Interior Design (album)

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Interior Design (album) - Wikipedia

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Interior Design

Studio album by

Sparks

Released

August 26, 1988

Studio

The Pentagon Studio (Los Angeles)

Genre

Synth-pop

Length

44:25

Label

Fine Art
Rhino

Producer

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 fifteenth studio album by the American rock band Sparks, released in August 1988 by Fine Art Records.

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 No. 8^[2] and No. 7^[2] respectively. "Just Got Back from Heaven" also appeared on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart at No. 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". In 2008, Sparks' own record label Lil' Beethoven Records reissued the album in a digipak sleeve retaining the bonus tracks.

Alternate titles

For unknown reasons, Interior Design has been re-released multiple times in various European territories as a budget CD. The most common retitled version is Just Got Back from Heaven. However, many other versions have been released often utilising images of the mid-seventies Island-era iteration of the band. Other releases market the album as if it were a greatest hits album.

The alternate titles of Interior Design are as follows: Just Got Back from Heaven (Soundwings, Success, Hallmark Music & Entertainment), The World of the Sparks / Madonna (Trace Trading), So Important (Trend, LaserLight Digital), Gold (Gold), The Magic Collection (ABC Records).

Tour

Interior Design was the first Sparks album since 1979's Nº 1 in Heaven that wasn't supported by live performances. However, they staged a promotional event called Love-O-Rama at the Tower Records store in Sherman Oaks, California on September 15, 1988.

Track listing

All tracks are written 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
Total length:		44:25

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 (Shark Island) – guitar
Pamela Stonebrooke – background vocals
John Thomas – keyboards, engineering

References

^ AllMusic review
^ ^a ^b ^c "AllMusic - Billboard Singles - Sparks". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-09-22.

External links

Interior Design at Discogs (list of releases)

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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 Hippopotamus A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte
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" "When I'm with You" "I Predict" "Cool Places" "With All My Might" "When Do I Get to Sing 'My Way'" "When I Kiss You (I Hear Charlie Parker Playing)" "Now That I Own the BBC" "Dick Around" "Johnny Delusional"
Related	Giorgio Moroder Telex Sex (Telex album) Noël Gleaming Spires Les Rita Mitsouko Devo Todd Rundgren Sparks Spectacular Tony Visconti Jane Wiedlin FFS (self-titled album) The Sparks Brothers Annette
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