SPARKS

I'm surprised noone commented yet...
Loved Noel's liner notes for the new cd, signed with a glitter pen :-) Worth the price alone.

I think next year we will get a new album and a world farewell tour, The brothers are not getting any younger

I'd been thinking a bit along those lines too. I don't think they'll ever stop writing ...

Van Morrison and Cliff Richard? That's a combination! I love Van singing "Cleaning Windows"
I'm listening to quite a bit of Aretha Franklin at the minute but also have just finished playi ...

Also the cd tracklists are up - 3 "new" songs on cd2 of the Noel cd

Just listened to that too. Enjoyed listening to it, though I think there's a lot of over interpretation going on :-)
The reason for this post is that the very simple reason why that second middle eig ...

Grand Popo Football Club's Yo Quiero Ma Dinero ( which isn't translated to "Oi Where's My Dinner?"😁) is fun, I haven't heard any other tracks than this.
The other Grand Popo track ...

Interestingly, where a writer is given by IMDB it’s Russell alone. Perhaps Ron wisely decided to sit this one out.
The songs were all written by Ron

In my memory, the Noel record and C'Est Sheep came out about the same time.
The Noel record did get a lot of attention from some DJs and I think had a lot of influence, although commercially it did n ...

By the way, curious fact about the demo album: it first turned up as a bootleg under the name "California Folk Songs" !!

Regarding 2HOM I think Russell using loops for Your Call was the first time I saw that, Ed Sheeran has become famous for it of course among others.
I agree about the keyboards sometimes being very oo ...

I already gave scores for these albums. I seem to be in a minority, I think Annette is the pinnacle of their music to date.

I think they can be proud of Bergman, my personal opinion is that it's a ...

Thanks Steve want to share your thoughts on Latte too before we close the thread?

Thanks, but I already said all I had to say on that album's thread, earlier this year.

we now have 5.5 album ...

I'm surprised Life with the Macbeths didn't get mentioned, as I think it's a great piece of music. There are a few where Ron hits the level of John Barry or Ennio Morricone and that's one of them. Pia ...

Many songs from this album sound too much like FF, like "Things I won't get" or "Man without a tan" that I find pretty irritating. "So desu ne" is much too repetitive b ...

ECOTD I think is a stunning achievement, until Annette it was my favourite Sparks album. It has great emotional depth, and it's the first time imo that they produced an album which was more than the s ...

SO out of place on TOTP!!
I think this was the second airing on TOTP as the first one is best staying lost...

That one also exists, I have seen it. I'm not sure if I should mention why it's " ...

My wall was covered with a huge map of Europe where I was planning my escape route !

Nice one thanks :-) It was briefly on YT once before and I've always kicked myself for not copying it then - mistake rectified this time :-)

Sorry Brightonian I don't remember where that tidbit about "So Important" came from (it's 30 years ago after all!)
I still have somewhere that dummy "national enquirer" flyer that ...

Hey just a few random jottings from my side
I like So Important, I especially like the syncopation of the riff in the 2nd verse onwards and Fred Chichin's guitar (he just played on that track it was ...