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

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This was honestly the hardest canon to whittle down ever. I like pretty much everything they did up to 1985 (the only really dodgy one is "Uncle Sam"), and when I'd ticked my 5 or so "OMG TOTAL GENIUS" tracks I had a wide choice of 8 or 9 out of 10s.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Actually if you leave out the PSBs they're the best British singles band of the 80s.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hence priority in canon land :-)

Red Rag to bull, Tom

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Even if you DON'T leave them out...

Re: Red Rag to bull, Tom

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The best British singles act of 79-85, then :)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

And I do