Awwww, that's so sweet! Was that in Sydney or Melbourne? I was right up the front row at the Corner Hotel gig and Russ grabbed my hand and shook it during one of the songs. Got to chat with him and Ron afterwards, they were both very cute and polite.
I had my wisdom teeth pulled listening to the boys. I would go through it again just to see them. I wouldn’t mind being deaf just to see them! I can hear them in my head, so no loss.
Self named 'Halfnelson', 1971, reissued 'Sparks', 1972? Or their third album, but first in England, their great breakthrough 'Kimono My House'? The first album they released on Island Records, where they NOW are back after 47 years*! Their new 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' is to be released May 26! *'Kimono My House' and 'Propaganda' were released 1974 ('Propaganda' out in February '75 in the USA) 'Indescreet' came out 1975 1976 they were back home in America again and presented a new sound on 'Big Beat'. Those four were on Island. The two first, in America, were on Bearsville. (In 1972 they released 'A Woofer In a Tweeter's Clothing', the second album of theirs.)
@@almac-pj3oc 'Kimono My House' has a green sleeve with two geishas on. No text. Really cool!. Kidnapped and duct taped, that's 'Propaganda'. The first I heard, immediate love!💖 Kimono was released in May 1974, Propaganda came out in the UK in November the same year, in the USA and I guess the rest of Europe in January 1975. They are alike in style, but Propaganda isn't a copy, it has a different tone, somehow. 'At Home, At Work, At Play' and 'Something For The Girl With Everything', two songs you can't mix up with anything else! If you only heard them a few times, maybe one of them with the other 😅. Fast, jumping between high and low, stops and begins, fast and extremely fast. Awaken the question: HOW can Russell sing that many words in so little time?! The last song on the album is the opposite, like a ballad, the beautiful 'Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth'. I think the second covered Sparks song, after 'This Town'. Late Billie Mackenzie is one of them, he made a great version.
The first they recorded: In January 1967, Ron and Russell and friends Fred and Ronna Frank recorded four songs at a "rent-by-hour" studio. One of them is actually released nowadays. 'COMPUTER GIRL'. 2006 it was in addition to a book or booklet (I don't remember which) in Japan. So it has been out on YT for quite some time. However, on the compilation album 'The Best Of Sparks - Past Tense', 2019, they let 'Computer Girl' be the first song. In the song list, after the song it says: "Yes, it has crackles on it. Thank you." It's Ron's and Russell's own old copy that they fixed up as much as possible, but there are limits to what's possible 😅. Anyway, the psychedelic song is definitely worth a listen. The lyrics are "Sparks", weird or funny, depending on which you like. In JANUARY 7 1967 these guys wrote about a COMPUTER girl. Not robot, that had been perfectly up to date, at that time. Robots were seen in TV comedy shows, in science programs and of course in sci-fi. 1967 the first message was sent from one computer to another. And the Mael brothers write about a computer GIRL. That "has no limbs", the lyrics reveal. Ahead of time? Definitely 😂
Nearly fifty years later still relevant. You can't put Sparks into any category, they just do what pleases them. True artists in every way. Still on my bucket list of acts to see live. This would make a great world national anthem. ,
I saw them a few years ago at Primavera festival in Barcelona on a sunny afternoon. "This town isn't big enough" hearing live was always on my bucket list so I went crazy. Russel was smiling at me the whole time. I have very fond memories and I am a bigger fan since.
In a way it is but not in the way you expect...like a lot of clever Sparks songs they seem like they mean one thing when they mean quite another. They are saying never “turn your back” not because for a peace and love kind of way, but because nature is a cruel and cut-throat place that will always triumph in the end. We can be romantic about a pretty blue sky (“gaze at clouds that come down crashing”) that can quickly turn grey and into a storm that can blow us away in seconds. Polluting CEOs can make millions fracking but it is their mansions being burned up and washed away by mudslides in Malibu. We can take advantage of Mother Nature all we want but she was here before us and will definitely be the lone survivor in the end.
they are a very under-rated band! Lyrics to kimono my house and propaganda are clever. remember them from those albums and they were really, really popular in the U.K. there were billboards promoting propaganda everywhere in glasgow, scotland.
