Interior Design (album)

Interior Design

Studio album by Sparks

Released

August 1988

Recorded

The Pentagon Studio, Los Angeles

Length

44:25

Label

Fine Art

Producer

Ron Mael, Russell Mael

Sparks chronology

Music That You Can Dance To
(1986)

Interior Design
(1988)

Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins
(1994)

Singles from Interior Design

"So Important"
Released: July 1988
"Just Got Back From Heaven"
Released: August 1989

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Interior Design is the 15th album by the American rock band Sparks.

Release

Interior Design did little in the way to reverse the commercial fortunes of the group, and did not appear on the album charts in the US or the UK. The singles "So Important" and "Just Got Back From Heaven" did better, both of which reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart at #8^[2] and #7^[2] respectively. "Just Got Back From Heaven" also appeared on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart at #24.^[2]

Re-release

CD versions of the album included a number of bonus tracks including three versions of the LPs final track "Madonna", a remix of "So Important" and the short instrumental "The Big Brass Ring".

The album was released in some territories as Just Got Back From Heaven. These versions had altered sleeve art, some of which utilised a picture of the band from the mid-seventies, and were aimed at the budget market in general.

In 2008, Sparks' own record label Lil' Beethoven Records reissued the album in a digipak sleeve retaining the bonus tracks.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ron Mael and Russell Mael.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"So Important"	4:33
2.	"Just Got Back From Heaven"	4:09
3.	"Lots Of Reasons"	3:47
4.	"You've Got a Hold of My Heart"	4:58
5.	"Love-O-Rama"	4:44

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"The Toughest Girl in Town"	4:16
7.	"Let's Make Love"	4:45
8.	"Stop Me if You've Heard this Before"	3:41
9.	"A Walk Down Memory Lane"	4:53
10.	"Madonna"	4:39

CD bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Madonna" (French Version)	4:39
12.	"Madonna" (German Version)	4:39
13.	"Madonna" (Spanish Version)	4:39
14.	"The Big Brass Ring"	2:20
15.	"So Important (Extremely Important Remix)"	7:02

Personnel

Russell Mael - vocals, production
Ron Mael - keyboards, production
Spencer Sircombe - guitar
Pamela Stonebrooke - background vocals
John Thomas - keyboards, engineering

References

↑ Allmusic review
1 2 3 "Allmusic - Billboard Singles - Sparks". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-09-22.

Sparks

Ron Mael Russell Mael Jim Mankey Earle Mankey Harley Feinstein Martin Gordon Adrian Fisher Norman "Dinky" Diamond Trevor White Ian Hampton Bob Haag Leslie Bohem David Kendrick Christi Haydon Tammy Glover Dean Menta

Albums	Halfnelson/Sparks A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing Kimono My House Propaganda Indiscreet Big Beat Introducing Sparks No. 1 in Heaven Terminal Jive Whomp That Sucker Angst in My Pants In Outer Space Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat Music That You Can Dance To Interior Design Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins Plagiarism Balls Lil' Beethoven Hello Young Lovers Exotic Creatures of the Deep The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman Two Hands, One Mouth: Live in Europe FFS (as FFS)

Singles	"This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" "Amateur Hour" "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth" "I Want to Hold Your Hand" "The Number One Song in Heaven" "Beat the Clock" "I Predict" "Cool Places" "Dick Around" "Johnny Delusional"

Related	Halfnelson Giorgio Moroder Telex Gleaming Spires Les Rita Mitsouko Todd Rundgren Sparks Spectacular Tony Visconti Jane Wiedlin FFS

discography

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