Sparks - My Baby's Taking Me Home (Official Video)

The official video for "My Baby's Taking Me Home" from the 2003 Sparks album Lil' Beethoven.
Music video directed by Shaw Petronio
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[@galagirl22]

“Sparks did it first, but they don’t care.” Truest music fact ever.

[@flimbar]

I love it when Ron was asked if this song has some deeper meaning and he said "No, it's about my baby taking me home", lol

[@philrob1978]

Because of course it is. Ron's a very special individual, I love him.

[@tomcurran5463]

@@philrob1978 xdaedd

[@tomcurran5463]

Àaaaaaaaaaaaaijijijijiiiiiiijijiiiik

[@KiLN_]

Can we get a lyric video for this pls thx x

[@HalfMoonProphet]

There might be a deeper meaning, though. If both "me" and "my baby" are colorblind, then they're probably both guys.

[@Babaziba]

Finally, a sequel to "How Are You Getting Home"!

[@surrealchemist]

My favorite part is when he sings "My Baby's Taking Me Home"

[@edoxtator1238]

I missed that part

[@tetedepoulet8651]

I caught it too - had to listen a few times

[@yourmum9833]

Didn't hear that bit 🤔

[@MatthewCrocker]

I prefer the part where he sings "My baby's taking me home."

[@kyachdistent1301]

Mine was the other part-the one where he's intoning 'My Baby's Taking Me Home'.

[@KidFresh71]

25 years from now, people will catch up and realize how genius this song is. Those of us who already appreciate it, well, we're a generation ahead of the curve. Just like Sparks.

[@kyachdistent1301]

I don't think they will. Human race have been regressing in intelligence ever since the 90s appeared and they let vacuous nobodies overtake the talent pool, something which went into major league ascendance every year since-and that's a LOT of years and a LOT of Taylored Spliff type shit! Of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!

[@mandykeez]

Totally agree 100%

[@annmariekilmartin6886]

@@mandykeez m

[@ssballs]

Try Einstein on the beach. There's joy in repetition.

[@stephenmumford9995]

How on Earth can this song make me cry? But it does. Every time.

[@daggersdukc]

Not alone.

[@TheGuardianangel247]

Same.

[@cristinapavesi4729]

I find it so moving!

[@neilhopkins2795]

It is beautiful

[@Po0pF4c3]

Same.

[@vtaro5354]

Such a simple complex song. The genius of Sparks.

[@billyd8826]

Only Sparks could make a song like this work...one of the most brilliant and most underrated bands of all time!

[@XxYourLocalFairyXx]

Yep your right.

[@grahamreid7836]

My Baby is Taking Me Home, Fantastic Genius Ron and Russell Tour Next Year Looking forward for 50 Years The Greatest Music Duo Unique Simply the Best and my Friend as Well to Share Looking Forward Glasgow 2022 Cheers to You Sparks Beyond Fans, Graham.

[@marksaunders2M0]

@@grahamreid7836 Me too! 👍🏻

[@grahamreid7836]

Cheers Mark Great to Share Graham

[@neilhopkins2795]

Not underatted by those of us who know how good they are. It's great they're making a living again. They're magnificent and the recent are as good as anything they've done. Can't wait to see them again

[@vehemently1]

i played this for my daughter who's an actor and she says it reminds her of the Meisner repetition technique where you and your scene partner repeat the same observation over and over to concentrate fully on the other person, forgetting yourself in the process, helping form an emotional connection. there's definitely an emotional connection here.

[@pearlypawbeans]

Just realized what’s been wrong w/ the first 50 years of my life, that I never heard of Sparks 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[@paulgoodwin1029]

Why Lil' Beethoven isn't heralded alongside Night At The Opera, Sgt. Peppers, DSotM, Who's Next, Zep 4 etc etc etc is a total mystery to me. Absolutely one of the Greatest albums ever made. And the bravest.

[@Retro471]

Hello young lovers was even better. Waterproof 😁

[@bolly6338]

Sparks should be considered the world's most important band and yet...

[@androoq1]

@@Retro471 Agree. quite a 1-2 punch for sure.

[@bolly6338]

One could argue that Sparks isn't regarded as a classic rock band like the others you mentioned, as they moved beyond rock music in the late 70s and would continue with synth pop in the 80s. Rock fetishists have a problem with bands moving beyond that genre, so Sparks never got the praise and recognition they deserved.

