The Friday Canon: MADNESS

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The nutty boys are in town, so don your pork pie hat and jump on board the Night Boat To Cairo!

MADFAX

Madness have an average of 0.86 legs per band member (see photo above)

One of the saxophone players runs the Dublin Castle and demands that at least 75% of wall space in said drinking establishment must feature signed posters of the band

Madness once caused an earthquake in Finsbury Park that measured 4.5 on the Richter Scale

Madness are so named because frontman Suggs was (and remains to this day) a rabid fan of the Loch Ness Monster

[Poll #933532]

EDIT: Just so it doesn't get short shrift, Night Boat To Cairo appears on the Work Rest & Play EP.

The results of last week's Missycanon:

1. Get UR Freak On
2. Work It
3. The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
4. One Minute Man [ft Ludacris]
5. Pass That Dutch
6. Lose Control [w/ Ciara & Fatman Scoop]
7. Gossip Folks [ft Ludacris]
8. 4 My People
9. 1-2 Step [w/ Ciara]
10. All N My Grill [ft MC Solaar]

Comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Was Night Boat To Cairo not a single then, or was it on that EP malarkey?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's on the EP I think, along with erm dunno.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes it was on there. Bvms, I might have to go back and change my ticks.

WR&P EP contains:

A1 Night Boat To Cairo (3:26)
A2 Deceives The Eye (1:58)
B1 The Young And The Old (2:03)
B2 Don't Quote Me On That (4:30)

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

My ticks have duly been changed!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

B2 featured Peter TOSH: "it's all eggs, bacon, beans and a friiiied.... SLICE."

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

A1) Oh you know already
A2) Cheeky chappy generic excellent madness tuney thing about stealing stuff in stores: "In the earliest days of my shoplifting career / You could safely say I was filled with fear" etc.
B1) Might be hailed as international masterpiece if by teh Specials, really a knockoff abt how you feel in morning vs night or something, hence title. Maybe.
INTERLUDE) I cannot see why teh lex calls Madness "ghastly"?
B2) It's all eggs, bacon, beans and a friiiied.... SLICE.

However

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

NBTC was released a single in BELGIUM! Oh, and France. There was also a dub remix of it in 1993 that didn't chart.

Re: However

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Didn't the Prodigy start covering it live? Or was that 'Ghost Town'? or both?

Re: However

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

The Prodge did a cover of it in their Reading 2002 set. Or was it 2001. Whatevs. It was pretty good!