| "Five Get Over Excited" | ||||
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| Single by The Housemartins | ||||
| from the album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death | ||||
| Released | 11 May 1987 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Go! Discs | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Paul Heaton and Stan Cullimore | |||
| The Housemartins singles chronology | ||||
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Five Get Over Excited is a song by The Housemartins released as a single from their album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death .
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The follow-up to their #1 UK hit "Caravan of Love" (although it was preceded by the USA-only release of "Flag Day"), it peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1987. [2] [3]
Although it was the first single without drummer Hugh Whitaker, who left the band before this song and album were recorded, [3] Whitaker appears in the music video for the track, where he is kidnapped by new drummer Dave Hemingway.
Music writer Rikki Rooksby notes that the track's "anti-hyperbolic title" is "positively revolutionary", as the use of hyperbole in pop lyrics is pervasive but never admitted. [4] In 2007, the Manchester Evening News described the tune as "another corking chart hit that stands as a beacon amongst the dross of the 1980s." [5] [ page needed ]
