Hear At Home with Russell Mael from Sparks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- The Independent 88.5 FM's afternoon host & Music Director, Andy Chanley talks with Russell Mael of Sparks for this installment for our Hear At Home Series. Andy and Russell talk about the band's beginnings, their artistic visuals, and Sparks’ brand new album, ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’ released May 15th.
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What a great and humble person Russel is, a lovely interview, the interviewer also very polite. I've always loved Sparks and what I love about them is the mystery and the hidden meaning in their songs.
Excellent interviewer who lets Russell speak-thank you. Russell and Ron-I can't think of any artists where their latest work is as good as anything they've ever done-that's simply amazing and a tribute to you both and your craft. I can't wait to see the film about Sparks. You certainly have earned the right to be dicks, but so glad you are self-effacing and shared your unique point of view with the world, done with style, humor and yes, depth. God bless the Mael brothers for bringing sparks into our lives-love you, Sparks!
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Very well spoken! I agree to every word 😃
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Хорошо сказано. Спасибо! )
Great interview! Nice interviewer and Russell is very good at answering and very kind. We discover that Russell has a very cosy living-room with a fireplace on the mantel of which are displayed Russian dolls. We discover that age has no power on him! But unfortunately, we also discover that we will have to wait until July to receive the new album!!!!!! Aaaaahhhhhhh! Too hard!!!!!!!!! (Big sigh......)
But you can listen to the new songs on TH-cam until then. :-)
He mentions having an Abba-themed Russian Doll. That is SO cool, even cooler since the year Russell said that, ABBA were preparing to release their first new album in almost 40 years!! And, bless ya Russ, "hell, we can't even sit through 3 hours of Sparks, and WE'RE Sparks!"
Lovely interview! (I missed Ron, though :-p )
I think "A Steady Drip Drip Drip" Is a FANTASTIC album!
ASDDD is brilliant. It's amazing to me how they just get better and better.
Great interview, Russell is always great value but these were great questions too.
One of the best things the interviewer did was that he didn't ask so many precise questions, he rather said "tell me about...". That gives much more freedom to answer, which can lead to that more interesting stuff are revealed and someone like Russell, or Ron, who don't want the world to know so much about their personal lives, to leave out things, but give full and interesting replies anyway.
Great interview! 😃
Yay! Russell name checks Love, an excellent band!
If McCartney released Drip Drip in 2020....it would be labelled a masterpiece
Everything that guy farts out is labelled a 'masterpiece' just like with slagdonna, which just goes to show there's no balance in the music world, film world or anywhere. In fact, there's little truth too.
who would label it a masterpiece ? Mccartney hasnt done anything thats a masterpiece or huge radio hit, for many decades now.
@@davehimlin2374Ha! Good one. It just it seems he's one of those people who can't do anything musically 'wrong' according to most people, though according to you, then may not be true so much now. Either way: yay!
tyrannosaurus rex is my favourite band, it makes me so happy they know them!!!! omg
I can only repeat myself: Thank you very, very much Russell (and Ron, although he's not in this video) for bringing so much joy into my life! I really wish I could also bring at least a little joy into your lives in return. It's sad, that that isn't possible.
And again, you surprised me! XD I didn't think that you use the word "Mischmasch" in English. XD Do you write "Mishmash" then?
Oh, and by the way: I'd really love to see that 3 hour version of Edgar Write's documentary!! Too bad, that he has to make it shorter. :-(
Richtig! Auf Englisch sagen (und schreiben) wir ,Mishmash'!
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Danke! :-) Darf ich fragen, woher Du so gut Deutsch kannst?
@@girlfromgermany Vor einigen Jahren habe ich Germanistik studiert. Ich versuche immer noch ab und zu mein Deutsch zu ueben!
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Oh, das ist wahrscheinlich so schon kein einfaches Studium, und für jemand, der eine andere Muttersprache hat, muss das ja dann noch schwieriger sein. Wie bist Du auf dieses Studium gekommen?
@@girlfromgermany Tja, ich habe mich immer fuer Sprachen interessiert. Deutsch und Franzoesisch habe ich auf der Schule gelernt und wollte ich einfach weiter Studieren. Ich hoffe das erklaert ein Bisschen!
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Beatles use humour to make art? I didn't know that, unless it's the same thing as some of their songs in riotously silly considering they're supposed to be such serious 'legends'. As for Talking Heads and B52s, they're silly as hell, I'm not sure the humour aspect can be counted. Laughing AT you as supposed to WITH you. Sparks are not anything like this.
