happen ?!!!
feeling more comfortably than with a pointless face.
+Wat ching u I would love to x.
@Wat ching u, Seen/heard the song "Good Morning"? If not, check it out!
Sparks of course.
The cameraman and director deserves an award for this
This one is Ron's finest moment IMO..
Love this Band. Ron is Awesome. He totally cracks me up.
In 1971 our home "music centre" was a 1947 mono radio cabinet (Radionette). It was state-of-art when it was new.
In 1971 I was 16 years and was begging for a Hi-Fi system. My father gave in, and we got a Tandberg Sølvsuper 11 stereo radio (2 x 30 watt RMS/sinus!) , a Garrard turntable and 2x50 liter speakers! I was in heaven! My first record was the double-LP "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" by Joe Cocker.
After attending a live pubconcert in 1973 in London with the Sparks (they were living in UK at the time) I bougth my first Sparks-album the year after; Kimono My House. From that moment I became a true Sparks-fan ever since. I was living in a small town (Porsgrunn, Norway, population of 20.000) at the time, and the main record store ordered two of every new Sparks albums; One for me, and one for a another person (which remains unknow until this day).
I think the two brothers, Ron and Russel Mael, havn't got the credit they deserve.
As of March this year, they are part of a supergroup called FFS together with Franz Ferdinand. There are not many musicans with a career like the Maelbrothers.
I was about 10 years old in the middle of the 70s and when I first saw Sparks, on TV, I thought that Ron Mael was blind, but after a while I realised that he was just... strange. I think that maybe today it's hard to fully understand how strange, and out, their music was back then. Sid Vicious and the rest of them were mainstream in comparison.
Ron Mael is gorgeous xx.
Bungle , George and Jeffrey disagree. 😂
Ron - Best ever stage persona, any one, any where, any time
Ron is so hilarious! :) I love him!
Ron Mael kind of has that "Prince" look on this one, that stare that Prince used during the Purple Rain era. And this was a few years earlier.
i have nether been blessed with the pleasure of seeing this band before, now that i have i really can appreciate the brilliance of everything in the world
Who else here is addicted to watching this video?
yup!
Sweet Moon I came here to watch Ron again...
Me. Just bloody brilliant. ☺
That 'STARE!!' takes me back,,!!!!
The guy on the keyboard is very pretty.
Russel is beautiful,too:))
Robotic Cosmonaut yeah pretty to you and scary to me no offense
Bridget Murphy He scared me as a kid in the 70's.
funny too!
Dripping Sugar you must be a nazi
Stare. Stare. Bouncy. Jawlines. Brilliance. ❤
my dad got me listening to some of the sparks yesterday im obsessed!
Wow, Ron! 🔥🔥🔥🔥😘🥰
This is very bizarre. A very happy guy singing la dolce vita and another one with a strange and maniac face. LOL! The instrumental is fantastic. Funny and interesting!
+Monica Vicious The best part is they are brothers.
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@@ladyrose7793, When you see Ron in interviews you'll meet a very calm, collected, warm and humorous gentleman. Very sympathic!
Russell seems equally warm and humorous, less collected with a much higher level of energi. And equally sympathic!
Actual identical twins too
@@rojinaaktar4536,??? Was that supposed to be a joke? Or?? If so, next time you make a bad one, use a '😉' to clarify. I consider myself a very humorous person, but when someone makes just one statement out of the blue, it's difficult to identify if it's supposed to be irony or simple stupidity. 🤔🤔😆
I mean a written joke when one can't see your facial expression.
To everybody else: Ron (keyboardist) was born 1945, August 12, and Russell (singer) was born 1948, October 5. Brothers. Last name is Mael.
Fantastic,good times.
Disco never dies.
new wave rather?
Sparks -Слов нет !!!!!!! Как мы вами заслушивались )))))))
Ron & Russell Mael
Ron's expressions are in fine form here!
ron is so pretty oh my god
Best band in the world
As ever with their song, absolutely fab!!
Both must be thinking "stay focused, do your job, don't laugh, don't laugh" ^^
I want to burst out laughing and scream "Genius!" at the same time
Great sound, great contrast , understated subtle on one side and another going active
Щикарная группа, щикарная песня...
I just noticed how Ron Mael just barely mouths the chorus La Docle Vita, faintly moving his lips slightly.
He didn't sing anything (in public) until much later (The seduction of Ingmar Bergman 2009, FFS "Collaborations don't work', 2017 'Bummer' on 'Hippopotamus'. What I can recall), but he mimed like a silent movie actor.
