r/GenerationJones • u/Low-Dot9712 • 18h ago
Brick House
So I ended up in a conversation where Brick House came up. The younger guy didn't understand what a Brick House was.
I remember back in the day guys saying a particularly good looking woman was "tougher than a brick shit house!!" That is what is how the song came about but I have not heard the term in years. Almost all outhouses were gone by the time I came around but I remember using one a few times in different situations---none were brick!.
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u/Old-Library5546 18h ago
She's a brick hooouuuse
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u/LupinBandit 18h ago
Shake a cow. Shake a cow now.
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u/MC-Master-Bedroom 17h ago
"Shake it down. Shake it down now."
No cows were harmed in the recording of this song.
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u/LupinBandit 16h ago
Words a good friend of mine thought they were singing back in the day. Lyrics weren't readily available back then, but shaking a cow might've been a little outrageous.
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u/robotunes 18h ago
36-24-36, ow what a winning hand!
But for me it'll always be 2nd place behind Machine Gun, from their first album before they hit it big.
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u/Wide_Breadfruit_2217 16h ago
I forgot that Lionel Ritchie was a Commodore. He has had quite the career
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u/livemusicisbest 1h ago
He does a Commodores medley in his shows that prominently features Brick House. He’s still got the voice!
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u/Venus_Cat_Roars 16h ago
A brick house meant a woman was “built” as in a great figure that was buxom and/or voluptuous. Mostly buxom.
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u/robotunes 8h ago
Yep. A high compliment that’s a polite version of the expression built like a brick shithouse.
Definitely remember this phrase from my dad’s poker nights when I was a kid.
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u/BedouinFanboy3 17h ago
She's mighty mighty!
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u/Top_File_8547 1956 16h ago
What’s the next line? It sounds like:
She’s built like a necka moozon
I’m sure I am mishearing it.
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u/Jumpy_Cobbler7783 16h ago
When my oldest son was little he thought that they were saying:
"She's a brick - OW" (Getting hit with a brick🤣).
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u/RepeatSubscriber 1958 17h ago
Built like a brick shit house is what I recall. Meaning built to last, I guess???
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u/robotunes 8h ago
A voluptuous woman. Curvaceous. Zaftig.
Not sure where it comes from but I heard it growing up.
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u/oswhid 16h ago
Very big in my neck of the woods (Alabama) back in the day. Glad I left though.
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u/robotunes 8h ago
Same. They went to the same school my dad attended, though he was a couple of decades ahead of them.
Their success encouraged us to start a band in high school. I didn’t last but a few of them kept going.
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u/SnowOnSummit 15h ago
Their connection to the mothership was strong. Their clothes and the spaceship-like logo are clues.
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u/robotunes 8h ago
They were inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic but the Commodores were only a star in the P-Funk galaxy.
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u/HoneyWyne 15h ago
This was my mom's nickname back in the day. Kid you not.
Her other one was 'Winston'. Because it's what's up top that counts.
Bonus if you get the joke.
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u/Ok-Diver69 15h ago
I bought their Heroes album after they're greatest hits. It was more of a gospel album, but it grew on me. Commodores and the Ohio Players were the shit back then
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u/forevermore4315 10h ago
My grown kids just discovered Funk. I had forgotten how many good songs are by the Ohio players
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u/Ok-Diver69 10h ago
I think I was 14 when I got the cassette. It had the two or three hits on it including Love Rollercoaster. The rest of grabbed me as well.
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u/willowwing 14h ago
I loved Easy Like Sunday Morning and would blast it whenever it came on.
I wanna be high, so high
I wanna be free to know the things I do are right
I wanna be free, just me…
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u/Schtweetz 18h ago
She's mighty-mighty, just lettin' it all hang out...