Why would they do that? To them, mediocre means great and that is all that is EVER celebrated as great. People like safe and pre-planned crap like slagdonna, Take That, Madness, No-asis, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Pariah Carey, Adele, Beponce Knowles, Eurythmics, Michael Jackson, None Direction, Sting, Weller, Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet, Diarhianna, Taylored Spliff, Pill Collins; all stuff they're TOLD to like by everybody else and society/music press at large. Even the more talented (up to a point0 likes of Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, George Michael are all far more overrated than they should EVER be!
@@markblum5059 Easy. I vomited ten of them up when I was last drunk. Trust you to be dumb enough to like all the bullshit of today! That's sure where your quality barometer lies and your sense of taste is utterly at odds with the act here so go back to the videos of these no-talent hateful losers you love and are more comfortable with, as we are less so with your unintelligent attempt at wayward sarcasm. Point us, idiot, these tossers are all being allowed studio time and screen time to spew their vile unending junk at a world unable and unwilling to destroy it and them, thanks to moronic twats like you, Mark Bum, which is no doubt where you talk out of, pretty apt as what also comes out of it is of the measuring stick we judge all this stuff by. I AM NOT PAYED TO MAKE MUSIC, SO I DON'T! THEY ARE, YET ALSO DON'T/CAN'T/WON'T! Are you telling me in your infinitely tiny wisdom that ALL who judge records don't have a RIGHT to cos they don't MAKE them!? So DO tell all published critics from the dawn of time that then! WE are the AUDIENCE, dumbhead, WE make the decision whether they live or die, without US they wouldn't exist, but sadly, as most of population is a slagdonna-owned robo-clone like yourself, it does, and that makes you equally responsible for it, so piss off back to it you utter waste of carbon dinoxide!
@@markblum5059 You said it by DEFENDING IT! No point in taking it back now. Oh and all the voices in my head are the critics agreeing with me that you're no more a judge of good or bad music than anyone else that MAKES records or PRETENDS to make records-or those that buy them or DON'T, because they're shit and no one with any brains (leaving out all slag/Pete Waterman/rap fans-and most everything now incidentally-therefore MOST of the population of the planet, which shows how long we've sunk as a species) DOES get rubbish by hateful losers!
@@ubek9448,?? Not even in the seventies, but they are what you see in old videos. IF any guys got between the girls and Russell they'd been crushed, and not seen anyway. But nowadays? Come on!? 😂😂😂 Heard the latest album, released May 2020? 'A Steady Drip Drip Drip'? Give it a chance.
@@ubek9448 HAHAHA 😂! Do you really think that the song is PRO pedophilia?? It's the opposite, heard about sarcasm? Satire? 'Terminal Jive' was released in May 1980, it was recorded -79. The Polanski scandal and his escape from the USA was still hot news and the issue of pedophiles was still an on-going topic. I don't state that precisely Polanski was on Ron's mind, but the topic was current for a long time. The last lines; "Young girls. I don't care what they say I want to have you each and every day I feel you, I don't care what they say Young girls" If you believe that's Ron's or/and Russell's opinions, you have problems. 🙄 These last words tell the listener that this is satire, it's emote, too much. Of course it takes a LISTENER or reading the lyrics to get it. If someone only hears "Young girls, I love their legs", sung by a grown up man, could give reactions. Obviously still do. On the same album you have 'When I'm With You', with the wonderful lines "I never feel like garbage when I'm with you I almost feel normal when I'm with you" That is LOVE. Most of us, time to time, feel odd, "from outer space" so to speak. So sweetly expressed! But you will take that as a song for a twelve years old, I assume 😒
Really satire about hegemony. Old men liking young girls oh so hilarious n unheard of polanski didn't like young girls Pretty fools who gives a shit what they say
@@ubek9448 So, they are burglars as well?? They must be, Russell sings about being a burglar, so for sure they are!! ruclips.net/video/6Iz53uzlNls/видео.html Do you think that THIS one is pro or con "ugly", old guys dating girls? Everything is a question about definitions and interpretation. ruclips.net/video/KatxOF1BFUA/видео.html 'Surburan Homeboy', yeah, gotta be a true story, since everything they write and perform is right out of their own lives. Lyrics in the comments. ruclips.net/video/mFkx4C27yms/видео.html They also married a martian. Yes, of course! The song says so! They must have! Lyrics in the comments. ruclips.net/video/a2h_6q9B0Go/видео.html They also drive around in their cars, just to hit other vehicles to make friends with the drivers ('Here comes Bob'). Oh, they have been dead too! Suicide, miscalculated suicide pact. It's really clean in heaven, they said. How the heck they returned, I don't know. (Here In Heaven). They also bought the Mississippi River, by the way. All of it, with a boat and crew. (I Bought The Mississippi River). And this is spectacular! THEY REMEMBER HOW THEY FOUGHT AGAINST OTHER SPERMS to be someone, a little daughter or son. Isn't that sweet! (Tryouts For The Human Race). They have been the owners of BBC as well. (Now That I Own The BBC). A few years ago they found a hippopotamus in their swimmingpool! And a lot of other rather peculiar stuff. Gotta be true, they wrote so! (Hippopotamus). At least one of them is actually a fireman, with bringing down cats from trees as speciality. (Here Kitty) Of course, there is a song that proves what imposters and swindlers they are! They admit it, "This is not my song, I bought it in Hong Kong", "This is not my voice, although I had a choice" ruclips.net/video/hPsfUfHf8nk/видео.html LAST but not least. A message straight from the horse's mouth. Listen CAREFULLY and THOROUGHLY to Ron's words in the beginning of the video. I believe they were directly addressed to you. ruclips.net/video/HWw_vvi06jE/видео.html Don't be a complete moron. Take "artistic freedom" for what it is. You know, sometimes it's made to PROVOKE and make people think. But for the sake of the whole existence, THINK RIGHT. You're barking at the wrong tree here. 🙄 Over and out. 😖OMG....!
