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| The Nutty Sound forever! Nineteen kinetic ska/pop classics. Our House, One Step Beyond, House Of Fun, Michael Caine, It Must Be Love, Grey Day, etc. |
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| 1 One Step Beyond |
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| 2 My Girl |
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| 3 Night Boat to Cairo |
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| 4 Baggy Trousers |
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| 5 Madness |
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| 6 The Prince |
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| 7 Embarrassment |
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| 8 The Return of the Los Palmas 7 |
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| 9 House of Fun |
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| 10 Our House |
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| 11 It Must Be Love |
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| 12 Madness (Is All in the Mind) |
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| 13 Grey Day |
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| 14 Tomorrow's Just Another Day |
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| 15 Grey Day |
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| 16 The Sun and the Rain |
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| 17 Michael Caine |
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| 18 Yesterday's Men |
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| 19 Wings of a Dove (A Celebratory Song) |
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Album Review
Inevitably if one calls one's compilation the "Ultimate Collection", you're going to have some smug journalist replying, "Ultimate collection? I think not." There again, Madness chalked up quite an impressive list of hits, and even at a generous 19 tracks, this album couldn't fit them all.
So then it's down to choices. Chart placement obviously wasn't a factor, or "Driving In My Car", a British Top 5, would be here and "Yesterday'S Men, a lowly #18, wouldn't, while A- sides would not have been supplanted by their flips.
Sometimes we get both, as with "Tomorrow'S (Just Another Day)" and it's b-side "Madness (Is All In The Mind)".But best of all, we're offered the original 45 take, not the album versions later most fans are now familiar with. Thus their debut single "The Prince" comes in its singular robes, not its album garb, as does it's flip "Madness".
August, 1985's "Yesterday's Men" is the latest release of the lot, although the group knocked out three more singles before splitting. Inevitably, though, the tracks are not in chronological order, but as the earliest songs are wisely placed at the beginning, this doesn't particularly notice. Helpfully, the track listing provides both release dates and UK chart placements, part of a copious booklet which includes a well- researched biography and photographs that completes the sumptuous packaging.
The true ultimate collection is the box set that gathers up all the group's A- and b-sides, plus a bumper crop of rarities, but if that's just too much Madness, this will probably suit you to a tee. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, All Music Guide
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