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miss sparks
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Bon voyage
Hasta manana monsieur
Never turn your back on mother earth
So important
How are you getting home
In the future
Balls
Hospitality on parade
Lighten up morrissey
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Brightonian
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1. Equator
2. My Brains And Her Looks
3. Lawnmower
4. Miss The Start, Miss The End*
5. Tarzan And Jane
6. That's Not Nastassia
7. The Toughest Girl In Town
8. We Love Annette!
9. The Existential Threat
10. She's Out Of This World
(* As a set-closer, to rival All That in the 2022 shows) |
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Brightonian
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Brightonian wrote: | 1. Equator
2. My Brains And Her Looks
3. Lawnmower
4. Miss The Start, Miss The End*
5. Tarzan And Jane
6. That's Not Nastassia
7. The Toughest Girl In Town
8. We Love Annette!
9. The Existential Threat
10. She's Out Of This World
(* As a set-closer, to rival All That in the 2022 shows) |
God, that was tough to compile! ... and everyone who has contributed to this thread so far has made some great suggestions!
While I'm sticking with my final 10 (otherwise the tyrannical Kermit will disqualify me!  ), I'd also be majorly happy if any one of the following ended up in the set:
Pacific Standard Time, As I Sit Down To Play The The Organ At The Notre Dame Cathedral, The Ghost Of Liberace, Sherlock Holmes, Arts And Crafts Spectacular, Let's Make Love, The Louvre, Fletcher Honorama, How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall?, Hippopotamus, Simple Ballet, Frankly Scarlett, I Don't Give A Damn, Don't Leave Me Alone With Her.
All this said, I suspect none of my official 10 nor any of my runners up will make it, but I'm sure it'll still be an amazing concert experience! |
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waterloosunset
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| Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Brightonian wrote: | | Brightonian wrote: | 1. Equator
2. My Brains And Her Looks
3. Lawnmower
4. Miss The Start, Miss The End*
5. Tarzan And Jane
6. That's Not Nastassia
7. The Toughest Girl In Town
8. We Love Annette!
9. The Existential Threat
10. She's Out Of This World
(* As a set-closer, to rival All That in the 2022 shows) |
God, that was tough to compile! ... and everyone who has contributed to this thread so far has made some great suggestions!
While I'm sticking with my final 10 (otherwise the tyrannical Kermit will disqualify me! ), I'd also be majorly happy if any one of the following ended up in the set:
Pacific Standard Time, As I Sit Down To Play The The Organ At The Notre Dame Cathedral, The Ghost Of Liberace, Sherlock Holmes, Arts And Crafts Spectacular, Let's Make Love, The Louvre, Fletcher Honorama, How Do I Get To Carnegie Hall?, Hippopotamus, Simple Ballet, Frankly Scarlett, I Don't Give A Damn, Don't Leave Me Alone With Her.
All this said, I suspect none of my official 10 nor any of my runners up will make it, but I'm sure it'll still be an amazing concert experience! |
I think I like your additional list even more than the first, and the first was great! Arts and Crafts Spectacular, How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall?, and Don't Leave Me Alone With Her would leave me needing smelling salts.
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Brightonian
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| waterloosunset wrote: | | I think I like your additional list even more than the first, and the first was great! Arts and Crafts Spectacular, How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall?, and Don't Leave Me Alone With Her would leave me needing smelling salts. |
Thanks so much, waterloosunset! Arts And Crafts Spectacular, and possibly also Don't Leave Me Alone With Her have both only ever been performed live once before. Looking forward to your list.. 
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Brightonian
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| Brightonian wrote: | | Thanks so much, waterloosunset! Arts And Crafts Spectacular, and possibly also Don't Leave Me Alone With Her have both only ever been performed live once before. Looking forward to your list.. |
And by the way, Waterloo Sunset is, like, easily one of the ten best songs written in the history of pop music. |
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Henry McHenry
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High C
Fletcher Honorama
Reinforcements
The Man Without A Tan
Upstairs
Beat The Clock
Unaware
Angst In My Pants
The Existential Threat
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waterloosunset
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| Brightonian wrote: |
And by the way, Waterloo Sunset is, like, easily one of the ten best songs written in the history of pop music. |
That is the unalterable truth.
I'm having trouble with this Top 10 thing because my 10 favorite songs might not be the 10 songs that I would like to hear live. This Town is, without question, in my top 10, but I've seen it both in person and on screen (a lot), so I would rather hear some of the ones you mentioned, or Barbecutie, or Lost and Found, and definitely Here Comes Bob. And Waterproof. I'm useless.
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Kermit!
