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  • i love this song

  • Hey guys and gals, I've got an idea. Instead of wailing away on YouTube, write very angry letters to your local representative and consider going into politics. Only then will SOPA & PIPA face the army of us.

  • wmg stink of shit!! why else would they stop people listening to their product . . . with possible sales from FREE publicity??

  • I feel deaf thanks to WMG ..oh well there are always torrents..

  • Who's WMG and why are the asses.....Dear WMG IT IS BECAUSE OF YOUTUBE PERFORMANCES OF SPARKS songs past that made me go out and buy 18 of the albums I didn't have of them 18 albums WMG!!! I did not down load them or swipe them. I purchased them.This album included!!! So what ever GENIUS executive came up with your decision to take these songs off....you are doing SPARKS and yourself a huge disservice.

  • I only got 17 albums because of YouTube.

    Otherwise, agree.

  • come on now this was the best version of the song on youtube

  • WMG is going down

  • in fact no,,, don't bother holding your breath, as soon as your heads go under take a nice big deep one! please!

  • WMG!!!!!!! TAKE OFF ALL YOUR CLOTHES, FIND THE NEAREST STRETCH OF WATER THAT'S OVER 10 FT DEEP, JUMP IN AND HOLD YOUR BREATH!!!! idiots! i was looking forwards to hearing this too.

  • I heartily agree.

    What douchebags.

  • The sad thing is that people born in the late 80's and 90's may not have heard this and lots more and increasingly censored stuff on YT. This is probably the best way to introduce youngsters to old time hits which they may purchase legitimately. A silly and rather short sighted decision!

  • If people can't listen to the song via this means they'll just download it illegally, not buy it. Taking the sound is just pointless and mean

  • WMG - We know where you live...

  • Fuc off WMG. I will NEVER ever again purchase a Warner crap record !

  • Discográficas del mundo: menuda manera de promocionar la música...quitando el audio. Así no va a comprar un disco nadie, PROMOCIÓN, dejar promocionar los discos y grupos que estais acortando el conocimiento.

  • WMG you cant stop technology - greedy wankers

  • Sad for WMG, I'll be obliged to find this song "peer to peer...."

  • wtf??, THEY REMOVED THE SOUNDS? YOutube going down

  • wasnt the 70's great Blackpool FC high in Div2 brilliant music great memories

  • I only heard this today.

    I was amazed at this brillance.

    Its now being repeated all the time XD

  • this song rocks. good jesus god. music today sucks.

  • What a song. Totally unique and a great stomper!!

  • How can those people in the audience not go insane. This song is so fucking fantastic. Btw I want Ron's Chaplin moustached babies.

  • FANTASTIC. very rarely ever bought singles in my youth .but bought this.

  • Best riff ever!!!!!!

  • genius

  • I LOVE this song! Siouxsie version is good, but not as good as the original!

  • I presume this was filmed in Germany judging by the "stiff as boards" audience

    I'm sure Ron's physical features went down well. lol. Great song!

  • Or perhaps it's just that the band is pantomiming its recording instead of actually playing the song. Not much to get excited over, one would think. -f

  • Lay off, Frank.

  • Sorry, it wasn't intended offensively. -f

  • Frank, no need to apologize, I'd just had a very bad day. All the best, pal.

  • Ace observation! Yeah, it looks continental--or perhaps in Norway? Either way, brilliant tune, from the genius Mael brothers. Love it!

  • 3SAT is a german tv channel

  • The first offical ironic mustache.

  • whats hitler doing on the keys?!!

  • yeah yeah yeah------great track--ok so it was adolfs brother on the ivorys,,but heh every one deserves a second chance---the creativity involved leaves a lot of whats around now looking lame,,,,

  • why has someone marked my last comment as bad when im just respecting sparks late great drummer.

  • the keyboardist reminds me of a young Anne Diamond.

  • rip norman "dinky" diamond.

  • And isn't me who's gonna leave... awesome!!!!

