| 词条 | Living on the Ceiling | ||||||||
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| name = Living on the Ceiling | cover = Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Blancmange | album = Happy Families | B-side = {{ubl|"Running Thin"|"I Would" (12" only)}} | released = 1982 | format = {{Flatlist|
| recorded = 1982 | studio = | venue = | genre = {{hlist|New wave[1]|synth-pop[2]}} | length = 4:02 | label = London Records | writer = {{Flatlist|
| producer = Mike Howlett | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Waves | next_year = 1983 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|QW_m8lhZbQQ|"Living on the Ceiling"}}}} }} "Living on the Ceiling" is a song by English synth-pop band Blancmange. It was released as the band's third single in 1982, taken from their debut album Happy Families. It became the band's first (and biggest) UK Top 40 hit, peaking at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart and being certified Silver by the BPI for sales in excess of 200,000 copies.[3] The single also reached No. 5 on the Australian Singles Chart.[5] Blancmange performed the song on Top of the Pops, but for broadcast on the show as well as on BBC Radio, the track was edited to replace the lyric "Up the bloody tree" with "Up the cuckoo tree". However, in a subsequent episode of Top of the Pops where the song was used as the 'play-out track' without the band in the studio, the original "bloody" lyric was left in and was clearly audible. StyleReporting a 2011 interview with lead singer Neil Arthur, Sarah Nixey suggested that ".. it was the Indian influences of Pandit Dinesh on tablas and Deepak Khazauchi on sitar who had both given "Living on the Ceiling" its alluring flavour" describing the single as "Middle Eastern tinged". Of the album from which it was drawn Nixey wrote: "Fusing the rhythmic dash of Talking Heads with the intensity of Joy Division plus the melodic framework of OMD and Yazoo on top, Arthur and Luscombe won critical admiration and respectable sales for their debut."[4] Music videoThe promotional video, made to accompany the song, was set in Cairo, Egypt.[5] In popular culture
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References1. ^{{cite news|first= Whitney |last= Matheson |title= My favorite '80s New Wave song is ... |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2014/04/24/new-wave-giveaway/8091039/ |newspaper= USA Today |date= 24 April 2014 |accessdate= 11 July 2014}} {{Blancmange}}2. ^{{cite web|first= Stewart |last= Mason |title= Living on the Ceiling – Song Review |publisher= AllMusic. All Media Network |url= http://www.allmusic.com/song/living-on-the-ceiling-mt0029147081 |accessdate= 22 June 2013}} 3. ^{{cite web|title= Certified Awards |publisher= British Phonographic Industry |url= http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx |accessdate= 11 October 2013}} 4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.electricity-club.co.uk/html/blancmange.html |title= BLANCMANGE Blanc Burn : An Interview with Neil Arthur |first= Sarah |last= Nixey |authorlink= Sarah Nixey |publisher= Electricity-club.co.uk |accessdate= 19 February 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web|first= Bryan |last= Thomas |title= Up the bloody tree: Blancmange traveled to Cairo, Egypt to film "Living On the Ceiling" |website= Nightflight |date= 13 April 2018 |accessdate= 30 November 2018 |url= http://nightflight.com/up-the-bloody-tree-blancmange-traveled-to-cairo-egypt-to-film-living-on-the-ceiling/}} 6. ^{{cite web|title= Scooter's Kashmir sample of Blancmange's Living on the Ceiling |publisher= WhoSampled |url= http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/67815/Scooter-Kashmir_Blancmange-Living%20on%20the%20Ceiling/ |accessdate= 22 July 2013}} 7. ^1 {{cite journal|title= Billboard Hits Of The World |magazine= Billboard |date= 26 March 1983 |url= https://books.google.com/?id=oSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT58&dq=%22australia%22 |volume= 95 |issue= 13 |page= 59 |issn= 0006-2510}} 8. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(B).html |title= South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (B) |publisher= Rock.co.za |accessdate= 31 May 2013}} 9. ^{{cite web|title= Happy Families – Awards |publisher= AllMusic. All Media Network |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/happy-families-mw0000803074/awards |accessdate= 31 May 2013}} 7 : 1982 songs|1982 singles|Blancmange (band) songs|London Records singles|Songs written by Neil Arthur|Songs written by Stephen Luscombe|Song recordings produced by Mike Howlett |
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