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Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\09 - Madness - Cardiac Arrest.wav Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\04 - Madness - Grey Day.wav Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\08 - It Must Be Love.wav Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\07 - Madness - One Step Beyond.wav Absolutely is the second studio album from the British ska band Madness. The album reached number 2 in the UK album charts. [2]

Frustratingly for the band, and just like debut album One Step Beyond, Absolutely stalled at number two in the album charts, kept off the top by Zenyatta Mondatta, The Police’s third album. Still waiting for their first number one studio album, it’s an album that deserved to reach the top. Musically, it’s a real tour de force for Mike Barson and Lee Thompson, but that’s not to decry the rest of the band; by this point, all the members had progressed to excellent musicians in their own right. For me, it’s how a second album should be – whilst in many way it’s similar to the first album, there is a real progression for the band. It’s a mature album which manages to retain the band’s sense of fun, and it’s a damn fine listen.

a b c "The Madness Timeline: 1980". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 19 June 2007. Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\09 - Bed & Breakfast Man.wav Steffen Hung (7 October 2011). "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com . Retrieved 14 October 2011. Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\10 - Madness - Keep Moving.wav Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\01 - (Hey You) One Step Beyond.wavThe front cover sees the band standing in front of Chalk Farm tube station in Camden. When the original vinyl was released the first, more sombre, cover photograph was changed to a more animated pose after around 10,000 albums were pressed. The two sleeves can be distinguished by keyboardist Mike Barson's holding of the umbrella: in the earlier pressing he holds it up to his chin while in the later, and subsequently used, releases the umbrella is on the ground. [4] Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\03 - Madness - House of Fun.wav a b Marcus, Greil (19 February 1981). "Madness: Absolutely". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007 . Retrieved 17 July 2015.

Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\02 - Madness - Calling Cards.wav Close Escape is basically a rather seedy sex song – it’s written as a direct sequel to In the Middle of the Night from One Step Beyond, and the first lines; “That was a close escape/Had to get a new hobby to relate” directly refer to the end of Middle of the Night, as George, the song’s protagonist moves on, after fleeing his newsagents, from stealing underwear from washing lines to making obscene phone calls. Lee Thompson’s lyrics are perfectly wrapped up by fantastic guitar accompaniment from Chris Foreman. Ominously, the song ends with the heavy clang of a prison cell door, the song becoming suddenly distant. Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\12 - Madness - Wings of a Dove (A Celebratory Song).wav Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\06 - Madness - Time for Tea.wav Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\05 - Madness - The Sun and the Rain.wavChristgau, Robert (1990). "Madness: Absolutely". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 17 July 2015. Media Control Charts". charts.de. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014 . Retrieved 18 September 2013. The first album, we’d been working on all that material for ages and playing it for Christ knows how long. But with Absolutely, we had to hit the ground running. Dave was like, “We need a single! We need it now!” He was quite gung-ho. It’s been two years since we’ve played live,” singer Suggs declares, reflecting on how the pandemic derailed this British pop institution. “I’ve found myself singing at old grannies at the bus stop.” Still, within seconds, band and audience resume their positions for the traditional festive staple of a Madness December tour. Around a quarter of the crowd are wearing fezzes. The sunglassed, besuited vocalist begins the evening in a stage-left phone box, supposedly phoning his mum, and still has the charmingly befuddled air of someone who woke up from a dream to find himself onstage in an arena. At 60, he changes the “I’m feeling twice as older” line in 1980’s Embarrassment to “three times as older”. He doesn’t need to complete the “Hey you, don’t watch that …” intro to One Step Beyond – the audience do it for him.

Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\02 - Embarrassment.wav Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Tammi. p.178. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.

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Absolutely was the second album released by Madness, and came hot on the heels of their debut album, One Step Beyond. Evolving from the ska sound of their debut, Absolutely became an album which showed not only a growing maturity in songwriting, but also showcased the band themselves, who had become excellent musicians in their own right. Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\11 - Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man.wav The album is named after one of the oft-said expressions of the band's then tour manager and sound man Tony Duffield. [3] Cover [ edit ] Inner sleeve illustration Billboard's Recommended LPs" (PDF). Billboard. Vol.85, no.44. 1 November 1980. pp.88, 91. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved 30 May 2020– via World Radio History.