[@annabackman3028]

@@Retro471 'Baby, Baby, Can I Invade Your Country?', both versions, the one on the album and the single alternative.

[@nassreddin3064]

consistently the most intelligent group ever. and they can still produce such material as this after all their contemporaries have given up. my admiration is unbounded.

[@laurentogorman5957]

i completely agree with you ! the sparks and serge gainsbourg

[@blu4085]

Pure Genius!

[@annabackman3028]

Five words: A STEADY DRIP DRIP DRIP 💖

[@zimriel]

try Gary Numan

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@zimriel Come on, Kim Wilde, Duran Duran, Sandra, Alphaville, A-ha and OMD have been doing this too! So would Bangles if they could just reform properly instead of doing the odd show of old songs. And ABBA remain great.

[@monkeySkeptic]

I want a covers album in which 20 different artists give their renditions of this song. I want folk rock, rap, country, pop punk and operatic versions.

[@annabackman3028]

Just to watch them to embarrass themselves? 🤔

[@drewhughes9127]

@@annabackman3028 it’s genius

[@annabackman3028]

@@drewhughes9127, I guess it's a perfect way to make people understand how unbelievably ingenious Ron and Russell are. ☺️😃👍

[@drewhughes9127]

@@annabackman3028 exactly! It’s just would interesting to give this song to many artists of all genres and see what they do with it. Not saying anything that they will out do the original masterpiece, but it would be a good way to get more people to recognize this band.

[@annabackman3028]

@@drewhughes9127 Just hand them notes and lyrics. "Here you go, make your best out of it, but don't change the lyrics...." Hehe! A little cruel, almost 😈😇

[@andrewbeale2585]

I saw Russell and Ron sing this live in London a couple of years ago, one of their very best songs, and absolutely hypnotic. What a band, they are the best.

[@davenamanda]

First time I've ever heard this...believe it or not. Absolutely incredible piece of music! Catchy, fun, upbeat and worthy of playing it over and over! What a wonderful piece of work...headphones on, volume up, wow! Ronald and Russell have taken things to a whole new level of genius. Sparks are flying all over the place with this one.

[@sexobscura]

*whenever anxiety conspires against me to the point where schizophrenia threatens to envelope me, I know it's just Sparks playing a tune*

[@neilmayor7517]

..the realisation that you are truly happy just by being with someone you love

[@aviratthakor8974]

Masterpiece, there is no other word for this song and album.

[@julieinwood10]

I like that Eckhart Tolle talks about similarity to words home and om sound of the universe that connects all 🕉

[@robertatkinson7501]

Brilliant I love this song and video. I want it played at my funeral, because she is waiting for me.

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

Its one of the songs I sing at work. They think I wrote all of my songs. They think I am the worst songwriter.

[@weinersmalls5684]

@@reverendbluejeans1748 heh

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

@@weinersmalls5684 They also think I wrote a Kraftwerk song called Antenna. They think I am the worst songwriter ever. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnnPlIatd9isodU

[@Po0pF4c3]

This is the number 1 song in heaven.

[@kyachdistent1301]

No, 'Number One Song In Heaven' is! This has another title (see far above).😜😜

[@haqilacp]

So underestimated. Creativity beyond belief.

[@AustinNebbia]

I don't know why this affects me so much. It's the same words like 100 times but it's just got this epic, almost apocalyptic quality to it. It's like what I want to hear if the world blows up. Bravo, Sparks.

[@woweezowee4713]

Austin Nebbia because that's called artistry..... American music is really great there such amazing American bands like( SPARKS, THE BYRDS, THE STOOGES, THE STROKES, PAVEMENT, DEFTONES, TUNE YARDS ALICE IN CHAINS) and many may more but unfortunately these amazing bands are overshadowed by Talentless singers like KATTY PERRY, GAGA AND OTHER SHIT I DO NOT WANT TO MENTION

[@lynnroverud2067]

This is the perfect observation. Bravo, Austin! :)

[@WaltDittrich]

@@woweezowee4713 , to be sure, the two you mentioned Katy Perry and Lady Gaga actually ARE talented. Lady Gaga, especially. However, I do agree with you that there are a lot of talentless singers.

[@victhedude417]

It's the same words repeated but the magic is the slow musical build. Slow, calculated, piece by piece, until you find yourself rockin' out and wonder HOW DID I GET HERE?!! Sparks magic!!

