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Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da

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Released
  
29 October 2012

Length
  
37:29

Release date
  
28 September 2012

Genre
  
Reggae

Recorded
  
2011—2012

Artist
  
Madness

Label
  
Entertainment One Music

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Studio
  
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

Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012)
  
The Very Best of Madness (2014)

Producers
  
Charlie Andrew, John Avila, Clive Langer, Owen Morris, Stephen Street, Liam Watson

Similar
  
Madness albums, Reggae albums

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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.

Contents

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.

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Singles

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.

The fourth single off the album – "Misery" – was released in July 2013, and landed on BBC Radio 2's C-list on 15 June 2013.

Deluxe 2-CD version

Guitar player Chris Foreman mentioned a planned box set version of the album, expected to be released in May 2013. On 28 February 2013, it was revealed the album would be re-released in a deluxe version, with an extra CD containing 20 songs in total including various original tracks not included on the album, a series of band demos and remixes and a John Lennon cover. This second CD's demo versions do not all feature Suggs on vocals, with "Black and Blue", "My Girl 2" and "Never Knew Your Name" having Mike Barson on vocals, "Death of a Rude Boy", "Misery" and "So Alive" feature Chas Smash on lead vocals, and "Rules of Deolali" and "Check Mate La Luna" being instrumentals, and the final demo, "I Got You (Kitchen Floor)" features Daniel Woodgate's brother Nick on vocals and a variety of instruments instead of Madness. A DVD of the band's performance of the album at the Butlins "House of Fun" Weekender from 2011, along with a live CD of the following year's gig is also included. The latter CD also features Foreman's karaoke version of the Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" and Ian Dury's "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll".

The deluxe version features new artwork, featuring the band in various fancy dress costumes representing the different rejected titles for the album, in a similar vein to the cover of their The Rise and Fall album from 1982. It is also notable for being the first appearance of Sir Peter Blake on a record cover, who has never featured on any album artwork despite designing some of the most celebrated record sleeves in British music history.

Track listing

Deluxe Edition CD2

  1. "Deolali"
  2. "1978"
  3. "My Obsession"
  4. "Big Time Sister"
  5. "Oh My Love" (John Lennon)
  6. "Crying"
  7. "(You) Can't Keep A Good Thing Down"
  8. "Never Knew Your Name" (La Discothèque mix)
  9. "La Luna" (mix Number Six)
  10. "Circus Freaks" (Amy mix)
  11. "Powder Blue (Reprise)"
  12. "Death of a Rude Boy" (Demo)
  13. "My Girl 2" (Demo)
  14. "Never Knew Your Name" (Demo)
  15. "I've Got You (Kitchen Floor)" (Demo)
  16. "Misery" (Demo)
  17. "Black & Blue" (Demo)
  18. "So Alive" (Demo)
  19. "Check Mate La Luna" (Demo)
  20. "Rules of Deolali" (Demo)

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Madness
  • Suggs (Graham McPherson)
  • Chas Smash (Cathal Smyth)
  • Mike Barson
  • Chris Foreman
  • Lee Thompson
  • Daniel Woodgate
    • Additional personnel
  • Bass – Graham Bush
  • Brass – Mike Kearsey, Joe Auckland, Steve Turner
  • Percussion – Lenny Edwards, Charlie Andrew, Spider L
  • Backing vocals – John Avila, Ray Suen, Charlie Andrew, James Porter, Chris Schrier, Frank Marshall, Bob Walker, Vanessa Contenay-Quinones, Siobhan Fitzpatrick, Spider L
  • Trumpet – Brad Magers, Keith Douglas, Joe Auckland
  • Guitar – Joby Ford
  • Guitar andjarana – Ray Suen
  • Guitarron – Vincent Hidalgo
  • Melodica – Seamus Beaghen
  • Cocktail drum kit – Jorma Vik
  • Violin – Kerenza Peacock, Hayley Pomfrett, Jenny Sacha, Deborah Widdup, Anna Croad, Kirsty Mangan, Stephanie Benedetti, Ellie Fagg, Vicky Lyon, Martin Lissola, Amyn Merchant, David Juritz, Julian Leaper, Yuri Kalnits, Ray Suen
  • Viola – Emma Owens, Simon Tandree, Natalie Holt, Nick Barr, Garfield Jackson, Jon Thorn
  • Cello – Rosie Danvers, Rachael Lander, Nick Cooper, Tim Gill
  • Harp – Camilla Pay
  • Brass arrangements – Madness, Mike Kearsey
  • String arrangements – Rosie Danvers, Kirsty Mangan, Daniel Woodgate, Mike Barson, Mike Kearsey, Simon Hale
  • Mariachi trumpet and string arrangements – William V. Malpede, John Avila
  • Conductor – Mike Kearsey, Simon Hale
    • Production personnel
  • Cenzo Townshend – mixing on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 & 11
  • Charlie Andrew – pre-production on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 11
  • Owen Morris – vocal production on track 3
  • Peter Blake – cover art
  • Tony McGee – photography
  • Luke Insect – design

    • Songs

    1My Girl 22:51
    2Never Knew Your Name3:28
    3La Luna3:38

    References

    Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da Wikipedia
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