Hello Young Lovers is one of their best ever albums. Defo top 5 for me. In fact, I've never stopped playing it - is it really 17 years old already? Just wait til I get a sound system installed in the nursing home. Everyone will be listening to the album then!
I always liked it when rock music was combined with classical music. The first time I noticed this was in 1973 with "I Love The Dead" by Alice Cooper. In the same year, Cockney Rebel caught my attention with "Sebastian" and "Death Trip". Especially "Death Trip" is one of my favourites when it comes to "Rock meets Classic". Now a new song has been added. However, I find the long version even better.
God, listen to Sparks from Kimono my House, one of the best records I've ever heard, and I thought Sparks was no more. Listening to Dick Around, gosh, this group exists and still kicks butt. I become a Sparks fan.
BBC 6 Music plays Sparks. I thought they had called it a day years ago ,but, starting in 2008 with 'Exotic Creatures Of the Deep', I found out they're still making amazing music now. Thanks to Marc Riley and Gideon Coe at BBC 6 for alerting me to the kind of musical world that's long since been banished by commercial radio who only care about profits and maintaining control over what people hear and see.
This song alone puts the band “Sparks” in a league of their own. These brothers are no joke at all. They are a splendid extension of what Captain Beefheart created in the 60’s. I have to re evaluate my understanding of rock music because of this band alone. Take some time to listen to their band halfnelson as well. Such an embarrassment of riches from these two.
In the Future! Saccharine and the war Those two must be the weirdest of them all! But if you consider the lyrics to: 'Tryouts for the human race' (about sperms, racing literally for life "to be someone") 'Here in heaven' (About a suicide pact gone wrong "And it's hell, Knowing that your health, will keep you out of here, for many, many years")
Crap like that?! Dumb down to be in the bullshit company of cuntdonna, sheryl cow, garbage (in name also), adele the caterwauling arsehole who can't sing for shit, Tina bag Turner (after a far superior and better sung-naturally-song from Ace Of Base was aborted and given to that howling bag instead?!) and all the other trash post-1989?! Er...no dear. Besides J B has no relevance any more, he died decades ago. Who hears of a human spy still working at age 140?
Rickard Remelin you are so right!! I've loved their brilliance since I was 14 (now 59!),and I Loooove the heavy rock influences... But I especially love seeing our Ron indulging in a wee bit of head-bandage.... Great tune... And terribly underrated....!!
Sparks have always been very niche... I think that’s what makes them so good. It’s a creative freedom more popular music doesn’t get. Just be happy you found them ;)
My 2nd favourite Sparks tune ever!! I can't believe it was 13 years ago when it came out and got banned by the BBC. I know.....really? One day this will be a massive hit.
Compared to when I first heard this song in 2006, it's more relevant now. Sparks did an excellent job expaining the frustration of a man's mid-life crisis.
Can you tell me more? Are we to interpret "dick around" like "dickering around"? Is this about a big executive who does nothing but waste time or is he a cheater who uses women?
It's actually about me splitting with Russell after my Dad died, not acrimonious, he and I were not suited for one another. Sparks are in every way deserving of all the accolades and more :)
@@blu4085 Genius don't count, record selling and money do. 🙄 So, as long as "the masses" aren't interested in LISTENING to intelligent music instead of muzak and "I love you, I love you I'm so hurt, I can't live.. bla bla" they will never get there. It is a SHAME. 😡
Amazing and clever song. Come to think of it, all of us praise Russell's voice, but I think we forget an unique talent in MEMORIZE LYRICS!!! My own memory is in level with "Probably nothing". I AM FULL OF ADMIRATION! 💖
Good point. I sing quite a bit and like to inflict it on others from time to time but I can only keep 9, 10 full songs in my head at a time and most of them will have to be pretty simple.
@@mikefallopian3191, The 'Sparks Spectacular' aka 21x21, when they played their, at that time, 20 albums, in chronological order, one each night, and premiered 'Exotic Creatures Of The Deep' the 21st, 2008. To remember all songs, also single B-sides and songs they had written for others and collaborations, way over 200 songs... 😵
@@danhermon4922Like here for instance 😆 Live promotion radio 1974 ruclips.net/video/dNuqPECQxBM/видео.html And here, during the "21x21", 2008, where it's more understandable, way over 200 songs to remember in three weeks!! 'Tearing the place apart' ruclips.net/video/kKAgOkBqmsI/видео.html (There's a shorter video of this, less talking, which YT:s f-cked up searchmotor refuses me access to right now) I'm envious, so envious, of all people who saw those shows, I could give whatever it takes to get a time travel ticket and a 'Golden ticket' to all 21!!!
@@danhermon4922 Yeah well unlike MOST people who just sing the same OLD song (& shifting the words about slightly is no get out of jail card, okay!), they have one hell of a world-sized scripture to remember. If you want repeat, keep to the usual shit you likely listen to!
Juste humer la merveille, aux fréquences dingues. Nos opéras de roque, à l'échiquier avancé. Qui prend qui? A l'avancée de la diagonale, qui donc est fou? Les méthodes seraient ainsi cavalières, à damner un pion éconduit, poursuivit jusqu'aux douves. Sans tours , la reine en merveilles des notes n'est rien. Le roi avance d'une seule case et parlerait chat. Eperdu, il encoure à sa perte. Mat. Echec funeste. En frénésies, de la composition orchestrée. Musique soulagée au pied du volcan .Laves d'harmonies, notes en braises cramées, là où ça sautille aux pieds ardents. La disjonction éructe. Tout est à chat, aux rayures tigrées des pull-over. Les coups de basses fréquences qui enveloppent nos cous décharnés. Quand survient le vibrionnant, la flèche décochée. La musique en plein coeur.