[@daggersdukc]

If I could give you ten likes for that comment I would. Sane here. There is a story being told here through musical textures, and its truly bloody amazing how they pull it off. Such a feeling of redemption at the end. Clever and for me, a really emotion-laden song.

[@barbarahallowell2613]

Seeing them live and hearing this was insanely emotional. How singing the same line over and over can just Build like that. 😊

[@SilverfoxJB]

I remember loving the end of Equator, and here they are again doing the same kind of thing, but even better. Absolute musical geniuses. If only I could remember the words I would be singing along.

[@kyachdistent1301]

It sounds better on this. Kind of annoying on 'Equator' & I say that as someone who puts up with 'Wacky Women' & 'That's Not Natassia' easily!

[@jakethekipper]

Who's taking him where? Love this track. ❤

[@Elpeligrito]

Perfect. When a single sentence can bring such a combination of comfort, hope, and love, it bears repeating.

[@triarii11]

I sit alone, watch this video again, listen again, and do pretty much the exact same thing I did while hearing Propaganda the first few times back in 1976. I shake my head and think 'this is too fuckin weird for reality.' Nowadays...I can be more erudite and incisive. But why? Since... always... Ron & Russel have carried "weird" like king's garments. They are normal...for them. This is genuine. So what if they are not from Earth--they've adopted most our habits. And given us their vision of tunage..... . 1--You won't ever be bored. Ever. 2--They make you chuckle sometimes. They were well trained on their home-world, wherever the hell that was.

[@annabackman3028]

YOU ARE SO RIGHT! 😁 💖

[@grahamreid7836]

There More than Genius Blessed Very Special my Ultra Sparks Video Song They are all Ultra to me Cheers GR. Dundee Scotland and G&G Kirriemuir.

[@kyachdistent1301]

And American too. Most of that lot couldn't be weird if they tried, and certainly not in music. I wish they were UK, but we had the best acts in the 80s hands-down, & boy does America need more than the usual slagdonna, Whit Houston, Tina Churner, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Christopher Cross, Starship, Heart-type shit thet always give us!

[@trash1089]

this is a wonderful example of not just a great song, but just how truly complex our language is, the same 5 words repeated over and over evolve in meaning as the song progresses

[@darrellminx5459]

John Lennon would be proud. He always wanted to write a song with the fewest words. Like I want you(she's so heavy)

[@mcbillygoat]

This is such the most immaculate cut from any band. I’m so glad that Sparks is making a major noise these days with films and music.

[@Jiffy_Squid]

These guys have amazed me for decades !!!!

[@MrStereopathic]

This is the song I want played at my funeral. I know I'm not the only person who has said this. Makes me weep with a sweet sadness and joy.

[@Woodie3200]

. . . and a sense of optimism.

[@donmiknelli6808]

This is so great!!! The wonderful SPARKS! They live and are everything that means ART! So much love, brothers!

[@kyachdistent1301]

I always think of a Kim Wilde song and lyric here: "Brothers, they hold a place in your heart, they're something apart but then lovers, that's a different thing to talk about".❤❤👍👍

[@MichaelCarroll]

I hated this song for such a long time -- used to skip it just about every time it came on. And then one day it suddenly just clicked... and now it's up there in my all-time top-ten Sparks songs!

[@wikitubeperson]

I kinda wish this song was three hours long...

[@hackettguy]

This track is 'structured' brilliance....!!!!!!

[@MonsieurMerci]

Please Sparks, could we have a better quality upload ? This fabulous video deserves it!

[@TobiasReturns]

strange normally id find the same lyric being repeated over and over all the way through a song would be annoying but this sounds gorgeous

[@Joannegmurphy]

Still amazing and I have been loving them since college in the 70s! Live on and rock on forep Sparks!

[@identityfor]

i love lil bheetoven. look at me wooo wooo woo oooo.

[@LouisFriend-tk8gl]

The Majestic Sparks. ❤️✌️

[@peterwasylina718]

This is a gem.

[@Arthur_Read_Fan_2022]

Anybody watching in 2020? New decade!

