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Interior Design (album)

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Released
  
August 1988

Artist
  
Sparks

Label
  
Fine Art

Producers
  
Ron Mael, Russell Mael

Length
  
44:25

Release date
  
August 1988

Genres
  
Rock music, Synth-pop

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Recorded
  
The Pentagon Studio, Los Angeles

Interior Design (1988)
  
Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (1994)

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

Contents

Sparks you got a hold of my heart


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 and #7 respectively. "Just Got Back From Heaven" also appeared on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart at #24.

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 title

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).

Track listing

All tracks written by Ron Mael and Russell Mael.

Personnel

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

    1So Important4:35
    2Just Got Back From Heaven4:11
    3Lots of Reasons3:48

    References

    Interior Design (album) Wikipedia