I guess cos they were pushed out from the big record markets as early as 1976 and, as social media didn't exist in those days, they had to prioritise which ever country seemed to support them, hence for instance 1980 spent in France as it seemed only place buying their 1980 material, then set eyes on the US once a few singles picked up MTV rotation, so UK releases (not that I was there, can only guess) when have been low-key, God knows how any fan got them back then, though a Sparks fan on their excellent 2021 movie "The Sparks Brothers" I now a proud owner of said that, as a UK fan, their 4 monthly newsletter arriving on the doorstep was an amazing gift as it told him (and all) where they were and what they were doing. He even mentions a mate's mother hearing in 1981 they were on a radio station over here and they'd be at a London hotel in a "boxing ring to beat each other up". Ha! Clearly promo for their explosive 1981 LP, and he got there with his mate and they got both their records signed and even met them up as they were lucky enough to appeal to the right security guard, say the right things, flash the current single and then catch a runner for the band! All I can say is, the best stuff is never well-known. Apart from ABBA, and the legacy Kate Bush made for herself early, most well-know things are irrelevant th the bigger picture, if not downright crap and insulting!
Sparks fans have brains and follow the band for years. Someday the world will get it. Remember Queen opened for them in 1970. Sparks are still with us.
This is absolutely awesome! A little bit longer and more dramatic is the live version ruclips.net/video/8hGa8NuGYlY/видео.html Should be enjoyed with a larger screen than a cell phone and BIG sound... I wish I had been there 🙄
Actually the song version for this video is seriously cut in lenght compared to the album version. Too bad, 'cause there's nearly twice more awesomness in this song!
These guys are genius! There are so many elements in their works that were either imitated by others or were the wellspring from which their influences came.
Sparks - coolest cats around. Love em. Have done since i were a nipper ( 8) when This Town Ain't Big Enough for The Both of Us came out. Ron and Russ Rule. xx
This video deserves a better encode. People say MTV doesn't need to play music videos anymore because you can see them on RUclips, but then some of them look like this. I'd buy a DVD of Sparks videos too!
Can't have enough of this one!! And the video is so clever, when you get it! (If you don't, check further through the comments, about "The cat and the fiddle" 😃 There are a couple of uploads of this one live as well, not bad... 💖💖💖💖💖
Loved a review on The Quietus that says about the voice-and-keyboard version (Two Hands, One Mouth tour): "The harsh original of rejection anthem 'Dick Around' makes Faith No More's 'Midlife Crisis' sound like a toddler's tantrum, but here, without the power guitars, it is elegant and resigned, angry, but more vulnerable." I can only imagine!
On the other hand, Milife Crisis has come from a bunch of guys in their 30's (+/-), while this one comes from those who have actually experienced the matter.
I just gonna stand in front The 12 oktober cirkus and cry.. AGAIN i was 5 years old when you two got mer love you Ron your lyrics are by far The most thinkwhorthy of all
Hoppas att det BLIR nån konsert🙄. Som läget verkar just nu (13e juli) ter det sig inte så troligt😩. Jag har jäkligt bra sittplatser, var också bland de första som bokade. Lika bra platser i Köpenhamn också. Är väl bara att be en bön🙏 till nån som eventuellt skulle lyssna. Utan att besvära så pass mycket att man får ett "What the hell is it this time???" till svar 😂😂😂!
This is an absolute mastepiece👌 How the hell how the hell how the hell Mr Russell Mael breathes In this song to sing is incomprehensible ❤️ Bloody marvellous 👍
Utterly agreed. When you think of all the shitheads that get accolades every 5 minutes (a rotten unending fashion that exploded in the 90s to become a great plague (like most everyone around now), none of them could even attempt to sing anything other than in the most basic, simplistic way, never mind the fact that they all sing the same basic song anyway.
Anyone else hear Tim burtons Charlie and choc factory use the riff from this for their rock/queen homage...they virtually lifted this whole song verbatim onto theirs..lol sparks are awesome....ahead of the crowd always.
Have you heard of the 21x21, 'Sparks Spectacular ', when they played their, at that time, 20 albums in chronological order, one each night, to finish with the release of 'Exotic Creatures of the Deep' (2008)? 21 albums in 21 nights. Plus single B-sides and other stuff they had written for other artists or collaborations. If you are a fan, I assume that you have. I don't know exactly, but estimate around 240-250 songs. 😵 Russell had a few mistakes, and at one time ('Tearing The Place Apart', if you haven't already seen it, look for it here on RUclips, he is absolutely adorable, and Ron, being the solid, protecting Big Brother is so cool! No, I wasn't there, but I certainly wish I had been 😭😭😭!
@@annabackman3028 "A few mistakes". God, anyone would, but then anyone wouldn't set themselves this task and to deliver it all. HOW did he do it? HOW did Ron remember all those intricate melodies to so many songs, and the structuring of each and what comes where? Most artists have a problem just doing the same old 10-20 songs they always pick, and the acts I love hardly ever differ their shows. They'll be great, but so much of their oeuvre they don't bother with, it's a wonder they bothered making it.
@@kyachdistent1301 You haven't found 'Tearing the place apart' from the "21x21"? As almost everywhere else, I've put a little something in the comments. Perhaps that could clarify my opinion, admiration, better. ALSO, somewhere in the comments, on some video with 'Dick Around' I asked the same question as 'Jag Betty' began this thread with; how can he remember? I added that I'm full of admiration, and my memory is like in 'Probably Nothing'. I don't think that I have anything more to say about this 🤔 For now 😂😆 ruclips.net/video/kKAgOkBqmsI/видео.html
@@kyachdistent1301 😂 'Probably Nothing', memory like a fish stick, like a greased non-stick skillet. I have spread out what I just wrote. In this video 4 years ago, and in a live performance, uploaded twice by these two channels: DJJaxer, DIE HARD agency Not so many comments on neither one.
