"Our House" - Madness

MM, thanks for the offer, actually I DO have that 12" on CD, likely the same one you're talking about:

Classic Alternatives Volume 2
SPG 1901, published 1994, SPG Music Ltd. in Ontario Canada.

(All times below are listed, not actual, times.)

01) Talk Talk - It's My Life (6:14)
02) Black - Wonderful Life (4:47)
03) Belouis Some - Imagination (5:27)
04) Romeo Void - Never Say Never (5:54)
05) Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People (Berlin Mix) (7:08)
06) Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind (Extended Mix) (4:45)
07) Big Country - In A Big Country (Pure Mix) (6:18)
08) Altered Images - Happy Birthday (3:00)
09) Berlin - Sex (I'm A...) (Extended Version) (8:10)
10) Madness - Our House (Special Remix) (5:02)
11) Hunters + Collectors - Talking To A Stranger (7:30)
12) Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (Party 'Til You're Dead Mix) (8:37)

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Volume One included When In Rome's "The Promise (On Mix)," Giorgio Moroder & Phillip Oakey's "Together In Electric Dreams," and Haircut On Hundred's "Love Plus One."

A great set, even with the handful of "unknowns" (to me, at least).

...Steve, are you still out there? Where did YOUR mix come from? Inquiring minds want to know! :-)

Indy500 wrote: I have a very different version that runs 5:49 and ends with people talking. It is on a French CD Culture Dance Vol 4. (Special Club) Very, very different from the 4:58 version. Lots of stop and start action.

That's the version on the UK 3-CD called The
Definitive Singles Collection (1993), where it's
billed as "Our House (Stretch Mix)", where it starts and
ends with ambient talking.

There's a similar version that includes the intros of a
bunch of other Madness songs, running about 5:59, on a CD
I don't have called The Superstars Collection - Volume
3 (1991).

That 5:00-ish version with the a cappella ending turns up
on quite a few CDs: Sedated In The Eighties Vol. 3,
Classic Alternatives Vol. 5, Richard Blade's Flashback
Favorites Vol. 2, and what may be the easiest and
least likely place to find it: Madacy's Rock On 1983
Sweet Dreams.

I have lossless versions of all of these - PM me if you'd
like some of them.

Edited by crapfromthepast

Ah

thanks Aaron it was Richard Blade's Flashback CD i was thinking of. I looked it up last night but they didn't list the time or version so i wasnt sure.
Ironically, for whatever reason i didn't remember it appeared on cd when i dubbed my 12" single. But no matter, sounds great anyway.

Love that tracklist on the other disc above, my high-school days! I would BLAST the Hunters & Collectors song whenever it came on....
-MM

I do own the original US 12-inch, printed time 5:02.

Geffen 0-29667, remixed by Mark Kamins.

I believe there was no other US promotional or commercial "extended remix"; I would have been serviced it.

Andy

I believe the 12 inch version was at 45 speed. I was in college and it would always cause a problem. Many other 12 inchers were at 45 speed including "Addicted To Love."
Were these just the promo versions? "You're A Friend Of Mine" was also at 45 speed. One would forget to change the speed back to 33/1/3 on the old turntable!