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“Happy Hour” is a 1986 single by The Housemartins. It was the third single from the album London 0 Hull 4 and reached number three in the UK Singles Chart. The band’s first big hit, it stayed on the singles chart for 13 weeks, and peaked in the week of June 28, 1986. The song also enjoyed exposure on United States college radio. Rolling Stone noted that despite “irrepressibly giddy music hooks”, the song’s “sobering” lyrics “hammer away at the hypocrisy and sexism of young British business types on the move.“ On their 1992 album, Gordon, the Barenaked Ladies paid tribute to this song by breaking into it at the end of the song “Hello City”. Read on...