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Madness - The Lot (Box Set 1999) [Contains 6 Early Madness\' Albums, Original Recording Remastered]



Madness were at the forefront of the early-1980s UK ska explosion, injecting the music with pop hooks and their own cheeky humour. The Lot collects their six albums in one convenient, 77-track package and features all the classic tracks--\"One Step Beyond\", \"Baggy Trousers\", \"Prince\", \"Night Boat To Cairo\", \"Our House\"--performed with customary zeal by Suggs and the boys. Remastered and beautifully packaged, with a 36-page booklet, as well as the familiar battered Doc Martens on the cover, The Lot is the ideal collection for all two-tone fanatics.
Along with the Specials, Madness were one of the leading bands of the ska revival of the late \'70s and early \'80s. As their career progressed, Madness branched away from their trademark \"nutty sound\" and incorporated large elements of Motown, soul, and British pop. Although the band managed one crossover American hit in 1983, the band remained a British phenomenon, influencing several successive generations of musicians and becoming one of the most beloved groups the country produced during the \'80s.
Madness box set includes all of the studio albums from the band\'s first run from 1979 to 1986, leaving out only the 1999 reunion CD Wonderful. It also leaves out the various compilation records (e.g., Complete Madness, Utter Madness, and Divine Madness, as well as the U.S. release Madness). Rather than reproduce the original album covers, The Lot pairs off the six albums into three distinct periods: the early \"nutty\" ska of One Step Beyond and Absolutely; the early-\'80s experiments with a more mature pop sound on Seven and The Rise and Fall; and the more slickly produced, darker-toned pop of Keep Moving and Mad Not Mad. It\'s a clever packaging strategy, though the art direction could stand to be a little more attractive. The box set also features a color insert with comments from the band about each album. American fans should beware: the enclosed edition of the 1984 album Keep Moving is the British version and consequently does not contain the singles \"The Sun and the Rain\" or \"Wings of a Dove\". In any case, The Lot offers strong evidence that, for all of their hit singles, Madness was an excellent album band as well.

Madness - One Step Beyond (1979)



Tracks:

01. One Step Beyond
02. My Girl
03. Night Boat To Cairo
04. Believe Me
05. Land Of Hope And Glory
06. The Prince
07. Tarzan\'s Nuts
08. In The Middle Of The Night
09. Bed And Breakfast Man
10. Razor Blade Alley
11. Swan Lake
12. Rockin\' In A Flat
13. Mummy\'s Boy
14. Madness
15. Chipmunks Are Go!

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One Step Beyond... is the 1979 debut album by the British ska group Madness. It was ranked 90th in a 2005 survey held by British television\'s Channel 4 to determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. The album peaked at number 2 and remained in the British record charts for over a year. One Step Beyond... has a much heavier ska influence than later Madness albums. It was also the first album produced by the team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who would go on to work with groups such as Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Dexys Midnight Runners and They Might Be Giants, as well as producing all but one of Madness\' subsequent albums.

Madness - Absolutely (1980)



Tracks:

01. Baggy Trousers
02. Embarrassment
03. E.R.N.I.E.
04. Close Escape
05. Not Home Today
06. On The Beat Pete
07. Solid Gone
08. Take It Or Leave It
09. Shadow Of Fear
10. Disappear
11. Overdone
12. In The Rain
13. You Said
14. Return of the Los Palmas 7

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Absolutely is the 1980 second album from the British ska band Madness. It peaked at #2 in the UK album charts. The album is named after one of expressions of the band\'s then tour manager, and sound man Tony Duffield. The front cover sees the band standing in front of Chalk Farm tube station in Camden.

Madness - Seven (1981)



Tracks:

01. Cardiac Arrest
02. Shut Up
03. Sign Of The Times
04. Missing You
05. Mrs Hutchinson
06. Tomorrows Dream
07. Grey Day
08. Pac-a-Mac
09. Promises Promises
10. Benny Bullfrog
11. When Dawn Arrives
12. The Opium Eaters
13. Day On The Town

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7 is the third album from the British ska/pop band Madness. Released in October 1981, it reached #5 in the UK album chart. All but one track was recorded at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas in the summer of 1981, the exception being Grey Day which was recorded in London earlier in the year.

Madness - The Rise And Fall (1982)



Tracks:

01. Rise And Fall
02. Tomorrow\'s (Just Another Day)
03. Blue Skinned Beast
04. Primrose Hill
05. Mr Speaker (Gets The Word)
06. Sunday Morning
07. Our House
08. Tiptoes
09. New Delhi
10. That Face
11. Calling Cards
12. Are You Coming (With Me)
13. Madness (Is All In The Mind)

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The Rise & Fall is the fourth album by the British pop group Madness. This album saw Madness at their most experimental, exhibiting a range of musical styles including jazz, English music hall and Eastern influences. NME described it at the time of its release as \"The best Madness record\". It has often been retrospectively described as a concept album. Although initially conceived as a concept album about nostalgia for childhood, the concept was eventually dropped, though the original theme is still evident particularly in the title track and the album\'s major hit \"Our House\". Although the band had previously been avowedly apolitical, the track \"Blue Skinned Beast\" was an overt satire on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her handling of the Falklands War, paving the way for more political comment on subsequent Madness albums.

Madness - Keep Moving (1984)



Tracks:

01. Keep Moving
02. Michael Caine
03. Turning Blue
04. One Better Day
05. March Of The Gherkins
06. Waltz Into Mischief
07. Brand New Beat
08. Victoria Gardens
09. Samantha
10. Time For Tea
11. Prospects
12. Give Me A Reason

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Keep Moving is the fifth album by the British ska band Madness from 1984. It was the last Madness album prior to their 1999 comeback album Wonderful to feature Mike Barson.

Madness - Mad Not Mad (1985)



Tracks:

01. I\'ll Compete
02. Yesterday\'s Men
03. Uncle Sam
04. White Heat
05. Mad Not Mad
06. Sweetest Girl
07. Burning The Boats
08. Tears You Can\'t Hide
09. Time
10. Coldest Day

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Mad Not Mad is the sixth album by the British ska band Madness, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). It was their only album not to feature founder member Mike Barson, who had left the group the year before. Only a few weeks after its release, the writers of NME included this LP on their list of the 100 best albums of all time. The band themselves have been less satisfied with the album. In a BBC Radio 1 interview in 1993 Suggs described Mad not Mad as \"a polished turd\" (referring to its glossy \'80s over-production).