  • Hehehehe! You can't help but smile when they have Ron's face covering the whole screen! (2:21) Ron and Russel were, and ARE too hip for the room! SO cool!!! I ♥ those Mael Bros!!

  • this was the very first single i bought when it came out

  • Always a great band. Always too hip for the room.

  • What a fucking great song this is. Also the piano player is fucking cool. I am blown away by this great song.

  • I fucking agree. I just discovered it today. Cheers.

  • or hitler

  • the singer looks like a young stan boardman

  • i <3 it! :)

  • Anyone see Shooting Stars when they re-did the video for this song. Made me laugh so much but I can't find it anywhere. Whoever it was that was the Hitler-esque piano player did such a good impression

  • Did see it loved it! Can't find it anywhere either! Vic as Ron doing the strange stare ha!

  • Merci pour cette vidéo ! Spark était vraiment un groupe original et génial ! J'adore cette chanson !

  • legend this song is

  • Good band I reckon they could have been a lot bigger except they always came across as a "novelty" act.... pity great lyrics

  • This whole album is brilliant, one of their best.

  • classic

  • Never heard these guys before but considering this was in 1974 they were ahead of their time. They sound like one part Bay city rollers and one part Styx (mr. roboto)

    crazy keyboardist

  • Adolf could haul out some mean chops on the keyboard apparently

  • or charlie chaplin

  • Thanks for letting us know there's a Justin Hawkins version of this. I can imagine him getting his falsetto around this quite nicely.

    By the way, there are Yanks(Sparks included) who don't cotton to gangsta crap, myself included.

  • i want to watch the video but it keeps stopping...is there something im dong wrong?

  • I was terrified of the scary man when I was 4

  • Well, I've got about a decade on you, and when I was 13 and shopping for my Bar Mitzvah suit- a little brown velvet number- the scary man and his brother were standing there in Barney's clothing shop in Manhattan. I recognized them from TV but didn't have the guts to say hello.

  • PURE ROCK GOLD!!

  • you know what I like this song and it's the first time I'm listening to it and the band also... Never heard i before..

  • What is with all the comotose people on the stage with them, don't they have security there?!If I was on stage I woudn't be able to stop myself from trying to grab Russells ass but that's just me, good thing I wasn't born yet or else...I would grab Ron's ass too but he's sitting ya know.

  • awesome, how can anyone not love sparks.

  • proper good alright wanker caller!!!!

  • ha, the lame presence of the 60s/70s-ish milton-bradley board-game playin' family run the risk of possibly de-Cooling SPARKS. they look traumatized, and rightfully so!!

  • LOL! ELTON JOHN!?!?!

    REALLY?!

  • Makes a change from tossing yourself I suppose - Wanker!

  • Elevator John, hmmm, sounds cool. Better give him a lift.

  • ha la belle époque!!!! super le Flashback!

  • A woofer in tweeter's clothing (1972) was produced by David Lynch but it's not writtin in the cover.

    Queen and Mercury can go to sleep.

    Sparks was my childhoods greatest music. My older brothers had the lp's. I ended up with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. But I still love Sparks.

  • yea, ron is a freak! rofl My god he's a god blesses freak! lol

  • I want to have cube-shaped hair.

  • Don't.....it would look geometrically wrong on your triangular shaped head.

  • i want to look like ron

  • Justin Hawkins made The Darkness as a Tribute to Sparks. Sparks also are a major influence on many bands :

    Depeche Mode

    New Order

    to name two.

  • ahead of their time

  • Totally right Aladan57 - I still listen to Kimono My House, which I bought from a junk shop in Watford as I wasn't old enough to go out and buy it at the time. Every time I listen to this track I get an increasing heartbeat.............you know what I mean tacky tiger?

  • OMG! Heard it on the radio and thought that it was a woman who was singing - but i was wrong...

  • I love it :)

    It aint me who's gonna leave!!!!!

  • This was the song that caused Elton John to eat crow.  Captain Fantastic claimed Sparks would never have a hit in the UK, and the rest is history!

