We'll Bring the House Down (song)
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UK cover of "We'll Bring the House Down".
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| Single by Slade | |||||||||||||||
| from the album We'll Bring the House Down | |||||||||||||||
| B-side | Hold on To Your Hats | ||||||||||||||
| Released | 23 January 1981 | ||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" Single | ||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:32 | ||||||||||||||
| Label | Cheapskate Records | ||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Noddy Holder; Jim Lea | ||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Slade | ||||||||||||||
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"We'll Bring The House Down" is a single from rock band Slade from their 1981 album of the same name. It was written by lead singer Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea. After years of touring in small venues and releasing a string of unsuccessful singles and albums, the single was the first Top Thirty hit for Slade since 1976, peaking at number ten in the UK during a chart run of nine weeks. This was largely thanks to the Reading festival the year before after Ozzy Osbourne's band had pulled out at the last minute and Slade agreed to step in instead. The band stole the show and became hot news once again.
In 2003, the song was sampled by Overseer for the track titled Slayed which was also the name of Slade's 1972 album.
As well as peaking at No. 10 in the UK, the single peaked at No. 4 in the Melody Maker charts.
The idea for the track originally came while the band were performing in Amsterdam at the Paradiso club. An enthusiastic audience who wouldn't go home kept repeating the chant heard in this song. Lea, downstairs in the dressing room, as ever, on the hunt for the next song and realised the potential of the chant. The drums on the track were completely double tracked with Powell playing in the toilet on the second track which gave the echoey sound. Holder's lyrics reflected Slade's shift towards a heavier sound.
The song took two days to record on the 4 and 5 January that year. This was recorded at the Portland Recording Studios in London. To receive the distinctive vocal and drum sounds, the band recorded the parts in the Gentlemen's toilets at the studio. The band had to stop recording every time somebody flushed the toilet in the ladies' restroom, because the sound could be heard.
The track had been covered by Marshall Law, Not Fragile and Victoria's Secret advert.
In a 1981 fan club interview, drummer Don Powell was asked if he thought that Slade would ever make a comeback after many years of commercial failure. Powell responded, "The thing is we don't think of it as a comeback just because "We'll Bring the House Down" made the charts. We didn't really think how long it had been since we had a hit until "We'll Bring the House Down" charted, and then everyone told us that it was amazingly our first hit for four or five years, and we realised."
In a 1981 fan club interview, guitarist Dave Hill mentioned performing the song on Belgian TV. "We did a major TV show in Belgium to promote "We'll Bring the House Down". The guy who makes the TV show likes us, so he let us do two extra tracks; "Wheels Ain't Coming Down" and "I'm a Rocker", which was a hit over there.
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