Talk:Brick House (song)

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Merge[edit]

I would support merging House of Brick to Brick House (song), although this article needs some cleanup. Nelson58 (talk) 20:17, 14 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is one of the worst-written articles I have ever seen. It needs to be cleaned up if it is to even remotely resemble a thoughtful encyclopedic entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.14.66.53 (talk) 01:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Odd Joke?[edit]

For some reason the version of this page I read listed Rob Zombie for Art Direction. Unless there is someone else by that name, I rather doubt he was involved, as he was born in 1965 - and hence would have been 12 years old when this song was released. I have removed this reference, unless someone has a reference for it. 24.58.37.208 (talk) 02:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, you removed his name from the 2003 cover version, so it was correct. Nelson58 (talk) 18:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brick shithouse[edit]

The current article seems to imply that the slang for being stacked came from the song. Au contraire. It's an old slang term. My old man used that term all the time, well before the song. Also, we don't seem to mention the missing shit word (and again I wonder if the writer of the article didn't really even understand).TCO (talk) 20:29, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The context in which I've heard this phrase is in the description of a person's build. One might say, "He was built like a brick shithouse", i.e., he was very muscular, or built like a body builder. Presumably both are formidable structures, as it were, though I don't know why shithouse is used for the analogy. It's a phrase used a lot in and around Birmingham, but I'm not sure how wide spread its use is beyond the region. I've found this from an online urban dictionary which gives other explanations, but not much history to it. Cheers Paul MacDermott (talk) 09:01, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Creation?[edit]

The creation is not so well written. "Told them to knock it off, went to sleep," it doesn't make sense. Also, the creation sounds alot like made-up fiction. Is that reliable?

67.1.62.124 (talk) 00:08, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

rick james?[edit]

didn't rick james cover the song too? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.85.191 (talk) 02:27, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Inaccurate lyrics attribution?[edit]

The following portion of the article appears to be inaccurate:

"Upon returning, James Carmichael, the Commodores' producer, heard and recognized that this could be a song worth recording. He asked everyone to see if they could use the riff to come up with a song. Taking the tapes home, William King played them for his wife, Shirley Hanna-King. While he slept she was inspired to write lyrics for the riff, modifying the expression "built like a brick shithouse" for the song.[2] The following day King sang the lyrics to "Brick House" to the band, allowing them to think he had written it. They loved it and decided that drummer Walter "Clyde" Orange had the funky voice to sing lead vocals, (as opposed to Lionel Richie, who usually sang lead) […]."

In fact, the source cited, reference 2 in the extract quoted above, makes no such claim and indeed Lionel Richie says in the interview: "Since "Brick House", we didn't follow-up with him, because quiet as it was kept, Clyde was the one who wrote most of the lyrics and most of the melody to that song. That was something he felt, that was his kind of style and we just never went back as a group and followed up on it. But Clyde is the funkiest little creature on the planet". JezGrove (talk) 20:33, 24 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]