Our House (Madness song)

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Singles
Our house
  DE 8th January 17, 1983 (33 weeks)
  UK 5 11/27/1982 (15 weeks)
  US 7th 05/07/1983 (19 weeks)

Our House is a 1982 song by Madness , written by Chris Foreman and Carl Smyth. It appeared on the album The Rise & Fall .

history

The focus of the song is an ordinary, average family who lives in a single-family row house .

The release took place on November 12, 1982, in Canada, New Zealand and Sweden, the pop / new wave song became a number one hit. Our House was the theme song of the British children's series Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest , which ran on CITV from 1985 to 1986 . The 2005 running until 2014 RTL - Dokusoap Our first apartment used the song as the theme song. Madness performed the song Our House at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London .

Music video

The plot of the music video is based on the lyrics. While the family recreates the storyline in the song in the video, Madness plays the song with musical instruments at the locations, and the clip also shows other houses as well as Buckingham Palace . The filming location was at Willesden Junction train station .

reception

Allmusic's Jo-Ann Greene sees the song as a "musical homage to The Kinks " and a "nostalgic look back at the perfection of childhood".

In 2010 sent in the US consequence It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown - alluding to the episode It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ( The Great Pumpkin ) from the Peanuts - the Cleveland Show is the chorus "Our House in the middle of the street "used as a quote from Cleveland and Donna Brown.

The title of the novel "Auerhaus" by Bov Bjerg , published in 2015 by Blumenbar-Verlag , in which the Madness song is mentioned, alludes to the song Our House onomatopoeically .

Cover versions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts UK Charts US
  2. ^ Translation in Golyr.de
  3. ↑ RPM 50 Singles , Volume 38, No. 26, 27 August 1983 , (PDF, 100 kB)
  4. ↑ Our House in the New Zealand charts at Charts.org.nz
  5. ↑ Our House in the Swedish Charts on SwedishCharts.com
  6. ↑ Madness performs 'Our House' at Olympic closing ceremony , Examiner.com, August 12, 2012
  7. ↑ Music video on Dailymotion.com
  8. ^ Madness - Our House, Song Review by Jo-Ann Greene , allmusic.com