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Complete Madness is the first greatest hits album by ska/pop group Madness. It was released in 1982 and included Madness' biggest hits from their first three studio albums and the stand-alone singles. Complete Madness spent 99 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number 1.
Total Madness – the Very Best of Madness is a greatest hits album by a British ska/pop band Madness, released in 1997. It was released exclusively in the United States and Canada. It was released exclusively in the United States and Canada.
Ska (/ s k ɑː /; Jamaican Creole: skia, ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [1] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.
Bad Manners are an English two-tone and ska band led by frontman Buster Bloodvessel. Early appearances included Top of the Pops and the live film documentary Dance Craze (1981). They were at their most popular during the early 1980s, during a period when other ska revival bands such as Madness, the Specials and the Selecter filled the charts.
"Truth Hits Everybody" Sting Outlandos d'Amour: 1978 [1] "Visions of the Night" † Sting Non-album single B-side of "Walking on the Moon" 1979 [22] "Voices Inside My Head" Sting Zenyatta Mondatta: 1980 [3] "Walking in Your Footsteps" Sting Synchronicity: 1983 [8] "Walking on the Moon" † Sting Reggatta de Blanc: 1979 [2] "When the World Is ...
Two-tone, or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock [citation needed] and ska revival, [1] is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements of punk rock and new wave music. [1]
Phoenix City: A History of the World's Greatest Ska Band (Sanctuary Records, 2004) In the Mood for Ska – The Moonska Years (Recall Records UK, 2004) Independent Ska (Atom Music, 2006) Anthology (Primo, 2007) The Skatalites Play Ska (Kingston Sounds, 2007) Kingston 11 (King Edwards, 2008) Occupation Ska! Very Best of Skatalites (101 ...
The Piranhas formed in 1977, and were originally part of the Brighton punk scene, first coming to prominence when DJ John Peel started playing their single "I Don't Want My Body" on his BBC Radio 1 programme, but achieved their biggest success with their cover version of the South African kwela song "Tom Hark".