Eurythmics - This Is The House (live)

[LizAndyMovieWatcher]

i love eddi and this song ive heard before and didnt knowit was and tried my hardest to find but found and now am very content

[razrramone]

I will never tire of watching the Live at Heaven dvd .. and I will never give it up. Earliest Eurythmics concert I have and I enjoy both versions of this song .. this one tops Heaven by justhismuch .. the Glasgow bootleg is perfection as well ..

[therealraybaby]

Punk Dance & Disco never sounded so sweet!

[JohnnyTheWolfLupino]

Great early performance, Clems' drumming is nice & tight. Thought I saw Sherlock Holmes dancing around 2:55. Christ I'll have to lay off the beer, I'm seeing things!

[espagnenorway]

I love this song

[xoffender74]

The drummer is Clem Burke from Blondie

[doublemandala]

So, is this where "House" music came from?

[Crijevo]

@doublemandala Not necessarily in terms of "defining a genre", but to some extent, both - 'Sweet Dreams' and 'Touch' albums, do have a significant influence on later house-music sound.

However, the lyrics and the title of this song seem to refer more to struggle and sort-of domestic violence than 'house' music :)

[Dennis5051]

The opening line which is sung in Spanish is basically loosely translated as:

"THIS IS THE HOUSE....THIS IS THE HILL....THIS IS THE STORY....ITS A LITTLE THING"

[kiwi2050]

Whats does

"esta es la casa, este es el cerro, esta la historia, es algo chiquitito" mean?

[BobigailE]

@kiwi2050

Its the same as the first verse in english.. except in spanish.

[sph66film]

I've been a fan from the beginning!

[bextorboy82]

I liked the comparison to the Talking Heads...Annie Lennox is so awesome.

[starman304]

Thanks for posting this. Living in the US they never showed the eurythmics clips on MTV's compilation of Tube clips.

[Crijevo]

This live performance owes pretty much to Talking Heads (especially when you hear those cheesy keyboards :) which are quite 'Stop Making Sense' - although this Eurythmics shot was taken earlier :)) - Anyway, 'This Is the House' should have been a far bigger hit than a spooky obscure single of the day... This particular song is one of their finest early numbers and it is a shame they never made an official video for this song.

[alkelliher]

Wow! Stumbled across this song and it is a nice surprise ...used to love this song in the day.

[EstefannieLennox]

ese vestido que usa la corista es de Annie!! he he

"esta es la casa, este es el cerro, esta la historia, es algo chiquitito"

[afjguk]

Nice hair Eddi!

[wmhamby]

Awesome Annie!!!!

[tyffww]

What the heck, this may be the scariest thing my young eyes have ever witnessesed, is the guyy gay or something, i dances funny, and has a girls voice, the 70's is a scary place,

[jfm010]

Grow up.

[Nikke83]

This were the Eighties my friend. Scary, but very interesting. And not to mention fun!

Simply love Eurythmics!

[meak911]

'this is" everything that was cool about the 80's, twerp.

[Intuitionsmusic]

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET !

[gummybits]

Wow this is better than the recorded version! Awsome

[UltraBVR]

As the video is clearly labeled, "SUPER".

[doctorharryyogurt]

That there is Eddi Reader giving backing vocals in the cast off dress. Or "Ever Ready" as she was known at the time. Go see wikipedia.

But who is that keyboard player? I can offer him a good home. Cute.

[kungfugirl2007]

Keyboard player was Mickey Gallagher I think!!!

[GRO67]

I have a recording from the Wechter festival (3-7-83) on which Vic Martin was the keyboard player. Could he be the one in the video?

[7deacons]

@GRO67 The keyboard player is Mickey Gallagher from Ian Dury and the Blockheads! This was the live band line-up for the "Sweet Dreams" album tour.

[nigelhorsl]

i still have that video of the heaven gig. her voice was not at all good on most of the live tracks on that gig.

[thomasrealdance]

... and isn't the singer wearing Annie's dress from the cover of "In the Garden" with some extra sewn on it?? ;-)

(still like this version a lot, super vibes... gut-wrenching sounds wonderful up-tempo - thanks to all who made this possible!)

[Intuitionsmusic]

hot

[thomasrealdance]

wow - like this one a lot better than the one at "Heaven" which was published on video and now on DVD.

lots more guts, chintz, extravaganza, but also the vibes.

mucho bien! :-) lo gusto....

[discoveryone]

just brilliant