@@annabackman3028 Thank you for the insert, I have commented on the video itself, makes it easier to find so thanks for your help there. I love the way they just took the accident in stride, but I'm not surprised they are as gleefully wonderful and characterful live as they are on their records. They may sing 'I Wish You Were Fun' but one never needs to of them. How many acts can truthfully say that they merge the serious and zany and witty so perfectly that you often can't even be sure if a song is portraying all three, but then most acts can't even achieve just ONE element.
so here we go... back in the day, you could'nt aFFORD TO BUY EVERY ALBUM THAT YOU SAW. YOu know, before music became basically free, AND THERE WERE SO MANY STrange looking artists out therein the 80's. So I saw a few Sparks album covers. I thought " cool name, but who are these goofs? They can't be good." But those images were certainly memorable. Now, i just finished the LONG Doc on NF. Really cool stuff. I would connect them with prog rock, as heard in this song. Its really good stuff, and I'm looking forward to going down -or shall i say-dicking around - the Sparks rabbit hole. Cheers! Oh , and If Todd Rundgren worked with them, then I'm all in!
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Sheer brilliance. 50 years, 300 songs. Perhaps the world will finally recognize one of the greatest bands EVER.
Why would they do that? To them, mediocre means great and that is all that is EVER celebrated as great. People like safe and pre-planned crap like slagdonna, Take That, Madness, No-asis, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Pariah Carey, Adele, Beponce Knowles, Eurythmics, Michael Jackson, None Direction, Sting, Weller, Bee Gees, Wet Wet Wet, Diarhianna, Taylored Spliff, Pill Collins; all stuff they're TOLD to like by everybody else and society/music press at large. Even the more talented (up to a point0 likes of Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, George Michael are all far more overrated than they should EVER be!
@@kyachdistent1301 I'm waiting for your album that will top all these artists.
@@markblum5059 Easy. I vomited ten of them up when I was last drunk. Trust you to be dumb enough to like all the bullshit of today! That's sure where your quality barometer lies and your sense of taste is utterly at odds with the act here so go back to the videos of these no-talent hateful losers you love and are more comfortable with, as we are less so with your unintelligent attempt at wayward sarcasm. Point us, idiot, these tossers are all being allowed studio time and screen time to spew their vile unending junk at a world unable and unwilling to destroy it and them, thanks to moronic twats like you, Mark Bum, which is no doubt where you talk out of, pretty apt as what also comes out of it is of the measuring stick we judge all this stuff by. I AM NOT PAYED TO MAKE MUSIC, SO I DON'T! THEY ARE, YET ALSO DON'T/CAN'T/WON'T! Are you telling me in your infinitely tiny wisdom that ALL who judge records don't have a RIGHT to cos they don't MAKE them!? So DO tell all published critics from the dawn of time that then! WE are the AUDIENCE, dumbhead, WE make the decision whether they live or die, without US they wouldn't exist, but sadly, as most of population is a slagdonna-owned robo-clone like yourself, it does, and that makes you equally responsible for it, so piss off back to it you utter waste of carbon dinoxide!
@@kyachdistent1301 Didn't say I liked it. You need to pay more attention to what you read and not the voices in your head.
@@markblum5059 You said it by DEFENDING IT! No point in taking it back now. Oh and all the voices in my head are the critics agreeing with me that you're no more a judge of good or bad music than anyone else that MAKES records or PRETENDS to make records-or those that buy them or DON'T, because they're shit and no one with any brains (leaving out all slag/Pete Waterman/rap fans-and most everything now incidentally-therefore MOST of the population of the planet, which shows how long we've sunk as a species) DOES get rubbish by hateful losers!
This is seriously a masterpiece
Sparks, the most underrated American band ever. Ron Mael must be one of the best songwriters ever too.
Young girls really
@@ubek9448,?? Not even in the seventies, but they are what you see in old videos. IF any guys got between the girls and Russell they'd been crushed, and not seen anyway.
But nowadays?
Come on!? 😂😂😂
Heard the latest album, released May 2020?
'A Steady Drip Drip Drip'?
Give it a chance.
@@ubek9448 HAHAHA 😂! Do you really think that the song is PRO pedophilia?? It's the opposite, heard about sarcasm? Satire?
'Terminal Jive' was released in May 1980, it was recorded -79. The Polanski scandal and his escape from the USA was still hot news and the issue of pedophiles was still an on-going topic.
I don't state that precisely Polanski was on Ron's mind, but the topic was current for a long time.
The last lines;
"Young girls. I don't care what they say
I want to have you each and every day
I feel you, I don't care what they say
Young girls"
If you believe that's Ron's or/and Russell's opinions, you have problems. 🙄
These last words tell the listener that this is satire, it's emote, too much.
Of course it takes a LISTENER or reading the lyrics to get it. If someone only hears "Young girls, I love their legs", sung by a grown up man, could give reactions. Obviously still do.
On the same album you have 'When I'm With You', with the wonderful lines
"I never feel like garbage when I'm with you
I almost feel normal when I'm with you"
That is LOVE. Most of us, time to time, feel odd, "from outer space" so to speak. So sweetly expressed!
But you will take that as a song for a twelve years old, I assume 😒
Really satire about hegemony. Old men liking young girls oh so hilarious n unheard of polanski didn't like young girls
Pretty fools who gives a shit what they say
@@ubek9448
So, they are burglars as well?? They must be, Russell sings about being a burglar, so for sure they are!!
ruclips.net/video/6Iz53uzlNls/видео.html
Do you think that THIS one is pro or con "ugly", old guys dating girls?
Everything is a question about definitions and interpretation.
ruclips.net/video/KatxOF1BFUA/видео.html
'Surburan Homeboy', yeah, gotta be a true story, since everything they write and perform is right out of their own lives.
Lyrics in the comments.
ruclips.net/video/mFkx4C27yms/видео.html
They also married a martian. Yes, of course! The song says so! They must have!
