Sparks with Jane Wiedlin - Cool Places (Official Video)
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- The official video for the single "Cool Places" from the 1983 album In Outer Space. The song features Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Go's.
Directed by Graham Whiffler.
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Never get tired of the Sparks between Jane Wiedlin and Russell Mael!
Did Sparks fly with Jane these 2guys she's classy style her way Go Gos Girl with swag can do it go to 1988 with her huge hit Rush Hour 5years omg
Always thought at the time that Sparks was a new band--didn't realize these guys were in their mid-30's, had been around since the early 70's, and Jane was once a president of their fan club!
So they were Jane's addiction a decade before.
Same with Debbie Harry and Toni Basil!
I thought the same thing. Thank goodness for RUclips I am able to see Sparks other videos
I actually thought the same thing for the longest time. I think it's not all that long ago I learned they had an extensive discography by this point and are still releasing albums as recently as this year.
I think the Mael bros first release as “Halfnelson” was in 1972. Too lazy to verify that.
It's impossible to be more '80s than this. KROQ lives!!!
😅😅You got that right.It OOZES 80s.What a great vid and song.
Spot-on 80s in every way!
KROQ!! ROQ of the 80’s!!
The ROQ of the 80's.
Actually know this from WLIR in NY. KROQ was 90s for me. BTW, remember the Kevin and Bean "Feel the Warmth" Christmas Album?
Hey 80's teens, we are in 50's now, where did it go?
I wonder that everyday now :0
Wish I knew.But at least we where there and God was it good
Still here listening to the 80.
Wish I was an 80’s teen!
To my waist.
Russell and Jane make a perfect singing duo. Cool Places is my favorite song from Sparks. 👍👍👍👍
Congratulation on being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 with the Go Go's. 63 years old and still cute as can be.
I wish music sounded like this today. I never heard of this song but the song makes me feel happy.
Ahh... Man.... I was 22 when this song came out........ Now I'm 61..... I'd give ANYTHING to go back to these days.....
I was 18
Why?
Oh man...the 80s...I want to go back to this great era of high school, times, fads, clothes, cars movies, music & NEVER COME BACK!!!
Much love from Mobile Alabama.
I loved this song when I first heard it in the 80s. It was so much fun to dance to. I see #kroq below the title, I listened to KROQ radio station everyday living in the L.A. area, they had the best alternative rock music. ❤️😁
It was so much fun dancing to this song.
Love the 80's new wave sound.
That arm swing!
Sparks and Jane Wiedlin, what an awesome, stupendous combination.
💩🤡
A pleasure to hear such a tune 👍 what a decade
I revisited this song after about 30 years since the first and last time I saw it on MTV. It holds up. The second chorus really delivers - "I wanna go . . . "
MTV was awesome back on the 80s. On weekends we'd all gather at a friend's place, order pizza, drinks...and enjoy all this 80s stuff. Now if you put on MTV? 😝 ugh! How times have changed.
Sparks was alway evolving. This sond totally tapped into the 80's. They atill go on. They are brilliant!!!!
MTV in the good old days right here!
Our favorite dance moves at our high school dances in the '80's. To be young again...
Fond memories of my childhood. A friend of mine and myself would walk around the office walking and flailing our arms like Ron...and with a chair hooked on one of our feet! Great times! Nice to see a woman in a music video that looks so adorable without being next to naked.
100% agree. The objectification today is extreme.
I love reading some of these comments about “the business guy dancing” and “the weird dude eating a banana”-folks, that’s Ron Mael, one half of Sparks.
I remember rollerskating to this song at the Skate Ranch in Santa Ana.
Great decade to be a teen and she was always my favorite Go-Go. There was always something about her that reminded me of Wynonna Ryder
if this ain't the 80's nothing is.. is that "Divine" in the background? Ahhhh It's so nice to go back- if only for a while... The happiest time in my now semi miserable life..
Gewglesux hope you’re doing ok bud
@@dafyddil Hello David,
Things are better thanks- looking up as they say! Thanks for the concern. Hope things are good your way in this pretty interesting time.
The pictures change, but yes, that is in fact Divine. I also saw Ron Wood, John F. Kennedy, Dick Clark...and Mary Jo Kopechne thrown in for shock value. Not sure who that is in the picture at 3:25, though.
Yes- but who is across from Divine on the right? Steve Perry?
