"This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" b/w "Barbecutie"
Released: April 1974
"Amateur Hour" b/w "Lost and Found"
Released: July 1974
"Hasta Mañana Monsieur" b/w "Equator"
Released: September 1974
"Talent Is An Asset" b/w "Lost and Found"
Released: November 1974 (NZ, US)

Music sample

"Thank God It's Not Christmas"

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Classic Rock
Rolling Stone	(mixed)

Kimono My House is the third album by the American rock band Sparks. The album was released in May 1974 and is considered to be their commercial breakthrough album.

The album's title is a pun on the song "Come On-a My House", made famous by Rosemary Clooney. The pun has a precedent, however, in the title of a track on jazz guitarist Dick Garcia's 1956 album A Message from Garcia.

In 1973, prior to the recording of the album, the brothers Ron and Russell Mael had accepted an offer to relocate to the United Kingdom in order to participate in the glam rock scene. The previous lineup consisting of Earle Mankey, Jim Mankey and Harley Feinstein were replaced with British musicians: Martin Gordon, Adrian Fisher and Norman "Dinky" Diamond joined the band to play bass, guitar and drums respectively. The group signed a record contract with Island Records and recorded Kimono My House in 1974. Although the Mael brothers had wanted Roy Wood to produce the album, he was unavailable, so Muff Winwood was hired as producer. Winwood remained with the group to produce the follow-up album Propaganda later in 1974.

Musically, Kimono My House represented a shift in sound and a focusing of Ron Mael's songwriting (now the indisputable lead songwriter). Sparks' two albums with the Mankey brothers had been diverse albums that featured a number of different styles, such as a cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Do-Re-Mi", "Here Comes Bob", which was performed by a small string section, and "The Louvre", which mixed both English and French lyrics.

The new album embraced the more pop-oriented side of the Mael brothers' song-writing, which had previously been evident in songs such as "Wonder Girl" and "High C". Now, backed by the new British line-up and boosted by Winwood's simpler production, the songs were more focused. The album slotted in with the current popularity of glam rock—which was dominating the charts—in particular, the more experimental and electronic sound of Roxy Music and David Bowie. Lyrically, the songs remained unusual and humorous. The great number of words filled with pop-culture references, puns and peculiar sexual content sung often in falsetto by Russell Mael set Sparks apart from other groups.

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