History Music / KimonoMyHouse

* LongTitle: "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us".

* TitleDrop: The album's title features in the lyrics of "Hasta Mañana, Monsieur".

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Bassist Martin Gordon and Guitarist Adrian Fisher were notoriously dissatisfied with the Maels' direction for the album. The latter, in particular, would put out his cigarettes while recording and refused to show up to multiple photoshoots. Both of them were sacked by the time Propaganda came out.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: "Hasta Manana Monsieur" depicts a man struggling to woo a girl in her native tongue. Unsure of her nationality, he takes random, wild stabs at every continent.
* CountryMatters: The protagonist of "Hasta Manana Monsieur" has this reaction when his foreign ladyfriend mentions [[GeniusBookClub reading Kant.]]

* UpdatedRerelease: Remastered versions add album outtakes "Barbecutie" and "Lost and Found". The 21st Century Edition also includes a 1975 live version of "Amateur Hour" with the ''Indiscreet'' lineup.

* GlamRock

-> ''"Today I bought the album of the year. I feel I can say this without expecting several letters saying I'm talking rubbish. The album is ''Kimono My House'' by Sparks."''

--> "Up here in Heaven without you\\

* PowerPop

* TruckDriversGearChange: "Amateur Hour" has a very noticeable one.

''Kimono'' was their first album after moving from Los Angeles to England to take advantage of their growing European fanbase - the brothers Ron and Russell Mael left behind their bandmates and formed a new group with English musicians: guitarist Adrian Fisher, bassist Martin Gordon, and drummer Norman "Dinky" Diamond. Their eclectic mix of genres tightened to a neo-classical, arty GlamRock that resonated with UK listeners, and it became their first and biggest hit album. According to producer Muff Winwood, Music/EltonJohn bet against Winwood that the single "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" wouldn't become a top 5 hit; not only did he lose the bet with it going straight to #2, but it went on to be the band's SignatureSong for their entire career and spawned countless cover versions. The second single "Amateur Hour" also reached the top 10 in England, and both singles reached #12 in Germany.

* StageMom: "Talent Is An Asset" plays Albert Einstein's mother as this.

-->''"And it ain't me who's gonna leave!''

''Kimono'' was their first album after moving from Los Angeles to England to take advantage of their growing European fanbase - the brothers Ron and Russell Mael left behind their bandmates and formed a new group with English musicians. Their eclectic mix of genres tightened to a neo-classical, arty GlamRock that resonated with UK listeners, and it became their first and biggest hit album. According to producer Muff Winwood, Music/EltonJohn bet against Winwood that the single "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" wouldn't become a top 5 hit; not only did he lose the bet with it going straight to #2, but it went on to be the band's SignatureSong for their entire career and spawning countless cover versions. The second single "Amateur Hour" also reached the top 10 in England, and both singles reached #12 in Germany.

* SiblingTeam: This marked the first album where Sparks was defined as Ron and Russell Mael, plus backing musicians. Previously Sparks included brothers Earle and Jim Mankey and drummer Harley Feinstein, but the record label gave the Mael brothers the choice to leave them behind in order to pursue their English fanbase, as the label figured they were the creative center of the band. The musicians hired for ''Kimono My House'' were greatly upset when they were DemotedToExtra on the album's back cover to the Mael brothers, and only drummer Norman "Dinky" Diamond would stick with the band for their ''Propaganda''-''Indiscreet'' incarnation.

--> ''"Today I bought the album of the year. I feel I can say this without expecting several letters saying I'm talking rubbish. The album is ''Kimono My House'' by Sparks."''\\
--Music/{{Morrissey}}, in a letter to the Magazine/{{NME}} in 1974.

''Kimono My House'' is the third album by American Rock band Music/{{Sparks}}, released in 1974.

''Kimono My House'' is the third album by American Rock band Music/{{Sparks}}, released in 1974 and pitted against their 2002 [[GenreBusting genre buster]] ''Music/LilBeethoven'' for the title of their MagnumOpus.

--> ''"Envision berets, tennis shorts, absurdist French comedy, espresso, faux luxury, fake English accents and a Hitler moustache, and some kind of picture will form that approximates the genius that is the first five Sparks albums."''\\
--[[http://exclaim.ca/Interviews/WebExclusive/sparks_russell_mael Don Pyle]], 2008.

* IconicItem: Bassist Martin Gordon used a Rickenbacker 4001 as his signature bass, to the point that he preferred to be sacked from the band between albums than to use a different bass like he was asked.

--> "Up here in Heaven without you
--> It is Hell knowing that your health
--> Will keep you out of here for many, many years"

''Kimono My House'' is the third album by American Rock band Music/{{Sparks}}, released in 1974 and widely seen as their MagnumOpus. It was their first album after moving from Los Angeles to England to take advantage of their growing European fanbase - the brothers Ron and Russell Mael left behind their bandmates and formed a new group with English musicians. Their eclectic mix of genres tightened to a neo-classical, arty GlamRock that resonated with UK listeners, and it became their first and biggest hit album. According to producer Muff Winwood, Music/EltonJohn bet against Winwood that the single "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" wouldn't become a top 5 hit; not only did he lose the bet with it going straight to #2, but it went on to be the band's SignatureSong for their entire career and spawning countless cover versions. The second single "Amateur Hour" also reached the top 10 in England, and both singles reached #12 in Germany.

* SiblingTeam: This marked the first album where Sparks was defined as Ron and Russell Mael, plus backing musicians. Previously Sparks included brothers Earle and Jim Mankey and drummer Harley Feinstein, but the record label gave the Mael brothers the choice to leave them behind in order to pursue their English fanbase, as the label figured they were the creative center of the band. The musicians hired for ''Kimono My House'' were greatly upset when they were DemotedtoExtra on the album's back cover to the Mael brothers, and only drummer Norman "Dinky" Diamond would stick with the band for their ''Propaganda''-''Indiscreet'' incarnation.

--> "Up here in Heaven without you\\
It is Hell knowing that your health\\
Will keep you out of here for many, many years"

!!!21st Century Edition bonus tracks
11. "Barbecutie" 3:07
12. "Lost and Found" 3:19
13. "Amateur Hour (live at Fairfield Halls, 9 November 1975)" (Features the Indiscreet line-up of Sparks) 4:44