Sparks - Beat The Clock Lyrics

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This is the gayest piece of shit I've seen this year....

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Eternal stuff...! The SPARKS RULE!!!

I have this Album.  I can't believe it is already 40 years ago.

Memories of WNYU

Ron looks like Charlie Chaplin. XD

still better than crap today from 2013456789...and behond

The most cringe ive seen lately

You got to beat the glock

I used to dance this in 1979.

Strange that this seems to be the song that they are most remembered for. They were a very progressive rock band who were a huge influence on Queen among others.

This tune came out just 4months before SEBASTIAN COE SMASHED 3 WORLD RECORDS (800M/ MILE /1500M) IN 41 DAY'S JULY 1979 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PERFECTION, FANTASTIC TIMING FOR THE BEGINNING OF A LIFETIME CHANGING PERIOD,,,,,, AND THE TWO TONE ERA/GARY NUMANS TUBEWAY ARMY / THE CLASH RELEASED LONDON CALLING ,SEX PISTOLS GREATEST ROCK,N,ROLL SWINDLE/#the tune and the FILM/THE WHO,S MOD FILM QUADROPHENIA/SCUM/ MCVICAR ,,,,,,WHAAAAAAAAAAAT AN ERA 1979 TO 1981 IT BLOW'S THE MIND WHEN I THINK ABOUT ALL THAT TALENT,,, COZ WE ALL HAD TA, BEAT THE CLOCK,,,,, THIS TUNE IS ONE OF THE REASONS I RAN THE MILE IN 4:30 MINUTES !!!!!!!!

*I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate - we'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake. My set is amazing, it even smells like a street - there's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend ...*

Classic ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I bet this song will be in Mr Robot its last season as a soundtrack

Congrats to the director of this video. Got how much out of absolutely nothing!!? Great song.

THEY JUST DON'T WRITE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE ! ................ THANK GOD.
1080P

FFS terrible upload, - 10Db

Stop moaning.

I think elements of the video for this single were used years later in the video for 'The Weekend' by David Gray

Giorgio Moroder's electrifying work. Now, why didn't this music continue instead of the rap/hip hop crap today?

This influenced some adult swim stuff, forget the show though.

Classic x

Happy Birthday Ron

In arrears today, (August 12! Born 1945!!?)
And now to, also in arrears
Happy birthday Russell! (October 5! Born 1948!?!?)
I think these guys get 3/4 of a year older in one year, whilst we others typically add a full year every year. 🤔

101 thumblings in a different time-zone.

Truly early 80s

Still have the vinyl.... going to buy a turntable just to play this gem, magic.

To bad there ain't 10 of you then I'd show you what I'd do

There's certainly better songs from this album (Academy Award Performance, Tryouts For the Human Race, La Dolce Vita, etc).

A Swedish saying goes; 'Taste is like the butt, divided' 😉
Though I partly agree, to me it's a question of mood at the moment.
'Tryouts..' is one of my Top 30 Sparks songs I can't live without! 😁 💖
Sometimes I wonder how on the holy Earth they came up with just the IDEA of the lyrics. A micro second later I change my mind. I'm not so sure I REALLY want to know.... 😉🤣🤣🤣

Lyrics?

Excellent pop music.

The very,very,very strange man now plays Prince Albert in the BBC drama Victoria

I like the other version better but this is still good.

wonder what them chicks look like now !

Don't think of it.
I know how I looked then, the mirror says different today 😩, though I know the damn thing is a LIER 🤬! At least that's what I like to think. 🙄

Far to advanced, clever, witty and musically gifted for the time & place, to cool for school these guys, outstanding body of work 👍😎

Surely the Anthem for Everyone trying to get to Work on Time!.

I have Modelled My Facial Demeanour on the Keyboardist!.

It's a cool look. Congratulations. 😊

Ron is... RON. How can anyone be cooler than a guy that always have been completely different from everyone and everything and yet been cool? He has had three different styles, the one before 1974 we maybe should forget about, anyway it was different... Since the "Kimono era" it is the strictly, silent movie, sort of, appearence. Then this disco/early eighties actually style, and back to the old fashion again. He changed his mustache when he finally realized that people never would understand it was Chaplinesque, not a tribute to a crazy dictator. And still cool 😎!
(Shouldn't say it, but he has had that position for more than 50 years, counting the, hm, strange ones before 'Kimono'. 😳! I'm not sure if he really could foresee that in his early years, not even see it now. Born to be a Cool Cat😎🐈a Leo♌ as he is.)

This was my favourite song when I was 7. What extraordinarily good taste I had 40 years ago!

Legend,

watch th 1977 movie ROLLERCOASTER

Saw it at the movies back then , recognised these guys instantly, and a few years later got to ride that coaster. Epic.

weird keyboard player always freaked me out as a kid .. i kinda likes him tho haah

Yeah me too but now i think he was cool...lol

Ron Mael could have been the serial killer in a cult horror movie. ❤

identical twins believe it or not.

NO. Brothers. Ron, keyboard, born 1945, August 12. Russell, vocals, born 1948, October 5. Both born and raised in the areas of Los Angeles, CA.
Last name Mael.

Seven Apples Disco in 1979. That was the main tune.

I love how home made it looks.

I love Giorgio.

As of last saturday afternoon, I am a fan! Didn't know these guys existed. Great show! "Unbelievable, 73 and 70 years old!

the last real talented americans GREAT SPARKS

Sydney @*midnight. Com

A David Mallet video me thinks

Saw them live last year, brilliant gig

Trust me to find this song (never heard it before), when the clocks go back in the U.K. tonight! YouTube recommended it to me without me even searching 😂

"The Lord works in mysterious ways" 😂 😂 as they say.