I love them especially this song can’t stop listening to it
Another gem from Ron and Russell!
0:34 he's like finally I can blink now
I look back at these guys in awe, they were doing this in the US, a Singer and a Synthesizer before Soft Cell, Yaz (Yazoo) and the Pet Shop Boys.
And Erasure !
La Dolce Vita, oh yes. Great song.
i have decided to make it my life goal to create a time machine and travel back to 1979 to marry ron mael as he is in this video
Good luck!!
Have you heard their sweetest little song ever "Marry me"? I could almost said "Yes!" if Russell had sung that to me 😂 Now I'm happily married to myself, and that will last for ever, not even Russell's vocal cords could change my mind 😊
I don't think either of them ever married
Never heard this one before. Love the synth lead!
shame they went from pop rock to disco a bit of a sell out
@@jamiewesson6606, it's called "exploring" when it come to Sparks. They say "This looks fun, let's try it and find out how we can make something new of it.". Or they do their own thing first and others follow, which is more usual. 💖
@@jamiewesson6606 this isn't disco, it's electronic dance music. Elements of early psytrance, techno, hard dance and DnB in there.
Every musician was experimenting very different sounds just like drugs.
Beautiful crisp video, thanks so much for uploading it!
On Tour in the UK in Oct 2020 and still going strong
Definitely the best Sparks video anywhere on the entire internet. Ron Mael is a legend.....and a complete fruitcake! ;)
Haha! I'm seven something years late to answer, but I think the cartoon to 'The calm before the storm' is the best video ever! But who am I to tell, also loving the FFS video with 'Piss off'! 🤣
I have always wanted to take a look inside Ron's brain, but after seen Russell's four songs (Roger, Saccharin and the war, Pineapple and Gone with the wind) I'm not sure who is the weirdest brother 🤣
@@annabackman3028If I remember correctly, Russell also wrote "Hasta Manana, Monsieur"
i love these guys
super track..superinis....
Fantastic. Love love love love
Long live those wacky Mael bros...
Sparks were always a great listen.
What a Masterpiece! 👍 Bravo Sparks 👏😀
I love how Ron is mumbling La Dolce Vita in anger at 2:10 hahaha
Imitating a silent movie actor.
I never would have in a million years guessed that these guys were American! I don't know why but I thought they were European.
+Foxtrot Hotel That's obviously because Russ has got European style teeth ie. not fixed up perfect Californian teeth, and Ron's facial hair reminds one of some historic European genocidal maniac...
*****
Yeah that makes perfect sense. I'm trying and failing to think of another U.S. band from that time that sounded anything like them.
+Foxtrot Hotel maybe it is because you think there is no dumb .... in america !!!
The sound and escene is sophisticated...."alla" Euro music i guess.........i am discovering them now.
They cant help being American.
Magnificent.
f""""""g love it !
These guys were so far ahead .
Piece of Art
Ron is so hilarious in this one, even more than usual. He slays me.
Epic as a rock, new wave and classical pop band.
one of the best videos I have seen.
Thanks - happy you really enjoy it !
Hello from 2k21
Amazing song
THISSSSS ISSSSSS SSSSSPPPAAAAARRRRTTTTAAAAAA ! ! ! ! !
The zueira never ends,even on Sparks videos haha
Love the lyrics!!!
Лучший альбом 1979 благодаря продюсеру Дж. Мородер…
life isnt much but there's nothing else to do...
hehe..
Ron is creepy in this video. Legend
Yeh,Ron are cool.......BOTH are cool of course! :)) I like such unique performances.
craigybus1 is Ron the keyboard guy
It's his schitck and I love it
He is creepy in every video.
@@dwj1231 He is cool! 😎
this may have been made in 1979, but it's still 80's all the way!
It was actually recorded 1978! Not released until March 2 1979 though.
Who needs proper exercise, I just dance to this song a couple of times a day...Sweet! p.s Russell is so handsome :-)
Ron is so hot here. 💥💖
He sure is ...... totally gorgeous
Emma Yes those brown eyes and curly dark hair and he is also tanned here. ❤️Totally awesome. If I met him in person I would feel like jello😁😁
ua-cam.com/video/Kprj6DCr8sA/v-deo.html look who is hot here. This is also a favorite clip because I love the songs and Russell’s dancing is happy and catchy🌞
@@velmad3091 Ooooh yes .... Russell bopping around in his sparkly suit and Ron is there looking smokin' hot and animated, aaaah, drives me crazy! So attractive! I can almost feel myself blushing when he is looking at the camera during that performance! Thanks for that, I'm trying to build up my playlists on here
Emma hihi seems we have the same taste in men😁
Music..comedy = genius
The finest :)
First glimpse of that face: Yikes! Second: Creepy...
Third, fourth and fifth: Curious
Sixth and onwards: If I were gay... ;)
The Sound NRG & Synhtpop of Giorgio⚡Moroder padre del EDM (1977)
'S AMAZING!!!!!!!
Love it!!!!
GOOD BAND !!!
adorooooo....
Definitely agree with the comments about him looking like Prince or vice versa
they say kraftwerk kicked synth off,,BULLSHIT,,it was sparks,,and the first official music vid,,
You're wrong - just check the timelines on Kraftwerk and Sparks wikipedia
Sparks started their synth era 1979, March 2, when they presented their 'No. 1 In Heaven', produced by no less than Georgio Moroder. (The album was recorded -78, but the record label didn't know how to... LABEL it😢😁😢😁😢so it took some extra months before it was out in the stores.)
Before that they had regular setting with guitar, bass, drums and keyboard. During the three albums Moroder produced for them Ron and Russell learned how to make an orchestra out of one box with keys! Since then the technical standards have evolved and so has their music.
Sparks started as a band in 1968, using the name 'Halfnelson', released their self named album 1971, that album was re-issued -72 as 'Sparks' as they changed the name of the group. That year they also let their second album 'A woofer in a tweeter's clothing' see daylight. And 1974; first 'Kimono My House', then 'Propaganda'. 1975 'Indiscreet', -76 'Big Beat' (very far from 'No. 1..'), -77 'Introducing Sparks'. Nothing that put keyboard in the first room, until the complete turn with help of Moroder -78/79.😃🤩💖💖💖
They did (their label) a video of 'This Town ain't big enough for the both of us' 1974. You can watch it on UA-cam.
(Don't confuse the actual ALBUM 'A woofer in a tweeter's clothing' and an earlier demo album with the same name! Both are available on UA-cam.)
LOVE IT!!!
love him,,,,,
he used to terrify me as a kid straight behind sofa
@2bewiz That's a shame, this is such a cool performance & great quality too. Thanks for sharing anyway...
Gawd yes, he's almost flat-out attractive.
I would have loved their videos as a child, unfortunately I only got to know them in my 30s. But anyway I love them.
I come her when I need to be judged, and I let Ron judge me
Lmao
Cant believe this is not on the new best of album Past Tense
this one's for the ron girlies
kimono my house is my fav sparks album!
Gonna be humming this all night. What damage was done to my young psyche, with the staring Ron?? :(
Its odd, logic tells me that I shouldnt like Sparks music but I cant stop listening. Lol
That logic must be false, its logical you should like them, ergo you cant stop listening.
Ah, I only find it illogical because I have never been a fan of the genre. Yet you must be correct or else I wouldn't enjoy this so much..... I suppose if John Conner can send his own father back in time to inevitably father himself anything is possible.
@@Czah5 "The" gengre? Sparks do about as many gengres as albums, 24 I think (2018), not counting "best off" style ones.
It's not as bands like The Stones (no offend, they are also legendaric!) when you have heard five different songs you heard them all. When you have heard ONE Sparks song, you have heard ONE. Filled of varity, wit, irony and humor!
Pure art
Pure art indeed<
love it
Those close up faces! so funny!
didn't all that staring hurt Ron's eyeballs?
Ron rocking that landing strip!
Lmao!!! I love sparks. But the other brother on keyboards must've freaked out millions of kids & people in there career. They knew people found it funny, curious, scary ect. so they all agreed he should keep doing it. But brilliant memories. lol
I think his idol ist charlie chaplin!!
👍 Yes, that's right 😊! He was a huge fan of old silent movies.
Ron, are you trying to seduce me? *giggles*
It didn't work on Ingmar Bergman!
My pleasure - enjoy!
Fabulous found by accident 2020
At first I thought this sounded too futuristic to be 1979. Then it reminded me of early '80s Bollywood item song disco..........
Released March 1979, recorded already -78. Ahead of time.
@ZLUGGO they turned whatever they wanted , that's why it's so good!
Gee, this is absolutely hilarious !