I just randomly picked up this album "music that you can dance to" from a car boot sale.


Its odd. HUGE 80's, slick as fuck sound, but with clever lyrics.


The title track and changes are cool. But so very 80's.

As they seem to be american, anyone know who they are?

and what are you doing with something from the 80's?

Just checked AMG and it seems you found their worst album

doggonewalkies said:

justin from Darkness doing Sparks..with guest appearance from Sparks

doggonewalkies said:

okay now..why does he sound EXACTLY like Freddie Mercury?

GlitterStream said:

I found bros too. But I dont think USA had a bros invasion lke UK did.



Phew, how gay is that pic.

One of them was in blade 2 as the bad guy and is in that film as the villian with sameul l jackson at the mo'.

Luke Goss is one of the brothers name.

GlitterStream said:

He does a bit i guess, but he's good isn't he? Not at his prettiest in that video though

PANDURITO said:

Oh, well worst= best when it comes to any music critics and me.

It sounds like depeche mode or pet shop boys somewhat. But with huge as fuck keyboards.

SPARKS!!!


Cool Places was thee Jam!!

"Music That You Can Dance To" was the first Sparks song I ever heard back in 1986. It was a top ten U.S. dance hit that year. They never had any success on the Hot 100 though. Their duet with The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin "Cool Places" was I think their biggest hit and it didn't even make top 40.

sextonseven said:

Cool.

Thats a good song. It has dated so badly though. Lyrically, its pretty underground. In other words, not commerical. Though the hook is catchy.

Sparks is one of the greatest bands of all time.

Kimono My House and Angst in My Pants are two of my favorite records ever.
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Have you seen the lyrics for This Town Aint Big Enough??? they must have been on some serious drugs when they wrote these lol
http://www.sing365.com/mu...4C0007FC33

doggonewalkies said:

mostly everything off of Kimono is incendiary like that. I didn't know that was covered by the Darkness, FNM did two tracks with them and did covers of the old stuff as well.
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They released an album last year called L'il Beethoven that had the most amazing reviews of their career. Universally lauded by everybody. Its fantastic, weird and unmissable. Buy it.

I saw them perform it twice at the Royal Festival Hall - what a night!

lilgish said:

The first time I heard that song was when the Banshees covered it for their 1987 album 'Through The Looking Glass'.

sextonseven said:

its been covered alot, check out the comp Plagirism. They remake their old stuff.
Something For The Girl With Everything is also another popular song.
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Sparks... ain't that the group with the static keyboard that looks a li'l confused?

Wasn't Dr. Fink partially-based on this character along with some other Paul McCartney video?

'dre

DreZone said:

I think u r referring to the keyboard player Ron Mael, and he was in my favorite Paul McCartney video "Coming Up."

JazzyJ said:

He was??? Are U sure??

Thought all of those characters were McCartney.....

funkpill said:

I think he was.

JazzyJ said:

He probably was influence by the look...

Because when I first saw Sparks, I thought of Sir Paul's video....

JazzyJ said:

It was Paul playing famous musicians, Buddy Holly, Beatle Paul, the Sparks guy.

andyman91 said:

Oh!! okay...

My bad....

funkpill said:

It's funny, at the time I guess Sparks were pretty big. Now it's "Who the hell are Sparks?"

andyman91 said:

yeah...

Didn't they sing "Eaten By The Monster of Love"?

Axchi696 said:

Not sure...

But I know they had another great tune called,

'All You Ever Think About Is Sex'

I also like the singles "#1 Song In Heaven" and "When Do I Get To Sing My Way". The latter used to get played in goth clubs here in NYC a lot (the DJ was a big fan).