Just wonderful, loved them so much in the 70's, was mocked by friends for liking these "Pop" artists until they actually listened to them, they are highly talented and the words they write are quite brilliant!
fantastic band the sparks..i'm afraid to be old enough to have loved them in the right years...my 70's sparks,roxy music,mott the hoople,bowie, lou reed,n.y. dolls,brian eno,todd rundgren etc :)
Love the Sparks. All their songs have a magic about them. Hard to say which is my favourite except they all are ! I remember seeing Russ running around all over the stage in concert when I was a young lad in '75. What energy and still sang brilliantly !
Immer wenn ich das höre, bin ich geflasht. Ich war 14, zur Schule in die nächste Stadt, es gab das Café "Sorger", eine Musikbox, ein Schilling. Mit "Love hurts" und "Never turn your back to mother earth" war musikalisch alles gesagt, damals...
I had the most unbelievable experience of going on the Kimono My House tour 1974, with this amazing band, Sparks...after meeting Adrian Fisher at the Leeds Uni. venue, memories which will never fade.....nor my beloved Adrian, who I tended to 'look after' more than anything on that tour, so sadly missed.....and also so saddened by the death of 'Dinky' over some noisy neighbours.
I saw them in Bristol in the 70's, as a young girl I hitch hiked there on my own (so dangerous) but somehow got there and back safely and it was worth it, I was sure Ron was looking at me which I still like to believe to this day! It was a wonderful concert.
In 1977 I saw them at a little club in Southern Ohio. I had a camera and asked if I could come backstage and take pictures of the band and they said YES. Of course when I finally got to meet them I was tongue tied and couldn't think of a thing to say except "Can I kiss you?" And my fiance who took me to the show was really mad that I didn't insist that he be allowed backstage too. Meeting Ron and Russell was more important. Needless to say that marriage didn't last. But my appreciation for Sparks music did. These songs take me back!
I couldn't!! I hated Russell's eyes, but loved his voice. I have changed my mind about his eyes nowadays, they are 😍🤩. So are his vocal cords! 🥰 The longest crush I've ever had, probably life long... 😉 😇😂😂😂😂 I know, I'm... hm... A little crazy
Russell claims he isn't schooled. He hasn't enough power to hold a note especially long or has that "push" as a trained singer. I can imagen he has had some help in older days, though. Before Halfnelson and later Sparks he sung some swing/jazz and other different things from rock/pop. If you haven't heard the wonderful little piece "Tearing the place apart", please do!
that drummer was so damn good, I think he was the real key to The Sparks at their peak, not to mention the guitarist , bass player etc. , they were also great. This drummer though was said to have been one of the most good-natured, powerful and excellent drummers in the world. Without him, the SParks were never quite the same. He deserves recognition. Norman Diamond. The story of what happened to him is sad,and I think it all stemmed back to the tragedy that this incredible band did not last.
This incredible band is still together. As great a drummer as he is here, Sparks proved with Lil Beethoven that you don't need drums to create a masterpiece. "Oh no, where did the groove go?"
I agree with everything you say about how great a drummer Mr Diamond was, however there have been loads of equally fantastic drummers with the Maels IMO, they've consistently chosen brilliant drummers. Hilly Michaels was by a mile the best of the musicians on the Big Beat album, his thunderous drumming defining that album's sound. Keith Forsey's AMAZING drums helped make N1IH as high energy and uptempo as it is, especially as he must have just been playing along to a bunch of bleeping synths rather than any other musicians. Although he didn't record with them, David Humphrey did a lot of TV appearances with N1IH era Sparks, and was a vital addition to their promotions at this time. David Kendricks provided the relentless backbeats for WTS and AIMP, and nominally the following three albums, though the beats were essentially electronic. And then we had Christi Haydon and Tammy Glover in the 90s and 00s, both brilliant drummers who brought something special to the Sparks universe. They truly have been spoilt over the years. But none of this is to take away from DInky's awesome work.
It is like a revolved queen lineup...Freddy Mercury at the keyboard with Deacon actitud, Bryan May singing with Freddy actitud, Roger Taylor playing the bass with...Roger Taylor actitud! Excelent song Sparks!!!!
thanks for the reply from PUMPKINGILMOUR,I bought this way back in 1974.I am now 53,this song never ages it just gets more pop perfect every listen.Perfect for WORLD EARTH DAY.
Mac intoSser What utter nonsense . Bowie set all the trends. Each album he produced - especially pre 80s was so different from the last . Every pop/rock artist has used, borrowed or stolen something from every other artiste. Led Zeppelin and The Stones are prime examples of a band who used old blues or rhythm n blues riffs and re-arranged them to suit their own themes. Bowie used the term "magpie" to describe himself - although the end product was distinctly Bowie. Jayne County/Wayne County was a joke . Angie Bowie ? Hypocritical or what ? Still using her ex-husband's stage name ... hmm ! Without her association to Bowie , no one would even know or care about Angela Barnett .
I love Sparks, great band, the first band whose pictures I put on my bedroom wall. And they still are going today and still producing the occasional great tune. But to put Sparks in any way shape or form alongside Bowie. Ridiculous. Bowie was able to not just spot a trend but make it his own by being more adventurous, more talented and more daring with in it. Say what you want but his body of work spans so many styles of music and their are very few duds in amongst them. Bowie
@@PAULLONDEN I mightn't care for Wayne Countys music, but for anyone to call anyone a "tranny" in this day and age surely deserves being hollered back "ya fuckin' troglodyte"
haunting song, eternal. Extremely talented composition, and the singer is unreal, its like looking on the face of the very peak of British excellence, and ..... its just gone now.
I love how people in the comments play along and act like they were a real band. Great Mockumentary and I really wish a band like this did exist. The concept is brilliant!!
This is such a good piece of music,short as it is-always a good test if the melody stands on it's own.Underrated-best I heard from Sparks. They should rework it for the global environmental/climate crisis now-for me,it evokes the exactly right blend of portentous and sad.
I remember an interview in the Dutch music mag Muziekkrant Oor in which the band tell they were barred from a restaurant becaue of Russell' shoulder-length hair. The reporter also remarked on the latter's absolutely flawless vocal performance in concert. One of the very few rock stars who has remained his shy and winsome self, listen to his recent interview on wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35582
I know it's a long while ago since you posted your comment, but I feel like I have to say: This band is called SPARKS. Nothing more, nothing else. There is another band called The Sparks, VERY DIFFERENT from the band here. To use the wrong name only causes confusions. 🤗😍
saw Sparks in Australia about 12 years ago and Russell held my hand whilst singing this song, a highlight of my life
Brilliant, great story mate !
Awwww, that's so sweet! Was that in Sydney or Melbourne? I was right up the front row at the Corner Hotel gig and Russ grabbed my hand and shook it during one of the songs. Got to chat with him and Ron afterwards, they were both very cute and polite.
omg I mean, just omg
I had my wisdom teeth pulled listening to the boys. I would go through it again just to see them. I wouldn’t mind being deaf just to see them! I can hear them in my head, so no loss.
Wow, I would have melted in a soggy heap!
Russel has such a unique yet recognizable voice, I'm surprised he wasn't in stage musicals,he has such amazing control and such range!
Kinda of the same batch as Freddie Mercury (Queen)
A diamond that will never stop shining. A masterpiece of poetry.
And RIP Dinkie Diamond, the sparks drummer.
They were by far the best band of the 70 s. Their first album was mindblowing.
Self named 'Halfnelson', 1971, reissued 'Sparks', 1972?
Or their third album, but first in England, their great breakthrough 'Kimono My House'?
The first album they released on Island Records, where they NOW are back after 47 years*!
Their new 'The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte' is to be released May 26!
*'Kimono My House' and 'Propaganda' were released 1974 ('Propaganda' out in February '75 in the USA)
'Indescreet' came out 1975
1976 they were back home in America again and presented a new sound on 'Big Beat'.
Those four were on Island.
The two first, in America, were on Bearsville.
(In 1972 they released 'A Woofer In a Tweeter's Clothing', the second album of theirs.)
Kimono my house was the one. The one that they are duct taped and beimg kidnapped. different days.
@@almac-pj3oc 'Kimono My House' has a green sleeve with two geishas on. No text. Really cool!.
Kidnapped and duct taped, that's 'Propaganda'. The first I heard, immediate love!💖
Kimono was released in May 1974, Propaganda came out in the UK in November the same year, in the USA and I guess the rest of Europe in January 1975.
They are alike in style, but Propaganda isn't a copy, it has a different tone, somehow. 'At Home, At Work, At Play' and 'Something For The Girl With Everything', two songs you can't mix up with anything else! If you only heard them a few times, maybe one of them with the other 😅. Fast, jumping between high and low, stops and begins, fast and extremely fast. Awaken the question: HOW can Russell sing that many words in so little time?!
The last song on the album is the opposite, like a ballad, the beautiful 'Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth'. I think the second covered Sparks song, after 'This Town'. Late Billie Mackenzie is one of them, he made a great version.
The first they recorded:
In January 1967, Ron and Russell and friends Fred and Ronna Frank recorded four songs at a "rent-by-hour" studio. One of them is actually released nowadays. 'COMPUTER GIRL'. 2006 it was in addition to a book or booklet (I don't remember which) in Japan. So it has been out on YT for quite some time.
However, on the compilation album 'The Best Of Sparks - Past Tense', 2019, they let 'Computer Girl' be the first song. In the song list, after the song it says: "Yes, it has crackles on it. Thank you." It's Ron's and Russell's own old copy that they fixed up as much as possible, but there are limits to what's possible 😅.
Anyway, the psychedelic song is definitely worth a listen. The lyrics are "Sparks", weird or funny, depending on which you like.
In JANUARY 7 1967 these guys wrote about a COMPUTER girl. Not robot, that had been perfectly up to date, at that time. Robots were seen in TV comedy shows, in science programs and of course in sci-fi.
1967 the first message was sent from one computer to another.
And the Mael brothers write about a computer GIRL. That "has no limbs", the lyrics reveal. Ahead of time? Definitely 😂
no they were not.
Nearly fifty years later still relevant. You can't put Sparks into any category, they just do what pleases them. True artists in every way. Still on my bucket list of acts to see live. This would make a great world national anthem.
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I saw them a few years ago at Primavera festival in Barcelona on a sunny afternoon. "This town isn't big enough" hearing live was always on my bucket list so I went crazy. Russel was smiling at me the whole time. I have very fond memories and I am a bigger fan since.
Sparks are their own genre 😄
Can't believe that an environmental organisation has never adopted this classic song
Definitely sounds like the theme song for Global Warming
In a way it is but not in the way you expect...like a lot of clever Sparks songs they seem like they mean one thing when they mean quite another. They are saying never “turn your back” not because for a peace and love kind of way, but because nature is a cruel and cut-throat place that will always triumph in the end. We can be romantic about a pretty blue sky (“gaze at clouds that come down crashing”) that can quickly turn grey and into a storm that can blow us away in seconds. Polluting CEOs can make millions fracking but it is their mansions being burned up and washed away by mudslides in Malibu. We can take advantage of Mother Nature all we want but she was here before us and will definitely be the lone survivor in the end.
ogg omg
Probably because apart from the chorus line its hard to understand
Yes ! And when you are French... it's very difficult to understand the second or third level of Sparks' songs !...
One of Sparks best songs ever, timeless Classic from 1974
they are a very under-rated band! Lyrics to kimono my house and propaganda are clever. remember them from those albums and they were really, really popular in the U.K. there were billboards promoting propaganda everywhere in glasgow, scotland.
the absolutely most perfect piece of pure pop in the history of the world and what a brilliant sentiment.
Their golden era,70's legacy will never die!
So very true.
It all started in the 50's
Just wonderful, loved them so much in the 70's, was mocked by friends for liking these "Pop" artists until they actually listened to them, they are highly talented and the words they write are quite brilliant!
What kind of "music" were your "friends" into? The run-of-the-mill, generic hard rock which was popular among "angry kids" ?
@@paulallen8109Probably fans of the usual ‘hero’ suspects, holding an axe and bending the strings til we yawn. Thank You Ron and Russell.
In memory of Norman "Dinky" Diamond
Rest in Peace.
Loved this song and This Town Ain't Big Enough. Genius band.
They always intrigued me.such different images but unmistakeably brothers.i loved them.
Peter, agree totally
Great song, and that short harmony at 1:43 never gets old.
