Merry Christmas! Reacting to Madness - Our House

[@bugsby4663]

Baked beans on toast is the best. It;s a proper British working class breakfast. This song is a love letter to working class family life in Britain, especially in the seventies and eighties.

[@BoxerRick]

I was a Jr in HS when this came out in America. We all loved this. These guys wete zany but such great musicians. And this song hits home. I have 6 brothers and I remember my Dads friends asking him if he was trying to grow his own football team. 😂 God bless and Happy New Year from Ky

[@sweetnightmares2498]

"Our house" was a council house. Back in the days when working-class people could live in affordable housing before the billionnaires took control of everything.

[@docsavage8640]

@sweetnightmares2498 you mean when Socialism forced the working poor into awful slums.

[@mattpotter8725]

Breakfast? Don't you mean breakfast, dinner, or tea (not all on the same day mind you)?!!!

[@bannjaxx]

Never had it for breakfast, but lunch or dinner....or tea....definitely - and the beans are just plain old haricot beans in tomato sauce, like Heinz Beans, etc - it was a staple during rationing in WW2 when meat was scarce.

[@shemanic1]

Madness were a breath of fresh air in the troubled 80's. Thanks for keeping the music alive.

[@jta1973]

You don't have to be English to appreciate the lyrics. "...Our mum she's so house-proud. Nothing ever slows her down and a mess is not allowed". That was Mom, for sure. ✌😆🍻

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

"One Step Beyond" is a banger from Madness. I got to see them at Bond's in NYC. It was the moment I learned to let go and dance my asp off.

[@UberDurable]

"It Must Be Love" is another favorite Madness song.

[@darklorddisco]

The algo has blessed me with this reaction vid!! You are so lovely and these selections are excellent. To answer your last question: none of the Madness members were siblings, though they were all friends (and basically just kids when they hit it big) from the same town, Camden. The piano player and primary songwriter, Mike Barston, did grow up in a similar looking house with his musician siblings so this may be based on that experience. Good hunch on your part!

[@in6087]

This was huge in my junior school in the 80s. Several people had black canvas school bags with the big white Madness M, crowns, and boots on them

[@RicP351]

He was asking “have you seen our house” at the start of the video.

[@yournamehere6002]

Yeah, I was stunned she didn't understand that

[@lechatvenere]

The joke is that it can be heard as "our ass" with the english accent :)

[@yournamehere6002]

@ I never thought of that, good show!

[@susannehouse3857]

Love Madness.......playing on the roof of Buck House is a must watch.....

[@christianmarler2253]

At the beginning, he's asking, "Have you seen our 'ouse?" (Our House) The British prefer Heinz Beans, also called Heinz Beanz, in a light blue can.

[@BoxerRick]

It just makes me think of home. Makes me think I have alot in common with my Brit Brothers and Sisters. God bless ya Maddy. Youre a fine young lady.

[@barryserpa5174]

This video introduced the US to Madness and this song which became a top 40 hit thanks to MTV

[@robvegart]

yup! Back in 83

[@MC-en9rg]

There are several Monty Python references in this video, especially the Gumbies....😂

[@longfootbuddy]

nah, monty python and this were referencing those guys

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

...and the Village Idiot head coverings in the pool. (The Village Idiot skit was 1969 for anyone wondering who came first.)

[@patcow9999]

Loved this, Madness are such a uniquely English vibe, songs like this just make you smile, in fact all their songs do, even ones with a more serious message like Embarrassment (superb song about mixed relationships) and One Better Day (equally brilliant song on homelessness) are done with humour. Thank you Maddy for reacting to Our House, its made my morning!

[@robvegart]

Wow!!! I was like 16 when this first aired... Back then MTV actually showed video's all day long, though I watched this on Hot Tracks(7 Abc) and Friday Night Videos(4 Nbc) in NYC back in 1983 (broadcast tv). Not every one had access to cable tv. Our neighborhood was among the last in the city to get cable... After a 6 year hiatus from NY (military and living in VA) I had moved back and was able to get cable in that area in NY 1992. A first and a learning experience for me.

[@Stu-Vino]

Madness were absolutely HUGE in the UK in the early/mid 80s. Loads of Number 1s. Guy at the start is saying 'Have you seen our house?' (pronounced like 'arr ouse')

[@stevenmonte7397]

LOVE THIS SONG! The 80's had such a unique flavor.

[@MegaBadgeman]

Look at the charts in 1980 Skinhead,, Heavy Metal, rockabillies, Electropop, quaint English pop, Reggae. Teddy boys.

