Madness, Complete Madness (1982)

Any thought of Madness, any time I hear the music – and I wouldn’t call myself a huge fan or anything – I’m transported back to The Young Ones. Picked up on some cool music from that show – and in a before-my-time sort of way as I was addicted to watching The Young Ones when I was about eight years old, plenty of the jokes flying over my head perhaps; I watched every episode dozens of times, can still recite whole sequences from memory. So, yeah, Madness seems apt. They appeared in the show twice – and both times it was memorable, great songs, good scenes – especially when Rick asks Suggs if he knows Summer Holiday by Cliff And The Shadows and he replies, “you hum it son, I’ll smash ya face in”. I’ve really only ever been a Greatest Hits kind of guy with Madness. My bro had the Divine Madness CD and that got a thrashing. Loved it. Found this LP some time ago and it does the job (pretty much). Dug it out again recently because I was reading this book about the album One Step Beyond…

Sample Track: Baggy Trousers

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