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  Topic: Paul Barrett on Meta/Sparks!
SteveBoyce

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PostForum: General Sparks Discussion   Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:52 pm   Subject: Paul Barrett on Meta/Sparks!
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
SteveBoyce

Replies: 78
Views: 9188

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:31 am   Subject: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material

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 ...
  Topic: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
SteveBoyce

Replies: 78
Views: 9188

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:15 am   Subject: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
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
  Topic: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
SteveBoyce

Replies: 78
Views: 9188

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:33 am   Subject: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
SteveBoyce

Replies: 78
Views: 9188

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:32 am   Subject: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
By the way, curious fact about the demo album: it first turned up as a bootleg under the name "California Folk Songs" !!
  Topic: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
SteveBoyce

Replies: 78
Views: 9188

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:49 am   Subject: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
SteveBoyce

Replies: 78
Views: 9188

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:35 pm   Subject: Album Club 2024 - Other Work - Week 6 Other material
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:12 pm   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:39 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:49 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)

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 ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 12:21 pm   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
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 ...
  Topic: Looks, Looks, Looks
SteveBoyce

Replies: 10
Views: 2253

PostForum: General Sparks Discussion   Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 12:11 pm   Subject: Looks, Looks, Looks
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 " ...
  Topic: Who was on your bedroom walls as a teenager?
SteveBoyce

Replies: 13
Views: 2544

PostForum: General Sparks Discussion   Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:13 am   Subject: Who was on your bedroom walls as a teenager?
My wall was covered with a huge map of Europe where I was planning my escape route !
  Topic: Looks, Looks, Looks
SteveBoyce

Replies: 10
Views: 2253

PostForum: General Sparks Discussion   Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:10 am   Subject: Looks, Looks, Looks
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 :-)
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 11:02 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:36 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
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 ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 12:01 pm   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
Pulling Rabbits is a great album, is Sparks in the Dark the only instrumental they've ever done?

There are a few others - the cute candidate cd springs to mind, and some of the Knock-off tracks (fr ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:21 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
..all I sort of remember about the title track is that it was about, " the source of all joy being below the belt"...it did come as a surprise on hearing it, to find it was about involuntary ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:08 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
The Bad Manners Album is for me a "companion volume" to Angst, it's equally enjoyable and it's a great shame it never got a release - some of the tracks like Riot with Me are not even on YT. ...
  Topic: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
SteveBoyce

Replies: 578
Views: 192927

PostForum: Music Only   Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2023 5:42 am   Subject: Album Club - Sparks catalogue reviewed over 24 weeks (2023)
OK, so my go to get it off my chest.

This is really a Harold Faltermeyer album performed by Sparks (well, Russell, actually), isn't it?


Yup which is why it might have been more interesting ...
 
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