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Now That’s What I Call Quite Good

The Housemartins

1988 recording. Genres: Rock \ Indie pop ~
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Now That’s What I Call Quite Good
Gathering singles, B-sides, BBC sessions, and key album cuts from all chapters of the Housemartins' brief but brilliant career, the posthumous Now That's What I Call Quite Good! is both a glowing greatest-hits package and an odds-and-ends clearinghouse -- a fitting epitaph for a band which thrived on contradictions in consistently pitting the personal versus the political and the secular versus the spiritual. Despite the uniform excellence of their two studio LPs, this release confirms once and for all that the Housemartins were first and foremost a singles band -- even removed from their album context, highlights including "Bow Down," "Build," and "The Light Is Always Green" boast all the immediacy and infectiousness of classic pop radio fodder, even if their actual mainstream appeal was minimal at best. The previously uncollected material, meanwhile, reveals a warmth and intimacy often missing from Paul Heaton's most trenchant social commentaries -- in particular, the "garage gospel" approach which distinguishes remarkable readings of Luther Ingram's "I'll Be Your Shelter" and the Isley Brothers' "Caravan of Love" (the latter the Housemartins' lone U.K. chart-topper) radiate an intensely humanistic empathy which underlines the utter conviction at the heart of all the group's work. ~ Jason Ankeny
Cover of 'Now That’s What I Call Quite Good' - The Housemartins
1. I Smell Winter [3m 23s]2. Bow Down [3m 01s]3. Think For A Minute! [3m 29s]4. There Is Always Something There To Remind Me [3m 30s]5. The Mighty Ship [1m 50s]6. Sheep [2m 16s]7. I’ll Be Your Shelter [4m 46s]8. Five Get Over Excited [2m 41s]9. Everyday’s The Same [2m 56s]10. Build [4m 48s]11. Step Outside [4m 13s]12. Flag Day [3m 32s]13. Happy Hour [2m 22s]14. You’ve Got A Friend [3m 30s]15. He Ain’t Heavy [2m 47s]16. Freedom [3m 27s]17. The People Who Grinned Themselves To Death [3m 30s]18. Caravan Of Love [3m 39s]19. The Light Is Always Green [3m 58s]20. We’re Not Deep [2m 15s]21. Me And The Farmer [2m 54s]22. Lean On Me [4m 27s]23. Drop Down Dead [3m 01s]24. Hopelessly Devoted To Them [2m 10s]Total duration: 1h 18m 35s