Lyrics in the comments.
ruclips.net/video/a2h_6q9B0Go/видео.html
They also drive around in their cars, just to hit other vehicles to make friends with the drivers ('Here comes Bob').
Oh, they have been dead too! Suicide, miscalculated suicide pact. It's really clean in heaven, they said. How the heck they returned, I don't know. (Here In Heaven).
They also bought the Mississippi River, by the way. All of it, with a boat and crew. (I Bought The Mississippi River).
And this is spectacular! THEY REMEMBER HOW THEY FOUGHT AGAINST OTHER SPERMS to be someone, a little daughter or son. Isn't that sweet! (Tryouts For The Human Race).
They have been the owners of BBC as well. (Now That I Own The BBC).
A few years ago they found a hippopotamus in their swimmingpool! And a lot of other rather peculiar stuff. Gotta be true, they wrote so! (Hippopotamus).
At least one of them is actually a fireman, with bringing down cats from trees as speciality. (Here Kitty)
Of course, there is a song that proves what imposters and swindlers they are! They admit it, "This is not my song, I bought it in Hong Kong", "This is not my voice, although I had a choice"
ruclips.net/video/hPsfUfHf8nk/видео.html
LAST but not least. A message straight from the horse's mouth. Listen CAREFULLY and THOROUGHLY to Ron's words in the beginning of the video. I believe they were directly addressed to you.
ruclips.net/video/HWw_vvi06jE/видео.html
Don't be a complete moron. Take "artistic freedom" for what it is. You know, sometimes it's made to PROVOKE and make people think. But for the sake of the whole existence, THINK RIGHT. You're barking at the wrong tree here. 🙄
Over and out. 😖OMG....!
When you've seen Ron Mael headbanging you've seen everything.
Sounds like something that could be in a Tim Burton movie. One of the best Sparks tracks ever. A mini opera.
fan fact - they were planning a project with Tim Burton, but he dropped it
I think the Mike Teavee song in Burton's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a parody of Sparks.
There's nothing new about this song as Iv'e been dicking around for years 8-).
They're envious of people who haven't completely ruined their lives?
I love that Queen started opening for Sparks, and now Sparks goes all out Queen. Brilliant ❤
Hello Young Lovers is one of their best ever albums. Defo top 5 for me. In fact, I've never stopped playing it - is it really 17 years old already? Just wait til I get a sound system installed in the nursing home. Everyone will be listening to the album then!
Nursing Home Sound System - that could be a track title for The Fall!
This song alone proves that Russ is the most criminally underrated front man.
Totally agree
Agreed
Love the guy... Love his look...love his fun personality... He to me is a legend. As is his brother.
Very true
REAL TALK!!!
How is this not a rock classic?
One of my favorite sparks songs. It's an operetta that Gilbert and Sullivan would write if they were alive
I always liked it when rock music was combined with classical music. The first time I noticed this was in 1973 with "I Love The Dead" by Alice Cooper.
In the same year, Cockney Rebel caught my attention with "Sebastian" and "Death Trip". Especially "Death Trip" is one of my favourites when it comes to "Rock meets Classic".
Now a new song has been added. However, I find the long version even better.
This should have won multiple Grammy's! Love Sparks for life.
God, listen to Sparks from Kimono my House, one of the best records I've ever heard, and I thought Sparks was no more. Listening to Dick Around, gosh, this group exists and still kicks butt. I become a Sparks fan.
I assume you have heard 'A Steady Drip Drip Drip', released May 2020? If not, DO!!
Sparks never age, they are always is in the now
BBC 6 Music plays Sparks. I thought they had called it a day years ago ,but, starting in 2008 with 'Exotic Creatures Of the Deep', I found out they're still making amazing music now. Thanks to Marc Riley and Gideon Coe at BBC 6 for alerting me to the kind of musical world that's long since been banished by commercial radio who only care about profits and maintaining control over what people hear and see.
No more?! They are one of the most prolific acts ever, they've done about 26 albums!
This song alone puts the band “Sparks” in a league of their own. These brothers are no joke at all. They are a splendid extension of what Captain Beefheart created in the 60’s. I have to re evaluate my understanding of rock music because of this band alone. Take some time to listen to their band halfnelson as well. Such an embarrassment of riches from these two.
This is literally, THE weirdest song of all time.
BRILLIANT!
Yanni Markovina
I think they might have topped it now with the song 'Hippopotamus'. 😂
In the Future!
Saccharine and the war
Those two must be the weirdest of them all!
But if you consider the lyrics to:
'Tryouts for the human race'
(about sperms, racing literally for life "to be someone")
'Here in heaven'
(About a suicide pact gone wrong
"And it's hell, Knowing that your health, will keep you out of here, for many, many years")
Anna Backman I first heard “ in the future “ as an 11 yr old in 1975 - the day my kid showed me YT in 2010 I looked it up - Timeless and Brilliant 😁
@@newforestpixie5297, Of course, it's always in the future😉
Try "Vertigo Motel" by Dog Fashion Disco.
I have been a fan since 1971. Such a great song with a killer video. Sparks continues to create some great music!!!
Sparks should be asked to write a James Bond movie theme song.
This song would be perfect.
Crap like that?! Dumb down to be in the bullshit company of cuntdonna, sheryl cow, garbage (in name also), adele the caterwauling arsehole who can't sing for shit, Tina bag Turner (after a far superior and better sung-naturally-song from Ace Of Base was aborted and given to that howling bag instead?!) and all the other trash post-1989?! Er...no dear. Besides J B has no relevance any more, he died decades ago. Who hears of a human spy still working at age 140?
One of my favorites. It's just well crafted, well done, and a unique song, and only Sparks could create it!
This is a masterpiece
I can't believe this awesome song has so few views? It's Sparks and it's awesome! Fantastic work! You're still amazing!
Rickard Remelin you are so right!! I've loved their brilliance since I was 14 (now 59!),and I Loooove the heavy rock influences... But I especially love seeing our Ron indulging in a wee bit of head-bandage.... Great tune... And terribly underrated....!!
June 2019:
Views: 141 tn
👍: 1,4 tn
👎: 15
Conclusion: Fifteen people I feel sorry for, though they obviously miss a lot of brilliant things in life.
It's shorter than the album version. I miss the cut passages.
Achas pouco 100k? Concordo que merece 100 milhões mas... Vai ao Google tradutor translate from portuguese.
Sparks have always been very niche... I think that’s what makes them so good. It’s a creative freedom more popular music doesn’t get. Just be happy you found them ;)
My 2nd favourite Sparks tune ever!! I can't believe it was 13 years ago when it came out and got banned by the BBC. I know.....really? One day this will be a massive hit.
Just watched the Doc on Netflix last night about them. They were totally brilliant. Can't compare them to any one else All HAIL the MHIL brothers!!!!!
Compared to when I first heard this song in 2006, it's more relevant now. Sparks did an excellent job expaining the frustration of a man's mid-life crisis.
Can you tell me more? Are we to interpret "dick around" like "dickering around"? Is this about a big executive who does nothing but waste time or is he a cheater who uses women?
@@radvibes The song refers to a man feeling he is wasting his time and not having anything to show for his life.
It's actually about me splitting with Russell after my Dad died, not acrimonious, he and I were not suited for one another. Sparks are in every way deserving of all the accolades and more :)
My 11 year old loves this song and loves Sparks.
OMG why are these guys so amazing? Seriously, best band in history, and I've heard a lot.
Should be in the bloody Rock n Roll Hall of fame!
You're saying they're NOT? Whaaaaaa...ttt...hhheeee..ffff.... Seriously? How can Sparks not be in the Rock*n*Roll hall of fame?? That's unbelievable!!
@@blu4085 Genius don't count, record selling and money do. 🙄 So, as long as "the masses" aren't interested in LISTENING to intelligent music instead of muzak and "I love you, I love you I'm so hurt, I can't live.. bla bla" they will never get there.
It is a SHAME. 😡
f- the Rnr hall of fame. its a sham. If it wasn't Sparks would have been in there long ago.
Look at how long it took for Cheap Trick and Devo to get in, even when their stuff was on display…
Amazing and clever song. Come to think of it, all of us praise Russell's voice, but I think we forget an unique talent in MEMORIZE LYRICS!!!
My own memory is in level with "Probably nothing".
I AM FULL OF ADMIRATION! 💖
Good point. I sing quite a bit and like to inflict it on others from time to time but I can only keep 9, 10 full songs in my head at a time and most of them will have to be pretty simple.
@@mikefallopian3191, The 'Sparks Spectacular' aka 21x21, when they played their, at that time, 20 albums, in chronological order, one each night, and premiered 'Exotic Creatures Of The Deep' the 21st, 2008. To remember all songs, also single B-sides and songs they had written for others and collaborations, way over 200 songs... 😵
Well when he tries anyway, if you listen to 70s live shows he was constantly mixing up lyrics.
@@danhermon4922Like here for instance 😆
Live promotion radio 1974
ruclips.net/video/dNuqPECQxBM/видео.html
And here, during the "21x21", 2008, where it's more understandable, way over 200 songs to remember in three weeks!!
'Tearing the place apart'
ruclips.net/video/kKAgOkBqmsI/видео.html
(There's a shorter video of this, less talking, which YT:s f-cked up searchmotor refuses me access to right now)
I'm envious, so envious, of all people who saw those shows, I could give whatever it takes to get a time travel ticket and a 'Golden ticket' to all 21!!!
@@danhermon4922 Yeah well unlike MOST people who just sing the same OLD song (& shifting the words about slightly is no get out of jail card, okay!), they have one hell of a world-sized scripture to remember. If you want repeat, keep to the usual shit you likely listen to!
Russ really did take care of his voice---thank you for that! Looking forward to Nov in LA (coming from Ann Arbor, Michigan!)
Hoping for a new tour (to Sweden also, please!) with their next album they are working on now! 😁 (August 2019)
Any way the wind blows, this is one fantastic song
Juste humer la merveille, aux fréquences dingues. Nos opéras de roque, à l'échiquier avancé. Qui prend qui? A l'avancée de la diagonale, qui donc est fou? Les méthodes seraient ainsi cavalières, à damner un pion éconduit, poursuivit jusqu'aux douves. Sans tours , la reine en merveilles des notes n'est rien. Le roi avance d'une seule case et parlerait chat. Eperdu, il encoure à sa perte. Mat. Echec funeste. En frénésies, de la composition orchestrée. Musique soulagée au pied du volcan .Laves d'harmonies, notes en braises cramées, là où ça sautille aux pieds ardents. La disjonction éructe. Tout est à chat, aux rayures tigrées des pull-over. Les coups de basses fréquences qui enveloppent nos cous décharnés. Quand survient le vibrionnant, la flèche décochée. La musique en plein coeur.
I love so much the heavy part. Those guitars !!!
Dean Menta everybody!
It sounds like Queen. Opera rock. Brillant as usual ❤❤
Why the hell, why the hell is this gorgeous band still not part of the Hall Of Fame???!!!
They're too good
I love this song and this music style. Thank you Sparks ! I love you
Honest to god, I cannot for the life of me understand why Sparks are not way more known.
