'In Outer Space', Sparks' twelfth LP, released in 1983, put electronic instrumentation to the fore again. There's also a lot less of Russell's falsetto. It was relatively successful in the US, with first single 'Cool Places', a duet with Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Gos reaching no 49 in the Billboard Hot 100. She also duets on 'Lucky Me, Lucky You'. It sounds very contemporary to the point of being the sort of thing that we now associate with 1983 in a pastel suits and sports car speeding down a Miami highway way. Its US success seems like a gamble that paid off and finally got them recognition again in their home country. Like 'Angst In My Pants' it sounds of its time, but it also feels like they actively tried to make it US radio friendly. In the video for 'Cool Places' Ron is being very, well, Ron and bringing in Jane Wiedlin when the Go-Gos were enormous in the US wouldn't have hurt. I'd say 'Lucky Me, Lucky You' is a better song than 'Cool Places' but also that 'Cool Places' would be the hit. It's also got 'All You Ever Think About Is Sex' also a single but less sucessful, which has a video, and 'A Fun Bunch of Guys From...' which seems to predict Men in Black and even Russian spies looking for Salisbury Cathedral.