SPARKS

SOLDAT · Power Groupie Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 433

an interesting Q, i want to know why like sparks, the lyrics, the music or both of them.
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St. Monicant · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

I'm not really sure why I ike Sparks; maybe for you, SOLDAT, it's their stellar command of the English language?

Why do you like Sparks?

1. There real good
2. There music is kool
3. the moustache is cool
4. i'm special to know about them because noone does

Will that be your next poll?

fossilise_apostle · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject:

thats not nice

Orange Sound · Certified Fan Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 95 Location: U.K.

cfsmtb · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: Not necessary, mate....

Yeah, cheap shot. :?

I like Soldat's posts to the forum. Long may they continue. 8)
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St. Monicant · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject:

My Romanian's terrible, probably because I so rarely hear it spoken (much less sung) in California.

And so I don't make a point of posting inane comments in a Romanian-language forum.

Hospitality on the attack...

Marlowe

Girl From Glastonbury · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:05 am Post subject: Re: foreign language users

St. Monicant, your comments are inexcuseable: the sort of crass, small-minded, isolationist bigotry one would never expect to hear from an American... :roll:
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St. Monicant · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject:

Yes, well...

One would expect an English girl (especially one from ever-savvy Glastonbury) to have a better sense of irony

I understand...you're new and trying to score points with the humorless crowd...plenty of left turns required, of course...

Your subtlety could use some work, though, as could your assumptions...

Cheers...

Marlowe

Girl From Glastonbury · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 11:19 am Post subject:

Actually I'm Irish, and as the world knows we're too thick to understand irony. 8O
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Orange Sound · Certified Fan Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 95 Location: U.K.

St. Monicant, are you in fact Ron Mael posting under a nom-de-plume, or should I say nom-de-guerre? :?:

simpledumpilot · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

I wrote this on another forum in a thread about under-rated bands, it pretty much covers the basics of why I like Sparks, if I listed everything I liked about them I think the forum would run out of bandwidth, heres what I put....

''I'd have to say pretty much anything by Sparks. They've always been lurking in the shadows producing fantastic, imaginative music and have influenced a plethora of other artists yet no one seems to know anything other than ''This Town Aint Big Enough For Both Of Us'', ''Beat The Clock'', ''No. 1 Song In Heaven'' and / or possibly ''When Do I Get To Sing My Way'' in the UK. Different songs were successful in different countries so some people might not even know those. Their latest album, '''Lil' Beethoven'', IS the most adventurous album around at the moment, an insane mixture of classical, rock and electronics and yet it is none of those things. I think their lyrics are and have always been extremely clever (ok there is the odd exception), and their music is intricate, bold and imaginative and yet they still remain very under-rated and almost unheard of, for a band that could lay claim to creating synth-pop (the original Pet Shop Boys, Soft Cell, Blancmange etc) amongst the many styles they have tampered with rather than emulated I find this astonishing.''

I voted for ''both of them'' in Soldats poll.

BigStick · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject:

Sparks are good for the music and for being two brothers who have managed to "hang in there" for the proverbial "long haul" in the fickle fated world of the "music industry", ya gotta admire dem boys for that... Thank God that the Mael brothers stuck wit' it, AND stuck to their guns... Oh, and did I mention they were simply spectacular in Central Park last summer?!?... They were!!!...

Bryan Kelly Woodward · Groupie Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Posts: 134

I enjoy listing to Sparks.
This group is very rare in Virginia.

Martina Franke · Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject:

the one who started the poll forgot the good looks of R&R !

Anke Grossmann · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject:

8) I love them for their ingenious madness!
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Spongebag · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:15 pm Post subject:

I too loving them for their command of the English language am.
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Eric · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject:

..not to forget their French

Anke Grossmann · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject:

Not forgetting their German with French accent... :wink:
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Spongebag · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: Linguage

Ah yes, and the command of Norwegish is impressing!
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sowhatnow · Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 12:23 pm Post subject:

I like Sparks because of their perspective on life. It is like a philosophy.