I love them. There are still blocks missing from my collection but I have all the albums up to Big Beat, also Angst and Whomp (which I tend to think of as a double album) and everything since Lil Beethoven. Not crazy about the other more electronic-sounding stuff but I may revisit it at a later date.
I was fortunate to attend this show a few years ago. It really was amazing. And that was less than a year after their "Sparks Spectacular" series of gigs in London, a feat which still boggles my mind.
I was listening to the Sparks song "When I'm With You" and my roommate was complaining about how that synth-oriented 80s era of Sparks gives them a bad name, but fuck it, I love that stuff. "Beat the Clock" is pretty champion.
I've never listened to the Sparks but the Dirtbombs covered Sherlock Holmes and I got obsessed with that song, so I've been meaning to listen to them for a while now. Thanks for the links.
Those Dirtbombs do branch out more than your average garage punks (they would hate that term anyway), covering Robyn Hitchcock and Sparks... proud they are a local band!
My life is dirt but you seem to make it cleaner... reduce my felony to a misdemeanor
Never heard of these guys before 2 days ago, but I was listening to that "your call is very appreciated" song from Lil Beethoven, and it was somehow like listening to a supergroup with members of Wire and Queen. Awesome!
I was just listening to Big Beat yesterday. It's nowhere close to being their best album but it has a couple of gems.
"Throw Her Away" never fails to crack me up:
Just like everything else in this world
Time wreaks havoc on every girl
What do you do, what do you do, what do you do?
Throw her away and get a new one
Sparks appreciation thread
Posted - 07/02/2012 : 13:13:38
