Donita Sparks
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Donita Sparks (born 8 April 1963, Chicago, Illinois) is a vocalist, guitarist and song-writer in Los Angeles. Donita is the co-founder, along with Suzi Gardner of grunge/punk/rock and roll band L7. Sparks also contributed to The New Yorker Outloud CD series, composing the score for the "Brokeback Mountain" segment in 1998. [1] Since June of 2005, Sparks has been touring with her eponymously named solo project. Sparks is currently in the studio recording her first solo CD. The first single off her new album is titled "Infancy of a Disaster". The video for the song can be seen on YouTube.
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[edit] Credits
Sparks's song-writing credits include:
[edit] L7 (1987)
- "Metal Stampede", "Cool Out" (herself)
- "Let's Rock Tonight", "Runnin' from the Law" (with Gardner)
- "Uncle Bob", "I Drink", "Ms. 45" (L7)
[edit] Smell The Magic (1991)
- "Shove", "Fast and Frightening", "'Till the Wheels Fall Off" (with Gardner)
- "Deathwish" (with Plakas and Finch)
- "Broomstick" (with Gardner and Finch)
[edit] Bricks are Heavy (1992)
- "Wargasm", "Pretend We're Dead", "Diet Pill", "Mr. Integrity", "Shitlist" (herself)
- "Scrap" (with Gurewitz)
- "Slide" (with Gardner)
One of the songs Sparks wrote, "Pretend We're Dead", was the most successful song in L7's history. It was later included on the soundtrack to video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
[edit] Hungry For Stink (1994)
- "Can I Run", "Riding With a Movie Star", "Talk Box" (herself)
- "Andres", "Baggage", "Stuck Here Again", "Freak Magnet" (with Gardner)
- "The Bomb", "Questioning My Sanity", "She Has Eyes" (with Finch)
- "Fuel My Fire" (with Cosmic Psychos)
[edit] The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum (1997)
- "Off the Wagon", "Non-Existent Patricia", "Lorenza, Giada, Allesandra" (herself)
- "Drama", "I Need", "Moonshine", "The Masses Are Asses", "Bad Things", "Must Have More" (with Gardner)
[edit] Quotes
- "One of the doctors was playing our song ("I Need") in the operating room and her assisting doctor – it drove him over the edge and he jumped off the roof of the hospital. We were just giddy over that. Apparently, the doctor who attempted suicide referred to us (the band) as "gurgling transvestites." " - on having one of their songs used in an episode of the television show Chicago Hope
- "That's a badge of honor. We're shouting it from the mountaintops." - on L7 being banned from the Christian Coalition
- "It's a brutal business. At times, it's very masochistic." - on the music industry
