POX: Sparks

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Lost and Found
Equator
Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
Something for the Girl with Everything
Hospitality on Parade
Looks, Looks, Looks
Number 1 Song in Heaven
Angst in My Pants
Funny Face
Change

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh god, where to begin. Where to end!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

Number one song in Heaven
Suburban Homeboy
Perfume
When do I get to sing 'My way'?
La Dolce Vita
Happy Hunting Ground
Never turn your back on Mother Nature
Baby, Baby can I invade your country?
When I'm with you
Beat the clock

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Okay--replace Lost and Found with When do I get to sing 'My way'?

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Thursday, 16 March 2006 21:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

tryouts for the human race
number one song in heaven
mickey mouse
beat the clock
this town ain't big enough for the both of us
la dolce vita
when i'm with you
bon voyage
cool places
when do i get to sing my way?

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

POX that are NOT singles -- to make it more interesting for me:

"Moon Over Kentucky"
"Thank God It's Not Christmas"
"Reinforcements"
"Pineapple"
"La Dolce Vita"
"Popularity"
"A Song That Sings Itself"
"My Baby's Taking Me Home"
"Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls"
"Dick Around"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

angst in my pants
number one song in heaven
it ain't 1918
something for the girl with everything
goofing off
dance goddammit
reinforcements
dick around
where's my girl
moustache

goddamn that was difficult

― powpowpow, Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wonder Girl (stll amazed this was an AM radio hit!)
Something For The Girl
yet another vote for Reinforcements
Talent is an Asset
Hospitality on Parade
Under The Table With Her
#1 Song In Heaven
Upstairs

and, ummm... 2 more.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 16 March 2006 22:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

I can't think of 10 right now, though it shouldn't be hard, but could someone please pick "When I Kiss You" k thx bye.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 16 March 2006 23:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Music that you can dance to" times 10. only kidding...sort of.

― vance reese (vance reese), Friday, 17 March 2006 04:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Admirers of these self-made twerps certainly don't refer to them as pop because they get on the AM -- for once the programmers are doing their job. So is it because they sing in a high register? Or because a good beat makes them even more uncomfortable than other accoutrements of a well-lived life? "Never turn your back on mother earth," they chant or gibber in a style unnatural enough to end your current relationship or kill your cacti, and I must be a natural man after all, because I can't endure the contradiction." C-

- Robert Christgau,

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

"My Baby's Taking Me Home"
"Ugly Guys With Beautiful Girls"
Heh, interesting, Ned. Those are probably my favorite AND least favorite songs on that album. I can't stand Ugly Guys (omg out of context lollery)

I've only heard half of the new album, but I was rather shocked that it was essentially the exact same as Lil Beethoven. "Dick Around" is better than anything on Beety though.

(I'd try to do a list, but I fear it'd consist of nothing but songs from the first four or five albums, which, despite being my preference, simply seems wrong with a band like Sparks)

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

just been added to the big chill festival line-up..

― powpowpow, Friday, 17 March 2006 15:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

anbody seen the movie "Rollercoaster", from the 70's?...had Sparks in it, playing themselves, dedicating the newest, fastest, largest rollercoaster ever, at Magic Mountain...(which a mad bomber had designs on...can George Segal possibly save the day?)

― hank s (hank s), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

They've feared talk of the movie ever since.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

I'm thinking "Here In Heaven" and "Achoo."

― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 16 November 2009 06:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

I really need to be more up on these dudes

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

YES YOU DO.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

Ahem.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

listening to "Dick Around" right now and I'm reminded that it's basically one of the greatest things ever

― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

maybe my favorite nu-Sparks moment is in "Lighten Up Morrissey" when they do that extended chorus

but yeah when I saw that thread "do they make epics anymore?" I immediately thought of "Dick Around" but didn't post it because Sparks aren't exactly in the public consciousness

― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Dick Around" live is the most amazing thing. Started off one show that way and it was just all top flight from there.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

it counteracts how much I hate them for "they call it that WILLYYYYYYS!!! *bwooooooomp*"

― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

Man, I just love "Whippings and Apologies" to death:
http://youtu.be/rVIVWkCShlM

Some of the guitars are very Sonic Youth-ish on there (am imagining that Thurston, an avowed Sparks fan, would agree).

I also have an unabashed love for "Tips For Teens", which is just such a joyous blast of absurdity:
http://youtu.be/LZBYImQOyoY

― grandavis, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 15:41 (7 months ago) Permalink

Indiscreet is basically the best album ever made. Love these guys so much.

Still holding my breath for East Coast US tour dates!

― cwkiii, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 17:13 (7 months ago) Permalink

Something For the Girl With Everything
England (How was this not an any of their albums!?)
Dick Around
Academy Award Performance
My Baby's Taking Me Home
When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"
Tits
My Other Voice
Barbacutie
This Town Ain't Big Enough

― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 23:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

I do love this -- from the other night:

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 October 2012 16:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

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