You say despite Ron and Russell having stated The Beatles are one of their biggest influences.
@@wintershiny4888 Everyone says that, it's par for the course. All I can say, 60s music must be utterly rubbish if the Beatles are the only thing that can ever inspire anybody, yet for all this eruptive love, I often don't hear the Beatles in 80s music at all. I can guess they appear prescient alongside the 70s material 9along with Kinks & Beach Boys) but once 1979 & the electronica age is here-no!
@@kyachdistent1301 You are somewhat correct...you truly dont hear BEATLES influences in most of the 1980s radio hits/ big bands...and thats because popular radio music really started to SUCK ASS around the 1980s...people started to listen with their EYES..instead of their ears...hence the era of music videos , glam rock bands that dressed like woman and wore makeup- and of course acts like MADONNA and CHER ....If you truly cannot appreciate the Beatles genius and groundbreaking songwriting/ melodies/ studio techniques, Id suggest you grab a pair of good headphones and closely listen to songs like ELEANOR RIGBY- STRAWBERRY FIELDS- PENNY LANE- I AM WALRUS- and try to understand how groundbreaking this music was for its time AND, consider that much of it was being recorded on 4 track tape. And it only makes sense, that most of the best bands, always include the Beatles as their influences. I actually f eel sorry for anyone that loves music, but overlooks the massive genius hidden in beatles songs/ music/ melodies.
@@davehimlin2374 Here we go, always in the end (and usually much sooner) up they jump, moaning about how Beatles not being appreciated is among the biggest wrongs in the world. Please, finding someone that doesn't wax lyrical about them is pretty special, and I don't see why I need to try when you diss the best decade of music the world has ever known with such a ridiculously pious and wrong sweeping statement that music sucked arse. Please that slagdonna bint had no right appearing in the 80s and has nothing to do with it, that was just a forerunner and a spearhead for where music would die when the 80s ended. Of course you don't hear Beatles influences in the 80s-thank God. That coincided with the rise of the synthesiser with all the cool new acts realising they could create new soundscapes and ascend musical and lyrical plateaus that had never been done before, unsurprising with the dated sounds of the 60s and 70s. You can hear far more of ABBA's influence in the 80s than the Beatles and that's cos their approach was more timely and relevant of the artists of the 80s.Sparks dumped their old 70s glam thing and utterly embraced the synth-sounds of the 80s and becoming one with it, while outdated fossils like Cliff Richards, Rod Stewart, Shakin' Stevens and such just sounded pathetic..
Granted your right about mainstream sucking, but many songs by acts weren't DONE for the mainstream. Then again, there's nothing wrong with being accessible as long as you've something worthwhile to give, and how anyone can diss an entire decade when brill songs as diverse as they are cool from all sorts of brill beings beggars belief and utterly undoes your standing as some sort of Beatles zealot. Any decade that knocks out amazing songs TRAGEDY AND MYSTERY (China Crisis), HOUSE OF SALOME (Kim Wilde), SECRET OKTOBER (Duran Duran), GENETIC ENGINEERING (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark), MICRO KID (Level 42), THE VOW (Toyah), STAND BACK (Stevie Nicks), LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD (Pat Benatar), DREAM TO SLEEP (H20), WAVES (Blancmange), SUGAR BRIDGE-IT WILL STAND (The Bluebells), CAN'T SHAKE LOOSE (Agnetha Faltskog) and more in just a number of months in one year (1983) is bloody amazing to say the least, when I'd struggle to find more than 5 I'd want to own throughout every year of the 70s that wasn't an ABBA song and don't even get me started on what happened since the 80s left us! Oh and madonna the vile should drop effing dead, sick of hearing and seeing that vile past-it (actually never had it) skank, all it does the plague every medium, no matter how outdated it was and it's no more a complete example of what the 80s stand for than the bloody Wombles are for the 70s!
@@kyachdistent1301 I view the 80s as the beginning of the end of great radio music. I view it as the era when " looks" became more important then substance/ melodies in music. It also was the start of the digital recording age and erasure of pure, warm analog recordings....along with it ushering in the age of vocal pitch correction which to my ears, further destroyed the human elements of music. Granted, this did not all take effect at once, in the early 80s music scene..but the precedent was being set. I am not aware of any popular radio songs in the 1980s, that were as breakthrough and memorable as the Beatles Revolver album or beatles singles such as penny lane/strawberry fields. Yes, there is a reason why most of the succesful musical acts of all time, continually mention the BEATLES as not only their idols, but their influences...