Five Get Over Excited

{{Infobox song

| name = Five Get Over Excited

| cover = Five Get Over Excited-Housemartins-1987.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = The Housemartins

| album = The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death

| released = 11 May 1987{{cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Robin |title=Index |magazine=Record Mirror |date=9 May 1987 |page=5 |issn=0144-5804}}

| recorded = 1987

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Rock

| length =

| label = Go! Discs

| writer = Paul Heaton and Stan Cullimore

| producer =

| prev_title = Caravan of Love

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = Me and the Farmer

| next_year = 1987

}}

Five Get Over Excited is a song by The Housemartins released as a single from their album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death.

The follow-up to their #1 UK hit "Caravan of Love" (although it was preceded by the USA-only release of "Flag Day"), it peaked at #11 on the UK Singles Chart in June 1987."[https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/Never%20Say%20Goodbye Five Get Over Excited]", Chart Stats, retrieved 2010-02-10Strong, Martin C. (2002) The Great Rock Discography, Canongate, {{ISBN|1-84195-312-1}}, p. 489

Although it was the first single without drummer Hugh Whitaker, who left the band before this song and album were recorded, Whitaker appears in the music video for the track, where he is kidnapped by new drummer Dave Hemingway.

Music writer Rikki Rooksby notes that the track's "anti-hyperbolic title" is "positively revolutionary", as the use of hyperbole in pop lyrics is pervasive but never admitted.Rikki Rooksby. The title may also be a reference to Enid Blyton 's Famous Five novels. Lyrics: Writing Better Words for Your Songs (2006) ({{ISBN|978-0879308858}}) In 2007, the Manchester Evening News described the tune as "another corking chart hit that stands as a beacon amongst the dross of the 1980s."{{cite news | title=Releases: Music | work=Manchester Evening News | date= 6 November 2007 }}{{page needed|date=March 2025}}