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Kermit! · Last edited by Kermit! on Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:11 am; edited 2 times in total

OK, in the lead up to the Albert Hall concerts in London in May, I thought it might be fun for us Forum users to nominate their 10 best favourite Sparks songs.
From 1 to 10 your list of your favourite Sparks songs. There are plenty to choose from, as we all know, & it will be very difficult deciding your hit list. Think really carefully before you enter your top 10 because once you've done it you can't change it. An absolute NO to anyone who thinks it might be funny to add also rans or make their own top 20 or top 50 as well. Anyone who does that will have their votes nulled & void! I know it sounds strict but I also know what some of you Sparks fans out there are like sometimes.
The voting starts from now until the end of April Sunday 30th a month before the concerts so you have loads of time to think before you post. It would be great to have an absolute winner that we could present to Sparks management as to which track the Sparks fans on the Forum think is their all time favourite. Who knows what might be the eventual winner but I think it will be really quite interesting to see as this Forum is global. If Ron & Russell are watching this thread they might even include the winner on the set list, who knows?
So best behaviour please everyone & enter or don't enter, as I said, it's just for fun.

I shall start with my personal top 10.....

1 - In The Future
2 - Dick Around
3 - Bon Voyage
4 - Fletcher Honorama
5 - Music That You Can Dance To
6 - Equator
7 - My Baby's Taking Me Home
8 - When I Kiss You I Hear Charlie Parker Playing
9 - When Do I Get To Sing My Way?
10- Tryouts For The Human Race

Boy, that was so difficult & I changed my mind many times myself but I can't change it. Happy scratching heads everyone & I'll announce the winner at the beginning of April. I'm going to the Tuesday night gig & I hope to see some old friends too at the Albert Hall, not the Carnegie Hall...they'll have had enough practice by then man!
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:26 am Post subject:

1. Equator
2. Suzie Safety
3. B.C.
4. The Louvre
5. All That
6. Something For The Girl With Everything
7. Tryouts For The Human Race
8. Goofing Off
9. The Angels
10. He's Home

Not a definitive choice, and in no particular order...and had to stop myself from chopping and changing with other songs I think I'd love to hear.

LightsOut · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:58 am Post subject:

1. Equator
2. The Number One Song In Heaven
3. Fletcher Honorama
4. A Song That Sings Itself
5. This Is The Renaissance
6. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
7. Everybody's Stupid
8. Goofing Off
9. Scheherazade
10. The Rythm Thief

There's mine!
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Kermit! · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:42 am Post subject:

Alex Robertson · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:57 am Post subject:

I recall you doing something similar before, with the same marking system...I am ok with my list as it stands ( nobody else will vote for He's Home 😭) and I have my suspicion of which one will top the poll...going by a poll some years back 😜

Spyke · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:35 pm Post subject:

I'd probably come up with a different list on a different day, but here's what I'll go with...

1) Goofing Off
2) My Baby's Taking Me Home
3) I Thought I Told You To Wait In The Car
4) Tryouts For The Human Race
5) This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us
6) Dick Around
7) England
8) Upstairs
9) The Lady Is Lingering
10) Angst In My Pants (Plagiarism version)
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Toughest Girl In Town · Sparks Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 3844

Damn that was tough...

1. As I Sit Down To Play The Organ At The Notre-Dame Cathedral
2. Moon Over Kentucky
3. Here In Heaven
4. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her
5. Rock Rock Rock
6. Missionary Position
7. Aeroflot
8. The Rhythm Thief
9. I Bought The Mississippi River
10. The Toughest Girl In Town (obviously!)

Eric Murray · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:28 pm Post subject:

In no order except by date

1.Slowboat
2.Here In Heaven
3.Reinforcements
4.In The Future
5.Those Mysteries
6.Tips For Teens
7.Angst In Your Pants
8.Change
9.Toughest Girl In Town
10.Rhythm Thief

Kermit! · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2023 6:15 pm Post subject:

dinky · Sparkologist Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 669

I'll have a ponder on my list, but I won't be putting Equator in it. Russell is a magician , but he's not going to be singing that 5 times a week over 2 months.

Spyke · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:16 pm Post subject:

Oh, and thanks for putting this together, Kermit! It's great fun!
(I already want to change my list, but I won't try to!!)
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Oscar · Power Groupie Joined: 10 Oct 2002 Posts: 413

Without giving it too much thought, here's what I came up with for a current top 10:

1. At Home, At Work, At Play
2. Dick Around
3. My Baby's Taking Me Home
4. Let the Monkey Drive
5. One for the Ages
6. La Dolce Vita
7. Fletcher Honorama
8. The Rhythm Thief
9. Ladies
10. Instant Weight Loss

PeterE · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:32 pm Post subject:

The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Fletcher Honorama
All The Girls
Unaware
Veronica Lake
As I Sit Down To Play The organ in The Notre Dame ...
Upstairs
Reinforcements
Nothing Is Sacred
Equator

Brightonian · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:33 pm Post subject:

Great thread ... I shall also be needing to ponder before committing, but I think Equator will also likely loom large in my list!

waterloosunset · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 1:26 am Post subject:

Toughest Girl In Town · Sparks Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2022 Posts: 3844

SteveBoyce · Sub-Deity Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Posts: 755

I expect the setlist is anyway already decided and being rehearsed, but if I had my dream and Catherine Ringer would guest, here are some songs I think would be great as duets with her

Of course When Im with you and Singing in the Shower
More than a sex machine (ideally with proper brass behind it, if it had been produced by someone like Trevor Horn it could have been a big hit)
Thats what I call paradise
Dick around, with CR doing the "she" bits
Profile
Looks arent everything
I wish you were fun
We love each other so much
Lucky me lucky you
Moon over kentucky

dinky · Sparkologist Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 669

Gone With The Wind
Hasta Manana Monsieur
Simple Ballet
Big Bands
Those Mysteries
Left Out In The Cold
The Ghost of Liberace
The Decline and Fall of Me
Achoo
I Wish You Were Fun

Sparky Rickmaniac · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:13 pm Post subject:

Amateur Hour
I Predict (ideally with Ron role playing the vid 😀)
Life with the Macbeths
Forever Young
Angst in my Pants
Under the Table with Her
When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'
All That
Good Morning
Suburban Homeboy

I've never liked Dick Around live, always taken at too much of a lick for my liking, but what do I know!
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Kermit! · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:18 am Post subject: