Sparks Iceberg Explained
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- In my first ever video™, I attempt to explain this Sparks iceberg image! Special thanks to all my lovely friends and other fans for helping me figure out some stuff and for providing images and other resources!
And again please don't sue me I don't claim ownership of anything. If anyone has a problem with something in this video please let me know. Thank you!
I apologize for some audio issues and other technical amateurishness, hopefully none of it is too bad.
ALSO the bassboosted biology 2 gag at 11:38 is nearly inaudible unless you’re wearing headphones thanks to bad sound mixing. good job me.
The Sparks theory mentioned:
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This video was both hilarious and informative. I've recently made the leap from very very casual fan to head-over-heels-for-this-band and I knew there was Lore but had no idea just how much. Icebergs are so fun. Anyway, thanks for making this!
Wow, this comment means a lot to me! Thank you so much and please continue to enjoy your deep dive into Sparks. :)
Welcome to the wonderful world of Sparks ✨💖!
I watched this with my dad and he had a few sensible chuckles. 10/10.
This is the best kind of comment. Thank you!
@@leirinstoybox He keeps mentioning it offhandedly now, like “I listened to that 25th anniversary edition of Gratuitous Sax, cause the iceberg talked about it, and-“
this has officially sparked (pun fully intended) my deep dive into this band. i will now venture deep into the void and emerge permanently obsessed
mwahaha, enjoy the dive!!
I am a new Sparks fan (the Sparks documentary was my launch point). Actually, my quasi-fandom goes back to being 9 years old and obsessing over the Paul McCartney "Coming Up" video. At any rate, thanks very much for this upload. Great job! Can't wait to go to my first Sparks gig in just under 30 days..
Sparks is my favorite band and I'm constantly trying to get whoever I can into them. One of my youngest cousins (who's like 3), loves to dance to "Upstairs" from Whomp That Sucker, and she will tell Alexa to play it over and over again.
It's very wholesome and she likes when I pick her up to sing the goofy background singer part. :)
Thank you. I’ve been a fan from the 70’s and you included a few curve balls that I didn’t know. Why did they hate doing Rollercoaster? Their moment was brief, but not embarrassing. I would have thought the exposure would have been helpful. Unless, they made them do the songs 40 times, because directors do that sometimes.
Here's one; they are literally always called "SPARKS," where as some bands are "THE (band name)" and other bands leave the, "the" off, but it's implied; the Ramones are "Ramones" officially, although most people, even members of the band, refer to the band as "the Ramones." Yet with Sparks they NEVER call themselves "The Sparks," always "Sparks."
It’s like that with buzzcocks too
though, for some reason, the spine of Angst in my Pants does list them as 'THE SPARKS'
@@kappa2275 wow, interesting !
@@jeanmichellelaurent it isn't
@@marknewbold2583 Some people think buzzcocks are called "The Buzzcocks"
a sparks iceberg is not something I expected to see but it was interesting regardless as a recent fan
41:41 I'd love to hear more stories about this side of Ron ;)
In 'The Sparks Brothers' he answers a question about his sexual status (or very similar🤔) with the words "Slightly horny", with a humorous glittering in his eyes 😂😂
This was a lot to take in, and I loved all of it!
Thanks so much for putting this video together, it was really fun to watch! ^_^
Thank you so much!!
Brilliant video, I bloody love sparks and have been a fan since I were wee, good to learn more and more about them
Great video, fast paced and informative!!
Does anyone have the footage from that snl preforamnce
This was a really great video I love sparks and I've been hoping for more people to make videos on him so thanks this is awesome also my favorite sparks record is propaganda ik lame pick
Oh, awesome! This video was really funny. I can’t wait to see more from this channel :D
A++ video
That was a really good iceberg dive! It was well put together. Well done on this. :¬)
44:51 I mean bands being their own opening act to mess with the audience isn't unheard of, Devo did it before in late '79 with "Dove", a parody of Christian rock bands
Thank you for this! ❤️
aaa such a good video, it was a treat to watch! I'm excited to see more :D
Thank you so much! Hopefully I will get around to making more things sometime! (Which may or may not be Sparks-related)
That's the iceberg I'd never thought I needed but apparently...Nice video!
I'm pretty convinced that several pictures of Noel are Russell in drag. The jawlines and other facial features are the exactly the same in most pictures, however I believe she was also portrayed by at least two other people. Maybe just something he decided to do for fun.
He's doubled down more recently that it's not him, and I do believe him, but I still enjoy the conspiracy theory.
“Sparks Show” is on the expanded version of Lil Beethoven
Awesome job. What's the background music? Sounds like "Switched On Sparks" elevator muzak classics. It's cool :)
Thank you! It's a set of MIDIs of their songs I just found online lol, I can't list them all at the moment but I know When I Kiss You, Barbecutie, Equator and others feature, mainly 70s :D
Iceberg misses mention of 21 albums extravaganza. It should be somewhere at the top (especially after The Sparks Brothers), but it's one of my most favorite fan-facts
Weird, I could have sworn I talked about it but yeah, the 21x21 event was an unearthly feat.
Fantastic and informative video :DD !!!!
SuperHappyFunTime!!!!
Merci beaucoup!
Did that it's all too much Russel cover ever get released?
sadly, not to my knowledge. :(
I have another iceberg item: Sparks recorded a song called Minnie Mouse for Disney. In the 80s, I worked at the D’land Hotel toy store (and was a huge Sparks fan). We played kiddie records in the shop, and when I heard this track I was like “wait, is this a Mickey Mouse parody?” Reading the credits, it turned out to actually be Sparks!
disney.fandom.com/wiki/Minnie_Mouse_(song)
Oh wow, that's awesome! What a way to discover another Sparks song. If memory serves right, they thought they were in trouble when Disney got in touch with them thinking it was some legal hubbub regarding Mickey Mouse, and were pleasantly surprised when the Disney people were like "We like that, give us another one." lol
When they made 'Mickey Mouse' Disney's law people woke up with pointed fingers. However, they realized that song was good advertising, and dropped the case if Minnie could have her own song too.
(You don't mess around with companies of that size and their legal rights ... Just think about Modesty Blai... ayes😉)
just fyi, Gemma is pronounced Jemma. incredible video though!
Interesting facts I wish I could understand you clearly!
Wow i can't believe they didn't mention Noel in the documentary! it sounds just like Russell lol. and i definitely just ordered the album from Germany, hehe...
The documentary is a terrific film, but naturally to help its flow as a movie it couldn't get too sidetracked with little details like Noel, which is a shame but I understand why. Enjoy the album! I want a physical copy too.
@@leirinstoybox totally makes sense. and there are a few copies for around 20 bucks on discogs! just none in the US...
It doesn't sound like Russell!!😆
With a voice distortion possibly, but not likely.
Ok I just listened to a little of the Noel album, her voice does sound a lot like Russell but I can't be too sure 😑
Super fun and entertaining video! I knew many of these but there were also quite a few I'd never seen, good on ya for doing your research :)
Also where did you get these absolutely `s p i c y` MIDIs? I really love them lol
Thank you! It was an ancient google search ago, I'm afraid. They might still be out there, among us
Nice video. Where did you find that Sparks iceberg picture?
Also, Knock Off is very entertaining movie, JVC's second the most funny movie from 90s. ~_^
Thank you! My friend Joann made the iceberg with suggestions from our friends.
And yeah, I'd like to check out Knock Off, it seems weird and interesting
Nicely done.
I didn’t know most of this but I’ve only been a die hard for a few months. I need to find more fans
There's definitely a lot more fans around now than in the first several years of my fandom!
@@leirinstoybox I think the hardest thing is that most the fans are in their 40s and 50s and I’m 19 so harder to find younger sparks fans
It's a shame you didn't say more about their bizarre 1976 Beatles cover. The Big Beat linernotes say that it was supposed to be a duet with Marianne Faithfull. I've always wondered if it was recorded for the apparently dreadful Beatles-inspired movie: All This and World War II, which is also from 1976. That film is made up of covers of Beatles songs mostly recorded by British groups.
Wow that is genuinely super interesting, I had no idea and I'm a Beatlehead! The timing lines up, it's very well possible that was the intention...
@@leirinstoybox maybe we'll find out one day. I have quite a few sparks uploads on my channel. You might enjoy them. "What you're wearing" from 1984 is amazing!
omg i adore this!!!!! amazing work!!!! also, dosent russell still have his snaggletooth today?
Wow, thank you so much! And no, he doesn't D: I think he's had the tooth replaced (?) since then because it's not there but there's no longer a gap
@@leirinstoybox ooooh i see, thank u
@@audreyh.2912 love your princess gwen icon btw
@@leirinstoybox omg thank you so so much i’m so happy you know about the monkees too youre the coolest 😭😭
Great job!!
Buen vídeo
great video!
You can't not elaborate on the Ron Mael horse thing man wtf 😭⁉️
They were asked in an interview how they lost their virginity and Ron said he lost his "technically" by horseback riding. Ouch.
Also I'm gonna put it out there with like 100% confidence the John Lennon thing never happened. Sparks were on TOTP in 1974, and John Lennon was stuck in the US from 1971 on for legal reasons. TOTP wasn't shown in the US so there's no way he could've seen it.
Yeah, I didn't personally think it was real either, but it's such a popular urban legend I thought it was worth bringing up.
anyone have a link to when Russell wrote as a fan?
I've looked all over for it. Kind of thinking easy to find links have been wiped. Happy to find I'm wrong!
❤😊🎉
I watched the oblongs.
I don't know how anybody believed the Doris Day rumor. Her real son was Terry Melcher and he was a well known record producer in the 60s. PS- Did you notice there was a pic of Doris Day for a second in the Sparks Brothers movie? I thought that must have been intentional.
🤔
Fact checking was harder back then. It was easier to make audacious claims such as these, no wikipedia.
I didn't! When was the picture shown?
@@leirinstoybox Well, like I said a lot of people did know who Doris's son was already. At least in LA, maybe not in the UK. I don't know where in the movie I saw Doris but it was in there. Maybe the part where they talked about going to movies as kids or growing up in LA? I guess you will have to watch it again. 🙂