[@pipeman124]

This song gives me chills every time I hear it. Love ya Sparks. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas 2022. :)

[@nosleeplisa]

This is SO AMAZING! Dada, or something--it's BRILLIANT! I love Ron and Russell

[@nickybudge3914]

❤❤❤ Amazing song Gives me goosebumps ❤❤❤ Love sparks 😊

[@jasonbrowne2450]

This song is such an earworm. Love it!

[@blackberryhedge]

This video is not strange. Not trippy at all. Perfectly normal. I LOVE IT.

[@jdhitc]

They have a lot of good songs, but this is one of my favorite

[@maryb1004]

So many different emotions from the same text line If you change arrangement key or instrument. Amazing. Love Sparks since Kimono 1974.

[@shirtshine73blitz]

Its too bad there isn't a LOVE button on facebook

[@sinistermusicdestiny6768]

Lmao there is now

[@WaltDittrich]

Or on KZbin. 😂

[@ThePsho]

Absolutely hypnotizing. Love it.

[@kc0mwl]

Yes

[@tonyshortland8812]

Where's my baby taking me? . . . . Hypnotic. . ..

[@jaredlowder5248]

It's a shame this song never made it on the greatest hits album. This is the song that made me fall in love with Sparks

[@kyachdistent1301]

What about all the SINGLES (this wasn't one) that didn't, and all the B-sides and soundtrack movie songs. So, no, this can only go on if they're gonna do a 6 CD collection!

[@Woodie3200]

@@kyachdistent1301 That's a really good point.

[@philrob1978]

It shouldn't work. But by god it does. Taking some inspiration from Steve Reich I feel with the "beauty in repetition" motif, but this ends up being really emotional by the time the climax arrives - and the live version is simply hypnotically gorgeous, I think you need to be in a crowd to truly get the most out of this.

[@kichiromarikawa153]

It's rated. Really rated band, for those who love good quality music.

[@duplexsword7949]

I recently just found this and i cant get it out of my head. You have to be a great band to make a song with one line so amazing

[@annabackman3028]

The best! 🤩

[@philrob1978]

It's genuinely magical. It really is.

[@UberSynth]

Clever track, the use of delay and the sound textures..taking you on that journey. is great build up track. would be awesome live. These guys should of been super stars.

[@xristospier3602]

MAYBE THIS ALBUM, IS THEIR MASTERPIECE!! SPARKS HAVE CREATED GREAT MUSIC!! LOVE THEM.....

[@AbellaTeacher]

This is so weird and compelling! I can't believe I only just discovered Sparks a few weeks ago . . . I wonder what other weird music has been lurking around, just waiting to be discovered?

[@timedgar9572]

Try les incompetents

[@lynnroverud2067]

Are you familiar with DEVO?

[@casualagent7250]

You may have heard of ‘Yello’

[@kyachdistent1301]

Probably hardly anything. But define weird. There's plenty of 80s music that's brill and different and fresh cos that was what the 80s was about before novelty records, slagdonna and Pete Waterman killed off the rest of the decade slowly.

[@craigdorsey8624]

Try the Cardiacs.

[@KerrisonA]

Beautiful

[@bellicosehyperbole7378]

SPARKS... always endearing. ❤👍

[@kelvinwilson9217]

Just amazing.

[@djangry]

Pure genius...! Plain and simple.... brilliant, amazing, true talent. Rare these days.

[@pascalnuevayork]

It take so much genius to come up with such a song. The Sparks have never stopped amazing us for 50 years. I shout Bravissimo 👏👏👏

[@tori2226]

I'm a 2000 baby and love sparks, my mum and stepdad took me to see them at leeds 02 arena when I were 16. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat if I had the chance 😍😍 is there any other 2000 baby's here with me? 🙏☺

[@jenniken86]

Only a 90s but i feel you@😊

[@paulhover9311]

A work of genius.

[@samguberman2288]

Can't believe how catchy this song is , only discovered it recently.

[@Squeaky1423]

I looooooooove this song, wow

[@barnabyhughes5643]

I love the musical accompaniment to this

[@ornjonasson8873]

In its´ simplicity, absolutely a fabulous song. The only text in the song, other than a spoken interlude, is the sentence; "My baby´s Taking Me home" is repeated more than 100 times throughout the song, only with slight variations in tune.

[@Broomehall]

The Sparks Brothers bought me here........

[@markpadley890]

Is there no limit to the creative genius of this prolific duo?- brilliant as usual!

[@casualagent7250]

Builds & builds & builds... hey....crescendo

[@melaniedoyle8960]

My favourite song of all time.