I guess cos they were pushed out from the big record markets as early as 1976 and, as social media didn't exist in those days, they had to prioritise which ever country seemed to support them, hence for instance 1980 spent in France as it seemed only place buying their 1980 material, then set eyes on the US once a few singles picked up MTV rotation, so UK releases (not that I was there, can only guess) when have been low-key, God knows how any fan got them back then, though a Sparks fan on their excellent 2021 movie "The Sparks Brothers" I now a proud owner of said that, as a UK fan, their 4 monthly newsletter arriving on the doorstep was an amazing gift as it told him (and all) where they were and what they were doing. He even mentions a mate's mother hearing in 1981 they were on a radio station over here and they'd be at a London hotel in a "boxing ring to beat each other up". Ha! Clearly promo for their explosive 1981 LP, and he got there with his mate and they got both their records signed and even met them up as they were lucky enough to appeal to the right security guard, say the right things, flash the current single and then catch a runner for the band!
All I can say is, the best stuff is never well-known. Apart from ABBA, and the legacy Kate Bush made for herself early, most well-know things are irrelevant th the bigger picture, if not downright crap and insulting!
This is utterly insane. I love it.
These guys are just ridiculously underrated
I heard this performed live at Bergen Fest on the 13th of June...it was really impressing! They're whole set was, but this is a hard song to do.
2:58 out is some really Fabulous bass playing! I’d have him in my record any day! LOVE this song
I like the cellos too. I'm with Yo-yo ma. not enough cellos in the world.
Sparks fans have brains and follow the band for years. Someday the world will get it. Remember Queen opened for them in 1970. Sparks are still with us.
This song needs over 1M views! The "Bohemian Rhapsody" of the 00's. :-D
Fantastic Song and video. Love the cats. Also love the different tempos.
1:28 Heavy Metal and 1:50 Thrash Metal (Sounds mainly like Megadeth). HAIL SPARKS!! I'm waiting for you to get into Death Metal and Black Metal
This is musically and creavitely brilliant,!
This song is so awesome!
Comme souvent avec Sparks, c'est excellent et original.
Le rock ou le hard rock associé à leur new wave fait merveille
Take that, Queen.
@Mannix Channel GAMING Queen was inspired by Sparks in the 70's
Haha..i was thinking the exact same thing before i read your comment!
This is absolutely awesome!
A little bit longer and more dramatic is the live version
ruclips.net/video/8hGa8NuGYlY/видео.html
Should be enjoyed with a larger screen than a cell phone and BIG sound...
I wish I had been there 🙄
Many Artists were...sheesh
Queen is still a fantastic band, one of my favourites. just listen to white man and you will understand
avant garde electrosymphonic pop eareyesoul teaser. Thank you for this.
Actually the song version for this video is seriously cut in lenght compared to the album version. Too bad, 'cause there's nearly twice more awesomness in this song!
I think it was meant to work better on radio...
Oops, how bad that went 😫
These guys are genius! There are so many elements in their works that were either imitated by others or were the wellspring from which their influences came.
Feline Purrrrrrrrfect Ron and Russell Beyond Genius, Cheers Everybody Tour 2022 GRAHAM.
Been following sparks since 1975 never turn your back on mother earth was the song and absolutely love this song
19th October 2020
Why the hell, why the hell, why the hell does this have so few views?
+Ivan Sushkevich Because all the people do on RUclips is Dick Around.
March 2019 134tn views. Complaints?
I LOVE THIS SONG! Probably are 1000 of those views mine 😂😂
because it's not horrifyingly bad rap shit by someone named lil fug nuggy
Cliche statements on a SPARKS thread is prohibited...
Don’t worry - in 30 yrs time their views will still be increasing whilst half the overplayed & overhyped will be forgotten 😀
Sparks , 10 CC, QUEEN это группы которые спутать с кем-то просто не реально , свой стиль , своя изюминка , этим они и. дороги
I don't know what you wrote but I saw 10 CC and Queen in the same sentence, so yes, whatever you wrote I agree with 100%.
Спаркс великолепны, открыл для себя их совсем недавно, и сразу стал поклонником их творчества! Эти братья гениальны
Sparks - coolest cats around. Love em. Have done since i were a nipper ( 8) when This Town Ain't Big Enough for The Both of Us came out. Ron and Russ Rule. xx
I can't believe I never heard this band before. Great stuff.
Thought provoking. Compelling. Provocative. Insouciant.
Music that grabs you and forces reaction.
Those arrangements are a meisterwerke.
Damn this is fucking EPIC, why on earth i didn't heard about that 10 years ago.
Genius.
Absolutely Sparkling !
I can't believe this much music fits under 4 minutes
Song and video: simply brilliant! I'll say no more than that...
I think i could go to every Sparks video on youtube and leave the comment "this is the most brilliant song ever!"
Wow! Those lyrics....!
And how the h... Russell remenbers all of them (the longer version, I meen!) live...😲
Such a unique and incredible song.
I'm sure there was a longer version of this song/video....... Did I dream it?
Great song on my iPod play list / I love the cats in this!!!
Genius, genius, genius...
So Great! I got to see it live in L.A. with the kimono Tour.
I love this song!
This video deserves a better encode. People say MTV doesn't need to play music videos anymore because you can see them on RUclips, but then some of them look like this. I'd buy a DVD of Sparks videos too!
Wow! This is the best video ever and the song kicks as well! Wow!
One of the very few songs that gets better every time I listen to it. And I listened to it *a lot* since it was released. 😊
Greetings from Germany!
Can't have enough of this one!! And the video is so clever, when you get it! (If you don't, check further through the comments, about "The cat and the fiddle" 😃
There are a couple of uploads of this one live as well, not bad... 💖💖💖💖💖
@@annabackman3028
Seems like, you have very delicious taste. 😊
Greetings from Germany!
@@moserfugger6363 Dito 😁
@@annabackman3028
Let's marry then! 😍😇
@@moserfugger6363, Haha! 😂!
Straight on! "Married at the first date!
😉😍
Live band in this video looks awesome
1:39 - headbanging ron is the funniest thing ever
This is the first time I've heard this. Brilliant! I'm in hysterics.