[@williambenner701]

What a fun memory! Thanks Maddy, and have a beautiful Christmas love ❤

[@BlackCountryShaneywaney]

A classic working class British humour take

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️

[@maxsteiner1964]

Tis from a time when artists actually knew how to play instruments. No computers here I tell ya. Love from Norway Maddy.

[@bwilson5401]

Beans on toast is cheap comfort food.Melted cheese on top makes it even better.With white pepper .

[@jollyroger5147]

melted cheese! posh peoples!!!

[@Felix-Sited]

Ground Black pepper.........you heathen.

[@traviswall1982]

My favorite Madness song is "The Sun and the Rain", even play it on my guitar.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

That was one of the few pop songs from back then that truly got to me.

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️

[@ZZ430T56]

They were a popular and unique band that got lots of airplay, even in the US. Good to here it again.

[@robertgartner1901]

Wow, so many memories, thanks Maddy ❤

[@MaddyReactions]

Any time!

[@miguelbotelho2613]

this song became a hit when it came out, especially on Canadian radio and video TV shows of the time. It's a great song that I still enjoy listening to today.

[@Balthazare69]

One more "madness" is coming really soon... 100k subs!!! 😀😀😀

[@MaddyReactions]

So close!

[@s.oliver3687]

"It must be Love" "My Girl" "My Name is Michel Cane" are also great Madness songs.

[@cookiemonster1409]

Baggy Trousers Driving in my car Uncle Sam And my personal favourite - House of fun (all about trying to buy your first pack of condoms in the chemist without saying condom)

[@DanHebden-ly9is]

Merry Christmas Maddy, hope you have a great time 🎅 🎁 🎄 yes the beans on toast are baked beans, here in UK we eat it when we have no time/can’t be bothered to cook anything better or if we have not got the shopping in!

[@exnihilo3302]

Be Good Johnny by Men at Work is a great song that you should react to.

[@PatrickChachulski]

It's amazing how nostalgic that I get over this song which is indeed very much about nostalgia. Summer of 83 was just incredible and so many various styles of music taking place. Love your reaction! You look beautiful and Merry Christmas!!!

[@MaddyReactions]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BulldogMack700rs]

Great band Night boat to Cairo and Wings of a Dove are personal favourites

[@MrJeddYoung]

Madness was a great ska band. If you're not familiar with ska - it's a fusion of reggae and British pop. There were underground ska scenes in the UK in the late 70s and it spread to the US by the early 80's. Other great ska bands include: The Specials, The English Beat, Bad Manners, Selecter, and for a cool American ska band - try the Kyber Rifles. Thanks for your reactions - I always enjoy them.

[@LearnToRefine]

All about the nostalgia here. This catchy song was playing everywhere you went for a while in the early 80's. 👍🏾😎

[@MaddyReactions]

Oh wow!

[@dalj4362]

Best beans on toast! Toast white bread and butter with real butter. Cook beans and place on top of toast and grate plenty of mature cheddar cheese on top :)

[@AlexanderCalderon-kd6mh]

Merry Christmas Maddy! Thank you for reacting to this song. It brings back memories of childhood. My parents were born in Cuba. My Dad knew English, but wouldn't speak it often, but I remember him singing the chorus of this song! He died in 2020 of Alzheimer's

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️

[@MarissaM312]

Totally eighties and I’m loving it!!! Great reaction, Maddy! ❤🙏😊

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️❤️❤️

[@gazoontight]

Oh, yeah. Madness!

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️

[@jordan0010]

Lol used to love this, have a Great Christmas 🎄❤

[@MaddyReactions]

Same to you!

[@paulf2123]

Was one of my favorites from back in the day

[@gpreactions3194]

Great reaction!! xx I was 15 when this came out in the autumn of 1982. Another great track by Madness and seldom reacted to is 'Embarrassment'.

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️

[@UberDurable]

A very British song! Long live the 80s 💪💪

[@69woodys]

Met these guys many years ago in a bar in Newcastle. Great bunch of lads :)

[@christophermollan1684]

Memories from the eighties...I was in high school ( getting ready for college)...music was so great then!!!!!!

[@daveborder7751]

Heinz Baked Beans on Toast-it is an amazing taste, in spite of the apperance. Try it & you will probably really enjoy it, most Americans & Canadians do when they give it a go.

[@seijika46]

My fave of theirs, in both song and video, will always be 'It Must Be Love'.

