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"We'll Bring The House Down" is a single from rock band Slade from their 1981 album We'll Bring the House Down. 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.〔Slade's remastered album We'll Bring The House Down booklet〕 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.〔Slade Supporters Club Newsletter March – April 1981〕 ==Background== 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.〔Slade's Greatest Hits compilation booklet〕 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.〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/1145862_orig.jpg〕 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."''〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/1822580_orig.jpg〕〔Slade Supporters Club Newsletter May – June 1981〕 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.〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/6602796_orig.jpg〕〔Supporters Club Newsletter September – October 1981〕 During a 1981 televised gig that The Who were performing in Paris, the audience began singing the chant of "We'll Bring the House Down" in-between songs, much to The Who's annoyance. One crowd member eventually jumped on the stage and shouted "We'll Bring the House Down".〔〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/6119927_orig.jpg〕 In a December 1984 interview with Record Mirror, the magazine tested Lea's memory by asking him to recall the story behind certain hits. For We'll Bring the House Down, Lea stated "We were getting this big ovation the week after the Reading festival. The crowd stayed at the end for 15 minutes and it wasn't just a few idiots down the front. The crowd were chanting this 'woh oh oh oh oh' and there was a big argument going on in the dressing room. Our manager Chas Chandler was going 'You've got to go on otherwise there's going to be a riot!!'. We looked through the curtain and all the gear had been packed away and they're going 'woh oh oh oh oh' and I thought there's got to be a song in that – it's great. Then years later I was watching 'Rock Goes to College' and the crowd were doing our chant at a BA Robertson gig. I felt a bit sorry for the bloke and he came on and said 'Will you stop that, it's a lousy tune with three notes and a crappy lyric'." In an early 1990 Slade fan club interview, it was announced that Lea had been working with a female singer on a new version of the track, which was later released under the name The Clout. It was backed by an instrumental composition from Lea, titled "Jim Jam". The female vocal on the song was a singer of English jazz-funk band Shakatak.〔Slade International Fan Club newsletter January – February – March 1990〕〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/7924117_orig.jpg〕〔http://sladefanclub.weebly.com/uploads/7/6/6/0/7660950/9686983_orig.jpg〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「We'll Bring the House Down (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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