Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' (Official Video) 

100%. Had the pleasure of seeing them live last month. This song is truly their masterpiece.

Fuck yeah!

Mint song 🎵 👌 ❤👍

Cierto pieza maestra....para siempre!!!!

+David Assulin .........Of the 90's. The Mael Brothers were great since the late 60's

+Wor Hill Nevertheless this song is from the 90's!

GrievonMortum They started recording in 1968

David Assulin .

This is seriously in the running for the greatest pop song of all time.

Indeed 😃

it is, actually. Lots of people mention it when taking about good music videos that add to the song. I agree this is one of the finest ever made.

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Cos of the world is only ever high on slagdonna porn, boyband trash and N-oasis trying to be the Beatles!

Yes, it is. That's good storytelling right there. The opening scene, when Russell picks up the sheet, look at his facial expressions as he starts singing - no words needed.

Mtv would never have known what to do with it.

2019

Sparks also have fans of all ages. When I saw them in Leeds last May there were twenty somethings as well as those who remember them from 1974 onwards.

@@eastend59 Cool that their music still appeals to so many, and off all ages, after all this time! Actually, they started out in 1971, releasing their first album under the band name of Halfnelson.... but then it was re-released in July '72 after changing their name to Sparks. I still own their original (Rundgren-produced) debut from '71 and play it every now and then. GREAT album! And guess what? Still pretty timeless!

MAJESTIC better late than never 👍🏻

I know them since "Town", think 1974....

Back again to this song in 2023 !!! - Phenomenal Song !!!

Me too❤

2024❣

@@EszterJurancsik Csúnya vagy nagyon!

SAME

Same! I mean if heard of Sparks, but because of the documentary I am now in love with their music ❤️ especially this song!!! 😍😍😍

*i'd

Annette also introduced me to Sparks… Loved the movie

You are so right. Ahead of their time and always have been. I've heard singers from🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟 all the 80s and 90s bands say exactly that. They are quality.

Man, thanks for the comment. I had no clue a movie about the Sparks had been released. It is must watch for me.

Just watched last night @ Thessaloniki doc festival. It's fun!

I'll take Sparks over Sinatra and Sid Vicious any day!

@@erinmcgee1160 Just listen to the lyrics...

The documentary is a must see, I am going to see it again tonight. The animation of the Pet Shop Boys reacting to the comment about them not recognising Sparks as an influence was hilarious - I think they drew Neil Tennant picking up Chris Lowe like a cardboard cut out after Neil Tennant saying "You're very naughty"

Pet Shop Boys can go screw. Please, they and Erasure weren't even AROUND when Sparks joined the electro-synth vibe in 1983. And as for the duo thing, this lot got it from Sparks, only Tennant can't do anything with his one-note voice, nor can he jump about without rupturing something. They've no stage presence which is why they have to rely on costumes, gimmicks and circus performers. And apart from the odd clever worded song, most of their body of work is average and has been for a long while. Even back in the day, 'Heart' is an overrated basic piece of weak cheese, worded by someone without an identity which says it all when you consider the shithead they did the song for who, then threw it back in their faces anyway as the bint didn't want to do it! Ha, serves 'em right!

@@kyachdistent1301 If you read my comment in detail, you will see that I am establishing the influenced groups like Pet Shop Boys and Erasure, yet by the time they released this song, Many people tuning in we’re not very aware that they spearheaded that sound and style. They never got the credit they deserved for it

Yes now I know you've seen the documentary. ;)

@@sunsetlonercinema People only remember what they WANT to remember I find!

True..I am a fan since 40 years or more. So many bands love their influence...as Kraftwerk were such an influence on them. I loved the Georgio era ❤

They refuse to write the same songs again and again......

​@@joannamorgan3433 which is great. I just wish the had written 3 or 4 more songs like this.

SOARING !!!!

That's the name of the album.

What's all this fuss about violins on television?!

I still want to see the movie...

My wife Still hates I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO WAIT IN THE CAR! ......tough👍😁

And Ron's much subtler expressions: watching Russel, he craves his brother's approval but hates himself for needing it---among other possible interpretations.

This album was HUGE in Germany when it came out. A great number of German fans found them in this era.

This was a huge hit when I was in Switzerland 1994-1995. It was in heavy rotation on Swiss MTV.

Ich mags immer noch. 😊

2023 and this masterpiece will live forever

@@AlejandroGutierrezGandar-db6sw Ron Mael was "cosplayed" by Paul McCartney back in 1978! See the video for "Coming Up."

I like the boa at 1:51

Definitiv 👍

Almost my story! =)

Me,too... 👍🏻

👍👍

Same here !!😄

Your story about this song is exactly like mine.

Well put! I definitely gravitate to the campy, fun part of Sparks music more than anything else. Yet having a bit of a wistfulness adds to the fun. Enjoy, friend!