[@Roboto2073]

Great song request. I haven't heard this for years. Love this song... and your channel. Keep up the grind my dear.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

one of my fave 80s songs! dbl ♥

[@Pablopax4]

Since I played in bands in the London music scene I got to know some of these guys. Good people and fun to be around. I got home from a gig wearing Lee (the sax player)'s hat covered in talcum powder for some reason. Drinks were involved to explain the hazyness.

[@mazza4190]

One of the happiest bands to hit the charts again and again....

[@MaddyReactions]

Lovely

[@mrloverlover32]

real 80s walls color brown walls so typical in the 80s,merry christmas maddy

[@ThistleAndSea]

Fun one, Maddy! I haven't heard this song in ages! You look Lovely. 😊 Happy New Year! 🎉

[@MaddyReactions]

Happy new year!!

[@WilliamTaafe]

Beans on toast are the best I miss the UK been in Canada over 20yrs…….soon to retire then going home

[@Lexy-O]

I love this song. I just like the sound. The genre is called Two Tone a subgenre of Ska. I think Squeeze and General Public are in this genre.

[@docsavage8640]

They key changes at the end are killer. It's like the Beatles at their best.

[@MaddyReactions]

Definitely

[@Southern_Pacific]

A belated Merry Christmas Maddy.. Baked Beans on Toast is also a popular Aussie breakfast, baked beans in tomato sauce or ham sauce on toast with cheese and eggs and sausages or even black pudding occasionally was a pretty staple diet growing up in Australia 🇦🇺 Dave

[@sarablack2547]

The video shows their love for monty python. They have a sense of humour. At the beginning he was saying have you seen our house.

[@MaddyReactions]

Ahhh! ❤️

[@in6087]

Pan cooked baked beans from tins are much less watery than their modern microwaveable plastic carton counterparts.

[@mattpotter8725]

Everyone needs a bit of madness in their life!!!

[@MaddyReactions]

Definitely

[@do0ranfrump260]

House of Fun. 😅

[@stornowayscotland]

My beautiful queen Maddy looking absolutely beautiful as always she always makes me smile ❤

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️

[@petejones879]

I had forgotten that you yanks don't have beans on toast.. You should try it.. Yes baked beans

[@MellowOutMoogy]

Early 80's MTV was the best music

[@paulwalker9421]

Baked beans on toast!! Great song thank you Maddy

[@NZLatic]

Definitely baked beans. A British breakfast staple along with saussages and an egg or two!

[@JohnBeck-t9f]

Oh jeez. I first heard this at 17. Just before I joined the Navy. Sounds like everybody's house. Get in the Chevelle take a cruise to San Francisco. Get home ....how I don't know how. Eat spam for breakfast. Lol

[@louvuttion]

It must be love is amazing song by this band

[@Chris-c7i8d]

Baked beans are haricot beans but they are really just texture, the important flavour is tomato sauce which is basically tomatoes and sugar

[@gpreactions3194]

Our House entered the UK Top 40 on the 27th November 1982 and peaked at no.5. The Top 10 this week was. 1 - The Human League - Mirror Man 2 - Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance 3 - Marvin Gaye - (Sexual) Healing 4 - Wham - Young Guns (Go For It) 5 - Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling 6 - The Jam - Beat Surrender 7 - Clannad - Theme From 'Harry's Game' 8 - Rennee & Renato - Save Your Love 9 - Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker 10 - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater Also in this weeks Top 40 Duran Duran - Rio Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney - The Girl Is Mine Lionel Richie - Truly Donna Summer - State Of Independence A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) Tears For Fears - Mad World Culture Club - Time (Clock Of The Heart) Talk Talk - Talk Talk Supertramp - It's Raining Again Ultravox - Hymn Madness - Our House Japan - Night Porter Simple Minds - Someone, Somewhere (In Summertime) Shalamar - Friends

[@rhphotocdn]

"Our House" from Madness, from their album The Rise & Fall (actually a pretty good album).

[@robbielux8353]

Beans and toast I imagine is really good.

[@jimrandell2997]

In 82, when I was 17, I saw these guys do this song on SNL, and ran out the next day to buy the album. They’ve been in my rotation ever since. (Those guys in the video are in their 60s now…and so am I)

[@MaddyReactions]

Oh wow

[@manuman27]

Still playing live shows..still brilliant

[@AlexinWales]

Baked beans in the UK are haricot beans in a sweet tomato sauce.

