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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.
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.
The Best of the English Beat in the US) is a greatest hits album by British ska/new wave band the Beat, released on 20 November 2000 in Europe by Go-Feet Records and on 11 September 2001 in the US by London-Sire Records.
The album was re-packaged in 1998 as The Heavy Heavy Hits with the addition of the single version of "The Sweetest Girl" (placed in its correct chronological position after "Uncle Sam"). In 2000 it was re-issued, under its original title of Divine Madness , with the further 1999 singles " Lovestruck " and " Johnny the Horse " included, but once ...
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.
What Is Beat? – The Best of The Beat is a greatest hits album by the ska band the Beat released in 1983. The original vinyl release included an additional "free album" of extended remixes entitled Frebe. [5] Several songs had previously only been released as singles and B-sides.
The Specials vs. The Untouchables: Ska's Greatest Stars: 2002 Big Eye Music 80's New Wave Hits – Rearrangement of The Go-Go's' "Our Lips Are Sealed", with Jane Wiedlin, originally on The Specials vs The Untouchables: Ska's Greatest Stars: 2006 Big Eye Music
Further, Atlantic Records tried to push the album Jamaican Ska by using house producer and sound engineer Tom Dowd, who produced all of Aretha Franklin's greatest singles, to produce the album. [citation needed] In addition, the Dragonaires were renamed The Ska Kings on the album.