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Henry2nd
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:44 pm    Post subject: JanSport Backpack Reply with quote

new single is totaly different from the 1st ...
slow, harmonic singing, reduced instrumentation

"Jansport Backpack"

JanSport Backpack
She wears a JanSport Backpack
JanSport Backpack
She wears a JanSport Backpack

Oh why, do you keep walking away?
Then why, do you always treat me this way?

JanSport Backpack
She wears a JanSport Backpack
JanSport Backpack
She wears a JanSport Backpack

We're face to face
We're toe to toe
We're eye to eye
You're turning slow

Strap on your pack
Now fully turned
I feel a hint
I will be burned

You walk away
Open the door
Enter the night
What is this for?

Out then you go
I know not where
I know not why
Not just for air

I start to trail
But you walk fast
All of the girls
Seen from behind

JanSport Backpack
They wear a JanSport Backpack
JanSport Backpack
They wear a JanSport Backpack

Oh why, I try my best every day
Oh why, oh why, oh why
Please put your JanSport away

Oh why, do you keep turning away?
Oh why, I try my best every day

Then late each night
Silent return
Take off your pack
Hard to discern

We all need time
Time to ourselves
But don't we owe
Someone in Hell?

Some little phrase
"I will be back"
Something like that
And why the pack?

It's not my place
To eye and pry
Into your pack
Tempted to try

JanSport Backpack
She wears a JanSport Backpack
JanSport Backpack
She wears a JanSport Backpack

And why, do you keep walking away?
And why, oh why, oh why
Do you always treat me this way?

JanSport Backpack
JanSport Backpack
Walking away
Walking away
Walking away
Walking away
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What happened to the post with song titles from Mad?

I like the new song. Indiscreetishly good.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buckeye Randy wrote:
What happened to the post with song titles from Mad?

I like the new song. Indiscreetishly good.



It was deleted, though you can find the song titles on all streaming
services


and yes, it`s a nice song ...


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The tracklisting was removed at the request of Sparks management.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It’s all officially revealed now, artwork, track lists and new merch…
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEEIU-WrorY
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do the Backpack brand advertise on TV then?. Could be some sort of tie in . Not many bands approaching the subject of Hiking to the best of my knowledge.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bittersweet
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JanSport ought to use this in ads (and compensate Sparks fairly) whether or not that was planned from the start... another reason to look forward to MAD!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm absolutely delighted with that new song! Very interesting musically speaking, and those lyrics are quite something :)
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

deadcalm wrote:
Do the Backpack brand advertise on TV then?. Could be some sort of tie in . Not many bands approaching the subject of Hiking to the best of my knowledge.

I said on another post the brand name was quite unknown to me.
Is the new back-pack in the merch section by Jan Sports??
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2025 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alex Robertson wrote:
deadcalm wrote:
Do the Backpack brand advertise on TV then?. Could be some sort of tie in . Not many bands approaching the subject of Hiking to the best of my knowledge.

I said on another post the brand name was quite unknown to me.
Is the new back-pack in the merch section by Jan Sports??


It looks exactly like a JanSport backpack, but I don't know if the Sparks one is made by JanSport. Here is a link to a video review of 3 JanSport backpacks. You will see that the one on the left looks like the one Sparks are selling BUT ONLY ON THE BRITISH SITE!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kJ8G51g43o
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This song has become an earworm. I like it a lot. Does anyone have any thoughts about the meaning of this line:

"But don't we owe
Someone in Hell?"

Is that an expression that I don't know?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 11:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it`s almost acapella with a somewhat stylized accordeon sound
slightly sardonic ... and sort of wonderful
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://soundchecker.koeln/sparks-veroeffentlichen-die-neue-single-jansport-backpack-neues-album-am-23-05/

from Köln ... the place I grew up ...
and will see Sparks on July 1st
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

waterloosunset wrote:
This song has become an earworm. I like it a lot. Does anyone have any thoughts about the meaning of this line:

"But don't we owe
Someone in Hell?"

Is that an expression that I don't know?


I think the thought continues into the next lines. To flesh it out a little more, it's like "Don't we owe someone who is in hell some little phrase like 'I will be back' or something like that?" Basically, if someone is in hell (i.e. miserable), don't we owe them some words that would make them feel better?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oscar wrote:
waterloosunset wrote:
This song has become an earworm. I like it a lot. Does anyone have any thoughts about the meaning of this line:

"But don't we owe
Someone in Hell?"

Is that an expression that I don't know?


I think the thought continues into the next lines. To flesh it out a little more, it's like "Don't we owe someone who is in hell some little phrase like 'I will be back' or something like that?" Basically, if someone is in hell (i.e. miserable), don't we owe them some words that would make them feel better?


Yes, I think you are absolutely right. I don't know why my brain just stopped at the end of the line and did not continue forward. But I'm getting old.
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