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Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\11 - Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man.wav 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\02 - Madness - Calling Cards.wav

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Christgau, Robert (1990). "Madness: Absolutely". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 17 July 2015.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:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\02 - Embarrassment.wavThe 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. Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\08 - Madness - It Must Be Love.wav Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\12 - Night Boat to Cairo.wav Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\08 - It Must Be Love.wav Steffen Hung (7 October 2011). "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com . Retrieved 14 October 2011.

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:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\04 - Madness - Grey Day.wav 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. Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\05 - Madness - The Sun and the Rain.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 Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\10 - Madness - Keep Moving.wav 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.