Madness "Our House" (First Time Reaction)

[@L33Reacts]

That was a riot and I want more lol. What else you got by Madness?? Thank you again Flint Slim! Thank you for introducing me to this dope ass band..

[@jonmcdevitt]

Night Boat To Cairo and One Better Day.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

My Girl

[@andymccracken4046]

Baggy Trousers

[@thescrewfly]

Wings of a Dove

[@treehopper1000]

Night Boat To Cairo. House Of Fun, Baggy Trousers

[@Moz1011]

Baggy Trousers, House Of Fun

[@radiovalkyrierecords5102]

The string and horn arrangements are simply gorgeous.

[@ROUGHSEES]

This song is a CLASSIC. Madness is loved all over the world. There are a lot more songs to dive into!

[@robotronrichard]

Thanks Flint for requesting this classic! An AMAZING tune! And L33, now like me you will have to fight the urge to say "in the middle of our street" anytime someone uses the phrase "Our House" in a sentence and then have the song stuck in you head for days afterwards. It's absolute MADNESS! ☮❤🎶

[@chrisamundson8653]

An MTV staple. I always enjoyed it when it played.

[@corawheeler9355]

Fun song .. I think everyone recognized the chorus.

[@Kevvinm]

Finally saw them this summer, excellent fun show, a band now off my bucket list!

[@jameswright2209]

It Must Be A Love is a nice track they did. It’s a cover, so it might be interesting to do a comparison to the original by Labi Siffre.

[@robabiera733]

I love this song!

[@submandave1125]

If you're doing Madness you definitely need to hit "One Step Beyond" and "Baggy Trousers."

[@fd1930]

That was fun. And Lee’s caught the Madness bug 🙂

[@robotronrichard]

And now I've also got "House of Fun" stuck in my head. Thanks FD! It's MADNESS! ☮❤🎶

[@AP-gb3eh]

A great song that absolutely nailed working class life that has disappeared. I love the boy dressed like a Beatle and the one pretending to play guitar with a racquet, then in the foil wanting to be glam

[@Bekka_Noyb]

one of my fave 80s songs! dbl ♥

[@mattreynolds612]

So Iconic. Keep it rockin' Lee🎶🎶🎵🎶🔥🔥🔥💯🕺💃

[@alrivers2297]

Classic 80s. Their one huge hit in the U.S. You probably know it from a commercial

[@cheezitsw3279]

I heard this song about a million times before I ever saw the video. And the house in the video is pretty much how I pictured it.

[@shiannesmith6877]

I love this so much 💗 glad you played it today. I needed this! 😅

[@realbser1956]

Nice pick Flint. Catchy as hell, an earworm for sure. Thanks.

[@Mika-lr4zh]

Great review Lee, really enjoyed hearing this again. I’ve seen the video many times before but you can laugh at it every time you watch it.

[@damonhines8187]

'Bed and Breakfast Man'. Truuust me. 😉👍🏼🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊

[@marcribe6483]

Their one and only international hit and song they're most known for. Which comes with a fun promo video too.

[@rossmacintosh5652]

'One Step Beyond' was another great hit they had.

[@kovie9162]

Yet not even close to being one of their best songs.

[@mattleppard1970]

Loved this since age 9 My kids now love it ❤ Flint, you’re a star Life in the UK in the 70s, and it really was like this

[@randyteta9170]

Great MTV song and video

[@thescrewfly]

Madness were a great band with multiple hits over several years. It's only looking back that you realise how much of a fixture they were in the charts at the time - and for good reason. I'd say this is one of their best. PS: Keep telling you, Lee, it's Eye-vor Novello not Ee-vor. Don't make me come round to your house!

[@debjorgo]

3:44 the guy's wearing a gray, collarless Beatle suit from '63 and a Beatle wig. The same suit the Beatles are wearing in the cut-away callback in the Hello Goodbye video. Oh wait. That's his real hair.

[@kjellmand7103]

From the same album as One Step Beyond is also their big hit: The Prince.

[@terryhall7697]

You need to do the prince by madness , a song dedicated to the legend of ska prince buster. Also 54-46 was my number by toots and Maytels

[@dawntucker5052]

I knew the chorus too. Never knew where it came from. Thank you, Lee!!!

[@needlefingers58]

Two pop culture references...A Verizon Christmas commercial from 2010 mashed-up Our House with Jingle Bells. And the Queen's Diamond Jubilee of 2012 had Madness perform on top of Buckingham Palace with a light show projection. They're both here. Check it out.

[@paulocarvalho6480]

L33, you absolutely have to listen to Driving in my car, The Prince, Night Boat to Cairo, Embarrassed among other great songs (even if in your own time). You will not regret doing it. As for Our House, it was a staple in Portuguese radio stations. Even the shops played this non stop in 1982 in downtown Lisbon.

[@chrisknowles7889]

There's a big tinge of melancholy about this song

[@grahamharley4895]

Love the bit in the vid taking the P out of AC/DCs guitarist in his cap and shorts.

[@ploppill34]

yay

[@John-et9yl]

They've done loads of great songs. FYI Lee, the lead singer Suggs did a cover version of I'm Only Sleeping, which was a hit in the UK. Worth checking out.

