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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]
  • Date: 2007-02-23 01:03 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com
    Was Night Boat To Cairo not a single then, or was it on that EP malarkey?

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:04 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] 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.

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:05 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
    It's on the EP I think, along with erm dunno.

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:06 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
    The thing about Madness: very few of their singles are ska.

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:11 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
    Actually if you leave out the PSBs they're the best British singles band of the 80s.

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:14 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com
    My ticks have duly been changed!

    HANG ON

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:15 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
    For most of Madness's career they had SEVEN members (Chas Smash was still an unofficial member in '79, hence he didn't appear in the One Step Beyond era photos, of which your selected photo is an example).

    So 0.86 legs can't be right! So much for MADFAX bah.

    Red Rag to bull, Tom

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:16 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
    Even if you DON'T leave them out...

    Re: Suggs solo

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:25 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
    I don't think I've heard "Blue Day", but I should have probably ticked it for the "ft" artist on principle.

    I dare say it's no "Blue is the Colour" tho'

    Re: Red Rag to bull, Tom

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:32 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
    The best British singles act of 79-85, then :)

    Re: However

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:48 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
    Didn't the Prodigy start covering it live? Or was that 'Ghost Town'? or both?

    Re: HANG ON

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:50 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] chezghost.livejournal.com
    yes, it's actually 100% of the Dublin Castle wall space etc.

    Re: Sweetest Girl

    Date: 2007-02-23 01:56 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
    Predictably, it's nowhere near as good as the original.

    But it's not awful - it's quite sweet in a "clumsy giant holds tender baby" sort of fashion.

    Re: Cecilia: tick explained

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:01 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com
    That was the reason I gave it a tick!

    Re: HANG ON

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:02 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com
    Also you can see an average of more than one leg per member even in that photo, not less than one.

    MORE MADFAX

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:05 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com
    If you google Night Boat To Cairo the first (sponsored) link that comes up is for STENA LINE FERRIES!

    GREY DAY

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:26 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
    needs more love

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:47 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
    Only 8? I need about 13

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:48 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
    And I do

    Re: GREY DAY

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:50 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
    If I had a couple of extra ticks it would get all the love it deserves.

    Date: 2007-02-23 02:52 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
    "Complete Madness" pretty much has all the essential singles on it IIRC. i.e. everything pre-1983

    Re: Suggs solo

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:16 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] bengraham.livejournal.com
    It's the one Chelsea fans actually sing (as oppose to 'Blue Is The Colour' which gets played on the PA at Stamford Bridge, but which fans don't really join in with).

    Chelsea, Chelsea
    Chelsea, Chelsea,
    We're gonna make it a bluuuuue daaaay

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:20 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] bengraham.livejournal.com
    Can I just say...

    I <3 MADNESS

    I think this calls for some dodgy footage of LJers at Benicassim!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOJKyejrzmY)

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:21 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] bengraham.livejournal.com
    I meant 'dodgy' as in 'badly-filmed', rather than 'dodgy' as in 'NSFW'.

    Embarrassment?

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:25 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] braisedbywolves.livejournal.com
    I think of Madness as a true pop band IE all their best stuff is the famous stuff (of which there are exactly 8 hurrah). But I've never heard Embarrassment, which appears to be beating the pants off Michael Caine, Wings Of A Dove, Driving in my Car AND My Girl! What's it all about?

    My favorite track

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:34 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] blue-russian.livejournal.com
    ...must have just missed the bottom reaches of the charts.

    Johnny the Horse (http://download.yousendit.com/C30E0CD32D6E91EC). I am also quite fond of "Victoria Gardens," which was on one of the singles collections but must have also missed the charts.

    Otherwise, glad to see all the love here.

    Re: Embarrassment?

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:43 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] blue-russian.livejournal.com
    Isn't Embarrassment basically the same idea as "Shame and Sorrow" (which I've never heard), ie., being about an pregnant, unmarried, single girl, told from the point of view of a family member.

    and there's a new single, BTW

    Date: 2007-02-23 03:49 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] blue-russian.livejournal.com
    streaming at their you-know-what (http://www.myspace.com/madnessofficial) page, feat. Sway and Baby Blue, whoever they are

    Re: and there's a new single, BTW

    Date: 2007-02-23 04:30 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
    is sway 'grime'?!

    Re: Embarrassment?

    Date: 2007-02-23 07:10 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
    There's a race angle to "Embarrassment" too.

    It's my favourite Madness song actually. [livejournal.com profile] mippy wrote something about it recently here (http://mippy.livejournal.com/288509.html).

    Re: and there's a new single, BTW

    Date: 2007-02-23 10:09 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com
    AAARGH i only just saw this what the FUCK are lovely Baby Blue and awesome Sway doing hanging around ghastly Madness AAAARGH also i did not know you lot loved them :((((

    Re: Cecilia: tick explained

    Date: 2007-02-24 11:51 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
    yes, that's why those two singlegot antick from me

    Date: 2007-02-24 11:54 pm (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
    i have cheated and voted for lots but i am drunk and do not care hurrah!

    Date: 2007-02-25 02:27 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] anatol-merklich.livejournal.com
    B2 featured Peter TOSH: "it's all eggs, bacon, beans and a friiiied.... SLICE."

    Re: GREY DAY

    Date: 2007-02-25 02:32 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] anatol-merklich.livejournal.com
    YES

    Mike Barson = most undersung pop genius auteur evah amirite?

    Date: 2007-02-25 03:06 am (UTC)
    From: [identity profile] 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.

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