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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 /TiVo
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Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Norman Cook, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Heaton, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist - Stan Cullimore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Hugh Whitaker, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, Composer - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, Composer - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
John Williams, Producer - Lloyd Charmers, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Norman Cook, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Paul Heaton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Jeffrey Wood, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Matthew Key, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist - Ted Key, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Stan Cullimore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Hugh Whitaker, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1985 Go! Discs Ltd.
Norman Cook, Bass Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Heaton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Phil Bodger, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist - Stan Cullimore, Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Hugh Whitaker, Drums, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Carole King, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Robert William Scott, ComposerLyricist - Bob Russell, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Anthony Matthew Key, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 2009 BBC
Norman Cook, Bass Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Heaton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Phil Bodger, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist - Stan Cullimore, Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Hugh Whitaker, Drums, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Christopher Jasper, ComposerLyricist - Ernest Isley, ComposerLyricist - Norman Cook, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Heaton, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - John Williams, Producer - The Housemartins, MainArtist - Stan Cullimore, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Dave Hemingway, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Norman Cook, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Paul Heaton, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist - Stan Cullimore, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Pete Wingfield, ComposerLyricist - Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - The Housemartins, MainArtist
℗ 1986 Go! Discs Ltd.
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, MainArtist - Dale Griffin, Producer - Mike Engles, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1985 BBC
Paul Heaton, ComposerLyricist - John Williams, Producer - Ian Peter Cullimore, ComposerLyricist - The Housemartins, Producer, MainArtist
℗ 1987 Go! Discs Ltd.
Album review
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 /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:18:28
- Main artists: The Housemartins
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: EMI
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1988 Go! Discs Ltd. This Compilation ℗ 1988 Go! Discs Ltd.
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