Just great ! I'm just discovering them now. I love them ❤
The amazing Sparks brought ME here.
Ah the pretty Russell with his perm and the inscrutable Ron on keyboards... I love these guys.
fantastic band the sparks..i'm afraid to be old enough to have loved them in the right years...my 70's sparks,roxy music,mott the hoople,bowie, lou reed,n.y. dolls,brian eno,todd rundgren etc :)
You’ve listed some of the best of that era. Such a wonderful time for glam and power pop.
i have put together a video list incuding all the above.gasp
@@stanharland2023 cool! and it's on yt? :)
Love the Sparks. All their songs have a magic about them. Hard to say which is my favourite except they all are !
I remember seeing Russ running around all over the stage in concert when I was a young lad in '75. What energy and still sang brilliantly !
Its fantastic! On of the best pop songs ever written! I LOVE it! :-)
Immer wenn ich das höre, bin ich geflasht. Ich war 14, zur Schule in die nächste Stadt, es gab das Café "Sorger", eine Musikbox, ein Schilling. Mit "Love hurts" und "Never turn your back to mother earth" war musikalisch alles gesagt, damals...
Sparks' time is coming. Soon. The world is finally ready for them.
And the apocalypse...
The words are so true, perhaps if more people listened to this song we might have a better world.......
True,but don’t hold your breath!
Beautiful song from a very talented duo.
I had the most unbelievable experience of going on the Kimono My House tour 1974, with this amazing band, Sparks...after meeting Adrian Fisher at the Leeds Uni. venue, memories which will never fade.....nor my beloved Adrian, who I tended to 'look after' more than anything on that tour, so sadly missed.....and also so saddened by the death of 'Dinky' over some noisy neighbours.
Susan Leighton I was only ten then, but kept steeling my brothers albums to listen too👍but went on too see my first gig in 1978, it was the Damned🙂
I saw them in Bristol in the 70's, as a young girl I hitch hiked there on my own (so dangerous) but somehow got there and back safely and it was worth it, I was sure Ron was looking at me which I still like to believe to this day! It was a wonderful concert.
Beautiful, just beautiful, Russel you have an amazing voice.
In 1977 I saw them at a little club in Southern Ohio. I had a camera and asked if I could come backstage and take pictures of the band and they said YES. Of course when I finally got to meet them I was tongue tied and couldn't think of a thing to say except "Can I kiss you?" And my fiance who took me to the show was really mad that I didn't insist that he be allowed backstage too. Meeting Ron and Russell was more important. Needless to say that marriage didn't last. But my appreciation for Sparks music did. These songs take me back!
Perfectly timed sung with real conviction. Haunting at times
The Great Dinky Diamond on drums R.I.P
Growing up in Lincolnshire and having my favourite band playing all the time nabours thought I was barmy probably the greatest band in the world
I#ve just fallen in love with those eyes...
Who couldn't, really?
I couldn't!! I hated Russell's eyes, but loved his voice.
I have changed my mind about his eyes nowadays, they are 😍🤩. So are his vocal cords! 🥰 The longest crush I've ever had, probably life long... 😉 😇😂😂😂😂 I know, I'm... hm... A little crazy
Never been more actuel…😎
Sparks...Genius....always have been...
Я буду лайковать это каждый раз, когда встречаю...
Went along to watch Sparks put on a great performance at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in Nov.1974 (Pilot was the support band)
I can imagine Muse ´s Singer getting influences of Sparks.The Singer is really talented seems clasicaly trained.
Barcelona Boogie Channel People can be and usually ARE influenced by something greater than they.
How about Of Montreal? AKA Sparks New Millenium!
Russell claims he isn't schooled. He hasn't enough power to hold a note especially long or has that "push" as a trained singer.
I can imagen he has had some help in older days, though.
Before Halfnelson and later Sparks he sung some swing/jazz and other different things from rock/pop. If you haven't heard the wonderful little piece "Tearing the place apart", please do!
@@annabackman3028 And Simple Ballet! Not as early, but just lovely.
That solo
Sums up a Golden era of music.
So sad it ended so many years ago but these melodies live for ever.
Uniquely a great underrated band. One and only SPARKS ❗
morrissey played this video right before his show and ever since i have had this song stuck in my head, amazing genius!