I wanna have Ronalds babies.

Carl Craig - rushed ?

I love Sparks xx. ❤

we danced to this vinil in 1979 (in the USSR!!!!!) ....))) My film about those times - https://youtu.be/JMIZhh_CtUc

" into them in early teens, songs were just like magazines, seriously subversive folk, had blue vinyl scraped in chalk, sparkplug 12 inch megamix, my devoted song of Fix, mystified at those fine tricks " .. Gawblessem from England ! A4

ain't they identical twins?

Who?🤔

one of the most underrated bands ever

Fantastic years ahead of there time

Absolutely

They're brilliant.

About being ahead, I have mentioned it before, the second half of their video for 'Tryouts for the human race', where they grow hair... Recorded 1979.
A certain song with an exceptional video came out -82. Guess which?
Though I believe the long version of that song (Sparks'!) is much better than the radio cut going with the video. The lyrics are hilarious 😂

Brings me back to my days growing up in San Diego. Ah, what a time!

73 dislikes 19th August 2018. Fucktards.

Stressed out people, who don't get the irony. 🙄

Genius.

Irony/Art/Subversion all wrapped up in pure electro pop. The Mael brothers are the greatest.

Thanks for this! Such a fave song.

THE VERY BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!! CHARLIE KENT..................

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simple minds saw this and listened to this video very intently

ron looks like he could use a good meal , at this point.

I saw some pictures of them, in London, just about to have a meal. Russell's was something large, looked deep fried, and fries, ok, chips😁, could have been fish and chips? Ron's however was a sallad. 🙄 If that is the standard, it explains a lot. 🙄
I doubt real FOOD would kill. His choice, if he is happy and writes more songs, I am happy too! 😁 💖 💖

I was born a little premature, mum just couldn't take no more.

Put your hands up for detroit

l.o.v.e.L.O.V.E.l.o.v.e.

Majestic!

I hear a lot, and I mean a lot of Giorgio Moroder in this. And I like it !

He produced it methinks.

Didn't look too good in shorts .

Have you seen the live videos for 'Get in the swing' with Sparks? 1975. There are at least two where Russell wears.... black shirt and black short pants, and two with white shirt and short pants. I guess that was very hot back then.
He didn't have fat legs. All I'm saying.

I had the picture disc of this

is that mustache actual nose hair growing outside of his nose!?!??!?!!

Beat the cnock?

Beat the knock😉

I died at 3:06!! (Watch some of other video to understand)

Just saw them in NYC. They were as great as ever. First time in the US in years.

So this is the band that inspired Weebl to create Savlonic?

It all makes sense now. No wonder I hear their jamz, and all I can think of is "Electro Gypsy" and "Wondering Eye".

Electro Gypsy was my jam when I was a teenager, along with Tiny Japanese Girl.

We are Head Noise, a 3-piece Electronic Art-Punk band and are really big Sparks fans! Check out our new single below here with hints of Devo, Sparks and early Human League sprinkled in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDKts5guMOU

Interesting fact;  Ron Mael's mother is Margaret Thatcher's dad

Chris S ????

That doesn’t make sense. But an interesting fact all the same.

"I can't believe that you will fall for all the crap in this song" as a famous lyricist once wrote, in the song with the same name.
Of course not. 🤣 Bad joke anyway, Ron is cool, Thatchers? 🤔 Nnnhe.
By the way, they are brothers, same Mother, same Father.
For last Mother's and Father's Days they posted photographs of the brothers, as kids, together with their Mother, and with their Father on both Twitter and Instagram. (This written Nov -19)

Du lourd mageul

what a classic, how did this not get to number one?

In the early 60's, in the UK there was a programme on TV called Sunday Night at The London Palladium, compared by the late Bruce Forsyth. Midway through the show, there was a ten minute slot (I suppose to give acts a chance to change) where members of the studio audience were chosen to play a series of games for prizes. One of those games was called Beat The Clock. In the game, the words to a famous saying or proverb were put on a board and the audience had 30 seconds to re-arrange them into the correct order, hence the game's title Beat the Clock. In this video, the girls are mimicking what the contestants used to do as they tried to change the order of the words. Here's a clip, watch from 5:30 for the game. I believe that the game probably originated in the US and found it's way over here as many TV formats were copied. Sparks no doubt remembered watching it when they were kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NxX4yVW0Q The band took inspiration from a Radio Times TV listings for This Town Aint Big Enough For Both Of Us

Interesting info! Thanks 😀

3:07 LOL !

My moms in this video

Billie Williams your mum is awesome, tell her i need adopting and must be breast fed thank you

Wow. Really? That is very cool. I love Sparks. Which lady is she?

Proper!!! Nothing else to say :) x

Reminds me of my first disco. Just think, those lovelies in the video are probably about 60 now.

Close... Russell is 69, Ron is 72.

I'm pretty sure he ment the ladies...?

How Can People scip this,,,??? SO GOOD>>>>>x

Isnt that what life is all about? Beat the clock?

miurt dave vutre

slurp tuin azert

bru ..trea ha ha miurtev

Fantastic song and as many other comments have ststed - way ahead of it's time. Can't help thinking that this video must have been a huge influence on the young Michel Gondry?

viva gli anni 80 rimasti nel cuore

tiziano Galfini
È stato anche suonato in Altromondo Studios (Rimini). Solo pochi anni fa Luca Belloni fece il remix: