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The Housemartins: Now That's What I Call Quite Good

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Label: Go! Discs
Released: 1988.08.01
Time:
78:39
Category: Indie rock
Producer(s): The Housemartins, Barry Andrews, Dale Griffin, Jeffrey Wood, John Williams
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address:
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] I Smell Winter (Heaton/Cullimore) - 3:23
[2] Bow Down (Heaton/Cullimore) - 3:01
[3] Think for a Minute! (Heaton/Cullimore) - 3:29
[4] Always Something There to Remind Me [John Peel Session 4/11/87] (Heaton/Cullimore) – 3:30
[5] The Mighty Ship (Heaton/Cullimore) - 1:50
[6] Sheep (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:16
[7] I'll Be Your Shelter [Just Like a Shelter] (Charmers) - 4:46
[8] Five Get Over Excited (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:41
[9] Everyday's the Same (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:56
[10] Build (Heaton/Cullimore) - 4:48
[11] Step Outside (Heaton/Cullimore) - 4:13
[12] Flag Day (Heaton/Cullimore/Key) - 3:32
[13] Happy Hour (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:22
[14] You've Got a Friend (King) - 3:30
[15] He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother [Capital Radio Session 13/3/86] (Russell/Scott) – 2:47
[16] Freedom [Janice Long Session 6/11/85] (Heaton/Key) – 3:27
[17] The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death (Heaton/Cullimore) - 3:30
[18] Caravan of Love (Isley/Jasper/Isley) - 3:39
[19] The Light Is Always Green (Heaton/Cullimore) - 3:58
[20] We're Not Deep (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:15
[21] Me and the Farmer (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:54
[22] Lean on Me (Heaton/Wingfield) - 4:27
[23] Drop Down Dead [John Peel Session 21/7/85] (Heaton/Cullimore) – 3:01
[24] Hopelessly Devoted to Them (Heaton/Cullimore) - 2:10

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Paul Heaton - Vocals
Stan Cullimore - Guitar
Ted Key - Bass
Norman Cook - Bass
Justin Patrick - Drums
Chris Lang - Drums
Hugh Whitaker - Drums
Dave Hemingway - Drums

Barry Andrews - Producer on [16]
Dale Griffin - Producer un [4,23]
The Housemartins - Producer on [2,8-11,14,17,19, 21,22,24]
Jeffrey Wood  - Producer on [12]
John Williams - Producer on [1-3,5-8,10,11,13,17-22,24]
Phil Bodger - Engineer on [1-3,5,8,10,11,13,17,18-24]
Roy Neave - Engineer on [9,14]
Andy Turner - Engineer on [15]
Ben Cape - Engineer on [12]
Martyn Parker - Engineer for [Janice Long Session 6/11/85] on [16]
Dave Dade - Engineer for [John Peel Session 4/11/87] on [4]
Mike Engels - Studio Manager for [John Peel Session 21/7/85]
Paul Patterson - Artwork
Paul Heaton - Layout
Fay Godwin - Photography [Back]
Pierre Jahan - Photography [Front]
Paul Rider - Photography [Hugh]
Lawrence Watson - Photography [Paul, Dave & Norman]
Nikki Rodgerson - Photography [Ted & Stan]

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


On sleeve:
This compilation (c) 1988 Go! Discs Ltd. England. Trademark owned by Chrysalis Records Ltd. London, England and used by Festival Records Pty. Ltd. Australia and Festival Records (N.Z.) Ltd. under authorization.
Manufactured by Festival Records Pty. Ltd. Australia and New Zealand. © 1988 Go! Discs Ltd. England.

Under the Go! Discs logo on rear sleeve is the phrase, "Makes Other Labels Look Crap"

On insert:
All tracks published by Go! Discs Music Ltd. (in capital letters)
Except
C2, C6 Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
B1 B&C Music
C3 Heath Levy Music Pub. Co
Copyright Control
D4 Go! Discs Music Ltd/Island Music (in capital letters)

C4 & D5 Released by arrangement with B.B.C. Enterprises Ltd. ? B.B.C. 1985/86/87.

Artwork at Byrce Creative Services Ltd.

On labels:
Side B: (P) 1985, 1986, 1987 Go! Discs Ltd., England
(C) 1988 Go! Discs Ltd., England
Sides A, C & D: (P) 1986, 1987 Go! Discs Ltd., England
(C) 1988 Go! Discs Ltd., England
(on label circumference)
Made in Australia by Festival Records Pty. Ltd.




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 - All Music Guide



Now That's What I Call Quite Good was the post-breakup greatest hits album from The Housemartins. It was released in 1988. As well as singles, the compilation includes various album tracks, B-sides and radio session recordings. It includes many humorous liner notes from the band, including New Zealand sales and charts stats, and the song "Caravan of Love".

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