Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da
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| Studio album by Madness | ||||
| Released | 29 October 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011—2012 | |||
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Assault & Battery 2, London Brando's Paradise, San Gabriel Air Edel, London Iguana Studio, London Metropolis, London The Premises Studios, London Toe Rag Studios, London The Yard, London |
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| Length | 37:29 | |||
| Label | Lucky 7 Records/Cooking Vinyl | |||
| Producer | Charlie Andrew, John Avila, Clive Langer, Owen Morris, Stephen Street, Liam Watson | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 71/100 |
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| NME | (2/10) |
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Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da, which translates as "Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes" from French (Oui Oui), Spanish/Italian (Si Si), German/Dutch/Norwegian/Swedish/Danish/Slovenian/Afrikaans (Ja Ja) and Bulgarian/Russian/Romanian/Croatian/Serbian/Macedonian (Da Da), is the tenth studio album by the British band Madness, released on their own Lucky 7 Records label through Cooking Vinyl in the UK on 29 October 2012 and in the US on 13 November 2012. The album does not feature founding member and bassist Mark Bedford, who was on hiatus from the band at the time. The album cover is by Peter Blake (best known for creating the artwork for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) and features rejected titles for the album crossed out.
The album was preceded by a 'teaser' song, "Death of a Rude Boy", available as a digital download from 12 August 2012 (along with a remix by Andrew Weatherall).
Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da debuted at number No. 10 in the UK Albums Chart on 4 November 2012, becoming Madness' seventh studio album out of ten to reach the top 10 in the UK. It received favourable reviews in Q, Mojo, The Arts Desk and London evening newspaper Evening Standard amongst others, the notable exception being a poor review in the NME.
The first single from the album – "My Girl 2" – was released in September 2012.
"Never Knew Your Name" was the second single off the album, released in January 2013. Early that month it was added to the BBC Radio 2 A-list (high rotation), making the song their biggest airplay hit since 1999's Top 10 hit "Lovestruck". "Never Knew Your Name" reached UK Airplay Chart Top 25 and No. 88 in the UK Singles Chart. After performing the song on the Jonathan Ross Show on 19 January, the album stormed back into the Amazon Album Top 3 and iTunes Top 20. It re-entered the UK Album Top 75 at No. 16 on 27 January.
On 22 February 2013 Chris Evans debuted "How Can I Tell You" as the new (third) single from the album during his Breakfast Show in which Suggs was his guest, it soon joined "BBC Radio 2's and "106.9FM WHCR"'s playlists. It was released on Monday 8 April on iTunes with an extra live version and a demo version by Chas Smash. In the same week, the single landed on BBC Radio 2's A list.
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