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Now That's What I Call Quite Good!,The Housemartins

- Now That's What I Call Quite Good!
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The Housemartins
Released 1988

Me and the Farmer
02:54
600 plays

Bow Down
03:01
556 plays

Five Get Over Excited
02:41
498 plays

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songs

- 1
- I Smell Winter
- 03:23
- 481 plays

- 2
- Bow Down
- 03:01
- 556 plays

- 3
- Think for a Minute
- 03:29
- 490 plays

- 4
- There Is Always Something There to Remind Me
- 03:30
- 424 plays

- 5
- The Mighty Ship
- 01:50
- 357 plays

- 6
- Sheep
- 02:16
- 419 plays

- 7
- I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like a Shelter)
- 04:46
- 399 plays

- 8
- Five Get Over Excited
- 02:41
- 498 plays

- 9
- Everyday's the Same
- 02:56
- 347 plays

- 10
- Build
- 04:48
- 1,032 plays

- 11
- Step Outside
- 04:13
- 363 plays

- 12
- Flag Day
- 03:32
- 401 plays

- 13
- Happy Hour
- 02:22
- 1,008 plays

- 14
- You've Got a Friend
- 03:30
- 404 plays

- 15
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
- 02:47
- 437 plays

- 16
- Freedom
- 03:27
- 315 plays

- 17
- The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
- 03:30
- 455 plays

- 18
- Caravan of Love
- 03:39
- 1,713 plays

- 19
- The Light Is Always Green
- 03:58
- 402 plays

- 20
- We're Not Deep
- 02:15
- 339 plays

- 21
- Me and the Farmer
- 02:54
- 600 plays

- 22
- Lean on Me
- 04:27
- 334 plays

- 23
- Drop Down Dead
- 03:01
- 337 plays

- 24
- Hopelessly Devoted to Them
- 02:10
- 300 plays

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, All Music Guide