[@brianvernon249]

I love low end piano like this & JoBoxers’ Just Got Lucky is another example.

[@gregmcstravick4310]

You couldn't beat ska music back in the day ✌

[@Coquinagirl]

Your accent…?? These guys are irrepressible ❗️😀 Thank you for the second play, Lee! I caught what he was asking - if they’d seen “Our ‘Ouse?”🙂 In the middle of our street. I really enjoyed this, Flint Slim! Thank you!

[@XFLexiconMatt]

I love that you finally did this! Fun tune, dude.

[@greggebhart3305]

Until it started I thought I didn't know this but I do glad I stuck around

[@ritagryphon222]

Nice.! So british (:

[@shirleybhs9zd6li5i]

I LOVE this track. Yay Flint for this great pick. Wished I'd had time to see this before the end of my day. Needed the joy it brings. Great double play, L33. Gobble gobble all.

[@f104G]

Madness are like The Beano come to life.

[@jeffwallace916]

Baggy Trousers is a must

[@michaelcullen5308]

"The Nutty Boys" (their nickname) might be one of the only musical acts that are universally liked :)

[@renaorak8332]

In The Rain + You Said (1980 tracks)

[@jeffwallace916]

Try The Specials, A Message for You Rudy and Gangsters. From the same era Ian Drury and the Blockheads, Hit me with your rhythm stick and Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll.

[@whaleoilbeefhooked62]

Gday Lee,baggy trousers or house of fun are good tunes and clips.Do yourself a favour,have a listen.Cheers Flint.

[@mightyV444]

Can you also react to their song 'House Of Fun' including video clip, pretty please? 😊🙏

[@gpreactions3194]

Great band, try House Of Fun, you'll enjoy that, it's a lot of fun x

[@TimoDyer]

Madness - Baggy Trousers, Welcome to he house of fun. We are sailing across the sea to visit our uncle Sam.

[@Kerazen123]

🩰🩰🩰

[@ericthefish01]

Check out House of Fun. Night Boat to Cairo and Baggy Trousers. More brilliant music and videos. Madness are from Camden Town in North West London. I think a lot of their videos were shot in and around that area.

[@rossmacintosh5652]

Another Ska song I'd love to see a reaction for is 'The Specials' singing 'Ghost Town'. The official video is amazing - I don't understand how they made it. Watch, you'll see!

[@acb9231]

Great song from 1982. Next, check out “Rosanna” by Toto, and “Don’t Change” by INXS, two huge hits released that same year. ✌️

[@seancassidy9897]

You've probably heard it because it was a big hit (Top 10) in the US (their only one).

[@andyyoung9463]

A lot will ask you to do Baggy Trousers, House of Fun and It Must Be Love and they are all good songs. I'd suggest, however, that you start with their earlier stuff and work through to see how they changed. You already pointed out how different this is to One Step Beyond. I'd say go for The Prince and Night Boat To Cairo next. Also, do check out The Specials...Too Much Too Young for more of that UK 2 Tone ska sound.

[@kovie9162]

I've really liked Madness ever since I found out about them on a trip abroad in the 80's, since they were all but unheard of here in the states back then unless you were a devotee of Brit pop and rock, and got a bunch of my friends to like them too. Used to blast their hits in my dorm room all the time. But, I've never really cared much for Our House, and think that of all their hits, it's easily their weakest one, too safe and conventional to be very interesting. I much prefer songs like One Step Beyond, Baggy Trousers and Night Boat to Cairo (love that foghorn!). Not sure why they didn't get as much airplay in the US as Our House. It's sort of as if the only Beatles song that succeeded in the US was Tell Me Why or Yellow Submarine. You should react to one of their better hits. They were an important part of the British Ska and Reggae revival of the late 70's to mid-80's, along with the Police, UB40 and the Specials.

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Im not so much for them, but I like this song

[@mattking5936]

More Madness please

[@iamstevec1656]

I think part of this song was in a commercial.

[@BernardHodgson]

Thanks for that Cockney (I guess that what it was) accent. It was TRUELY worse than Dick Van Dykes in Mary Poppins. I forgive you as it I enjoyed it so much again.

[@walterstevens8676]

Uncle Sam

[@indolentcheese]

Another moldy oldey one hit wonder from the basement vault of forgotten bands. This song brings back memories, not all of them good. Still it has a catchy chorus and the lyrics are understandable; a rarity these days.

[@ricardo_miguel13]

you had one job to recognize the early Beatles reference but you didn't haha

[@leewalker6371]

John Lennon was a big fan of madness.

[@StoneShards]

😬😶‍🌫

[@Coquinagirl]

Yes, please don’t do that “accent” again😅!

[@rbking9296]

Another great example of how the 80s music absolutely ruined rock ‘n’ roll

[@spongo]

Not really sure how a well constructed pop song with a catchy chorus "ruined rock 'n' roll". Isn't that pretty much how the music industry always was since the advent of rock 'n' roll in the 50's? Yes, the 80's were horribly commercial and the music was overproduced. But rock 'n' roll is strong enough to survive. More likely the elimination of music programs in schools in favor of teaching to the test and the rise of producer-driven pop and hip hop helped hasten an end to rock 'n' roll's domination.