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Dear Brightonian, thank you so much for your humorous description of me as 'the tyrannical Kermit!'. I'll take that. LOL. I hope you meant it in jest of course but if we want to get a proper result here then people have to stick to the rules. (Ruler in hand!)
I think we must all agree though that so far the voting has been completely random as to who likes what best. It will be a very interesting & unpredictable result once the poll finishes. Obviously the more top 10's we get in the better so tell all your friends if they haven't joined in the fun already.
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Brightonian
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| waterloosunset wrote: | | I'm having trouble with this Top 10 thing because my 10 favorite songs might not be the 10 songs that I would like to hear live. This Town is, without question, in my top 10, but I've seen it both in person and on screen (a lot), so I would rather hear some of the ones you mentioned, or Barbecutie, or Lost and Found, and definitely Here Comes Bob. And Waterproof. I'm useless. |
I went completely for the 10 I most wanted to hear live. As much as I love This Town, what was refreshing at the 21 nights 'Sparks Spectacular' London shows was that, on 18 of those nights, that song was never played, giving way to other more obscure delights!
Keep persevering with your top 10 ... I assumed I'd fail to submit mine before Kermit called time on this! |
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john.sleath
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| Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:39 pm Post subject: Top 10 |
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Ok ....So I am not as well versed as many of you so, based on my limited knowledge, here is my Top 10.
1. This Town Ain't Big Enough for the both of us
2. Number 1 Song in Heaven
3. It Ain't 1918
4. Beat the Clock
5. Edith Piaf said it better ...
6. Get in the Swing
7. What the Hell Is It This Time?
8. Amateur Hour
9. Looks Looks Looks
10. Hippopotamus
So there you go ...
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Kermit!
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| Brightonian wrote: | | waterloosunset wrote: | | I'm having trouble with this Top 10 thing because my 10 favorite songs might not be the 10 songs that I would like to hear live. This Town is, without question, in my top 10, but I've seen it both in person and on screen (a lot), so I would rather hear some of the ones you mentioned, or Barbecutie, or Lost and Found, and definitely Here Comes Bob. And Waterproof. I'm useless. |
I went completely for the 10 I most wanted to hear live. As much as I love This Town, what was refreshing at the 21 nights 'Sparks Spectacular' London shows was that, on 18 of those nights, that song was never played, giving way to other more obscure delights!
Keep persevering with your top 10 ... I assumed I'd fail to submit mine before Kermit called time on this! |
Lighten Up Brightonian....Lighten Up...
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Brightonian
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| Kermit! wrote: | | I hope you meant it in jest of course. |
Meant with great affection, absolutely! |
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Alex Robertson
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| Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2023 9:24 am Post subject: |
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| Surely some more people have favourites??? |
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Brightonian
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| Alex Robertson wrote: | | Surely some more people have favourites??? |
Yes! Come on people ... don't be shy!!! |
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waterloosunset
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| Alex Robertson wrote: | | Surely some more people have favourites??? |
I'm working on it. It's just that if I go through the albums in chronological order, I've already got ten songs by the end of Propaganda. I guess I should make a master list and start culling. I know that there will be no 80s songs on my list. I know that Here In Heaven and My Baby's Taking Me Home will be on my list. Can I count Propaganda and At Home, At Work, At Play as one song because they really are? Right? That will make things a tiny bit easier.
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Turtle152
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Something For the Girl With Everything
Goofing Off
Tips For Teens
Sextown USA
Eaten By the Monster Of Love
Madonna (a chorus so beautiful, it could bring tears if the lyrics weren't so snarky)
The Ghost Of Liberace
I Married Myself
My Baby's Taking Me Home
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Toughest Girl In Town
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| waterloosunset wrote: | | I'm working on it. It's just that if I go through the albums in chronological order, I've already got ten songs by the end of Propaganda. |
I guess we've all struggled with this... Tough choices will be made, good luck to you :) |
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J. Prufrock
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| waterloosunset wrote: |
I'm working on it. It's just that if I go through the albums in chronological order, I've already got ten songs by the end of Propaganda. I guess I should make a master list and start culling... |
I'm considering making a list for each album (or year... don't want to ignore those B-sides!) and then making a master list from the tops of my individual lists. I'm sure I want to give priority to songs rarely performed live, but yes, the choices are difficult. Too many good songs the hazards of listening to Sparks! |
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waterloosunset
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| Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| J. Prufrock wrote: |
I'm considering making a list for each album (or year... don't want to ignore those B-sides!) and then making a master list from the tops of my individual lists. I'm sure I want to give priority to songs rarely performed live, but yes, the choices are difficult. Too many good songs the hazards of listening to Sparks! |
And thank goodness for that!
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