@@TarotMage Hell, Ron Mael looks kind of like John Waters for THAT matter.
Sparks was the first band I saw live in concert. It was in 1983 around Halloween at Magic Mountain Amusement Park just north of Los Angeles with my buddy Jon. They were on the "Sparks in Outer Space" tour. I didn't know much about them before the concert but really became a fan watching them perform. Love this song, love the album, love their music!
I saw them in Costa Mesa, during the 80's, it was a real good concert.
I was there!
Yeah, it seems like Magic Mountain had lots of concerts back then.
@@johnstjohn6658 Disneyland did too for Gradnight Berlin played. It was a great show. Sad I missed seeing this show.
@@pjt3887 Yes they did have some good concerts! Videopolis was also a super fun place!
They smile when they kiss on the swings and it makes me smile too. I know it’s a video and it’s supposed to look like they’re having fun, but I like to think that they were honestly having fun.
They were in a relationship at the time
This brings me back to my High School years in the mid-90s. I did not like the music of that time, and LOVED the music of the 80s. The Valley Girl Soundtrack is where I heard this the 1st time. Still love listening to it. Oh God can't we PLEASE go back to the 80s?!
Still one of my all-time favorite songs! New wave perfection!
Oh Jane,you're so lovely! She looks like a doll :3
This song and the music video are both a blast. 80s music is fun.
Sparks were always bleeding edge and at the forefront of style and trends with their own brand of American avante guarde sensibilities and humor. Jane Weidlan is definitley the icing on this very new wave cake. Very cutting edge stylistically for 1983. Also, reminds me of Pee-Wee's playhouse. Ill just bet Paul Reubens was a Sparks fan...
40years ouch no way love Jane she got style helping Sparks fly with kooky 80s synth vibes brilliant blessed and part of the greatest decade of all time never to forget miss it so much oh hail the 80s
Jane is SOOOOO adorable in this video. Makes my heart melt!!!
Whoaaaa...I just went through a time machine. KROQ used to play all of these songs in the 80's. Oh how I miss it.
I found a partner in crime,80's style,,,lol..I am a total music freak and 80's is,will always be the bomb as those were the teen years,i always had cash and the latest boombox no matter what.The party revolved around "RR1" always..I really like your posts Sheels,great work...
I used to live right up the street from KROQ in Pasadena listening to Romando and The Blade... didn't get any better than that !!
The World Famos KROQ! Played all the great hits!
Time circuits on...Flux capacitor fluxing....
Thankfully all of these music videos have been put out to pasture and replaced by quality programming such as The Real World and Jersey Shore.
The craziness of early 80's videos!. I heard this track yesterday for the first time and thought..."This is a million miles away from "Rush hour"...that is Jane Weidlin isn't it?!".
We need to make Ron Mael’s iconic dance a formal dance to break out at a club. Call it the Mael Man or something. It’s like his moonwalk.
Saw them live at Glastonbury this year and Ron did the dance soo good ❤
I love the portrait of Divine in the back
One of those awesome collaborations that makes you think " How on earth did they just happen to link up for this moment?"
Saw Sparks with Jane on campus show Cal state Uni. LONG BEACH YEARS AGO.
Miss the 80's! My band used to play this at parties in SoCal
I’m 56 and grew up in the 80s. I had never heard this song or seen this video until recently. I’m sure that I would’ve been in love with Jane Wiedlin had I seen this video back then. She’s adorable!
I agree. I remember pretty much all New Wave stuff and this rings no bells. But I certainly know who Jane (AKA Joan of Arc in Bill & Ted) is/was and yep, she was a doll!
I was about six or seven when my parents bought the mix album “Dancing Madness” with electric robots dancing on the cover. I loved this song and wore out the vinyl!!! 1980s rocked…
Love Jane her llook and style was made 4 this song
Ron is just a total joy .... handsome, super talented, fun .....😍
entered Billboard April 16, 1983 ..reached #49 This is MONO
Also. Jane’s look here is so precious 😭💖💅🏼
This song is over 30 years old but it still sounds better than 99.99% of the new 'music' being played on the radio today.
absolutly YES
The classic "i'm an old man"-comment. I like that tune, i love the 80ies, but you should understand that not every current music is bad. You just don't have that connection to it, because you're no longer a teenager.
