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Interior Design by Sparks
Interior Design is an album by Sparks, released in 1988. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 4 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “So Important”, on 3 lists with a best position of #47.
Interior Design, the 15th studio album from Sparks, came out in August 1988 on Fine Art Records, a pure Mael-brothers affair with Ron producing and playing keyboards and Russell singing. By then the pair had long since swapped glam for the synth-pop that started with their Giorgio Moroder collaborations, and the sound here is crisp and chattering, Ron's keyboards ticking along in tight, intricate patterns while Russell's elastic voice darts all over the melody.
It didn't turn the duo's fortunes around, missing the album charts in both the US and the UK, but the clubs heard it: "So Important" reached number 8 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and "Just Got Back from Heaven" number 7. CD copies threw in three versions of the closer "Madonna", a remix of "So Important" and a short instrumental, "The Big Brass Ring". Budget reissues across Europe have often retitled it Just Got Back from Heaven, and the band's own Lil' Beethoven Records put it back out in a digipak in 2008.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Interior Design on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So Important | 3 | #47 | – | 1988 | |
| 2 | Just Got Back from Heaven | 1 | #430 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.