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The Sparks Brothers (2021) - Uncut (Patreon)

Published:
2025-09-04 02:00:07
Imported:
2026-06

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Please forgive us both for having no idea who the Sparks were going in.

Comments

dys

I don't know anything about the Sparks Brothers or this movie either but I didn't know Edgar Wright had made a documentary, that alone piques my interest to watch later. Love Edgar Wright.

Actuarial Lurker

Never heard of the Sparks Brothers- which surprised me since I am a BIG music fan...basically turned 14 in 1980 so grew up on Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Blood Sweat and Tears, Traffic, Zeppelin, Who, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and other 1970s bands and my late teens and college were in the 80s so ALSO am a HUGE fan of New Wave (Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, The Police, Blondie etc) listening to local NYC station WLIR the indie station on Long Island that was the first in the US to play the albums of most every New Wave and Punk band you've ever heard, ......so did a Wikipedia search right before launching your uncut reaction- and was shocked to see LOTS of names I recognized: members of Duran Duran, Haircut 100, Muff Winwood- the brother of Steve Winwood who was in The Spencer Davis Group with him before Steve was in Traffic, Blind Faith or went solo, members of New Order, Erasure, Human League, Heaven 17...so a who's who of New Wave bands...with that I start the watch expecting a Rick Beato like eduction! (If you don't know Rick Beato he is a Youtuber with 5 Million subs who is a guitarist and music producer who has interviewed almost every rock, new wave and grunge band, music engineer, and producer in the industry and yesterday just dropped a 2 hour interview with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd)

Actuarial Lurker

Frank Zappa vibes as of 15 minutes in...and Syd Barrett era Floyd

Actuarial Lurker
>>186111031

Todd Rundgren was a 3-hit wonder in the 70s...you probably have heard the 1972 hit "Hello, Its Me" on classic rock stations- he became a record producer and worked with Grand Funk Railroad, ("We're an American Band") Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf (the mega Bat Out of Hell album), Psychadelic Furs and Cheap Trick

Pam Nail

I fell hard for Sparks around 2017/2018, largely because of Edgar Wright frequently posting about them. I went album by album (and I still have a few to catch up on), immersing myself in their songs and memorizing them. I've since seen them seven times in concert, and I'm about to see them twice more in the next few weeks (NYC and LA). They are INCREDIBLE live, and it's so great to be in a room full of Sparks fans, singing along to every song. They're about to start the US part of their latest tour on Friday. (I may be remembering wrong, but I thought you guys said once you lived in Ohio. They've got a show in Columbus on the 14th and in Cleveland on the 15th. Just putting that out there. :P) Rollercoaster is a trip. A bit too long in my opinion, but one of the better 70s disaster flicks. Annette is gorgeous and delightfully strange. Sparks won a Cesar (the French equivalent of the Oscars) for the music. Favorite Sparks Album: Propaganda (also best album cover) Top 5 Sparks Songs: - I Predict - Toughest Girl in Town - Propaganda/At Home, At Work, At Play - My Baby's Taking Me Home - When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"? Team Russell or Team Ron? Russell in the streets, Ron in the sheets. :P

Anna

Yeah this movie is a trip. Since you're thinking of checking them out, a couple of my favorites that aren't in this are Suburban Homeboy and Nothing is as Good as they Say It Is.

Chemical Em

love this pick!! it's so interesting to me how success is measured by people and how art is celebrated in the music industry I love when the weirdos are recognized for their contributions. This is my first watch too and their music is like poetry and so quotable "I married myself, I'm very happy together" -also this doc reminds me of the music doco Dig! (2004) which you guys should watch too

kosmickrab

So glad you watched this. I also had never heard of Sparks until one day on Instagram, Weird Al posted the trailer. So I'm watching and seeing Patton Oswalt, Edgar Wright, Flea, Al, and others talking about them and I'm thinking, "How have I not heard of these guys?!" I work at a movie theater and when that movie came out I would walk in and catch pieces of it or hear the songs through the hallways and get intrigued until one day I finally went and saw it. I was just captivated by them as artists and people, their music, and the documentary presentation itself (editing, humor, etc.) that I ended up seeing it five times that year ( twice in theater, two times VOD, and once on Blu-ray). The synth era was what I responded to most at the time but since then I've found my favorite album is Music That You Can Dance To. That album is full of great, catchy songs and music.

Clare Manion

I had never heard of Sparks either but OH MY GOD. I love them, they're my kind of people, and I adore their sense of humor! I will be looking up every single one of their albums immediately. The fact that they stuck to their own weird and wonderful artistic sensibility for so long without stagnating is a miracle - especially in pop music. And yes, they seem like such lovely people as well! Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Youtalkingtome
>>186109874

Right? When I saw Wright directed it, I started to question if this was a real duo or an Edgar Wright meditation on the music scene with a fake band.