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The Housemartins - Happy Hour (1986)
spaceygal
28-03-2016
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
mimicole
29-03-2016
Such a great song.
shackfan
29-03-2016
Brilliant song and video. Timeless. To think that's where it all started for Fat Boy Slim.
Hayden
29-03-2016
Two and a half minutes of perfect pop music.
Johnny_Cash
30-03-2016
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.
moonlily
31-03-2016
Hoping to see Paul and Jacqui at Thetford Forest this summer
lybertyne
31-03-2016
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.
silentNate
31-03-2016
Originally Posted by Johnny_Cash:
“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.”

Paris In Flares was my favourite b-side but Flag Day was always their best song
mgvsmith
01-04-2016
Once played on the same bill as The Housemartins. Never got to see them.
ItsNick
01-04-2016
Originally Posted by spaceygal:
“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”

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.
pie-eyed
01-04-2016
Paul Heaton. Absolute genius.
Miss XYZ
01-04-2016
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.
farmer bob
01-04-2016
Great band. London 0 Hull 4
Me & The Farmer 👍
Chris1964
01-04-2016
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.
Hayden
01-04-2016
Their song 'Build' is absolutely gorgeous although I loathed 'Caravan Of Love'.
Johnny_Cash
02-04-2016
Originally Posted by silentNate:
“Paris In Flares was my favourite b-side but Flag Day was always their best song ”

this guy knows
starry_rune
02-04-2016
This song was once huge, now rarely heard. Its such a feel good gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUa1Ia6vvhI
Mr. Sifter.
03-04-2016
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.
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