One Step Beyond...

by Madness

One Step Beyond... cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 October 1979
  • Label: Stiff
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:03
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Cecil Bustamente Campbell, John Hasler, Mike Barson

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Madness captured the absolute essence of the British ska revival with their jubilant, phenomenally successful debut. 'One Step Beyond...' is an incredibly rhythmic, wildly bouncy fusion of traditional Jamaican rocksteady and distinctly English pub-rock humor, delivering highly energetic, delightfully quirky, and deeply melodic pop anthems.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, melodic

Tracklist

  1. One Step Beyond (2:18)
  2. My Girl (2:44)
  3. Night Boat to Cairo (3:31)
  4. Believe Me (2:28)
  5. Land of Hope and Glory (2:57)
  6. The Prince (3:19)
  7. Tarzan's Nuts (2:24)
  8. In the Middle of the Night (3:01)
  9. Bed & Breakfast Man (2:33)
  10. Razor Blade Alley (2:42)
  11. Swan Lake (2:36)
  12. Rockin' in a Flat (2:29)
  13. Mummy's Boy (2:23)
  14. Madness (2:38)
  15. Chipmunks Are Go! (0:53)

Credits

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