[@MaddyReactions]

Ahhh

[@johnboydTx]

🤘😎 Longhorns in the Peach 🍑 Bowl 🍻🍻✌️

[@scottwontorski1274]

That's gonna be a tough game. Hook em horns!

[@johnboydTx]

@scottwontorski1274 🐂Bevo says the Boys are good 😊👍

[@FredGarnett]

Beans on toast are an English staple even though they are probably Heinz Baked Beans; yummy!

[@MaddyReactions]

I would like to try, I’m curious lol

[@ScottM-mds1hb]

Me and my record player with this @80’s 🎉😊

[@SteveA308]

This was massive in the UK in the 80's. Madness and Adam and the Ants.... 1981? 1982?

[@SteveJuszczak]

Shades of MONTY PYTHON 😂

[@davidsavage6910]

Baked Beans in tomato sauce are usually Cannellini beans.

[@MaddyReactions]

Ooooh!!

[@seanmc1351]

madsy, hope you read this, this was a time when there was a switch in music, during the 70''s was mod's rockers and skin head's, the mod's and rocker scene had died off abit, but the skin heads were still around, there were a few groups, madness, the specials and a few others, that were sort of in the middle, toned down dress code from the skin heads, music was changing, some of the dress code, the dr martin boots, the cromby coat, were part of the skin head ers, but the music was changing, then you had what we called in our area, the smothies, different around the country due to the slang nw music was coming out, new dress codes, flight jackets, shoulder pads for the ladies, the hair styles, the new wave, music was changing, its was also the end of the disco era we didnt have mobiles or atuff, we watch on music channels, and bought the record or the dvd video, many made videos in the 80's, biggest one being mj and thriller, also, with the video recorder, came movies, that you could not watch on TV but buy or rent. 18 plus horrors, and other stuff, the music changed being more balads, that heavy songs, the fashin and the songs were really coming from america, through the 80's, with shows like the fonzz, dalas, and so on,

[@MaddyReactions]

Nice info!!

[@justitia257]

Buon Natale..Merry Christmas gorgeous Maddy 🌹🎄

[@MaddyReactions]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Foxbat320]

Yep! baked beans in tomato sauce .

[@pauloliver8130]

I'm going to see them in July. At the Eden Poject. Looking forward to it😊

[@thereallyst]

-He's saying "Have you seen Our House".... -It's Heinz beans, kind of like baked beans, but definitely not like we eat them in U.S.... -No, they're not related....

[@MaddyReactions]

Ahh

[@mattparks2153]

I just want to say that I simply Love Your channel!

[@MaddyReactions]

Wow, thank you!

[@mattparks2153]

👍

[@daveborder7751]

None of them were related-just friends. They were the biggest band in the UK in the 1980's-huge from 1979-1984 & are still touring.

[@BlackCountryShaneywaney]

Haricot beans...yummy😋

[@Tampahop]

One Step Beyond!

[@ramblingbill9101]

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

[@MaddyReactions]

Same to you!

[@drew-bk1ur]

night boat to cairo is another good song it has lots of sax and horns

[@stephendintino6076]

Merry Christmas Maddie!

[@MaddyReactions]

Same to you!

[@terrythomas8482]

The Nutty Boys ❤

[@edreynolds8721]

Merry Christmas Maddy

[@MaddyReactions]

Same to you!

[@Jean-FrancoisPirenne]

In this kind of neiborhood you better know the number of the house because they all look alike.

[@darrenjones5885]

Madness performed Our House at Buckingham Palace for one of Queen Elizabeth’s jubilee celebrations, with a row of terraced houses projected onto the palace. [edit] There’s video on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoaapYVsj6l5jZYsi=ULV9sJ3ONkdQZIyV

[@MaddyReactions]

Wow!!! That’s so fun!! Cool

[@davidbradley3254]

You can’t beat Beans on toast.

[@stevegoldy2196]

So which one was ares then? Like Madness i am also from London and we love our beaked beans on toast but you have to grate some cheese on top to make it proper. i'm Lee Marvin just thinking about it!

[@notsherlockholmes9704]

Haricot beans in tomato sauce.if you seen"blazing saddles"? it's those farty beans ;)

[@MaddyReactions]

😂 I haven’t

[@virtualtrucker214]

Bake beans on toast, with a fried egg on top! ❤ Without all the shat added like american food.

[@mradriankool]

They may of fucked around in their videos and looked goofy. But my word they could play and arrange a song. So many hits they were kings of the charts