[@Biffbop]

If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life, this would be it.

[@kyachdistent1301]

Too many great songs in the world to pick one, BUT most WERE made BEFORE 1990! Since then there's TOO MANY BAD SONGS IN THE WORLD!

[@Etherialshroud]

I have been a fan ever since my dad owned your first album in 1980. Wonder girl was my jam.

[@JohnCoctoasten85]

I can’t stop listening to this. Absolutely brilliant (like most Sparks material is)

[@misterdavid5400]

I have been a Sparks fan since the 70s and seriously they are the only band in music history that have actually got better and better over time, starting from a very high bar.

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@misterdavid5400 Well I always thought they became a true albums act in 1979 with their induction into the world of synth-pop where they became ultra-modern. Earlier stuff pleasant but dated glam is threatening lots of it, and there was too much of that around then from everyone else, just Sparks write it better and sing it better too.

[@tuvantrader]

I know people often comment on songs they'd like played at their funeral. For me, I think this would be a pretty good one. It kind of doesn't matter who you think your "baby" is, either.

[@erjo2567]

This album converted me into a Sparks fan

[@neonskyline1]

this is pure genius writing folks

[@philoffhistree6700]

wow i listened to this ten time as i was sure they said more than My Baby's Taking Me Home but they didn't, what memorizing song it seems to say more than it says, the use of tone of the voice, the visuals and the timing, that bit at the end that seems to start to say more but then directs you to the chorus and the fact they are saying My Baby's Taking Me Home, genius.

[@annabackman3028]

Sparks in a nutshell! Exactly like 'Brenda's Always In The Way', even though there is more lyrics, but the most part is basically the same, with a few varieties, and also the part differences from the rest with lyrics that reveal something about the situation. 'My Baby's...' and Brenda's Always...' have that in common that they are built on a monotonous and repetative base presented in varied rhythm and how Russell puts the intonation. Especially this one distinguish a LISTENER from someone who HEARS music but don't register WHAT they actually hear. They only pick up the top layer, notes it's monotonous, automatically rejects it as boring and weird, without having an idea of what they actually were hearing. Sometimes Sparks music demands some active listening.

[@philoffhistree6700]

@@annabackman3028 very true

[@karenrendell7369]

An earworm but love it! Loved you guys sine '74!

[@jenniferciaccio2940]

Not only is their music the best, but their videos are the best. I love them so much.

[@westview80]

When I was at school and taking my 'O' levels there was a story - which may have been apocryphal - where someone was faced with an exam question which asked "What is courage?". They wrote "This is courage." and left the rest of the paper blank. They got an 'A'. This song is the equivalent.

[@Directorkey718]

This is probably my fave sparks song...I bet its killer live!

[@2wayplebney]

My favourite Sparks track. I would love to see it live.

[@craigparks1421]

It's amazing live. I saw them this week. The energy builds and after the spoken interlude the crowd exploded.

[@2wayplebney]

@@craigparks1421 how I envy you.

[@mandykeez]

Mesmerizing, pure genius! I’m listening to this song over & over & over & over & over & over & o v e r

[@aliebaron9194]

Sounds like the theme for a schizophrenic eldritch abomination somewhere between the folds of a musty area in spacetime. I love it.

[@LicencetoMeme]

"Think! Man! Think!" No truer words have ever been said! Also, HOLY SHIT, is that a Invincible reference ?

[@infectedvoice7293]

The same words but different emotions as the song goes on, different meanings to different sections, just amazing.

[@truemansparks]

Sparks are gods

[@rpesel]

Best love song ever written

[@mpatrickthomas]

Absolute GENIUS. They are time travelers of music.

[@annabackman3028]

The Michelangelos of music! 💖 😃

[@berRojas]

I could spend all day watching Sparks videos

[@a.v.a.p.1356]

I’ve just discovered this song and it seems to me that I lost so many years where I could have listened to it 😁😁😁

[@mickeefreeman2898]

Truly brilliant.....az always...🛸 l.o.v.e . SPARKS ! . 🌈💚😇💕🐾

[@hooya27]

It's like I just learned there is a show called Star Trek, and a guy named Carl Sagan, and a band named Led Zeppelin.

[@extraplaceschannel]

If you don't think this is one of the greatest songs everr written - SORT YOURSELF OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!