Ron has called it "to combine emotional lyrics to a jolly melody". In this particular song the melody isn't the jolliest I've heard 😅, there are others! 'Under The Table With Her', two kids playing under the dining table, the guests believing, or pretending to, they are dogs, and suddenly a line about that people in some countries only have tea and rice to eat. Not expected. On the other hand, an emotional melody with emotional lyrics, but in the lyrics, from nowhere, are a line or just few words, usually a thought the storyteller has, that gives you an unexpected laugh. 'Good Morning' is a great example, a story about a guy, who obviously wants to find true love, but somehow doesn't seem to attract women easily. After a night on the town with maybe a drink too much, he wakes up with a beautiful woman bedside him. He realizes that it's just a one night stand, but he wishes it to be a more. He is grateful for the moment anyway, but also thinking about who she is, probably not just any beautiful woman, more likely a 'scandal beauty'. While he is making breakfast he thinks: "I hope it's just your laugh that is infectious". The sentence isn't funny per se, but in that situation, a state between sadness (he really cares for the woman) and the gratitude for this short night, that very down to earth thought, expressed in that indirect way, gives a laughter almost stuck in your throat. Typically Ron's lyrics. And, of course the dear little Brenda, always in the way, "caused her twins delay"😂

Absolutely! I tend to gravitate alot to Sparks when I'm feeling down. This song and the Bergman album are some of my go to musical pieces for when life isn't kind

Spot on.

The camera just loves him. He would have been a great bad guy in the movies.

@@darrenrobinson9041 You are welcome - I know!

@@darrenrobinson9041 his mustache would be absolutely perfect

Чот ты , Иван ИвановичЬ , мягко выражаясь , ну ты понял ...... 😂😂😂Ланнн , шутю ....

Me too❤😊

Ich auch. 😊

Net nur du ☺️

Hat bald 30 Jahre aufm Buckel, das Lied. Unglaublich

Als die CD mit diesen Song 1994 raus kam, wurde ich 18 Jahre. Nun sind 27 Jahre vergangen. Gute Musik vergisst man einfach nicht.

Quien es annette?????

MAJESTIC That‘s probably a sensible line to take.

No ! Rage against the dying of the light !

сколь прекрасны, столь и недооценены.

Ein sehr guter Song❤️

It aged awfully with that generic dance beat.

@@Offensive_Username that dance beat still getting used in film and tv and if it's generic they should be considered the name brand.

Offensive Username No, it didn’t.

​@@Offensive_Username You are clueless.

It is`nt actually so God knows where u got that idea

100%

I also found it recently after 20 years of not knowing the title and band name. BTW, the brothers are 75 years old each now.

@@maksphoto78 Russell is 73 this year, Ron is 76, and they are at the top of their game - again!

@@MadcapShambleton Still!!

Also, I first heard the song December 1995 and now October 2021. All these years I couldn’t find it. unbelievable

He is so wonderfull..

2:57 lol so many memories of this awesome duo.

Ron Mael is the king of underrated cool! his stage presence is top-notch.

And when he smiles, he SMILES! 🌞

Seriously can someone answer me? Why in almost ever one of their videos women get descriptive about the things they wanna do to Ron?

О да! Я тоже считал так всегда начиная с 1975 года!!

Just out of the cinema. The documentary is brilliant!

There were lots of really good singer songwriters in the Seventies. Labels nurtured them unlike nowadays. It’s a shame.

move along* not 'mow the lawn' lol

@@mkgzt Remix done: This song became "Lawnmower" in 2020.

@@mkgzt I thought it was mow the lawn, that's what is said on the lyric sheet I read anyway. But both work!

It is "mow the lawn". That's what it was on Sparks website before they changed it (albums listed with lyrics). In the booklet with the triple CD, the anniversary release, of 'Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins'. In "IN THE WORDS OF SPARKS... SELECTED LYRICS". Mow the lawn, it is. I guess it means 'go back to hard labor', about the songwriter, 😂 The real Ron may be an in general introvert person, but he knows how to get attention on the stage!

​@@tonberrykingedyou've signed a contract... get on with it, or get on with your normal life... or as normal as can be possible

Дружище! Как я вас понимаю! Вот: facebook.com/yudkovich/posts/2496314773939040

@@MichaelYudkovych Принимайте в клуб. Я вообще только сейчас увидел клип, слышал давным давно только песню. Ура!!!

Так читаю,комменты,у многих,смотрю,не было MTV,в 90-е?)

Ron Mael is an unsung hero. Wotta pity. But we in the know can always enjoy their music. This track is sizzling hot!

@@AladdinSaneNYC, This track hadn't been what it is without Russell. I'm not talking about his voice. When Ron presented it to Russell he thought the lyrics were... Well, he liked the melody but said that he wouldn't sing THAT, whatever it was. So Ron, as he expressed it "Russell send me back to my chambers to write new lyrics for that song."

Аналогичная история

Искал несколько лет , сильно повлияла в детстве .

Вы на одиноки ) я тоже много лет ее искала

И в чем была проблема?)Спаркс-очень известный,ротируемый коллектив..В середине 90-х,а точнее, в 1996-м,у меня была кассета с этим чудесным альбомом,который,я считаю,в их творчестве ,одним из лучших.

@@user-gj1tw1wp5i например в том, что я услышала ее по тв в 12 лет и понятия не имела, кто это поет. Тот факт, что группа вообще-то культовая, никак бы не помог

+G Power the lady is Christi Haydon. She was their drummer on the tour for this album (which I saw). Absolutely stunning! More details: www.imdb.com/name/nm5068168/

The video for Passion Pit's "Carried Away" is also made up to look like a movie trailer. It's a fun gimmick!

@@marianpower6711, you meant 1994? That's when the album was released.

No need for full-length, the "trailer" spoiled the whole movie.

@@MinekEzQM Haha.