I didn't like 80s music until I became "an old man." 60s-70s Rock, Heavy Metal, Pink Floyd, Rush. Now, I listen to all kinds of music like this.
/r/lewronggeneration
Drew - That's a bit harsh.
Let’s not go overboard and disparage the music up today…… it was so wonderful back then….. but I found aNEWKINDAS-KOOL
64 years old ;-)…. I’m not stuck and I ain’t dead yet! Stay happier!
My kid asked: "Did kids really dance like that?" me: "yes dear, we did and it was the shit"
Tell em we still dance like that
😂
mimimousegirl - I hear that! I was a regular on the club scene from 1980 through to the early 2000’s and yet I never had as much fun dancing as I did in the early 80’s. In fact I would sometimes be the first person on the dance floor when they would play one of my favorite dance tracks early on - like When I Look in Your Eyes by The Romantics or A Million Miles by the Plimsoles or Cool Places by Sparks of course. Unfortunately however by the late 80’s the music they were playing no longer had a beat which was in sync with the early 80’s dance styles so dance moves had to change. Lets face it, dancing is only fun when you feel totally in sync with the beat, in which case the music is moving your body and you are not really thinking about doing any particular type of “move”. Anyway by 1987 everyone was doing the running man which was still kind of a fun dance as it was very aerobic and had a lot of foot work. But by 2000 there were no longer any real light-on-your-feet dance moves in the clubs and it was all about keeping your feet planted and just moving your hips. In fact, the last time I went dancing and I girl asked me to dance all she wanted to do was stand with her back to me and grind her ass into my crotch. I’m not complaining mind you but that’s just not dancing to me. Also I have to say that I really miss the slow dance segments at dance clubs which just suddenly disappeared sometime in the 90’s, never to return.
I'd be like..Uh.. no. that's how all the nerds danced.".
@@SLOBeachboy I feel you, dude.
Look at that Go-Go's girl go!
I had this on a 45 that i played quite often as a kid in 1983.. wow where did the time go?
The REAL music of my life!!! Rodney Bingenheimer’s radio program (along with John Peel) definitely helped make the 80s into something truly AWESOME!!!
I first heard Devo and the B-52’s on Rodney’s show. What an amazing time in music!
This song is so cool. I, love this video. The 80s miss it. ❤❤❤😊😊
Sparks’ “Armies of the Night” in the Fright Night soundtrack is awesome
DIVINE!
It doesn't get any more 1980s than Sparks.
How fantastic were they?
They were and still are fantastic. Go see them on tour now!
I still dance like that! But I’m stuck in the 80’s. I sure do miss it.
Simply Divine!
Love the homage to Divine...hope he was aware of this video
This whole thing (song and video ) is an absolute work of genius. And damn, its so funny. You can't be truly funny without being smart. Frank Zappa asked "Does Humor Belong in Music?" and I agree with him and the Maels brothers. Yes, yes it does.
It has to, the world would be dead without it. But most music is just dumb, unfunny or sickly and gross and does not have any humour, wit or even any point existing.
Yep. And Ween is another band that would answer yes to that question.
I only knew the song Rush Hour by Jane Wiedlin and I watched it recently for the first time in a long time. That led me to Blue Kiss, which I’ve never heard before. When I searched for other songs for her it brought me to Sparks. I had never heard of Sparks even though I was in high school in 1983. Now I can’t stop watching this video! It is so perfectly 80s and I wish I had seen this video back then. I watch this video several times every day now and it really makes me nostalgic for the 80s. Jane is adorable!
You need to watch the American Band Stand video... it's on YT.
Yes and her "Inside a Dream" video is very nice, too.
It is pure 80-s, New Wave.
God, how young Jane and Russell are in this video! So nice to see their energy, sense of fun and sexiness. As so many have lamented through the years, "God, give me back my youth!"
Daaamn It must be more than 25 years since i last heard this song!! They used ti play it on 91X fm San Diego
This really takes me back to good times in some very vol places!
I was 13. Middle school dances in 1983 and everybody was dancing the same!
Green screen fabulousness!!!
1983 ANOTHER GREAT HIT OF THE ERA OF THIS KIND OF MUSIC. STILL LISTENING IN 2020 AND BACK IN 1983 AND FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting. Love it. Weird 80’s vibe and distinctive
Jane Weidlin,forever the cutest of the Go-Gos. This is more 80s than parachute pants
Or fingerless gloves......😎
Or twist beads!!!