Thanks Morrissey, amazing band, from Rio, Brazil
The most talented and underated band ..full stop..
that drummer was so damn good, I think he was the real key to The Sparks at their peak, not to mention the guitarist , bass player etc. , they were also great. This drummer though was said to have been one of the most good-natured, powerful and excellent drummers in the world. Without him, the SParks were never quite the same. He deserves recognition. Norman Diamond. The story of what happened to him is sad,and I think it all stemmed back to the tragedy that this incredible band did not last.
This incredible band is still together. As great a drummer as he is here, Sparks proved with Lil Beethoven that you don't need drums to create a masterpiece. "Oh no, where did the groove go?"
I think the key is that Ron Mael writes a LOT of great songs.
I agree with everything you say about how great a drummer Mr Diamond was, however there have been loads of equally fantastic drummers with the Maels IMO, they've consistently chosen brilliant drummers. Hilly Michaels was by a mile the best of the musicians on the Big Beat album, his thunderous drumming defining that album's sound. Keith Forsey's AMAZING drums helped make N1IH as high energy and uptempo as it is, especially as he must have just been playing along to a bunch of bleeping synths rather than any other musicians. Although he didn't record with them, David Humphrey did a lot of TV appearances with N1IH era Sparks, and was a vital addition to their promotions at this time. David Kendricks provided the relentless backbeats for WTS and AIMP, and nominally the following three albums, though the beats were essentially electronic. And then we had Christi Haydon and Tammy Glover in the 90s and 00s, both brilliant drummers who brought something special to the Sparks universe. They truly have been spoilt over the years. But none of this is to take away from DInky's awesome work.
In loving memory of Adrian🎸
Always loved sparks. ..Ron is ace ...love to meet him
It is like a revolved queen lineup...Freddy Mercury at the keyboard with Deacon actitud, Bryan May singing with Freddy actitud, Roger Taylor playing the bass with...Roger Taylor actitud! Excelent song Sparks!!!!
actitud = attitude.
thanks for the reply from PUMPKINGILMOUR,I bought this way back in 1974.I am now 53,this song never ages it just gets more pop perfect every listen.Perfect for WORLD EARTH DAY.
Sparks and Talk Talk are the two best bands ever in my opinion. The music of both is timeless.
Damn Sparks dressed sharp!
Mac intoSser What utter nonsense . Bowie set all the trends. Each album he produced - especially pre 80s was so different from the last . Every pop/rock artist has used, borrowed or stolen something from every other artiste. Led Zeppelin and The Stones are prime examples of a band who used old blues or rhythm n blues riffs and re-arranged them to suit their own themes. Bowie used the term "magpie" to describe himself - although the end product was distinctly Bowie. Jayne County/Wayne County was a joke . Angie Bowie ? Hypocritical or what ? Still using her ex-husband's stage name ... hmm ! Without her association to Bowie , no one would even know or care about Angela Barnett .
That's a bit harsh.
I love Sparks, great band, the first band whose pictures I put on my bedroom wall. And they still are going today and still producing the occasional great tune. But to put Sparks in any way shape or form alongside Bowie. Ridiculous. Bowie was able to not just spot a trend but make it his own by being more adventurous, more talented and more daring with in it. Say what you want but his body of work spans so many styles of music and their are very few duds in amongst them. Bowie
Gabardine. I suppose. Within that era. Top modern at that time. Oh dear.
@@PAULLONDEN I mightn't care for Wayne Countys music, but for anyone to call anyone a "tranny" in this day and age surely deserves being hollered back "ya fuckin' troglodyte"
The amazing Morrissey brought me here.... cheers from Bogotá.
one of my all time favorite choruses.
Great song, great voice! Awesome!
Lovely art pop song from one of my favourite groups . And a 70's perfect electric guitar solo to boot.
R.I.P. Adrian Fisher.
Met him in 2000 on Island Samui/Thailand.
Sadly in same year he died
Dani Rocksaurier I was lucky enough to go on tour with them ...Kimono my House, 1974.
Feeling bereaved about Adrian, even now.
Love this band...thanks to my brother.
this song, Lost and Found and Thanks But No Thanks are the biggest bops there ever were
Sparks have way too many cool tunes to have to pick only a couple. Wish this had been a live performance.
I loved this as a teenager
Me too, went to see them in Bristol on my own, it was an amazing concert, really nice people and so talented
Toto se nedá sledovat, než v němém úžasu. Ď - a hodně. M.
Потрясающая песня! Мартин Гор знал, что надо петь!
Спарксы!!!
Very underrated, why. Who knows. Moody and brilliant song
Ron Mael is a genius
really beautiful song
Very sad about the death of Norman "Dinky" Diamond ..a great drummer and member of the band.
My favourite Sparks lineup
70s music was the best ever and won't be beaten brilliant
Classic of its day.
An environmental Issues video in the 70's ,sparks well ahead of the times.
Great Music
cheers me right up in the morning
Wow, what a song!
How "Apt" is this song now? Coronavirus please go away, stay safe everyone, keep 2m distance.
Yes...and don't forget "Achoo"...
You mean the answer lies in the earth, rather than Vaccines
One of the great groups, wish we had more like them now,instead of the pap we have to,put up,with.
And it’s getting worse,can’t listen to the radio now,oh tell a lie Radio Caroline plays a lot of old fossil music for dinosaurs like me,thank god!
Brilliant!!
Группу знаю давно, из детства , но эту песню слышу впервые. Она потрясающая.
А я песню давно слышал у Депеш Мод , а то что это Спаркс , только что узнал.
haunting song, eternal. Extremely talented composition, and the singer is unreal, its like looking on the face of the very peak of British excellence,
and ..... its just gone now.
Pumpkingilmour except they're from LA lol
@@chosen619 they were Anglophiles though, they went to England which is where they hit it big, and genetically they are close to Brits anyway.
@@Pumpkingilmour Genetically??
So this is the song Martin Gore covered on counterfeit. Its great
Always loved this song...
I pressed like ,,, even before I watched the video . 😊😊👍👍👍
Anyone else came here because of Martin Gore from Depeche Mode?
My favourite of all time amazing.
Time travelers in music way ahead of everybody else musically back then.
There were others, but like Sparks they didn't get much attention by media or your average record buyer.
Environmentalism took off big time in the 1970s. 1970 was International Conservation Year and the motto for 1973 was "Plant a Tree in '73"..
Followed by chop up sticks in 76.
October 2012 is taking forever to get here.. the day i get to see these live in London.. I cant damn well wait..
Sparks brought me here, not Morrissey, OK?
top class as usual
wow im remember with fondnessss
I love how people in the comments play along and act like they were a real band. Great Mockumentary and I really wish a band like this did exist. The concept is brilliant!!
"Hurricane Sandy" had me remembering, and singing this song.
+Themanwhocameback2 Why?
+69Phuket Why, you ask? Well, my house was destroyed by Sandy, and I lost so much of my life. Mother earth can be a hard teacher.
+Themanwhocameback2 I'm So Sorry... I
Neko Case brought me here, but I stayed for Sparks!
This is such a good piece of music,short as it is-always a good test if the melody stands on it's own.Underrated-best I heard from Sparks.
They should rework it for the global environmental/climate crisis now-for me,it evokes the exactly right blend of portentous and sad.
Always loved these fellas, especially the period around Propaganda and Kimono My House - legends!
superb.....true originals !
I remember an interview in the Dutch music mag Muziekkrant Oor in which the band tell they were barred from a restaurant becaue of Russell' shoulder-length hair. The reporter also remarked on the latter's absolutely flawless vocal performance in concert. One of the very few rock stars who has remained his shy and winsome self, listen to his recent interview on wfmu.org/playlists/shows/35582
What a great voice!
Steve Jones' favorite song...!!
Čo som sa ich napočúval na internáte v Detve. Zvláštna hudba a spev. Bolo to také iné.
This is the song that Martin Gore covered on his counterfeit album.
I love this so much
brilliant
Martin Gore covered this song in his solo album Counterfeit. His cover version made me aware of The Sparks.
I know it's a long while ago since you posted your comment, but I feel like I have to say:
This band is called SPARKS. Nothing more, nothing else.
There is another band called The Sparks, VERY DIFFERENT from the band here.
To use the wrong name only causes confusions.
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Classic from the legend's