How can this brilliant song and video be 30 years old already?!! 30 YEARS!!!! Damn, I feel so old!!! I still adore this song and the video is so funny. I always loved a lot of The Housemartins' stuff and I love The Beautiful South too as well as Paul & Jacqui's recent stuff together.

Happy Hour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDoPEN7n5k

and this is another fave Housemartins song of mine:

There is Always Something There To Remind Me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvyhL3eV1vU

Such a great song.

Brilliant song and video. Timeless. To think that's where it all started for Fat Boy Slim.

Two and a half minutes of perfect pop music.

Flag Day 31 years old, great band the housemartins, faultless career and thankfully never reformed. Had some great bsides and album tracks, Coal train to hatfield main, reverends revenge, the mighty ship. From flag day to always something there to remind me, all wheat no chaff.

Hoping to see Paul and Jacqui at Thetford Forest this summer

I was a toddler at the time (born in 1985) and my parents always said that Happy Hour was the only song I'd "dance" to.

Paris In Flares was my favourite b-side but Flag Day was always their best song

Once played on the same bill as The Housemartins. Never got to see them.

The funny thing is that I used to like a lot of The Housemartins music but I hated the Beautiful South. The Housemartins seemed to have fun melodies in their songs like Five Get Over Excited or Me And The Farmer. The B.S.were a bit lame I thought.

Paul Heaton. Absolute genius.

I remember back in the mid 90s I was taking a shortcut through Littlewoods. There was music playing and as I was walking through Happy Hour came on, so I stopped and pretended I was looking at all the awful OAP style clothes just so I could keep listening to it.

Great band. London 0 Hull 4
Me & The Farmer 👍

Fabulous piece of music!

The lyrics are probably saying something important, but any message gets lost because the song is simply just too catchy to bother thinking about anything else.

Their song 'Build' is absolutely gorgeous although I loathed 'Caravan Of Love'.

this guy knows

This song was once huge, now rarely heard. Its such a feel good gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUa1Ia6vvhI

Caravan of Love is a great tune. Should have been Xmas number one.
Back in the day, Jackie Wilson committed Daylight Robbery.

With his 'Reet Petite' shite.