  • "This town ain't big enough for the both of us" - so does that mean he went to LA and Sparks moved to London? Seems like a good swap to me!

  • Used to rock to this in the NAAFI at Falingbostel back in `74. Fucking brilliant. They`re back with a new single and are just as good as ever.

  • scary hitler keyboardist

    hes creepy

  • Vintagejordan...I think that you may have missed something. I'm sorry...

  • Is the lead singer a male or female?

    Looks male, sings female.

    Creepy.

    Awesome song though.

  • He is Russel Mael, and that is just a look for that time period. He has a powerful falsetto voice.

  • You never heard Imnogen Heap .... she would scare you even more!!! Let alone the artist known as Divine .... ;)

  • best song that's ever been written!!!!

  • Brilliant classic,ahead of their time.

  • This is BRILLIANT! Although I must be honest and say I was raised on the Siouxsie and the Banshees version. ;)

  • obviously the singer is risking his life

  • "you hear the thunder of stampeding rhinos,elephants and TACKY TIGERS"

    when I was a kid I always thought he was singing "TAXI DRIVERS"!!!!,

    the band were well spooky but ace song

  • the guy on the keyboard looks dangerous

  • a classic thank you for uploading

  • i agree but he looks like hitler

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH like hitlah, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ;-) thanx for cracking me up boghog i needed it.

  • My favourite ever Group: I loved Russell Male all through my teenage years and got to touch him once outside The Rainbow; didn't wash my hand for a week.

  • mY DAD IS PLAYING THE LEAD GUITAR ON THIS. HE IS THE ONE IN THE BLACK T SHIRT WITH THE WHITE GUITAR.

  • How fantastic. Is your Dad Trevor White or Adrian Fisher?

  • Trevor White

  • Please thank your Dad for all the pleasure he and the rest of the band gave me in the 70s. Know they've gone their separate ways now but I still listen to, and love, Kimono My House, Propaganda and Indiscreet

  • ah Cheers I will pass it on! x

  • Back in 1974 I wrote a letter to the SPARKS fan club in the U.K. asking when were they coming to Australia for a tour?....I got a postcard back with a pic of all the band members including your dad..I never did see them live but playing on a classic album like 'Kimono My House'...well done to your Dad!

  • Always wanted to know who played lead guitar on this for over 30 years, really great guitar work ;sounds like a R Blackmore style

  • I dont think my dad played on the actual record. I think the guy my dad replaced did. I am sure this is live so he would have definitely been playing it.

  • It was Adrian Fisher (now sadly deceased) who played the terrific lead guitar on the studio version of This Town. The song writing came from Ron Mael but they had a great rock band backing them up in 1974 that was a huge part of their success.

  • Sadly Dinky the drummer has also passed away.

  • Dinky Diamond AND Adrian Fisher dead - you could have broken it to me gently - that is really sad news to me; Sparks were such an important part of my growing up.

  • Ill assume yor Dad is Trevor White? If so regards to him - I still have a copy of 'Crazy Kids' on vinyl I play now and again.

  • very funny profane 1972, honestly i pissed my self

  • The keyboard guy is a superstar!!!

  • Nice to see Hitler making a comeback after World War 2...

  • lol!! i liked that one

    yer the similarities are astonishing

  • he was meant to look like charlie chaplin in fact, see the interview of a dutch program called "Top 2000 a go go" from dec. 2006 i believe it was.

  • Perhaps he was singing to Freddie Mercury when he said "This town ain't big enough for the both of us" ? He was certainly proved right in the long run - after all, Freddie had to leave prematurely. What a prophetic song.

  • Don't talk rubbish

  • I love Queen & Sparks.

    I think it's a like treasure hunt to discover some of their obscure stuff.

  • genial!

  • This is great. I think that the audience is stunned, because this is a German show which I remember from my childhood. And I think that they were just flabberghasted at seeing Hitler not only being alive, but playing the keyboards as well!

  • Sparks formed in 1970 in Los Angeles. They were popular in the U.S and the U.K. and had a string of good albums. Ronald today still has a Roland with the letters rearranged to spell Roland.

