Complete Madness

by Madness

Complete Madness cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 23 April 1982
  • Label: Stiff
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 47:22
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Carl Smyth, The Hendon Band, Mike Barson, Graham McPherson, Chris Foreman, Mark Bedford, Daniel M. Woodgate

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Collating the first three years of the iconic London band's hit-making run, this retrospective captures their wildly successful synthesis of Jamaican ska rhythms and British pop sensibilities. The collection heavily features the distinctively bouncing, music-hall-inflected songwriting that cemented their dominance over early MTV and the UK charts.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. Embarrassment (3:13)
  2. Shut Up (2:53)
  3. My Girl (2:47)
  4. Baggy Trousers (2:48)
  5. It Must Be Love (3:20)
  6. The Prince (2:29)
  7. Bed and Breakfast Man (2:34)
  8. Night Boat to Cairo (3:33)
  9. House of Fun (2:51)
  10. One Step Beyond (2:21)
  11. Cardiac Arrest (2:59)
  12. Grey Day (3:41)
  13. Take It or Leave It (3:28)
  14. In the City (3:01)
  15. Madness (2:40)
  16. The Return of the Los Palmas 7 (2:35)

Credits

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