Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da

Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da
Studio album by Madness
Released	29 October 2012
Recorded	2011—2012
Studio	Toe Rag Studios, London
Genre	Ska pop reggae
Length	37:29
Label	Lucky 7 Records/Cooking Vinyl
Producer	Charlie Andrew, John Avila, Clive Langer, Owen Morris, Stephen Street, Liam Watson
Madness chronology
Forever Young The Ska Collection (2012) Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012)
Singles from Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da
"Death of a Rude Boy" Released: 12 August 2012 (pre-release give away download) "My Girl 2 (official first single)" Released: 30 September 2012 (download only) "Never Knew Your Name" Released: January 2013 (MP3 from album) "How Can I Tell You" Released: 8 April 2013 (download only)

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 (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.^[1] 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.^[1]

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.

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.

Singles

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	71/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
Daily Express	[4]
The Independent	[5]
Metro	[6]
The Montreal Gazette	[7]
NME	(2/10)[8]
The Observer	[9]
Punknews.org	[10]
The Scotsman	[11]
State	[12]

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.

Track listing

CD One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"My Girl 2"	Mike Barson	Liam Watson	2:51
2.	"Never Knew Your Name"	Mike Barson	Stephen Street	3:28
3.	"La Luna" (a.k.a. La Luna El Mariachi)	Graham McPherson, Chris Foreman	John Avila, Charlie Andrew	3:38
4.	"How Can I Tell You?"	Graham McPherson, Cathal Smyth	Stephen Street	3:18
5.	"Kitchen Floor"	Daniel Woodgate, Nick Woodgate	Owen Morris	3:21
6.	"Misery"	Cathal Smyth	Owen Morris	3:16
7.	"Leon"	Daniel Woodgate, Nick Woodgate	Charlie Andrew	3:48
8.	"Circus Freaks"	Lee Thompson, Daniel Woodgate	Owen Morris	3:15
9.	"So Alive"	Cathal Smyth	Owen Morris	2:58
10.	"Small World"	Daniel Woodgate	Charlie Andrew	3:46
11.	"Death of a Rude Boy"	Cathal Smyth	Stephen Street	3:50

CD One – "Bonus tracks" (Note that these tracks appear on all versions of the album, but are nonetheless promoted as bonus tracks)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
12.	"Powder Blue"	Mike Barson, Graham McPherson	Charlie Andrew, Clive Langer	3:47
13.	"Black and Blue"	Mike Barson	Charlie Andrew	3:01
14.	"My Girl 2"	Mike Barson	Clive Langer, Charlie Andrew	3:01

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 Discotheque 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)

Chart positions

Chart (2012-2013)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[13]	171
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[14]	140
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[15]	37
French Albums (SNEP)[16]	94
UK Albums (OCC)[17]	10
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[18]	1

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5. Gill, Andy (27 October 2012). "Album: Madness, Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (Lucky Seven)". The Independent. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
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