When I was in high school I saw Sparks on Saturday Night Live and after hearing Ron describe Mickey Mouse, then hearing the song I went out and bought Angst in my Pants and I became the only kid in my high school who was into Sparks. I guess I was the only Kidd with good musical taste
It's 2023, 10 years after this was posted & Sparks are more relevant now than they have been in 30 plus years. Ten years from now they will be in their mid to late 80's, stay tuned!
12:03 Fue Giorgio⚡Moroder el padre del EDM que con su sonido NRG & Synthpop en 1979 cambia el sonido de los Rockeros Sparks... La electro de Moroder, Tangerine Dreams, Jean M. Jarre, Dan Lasckman, YMO, Schulze, Vangelis, Harold Faltermeyer, Martín Ware & Ian Craig, L.Tonet...y otros grandes productores de la época fueron los que evolucionaron la verdadera electro que sirvió de base para el desarrollo del EDM 80s: House, Techno, Synthpop, NRG, Freestyle, Italo, New Beat, Trance, Eurobeat...
On September 7, 1973, I heard Moon Over Kentucky in a record store. Decided to buy Woofer right then. Took it home and nearly launched into space. It was beyond anything I had ever known. I simply couldn't believe it. And so was born one of the most intense Sparks lovers in Michigan.
I Still Remember the Unbelivibal Day when I Disco-vered THE SPARKS . In 1974, I was 5, I was watching the Famous French Music Pro-Glam sorry Program called MÉLODIE(melody in English) . I was with the 3 daughters of my Nurse( very Catholic Faùmily), All the Girls(the Younger One was 9 years old, the Older 12 or 13), They said "Oh shit, He looks like Hitler" and I answered "WWWOOOWWW, IT'S GREAT ! NNNNOOOO !!! LOOKED LIKE CHAPLIN !"(They were so New Wave, P,unk, New Romantic, a liitle bit Glam too, Rock'n'Roll, More English than English Themselves, No Style Defined but All the Style at the Same Time ..... and RON and RUSSEL MAËL still singing in Regular Concerts in 2021 !!!
I did a tfinal paper on the Velvet underground, & Lou Reed NY LP with a little Plastic Bertrand and Elvis Costello thrown in and my community college English professor thought I plagiarized it. Loved Sparks still have the half Nelson 45. Finally they just have been rewarded with a documentary and a career retrospective box set
I’m not gonna say Edgar Wright ripped me off, but I’m also not gonna say that out of a 450 song catalog, both of our docs open with This Town transitioning into Fa La Fa Le, hahaha
Merci pour ce merveilleux film qui me met en haleine avant de découvrir le film qu'Edgard Wright a fait sur les Sparks. Cela fait plus de 40 ans que je suis fascinée par ces deux gentlemans hors du commun et pourtant cela ne fait que récemment que je regarde les films sur eux sur youtube. RU-vid m'a permis d'oublier que je ne pouvais plus aller au concert et les Sparks ont sû gérer cette pandémie avec beaucoup d'humour à la grande joie de leur fans. Vous avez raison de dire que ce groupe a été longtemps sous-estimé, mais ceux avec lesquels on les a injustement comparé T-Rex, Queens, ne sont plus là depuis longtemps, et ceux qui restent des années fin 60-70 se contentent de vivre de leur vieux succès.... Ron et Russell sont toujours là et au mieux de leur forme, délivré des stéréotypes qu'on leur attribué. Non les Sparks ce n'est pas"Marc Bolan, qui chante avec Hitler", comme l'aurait déclaré John Lennon, sans doute avec humour, mais pour d'autres, ce n'en était pas. Et ils ont tenu bon Cette année 2021 sera l'année de nos deux éternels jeunes gens, déjà grâce au film "Annette" dont ils ont fait la musique et créé le scénaro et le joli documentaire qu'a fait sur eux Edgar Wright, sans compter les concerts prévus depuis deux années qui auront enfin lieu. Puis le réalisateur Leos Carax vient d'être récompenser par le Prix du metteur en scène au festival de Cannes, et ce sont les Sparks qui sont allés chercher le prix car le réalisateur n'a pas pu êtrer présent... Et ce n'est pas fini. Quelle joie!!!
I'm on to you Jules Scherer ( spelling) . I'm on to you 70's pop punk new wave postpunk . I'm on to you bands from San Fran , , Ohio , Toronto , and Nashville . On to you ...( *ME* ) .
I have 3000 different songs or so on my Spotify collection. 95% of the artists I have, have songs in mix 'tapes' (40 songs per) from 1 or 2 to about 6-7 songs (Rare) total. I also have a very few collections (40+ songs) just for the greats. The Beatles, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Depeche Mode, The Grateful Dead, Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, kd Lang, P. Funkadelic, Jefferson Airplane /Lene Lovich and *Sparks* This is the company they deserve to be put in. Even the Beatles had songs I don't like. However ONLY the good ones count! *Talent IS an asset!*
I saw Sparks live in Oxford UK in November 1974! That makes me feel old! They were great, amazing that that they’re still going strong, a very underrated band in my humble opinion.
Paul Shields Haha it has bugged me for years that I didn’t notice that until after I uploaded to RU-vid and had gotten quite a few views on this version
great artists never took themselves seriously ,every time someone is pompous -pseudo- intellectual like many overrated artists, it means it's a moron musically talking and hide himself behind a serious speech ,that's all !
I was a great fan of sparks when they first arrived on the scene in England in the mid 70's. I saw them in concert in Leeds university in 1975 and stared out Ron which, was for me, a highlight in my life. Unfortunately, since nowadays nobody remembers them, I wallow in the memory!!
That must have been the same concert I met Adrian Fisher...I'd gone there with support act Nicole and Marsh, and left with Adrian to a big party, and then ended up going on the rest of the tour with them. I must have been the luckiest girl alive!
You did a great job putting this documentary together. I simply Googled never turn your back on Mother Earth because I wanted to know who did the original since I'm familiar with Martin Gore, of Depeche Mode, covering the song over 20 years ago. I had no idea that Sparks ever existed and I'm looking forward to getting to know their catalog now. Nearly every song is brilliant, including lighten up Morrissey.
