Cult pop heroes return for two gigs Leftfield indie-pop outfit Sparks will return to the UK for a two night stint at London's Forum on the 20th and 21st March . The duo, made up of eccentric brothers Ron and Russel Mael, announced the shows following their staggering, record-setting...
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The have been a number of artists over the past few years who have played an album in its entirety live, but Sparks have a gone a little bit further....The Sparks Spectacular will be taking place in London from May 16th through to June 13th with one album per night being played, starting with 1971's album 'Halfnelson'. The only concession made to man's physicality is that, whilst the order of t...
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Who else but Sparks could create a half-English, half-Swedish musical about Ingmar Bergman's fictional, fantastical journey to Hollywood... and still make it good?Siblings Ron and Russell Mael, the core duo of Sparks, have made a career of making hard left turns into unknown territories. Since forming in 1970, pop's fearless experimenters have playfully ducked in and out of genres while maintai...
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- MUSIC REVIEWSMy first introduction to Sparks was the song "Tryouts for the Human Race," a staple and highlight of the dance nights that proliferated in the mid 2000s (though it was written in the late-70s), luring the kids away from their crossed-arm posts at standard indie rock shows. "Tryouts" was a nightly inevitability that I would drunkenly request anyway: its slow-building, operati...
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Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil Beethoven, 2008) 8 out of 10 (update: see below) Joke refrains repeated to death by a flamboyant, falsetto-flaunting singer (Russell Mael) with harmony stacks bigger than Freddie Mercury's. Songs based on novelty-style concepts. Unrealistic, programmed synthetic string sections and piano patches (Ron Mael) standing in for the real thing, with occasi...
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When you think about it, song lyrics are pretty much extensions of the human drive to tell stories – an inclination that goes back millennia, all the way to prehistoric man spinning yarns for the rest of the clan around the fire. But narrative songs aren’t so prevalent these days, when proclamations of love, statements of purpose, surreal ruminations, and random gibberish are the usual fare.Su
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Thus spoke my Dad.He was only looking after me.I'd been into music for a couple of years,was learning the guitar and wanted to see what rock n' roll was really like.Me and my mates had seen Sparks on TOTP,found out they were on in Manchester and when I asked my Dad for £1.50 for the ticket (it was 1974),he started going on that he'd seen Duke Ellington at the same venue in the 50's for 2/6d (12..
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When you think about it, song lyrics are pretty much extensions of the human drive to tell stories – an inclination that goes back millennia, all the way to prehistoric man spinning yarns for the rest of the clan around the fire. But narrative songs aren’t so prevalent these days, when proclamations of love, statements of purpose, surreal ruminations, and random gibberish are the usual fare.Su
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Now, Barak has taken to upstaging even fictional characters! More to come...
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[Sparks - Thank God It's Not Christmas - 5:09 (1974)]Feasts and holidays have always been a bore to me. Why should one be merry and celebrate on such and such dates and why not on others?The carols, the crackers, the shopping, the shipping. The over-indulgence. All this is such a pain to me. If you'll excuse me, I'd rather go to Lapland and build myself a hut and hibernate while this racket goe...
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From their first outing in 1972, this was before Todd Rundgren's influence was forged in indelible ink. Still, a milestone that set the stage for much, much more Mael bros.For my good budy dermahrk!!
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Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep (Lil Beethoven, 2008) 8 out of 10 (update: see below) Joke refrains repeated to death by a flamboyant, falsetto-flaunting singer (Russell Mael) with harmony stacks bigger than Freddie Mercury's. Songs based on novelty-style concepts. Unrealistic, programmed synthetic string sections and piano patches (Ron Mael) standing in for the real thing, with occasi...
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| 1 I've Never Been High |
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| 2 Madonna |
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| 3 Angst in My Pants |
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| 4 All You Ever Think About Is Sex |
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| 5 (She Got Me) Pregnant |
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