SPARKS

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How many years have you been listening to Sparks music?
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CALI · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:

OK so it has been 30+ years for me but I was only a baby when I first got into them :-)
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Alex Robertson · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject:

Of course I was only a foetus when I first heard Sparks...so that makes me...<furtively taps calculator keyboard and shuffles abacus beads to try to prove it>...18 !!!...<has the good grace to blush>

loz · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:

Sorry, I wasn't even a twinkle in my dad's eye!!
I wish!!

E-Clect-Eddy · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:36 am Post subject:

It's been quite a while now but NOT yet 30+ years, but not by much.
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zider_red · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:59 am Post subject:

since "This town..." was first released. I stopped listening to them for about 10 years but rediscovered them just in time for their 1995 tour.

Girl From Glastonbury · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:52 am Post subject:

I started listening to Sparks decades ago after their Old Grey Whistle Test performance.
Of course, that was in my previous incarnation as a long-haired groover called Arnold,(who died during that unfortunate incident with the goat.) Luckily for me, my faith allows memories of previous lives to be carried forward into the next. So, here I am, an 18 year old dead ringer for Angelina Jolie and still into Sparks in a big way - though I also have an irrational fear of goats....
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Achoo · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:15 am Post subject:

I first acquainted myself with sparks when Amateur Hour charted (Totally missed This Town). I was 12 years old.

Kimono was my fist ever LP, Propaganda was purchased upon release. Sparks + Woofer was purchased at this time too, I was hooked.

I recall vividly, buying the LP's and studying the lyric sheets intensely on my way home, trying to image exactly how the songs would sound. Once I finally rested the vinyl onto my record deck.....................wow did I get it wrong every time or what ! ! !
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Guest · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:29 pm Post subject:

I remember some singles, Get in the Swing particularly, but it took until `77 (or was it `79 ?) until I got the "Best of..." compilation.

It`s all a blur

Roger Ramjet · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:29 am Post subject:

About 0.5 years atm :D
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Sparksswede · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:53 am Post subject:

It´s very soon 30 years for me (in April) off and on (mostly on).
The first Sparkssong I heard (as I know) was "Don´t Leave Me Alone With Her" on swedish radio in 1976,still one of my absolute favorite song.

When I saw Sparks in picture for my first time doing "Get In The Swing" on swedish TV xmas eve 1976 (moving picture,I haven´t seen any pictures of Sparks,I think, before that)I was hooked on Sparks after that.

OK I heard a few Sparkssongs on radio between april and xmaseve 1976 that I really liked but from xmaseve 1976 I was really hooked on sparks.

Xavier Lorente-darracq · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:19 am Post subject:

I bought "This Town.." and "Propaganda" Lp few weeks later.
I was 12 years old.
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Spyke · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:09 am Post subject:

I heard Kimono My House in '94 and was hooked from then on. Luckily, this wasn't long before When Do I Get To Sing My Way came out, so I had the double pleasure of discovering their old and new stuff.
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wondergirl · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:29 am Post subject:

30+ years for me, since this town, saw them in concert in 74 at the liverpool empire the supporting act was pilot (does anyone remember them) bought kimono as soon as it came out my parents would'nt talk to me for a fortnight and i could only play it when they were out

i saw them again in 76/77 had loads of pictures of them unfortunatly my ex hubby kept them.

Sparksswede · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

OH LUCKY YOU wondergirl that got the chance to see Sparks in 74.
I didn´t know Sparks then (and I was only 9)(could have known anyway).
Discovered Sparks 1976 and they didn´t visit my country (sweden) until 2003 after their performance here in Sweden 1975(also performed here in 74).
OK I could have travelled but it didn´t happen.
It was great though to finally see and here them LIVE 2003 and 2004 and now soon again.

"each day is getting closer and closer"

Achoo · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

Mike Ventrella · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject:

Geez, there are a lot of us geezers here.

Been hooked since I first saw them on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert singing "Talent is an Asset"

wonder girl · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:26 am Post subject:

30+ and it does'nt seem a day too long ..........ahhhhh

Tony March · Groupie Joined: 14 Jan 2002 Posts: 122

May 1974 - TOTP only seems like yesterday as a young teenager.
Saw them live in 74 (Leeds Town Hall) & 75 (Leeds University)
Then a gap of 20 years before Manchester Academy and 4 times since then.
They are quite addictive aren't they ?

hannu a peltoniemi · Power Groupie Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 298