Loved a review on The Quietus that says about the voice-and-keyboard version (Two Hands, One Mouth tour): "The harsh original of rejection anthem 'Dick Around' makes Faith No More's 'Midlife Crisis' sound like a toddler's tantrum, but here, without the power guitars, it is elegant and resigned, angry, but more vulnerable." I can only imagine!
On the other hand, Milife Crisis has come from a bunch of guys in their 30's (+/-), while this one comes from those who have actually experienced the matter.
My new favorite Sparks song, which is impossible.
I just gonna stand in front The 12 oktober cirkus and cry.. AGAIN i was 5 years old when you two got mer love you Ron your lyrics are by far The most thinkwhorthy of all
Hoppas att det BLIR nån konsert🙄. Som läget verkar just nu (13e juli) ter det sig inte så troligt😩.
Jag har jäkligt bra sittplatser, var också bland de första som bokade. Lika bra platser i Köpenhamn också.
Är väl bara att be en bön🙏 till nån som eventuellt skulle lyssna. Utan att besvära så pass mycket att man får ett "What the hell is it this time???" till svar 😂😂😂!
This is an absolute mastepiece👌 How the hell how the hell how the hell Mr Russell Mael breathes In this song to sing is incomprehensible ❤️ Bloody marvellous 👍
Utterly agreed. When you think of all the shitheads that get accolades every 5 minutes (a rotten unending fashion that exploded in the 90s to become a great plague (like most everyone around now), none of them could even attempt to sing anything other than in the most basic, simplistic way, never mind the fact that they all sing the same basic song anyway.
like this song... sparks has been good since 1972 that`s when i heard them first. this is a typical sparks song excellent work fellas and lady Drummer
Tammy Glover.
I'm digging randomly into the Sparks songs, anf for now, this one is really one of the best. So brillant
They always deliver at leas t3 or 4 top ones most albums.
Very cool!... Reminds one of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Anyone else hear Tim burtons Charlie and choc factory use the riff from this for their rock/queen homage...they virtually lifted this whole song verbatim onto theirs..lol sparks are awesome....ahead of the crowd always.
I keep binging on this video. 😃 All the trips without acid.
These guys are geniuses ❤️🎃
love this so much.
Amazing song , Youguys are too good !
Finally, the theme song of my life!
That's what's great about art, music, literature, and the internet. We are all not aline in these feelings we have about our lives.
How on earth does he remember the lyrics to all these fantastic songs....???
Have you heard of the 21x21, 'Sparks Spectacular ', when they played their, at that time, 20 albums in chronological order, one each night, to finish with the release of 'Exotic Creatures of the Deep' (2008)? 21 albums in 21 nights. Plus single B-sides and other stuff they had written for other artists or collaborations. If you are a fan, I assume that you have. I don't know exactly, but estimate around 240-250 songs. 😵
Russell had a few mistakes, and at one time ('Tearing The Place Apart', if you haven't already seen it, look for it here on RUclips, he is absolutely adorable, and Ron, being the solid, protecting Big Brother is so cool!
No, I wasn't there, but I certainly wish I had been 😭😭😭!
@@annabackman3028 "A few mistakes". God, anyone would, but then anyone wouldn't set themselves this task and to deliver it all. HOW did he do it? HOW did Ron remember all those intricate melodies to so many songs, and the structuring of each and what comes where? Most artists have a problem just doing the same old 10-20 songs they always pick, and the acts I love hardly ever differ their shows. They'll be great, but so much of their oeuvre they don't bother with, it's a wonder they bothered making it.
@@kyachdistent1301
You haven't found 'Tearing the place apart' from the "21x21"?
As almost everywhere else, I've put a little something in the comments. Perhaps that could clarify my opinion, admiration, better.
ALSO, somewhere in the comments, on some video with 'Dick Around' I asked the same question as 'Jag Betty' began this thread with; how can he remember? I added that I'm full of admiration, and my memory is like in 'Probably Nothing'.
I don't think that I have anything more to say about this 🤔
For now 😂😆
ruclips.net/video/kKAgOkBqmsI/видео.html
@@kyachdistent1301 😂 'Probably Nothing', memory like a fish stick, like a greased non-stick skillet.
I have spread out what I just wrote.
In this video 4 years ago, and in a live performance, uploaded twice by these two channels:
DJJaxer, DIE HARD agency
Not so many comments on neither one.
@@annabackman3028 Thank you for the insert, I have commented on the video itself, makes it easier to find so thanks for your help there. I love the way they just took the accident in stride, but I'm not surprised they are as gleefully wonderful and characterful live as they are on their records. They may sing 'I Wish You Were Fun' but one never needs to of them. How many acts can truthfully say that they merge the serious and zany and witty so perfectly that you often can't even be sure if a song is portraying all three, but then most acts can't even achieve just ONE element.
I love this song, constancy is an amazing quality 👏
The best song of 2006. Unarguably.
The best song of XXI Century
Turn this into a hit Broadway musical, Mael’s!
This is so great
This has to be the best break-up song, evah
I love this. I remember seeing this band on tv in the 70s wow.
so here we go... back in the day, you could'nt aFFORD TO BUY EVERY ALBUM THAT YOU SAW. YOu know, before music became basically free, AND THERE WERE SO MANY STrange looking artists out therein the 80's. So I saw a few Sparks album covers. I thought " cool name, but who are these goofs? They can't be good." But those images were certainly memorable. Now, i just finished the LONG Doc on NF. Really cool stuff. I would connect them with prog rock, as heard in this song. Its really good stuff, and I'm looking forward to going down -or shall i say-dicking around - the Sparks rabbit hole. Cheers! Oh , and If Todd Rundgren worked with them, then I'm all in!
This is so good. I think it competes with "Bohemian Rhapsody" head on. The 7:24 live version is even more awesome.
Love the queen vibe !
This is AMAZING!
Very nice. Thought provoking.