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The discography of Madness, a British pop/ska band, comprises 13 studio albums, 16 compilation albums, four live albums, two soundtrack albums, three extended plays, four box sets, 43 singles and 37 music videos.
Despite the poor chart showing, the album was listed as number 55 in NME ' s "All Time 100 Albums". [31] The singles for the album fared even worse, with "Yesterday's Men" peaking at number 18 in the UK charts. The subsequent singles, "Uncle Sam" and "Sweetest Girl", failed to make the top 20, which was a first for Madness singles.
The Business – the Definitive Singles Collection is a 3 disc box set by ska/pop band Madness released in 1993. It contained all the band's singles until that point with their respective b-sides and other bonus tracks, some rare. It also includes a 52-page booklet and snippets of interviews with people associated with Madness between some tracks.
Take It or Leave It was directed by the owner of Madness label Stiff Records, Dave Robinson, who also directed the band's music videos.The film's budget was paid by the members of Madness, with £20,000 each (£140,000) and £250,000 by Stiff.
Dance Craze is a 1981 documentary film about the British 2 Tone music genre. [1]The film was directed by Joe Massot, [1] who originally wanted to do a film only about the band Madness, whom he met during their first US tour.
One Step Beyond... is the debut studio album by the British ska-pop group Madness, released by Stiff Records.Recorded and mixed in about three weeks, the album peaked at number two and remained on the UK Albums Chart for more than a year.
"Yesterday's Men" is a song by the English ska and pop band Madness, released on 19 August 1985 as the lead single from their sixth studio album Mad Not Mad (1985). It was written by Graham McPherson and Chris Foreman, and produced by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. The song spent 7 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 18. [2]
"House of Fun" is composed in the key of D, written in common time. [6] It is a pop song which moves at an upbeat 126 beats per minute.The song is written in simple verse-chorus form, ending with a repeating chorus fade out (the original 7" release version/mix ends with a sudden keyboard "crash", followed by fairground organ music).