  • Apparently, Queen was inspired by this band, but the sparks are way better then Queen, so they did a shit job

  • Get a clue!The Queen line up as we know it formed in 1971, I doubt anyone in the U.K had heard of Sparks(or Halfnelson as they were known then). Both great bands, but your comment is unfounded crap.

  • Sorry dude, but Queen is better. Sparks had a couple of good songs while you could make a complete box set of good Queen music.

  • so that makes them better does it? - nothing to do with the genius mael lyrics or the fact that every album they release now sounds so fresh and way ahead of its time. I doubt if Queen would have the same affect - aren't they resorting to Ben Elton writing their West End musicals for them nowadays. How original!

  • Nowadays = without Freddie Mercury; if Ron or Russell died, I'm pretty sure the other would have a pretty tough time creating music.

    Overall, Queen is better because they had much more memorable songs. When I consider which band is better, I look at how good their songs are. Sparks was creative and original, but they didn't produce good song after good song like Queen did.

  • Somebody who knows what they're talking about. Thank you.

  • In FACT Sparks were by FAR more influential than Queen. But, I see no point in comparing the two groups. Two different Arenas!

  • Talking rubbish again

  • Sparks was my very first concert, I saw them at the Roxy Theater in Allentown Pa.. Forgot just how much I loved this band, so glad I can't get them out of my head right now. Great music to help pass the day by by putting a smile on youe face.

  • Realy nice to heard them again !!!!

  • I saw them in Philly in 1976 and this was their opening #- They gave a high energy glam performance that was right up there with Bowie, Roxy Music and T-Rex.

  • fantastic !!

  • wot a belter...!!..way ahead of their time...were are they now...??

  • This year they are going to release their 21st album, and leading up to it they are going to perform their previous 20 albums in chronological order during May and June in London. Their last teo albums, "Lil' Beethoven", and "Hello Young Lovers " are brilliant. You have a lot of wonderful catching up to do!

  • hey,thanx for info...remember these guyz from first time around..then lost track,as u do..listening again has rekindled the buzzzz..will try out their new stuff...cheerzzz,,,

  • toppie m8 great song thank you

  • They could just make a loop of the chorus "This town ain't big enough for both of us and it ain't me who's gonna leave" as the whole song for 3-5 minutes and I'll pretty content.

  • The audience needs to tone it down a bit before a nap breaks out.

  • It's not that the audience were bored, it's just that we had'nt got a clue what the fuck it was all about, nothing like this had been done before, we did'nt know wether they were taking the piss out of us or what.

    Years ahead of their time.

  • I think Queen learned more than a little especially from the arrangements that Sparks used. As far as arrangements go, Sparks were certainly very difficult to match, if not positively unbeatable.

  • Fantastic !!!!!!!!!!1

  • bah, tá parecendo o Gross!!!

  • For the Dutch. Leuk hoor en heel jammer dat hij later zijn snorretje er af moest halen.

  • great hit from the 74's, thanks for the good video memory ;)

  • The Keyboadist is totally unsettling. I wish they wouldnt close up on his face. But the song is sweet.

  • He's the singer's brother. Artistic contrast, I guess.

  • Indeed. Ron and Russell take great pride in making their styles contrast and mesh at the same time...one reason Sparks is still aorund after 37 years!

  • RamessesIX is right, they studied drama school or something,... Maybe a little bit obscure or somewhat, simple yet genius

  • i know hahaha he luks like hitler hahahaha omfg hillairious

  • charlie chaplin !

  • gr8 vid, especially at the end : )

  • my old boss john tennament lewis loved this song thanks very much for the memories it brought back huwvid

  • klasse song einfach spitze

  • Happy 60th Ron!

  • you, sir, are the luckiest man alive.

  • You saw these guys before they left L.A. for England??? OH DO ELABORATE!  I just got the debut and "Woofer.." a few days ago. Absolutely love their take on "Do Re Mi." How