Or jelly bracelets, acid washed jeans, Rubik's cube, red bandannas, boom boxes.....😀
Or Activision or EA or Reaganomics.
Oh, did I bring up something not so fondly remembered? Sorry. At least two of those started out great and well intended. But I won’t say which two 😼 please don’t be M.A.D.D.
Temazo...como extraño bailarlo en Nebula Club Miraflores...Cuando Eduardo Lenti la incluia en su DJ set...Sparks is Awesome.
Janes awesome
Jane Weidlin at her most adorable. She was my favourite Go-Go.
This song went to #13 June 3, 1983, which I now know was the date of peak 1980's.
The 80's was the best decade ever
Dino Morales ..... It was SO much fun! I miss it!
It was so awesome and so much fun!!!
Lets go bk now leave it all behind FK the 21st century
I think we perceive it that way because the music of the times reflects the culture and things were pretty good , there was actually a middle class until the stock market crashed in Oct. 1987 and its right BEFORE our culture went over the edge of a cliff ; its been in severe decline ever since.
nope …..…………………………………...it's because the 80's culture was about having fun
I have remembered that song, that's hot!!
This song was HUGE on KROQUUUUUU!!!
I think this is the only time I ever saw Jane Wiedlin with long hair. Long or short it doesn’t matter she always looks great
Not only long but curly! If you haven't yet, watch the live version, she's a goddess.
(or the Dick Clark version)
I remember the caviar parties, buffets, cool clothes from Nordstroms and Bullocks. That was the cool places.
I love this classical song.
I guarantee you put this song, on everyone will dance.
I am an 80's child, Thank God, I chilled with this song.
How creepy does Ron come across in this video? He's the man!
He seems inspired by John Waters.
I was actually thinking he didn’t look as creepy as usual. Ha!!!
Why aren't these guys in the R ock and Roll and Hall of Fame? The brothers are brilliant!!!!
I loved this song....bought this when it was out, still have my 45 record! Miss the 80s!
It is unfair that many think that this band in its time imitated others, when in reality it was the opposite.
minute 1:33 seconds, is it Divine?
Just LOVE it! back then and now! Great , great tune! Jane is so cute and happy here too
Excellent use of the 'swing out arms to and fro' 80s dance move.
American bandstand preppy crowd also Alfonso from America s funniest videos
Divine!
Yes!
Jane is really cute and classy.i love her outfit and the "cool" hat.
I hated the 80s when we were in it because I didn't want to let the 70s go. Not until we got through it and could look back on it did I truly appreciate much of the great music of the 80s
This reminds me of a song from 1983.
So Stoked about the The Sparks Brothers Movie!🤟🏻🖤🤙🏻X
So lovely. So fresh and happy. So apolitical, even with the photo of Kennedy.
Thanks for uploading this video. I was looking for it for years!!! Please, Doc, take me back to 80's!!!
Saw this when I was in junior high on FM Moving Pictures.😃
I miss working for 106.7 KROQ...cool places and good times!🎶✌🤪❤🎶
Jane, your my favorite Go-Go's crush in high school. Congratulations on your "She Rocks Icon Award" (2021).
Rodney Bingenheimer should've been on that video dancing like Billy Idol...🕴🕺
I liked this song then and I still like it now.. My underage 80s dance club Odyssey Nightclub days in Hollywood!! We had a BLAST!!
I remember the song
YES, KROQ!!!
Classic 80s hit..
Had this tune on my Dancing Madness album I got back in Christmas '83!
I got the Men at Work album, Christmas 1983!
I had the K-Tel Records Dancing Madness too and also the K-Tel Records The Heart Of Rock. They got a lot of play (as did Pac-Man Fever).
Were there any guys growing up in this era that DIDN'T have a crush on Jane Wiedlin?
Id still do her
Me. Had no clue that she existed until a few years ago (despite being a Sparks fan since 1976-ish, when I accidently bought the great Indiscreet album on a Philips cassette).
I doubt it1👍😁
@@jackaction7077 me too..
in short....No
I remember this song from WMSE. I just thought I'd look it up and found it. I didn't realize it was Sparks, of which I already was a fan.🤖
Uber cool! Always been a fan ;)