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01 Aug 14
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A good way to judge a truly great band is if their music stands test of time and IMPROVES with age. Madness's music certainly fits the bill. Up there will The Beatles imo.
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Had a couple of glasses Pandora??
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I doubt john Lennon would have been able to pull off hosting a channel 5 karaoke programme with Barry off Eastenders.
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 he thinks they are socialists |
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I can't decide if they willingly allowed themselves to be pigeon holed until it was too late or just couldn't get out of it despite their best efforts pandora ( I seem to remember Barso leaving at least in part over the issue first time round) but whilst they were clearly no Beatles or Stones they were one of the best bands of the 80's for me.
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used to get me Barnet cut in the same shop as the lads in Muswell Hill so I will say yes.
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Quite catchy, but their best song was a cover of the Labi Sifre hit, It Must Be Love.
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didn't have a clue that was a cover or written for them Kenny if that's true.
"Something inside so strong" by Labi my favourite song from the 80's. |
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probably my favourite song of all time actually
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they are a fun band,done very well considering their limited talent.
seen them in cardiff last year,enjoyed the night. |
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i like them
saw them play after racing at sandown last year, thought they where excellent. |
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mate works as a stage hand in butlins in minehead. when they were doing shows there he was in charge of looking after them (or maybe it was just suggs), whatever they wanted do or have he did it\got it for them... anyway after typing that out i cant remember any of the stories he told me about them
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Yes it's true dontwin, from 1972
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LABI SIFFRE - It Must Be Love (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeGwNHEEFk |
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"Something inside so strong" by Labi my favourite song from the 80's. Excellent song, agreed. |
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They had their place I suppose but I never had the urge to go and see them live or buy any of their records.
Embarrassment was a good tune having said that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jig6HseykIw |
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A very good fun band were Madness. I remember when Madness covered It Must Be Love, I cringed at the time and thought they had murdered a quality song by a quality performer. Thanks for that link Kenny. Never seen Siffre singing that since 70s. Terrific.
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cheers for the link Kenny. #suprised
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I may be wrong but I think this was the B side of It Must Be Love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKv8n8C5lc4 Got the 45 somewhere in the archives. |
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Theres a guy who writes songs and goes under the name of( BEAUTIFUL SOUTH)not sure if he was a member of madness.The story goes that when he writes a song he gets serious money for it.he had loads of top ten hits.So he gets the money and drinks every day and parties at night.He is well know in the music business.when he runs out of money he writes another song and sells it to the highest bidder.The new groups go crazy for his songs ,and then he goes back on the drink.Dont know his name.
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Paul Heaton?
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I don't think you will find Paul Heaton wrote any songs for Madness.He was the brains behind The Housemartins with Stan Cullimore (not the footballer...lol)The Beautiful South with Dave Rotheray and has had various solo projects.Has written a massive amount of songs and having seen both bands live several times actually has a good voice.Had a documented drink problem in the past, but is currently on the wagon (having previously fallen off a couple of times).Back to Madness and you gotta admit that One Step Beyond and Absolutely were definitely two of the best albums of the late 70's early 80's.
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1 Beethoven
2 Wagner 3 Elgar 4 Madness 5 Mozart ...for me |
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I used to enjoy a good knees up at teenage parties to One Step Beyond when bladdered but to be up there with the greats they'd need to overtake a few hundred bands above them
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There were a lot of ska type groups in the 80s, but for me Madness were by far the best. They didn't just write good catchy songs, they wrote a lot of them which is a great achievement.
I think they will definitely not fade away. |
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they were no Specials
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Prefer the specials, but madness are a great band.
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that's just bad manners talking about the specials
on a madness thread. |
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I don't think they are considered among the greats like Oasis, Stones and the Beatles because their music was slightly left of centre, even though they had many top 10 hits. I can name most of their singles, but would struggle to name one of their albums. I find this strange.
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I don't think they were MOR enough to be put in the great category...most of their music appeals to just blokes.
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most of there stuff was covers, over rated massively imo
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As Hamsterdam says, not up there with Oasis, Phil Collins and One Direction but knocking on the door.
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One Direction - you're having a laugh aren't you!!!!!!!!
They're TOTAL GARBAGE compared to MADNESS!!! |
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phil kin collins? wots he on that pixie bloke? good entainment for sure the boys,but great? nah!
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Subtle stuff from Pixie imo - Oasis get put on a ridiculously high pedestal with The Beatles and Stones (17.30) so Pixie jokingly sticks them in with Phil Collins and One Direction.
Come on lads, keep up. |
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he had me going
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if Oasis up there
then Neil Innes is stratospheric as for wrong direction |
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you always learn plenty when keeny mann posts.
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I can't decide if I'm a Madness fan or not, but I would definitely place them up there with the greats.
Does that make sense?  I do like this - Forever Young .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=755KcDVPp5c |