DISCOGRAPHY SONG LYRICS, VIDEOS & FAN REVIEWS

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Madness’s music is more than just a collection of songs. It reflects life’s journey, capturing moments of joy, heartache, and everything. Their clever lyrics and unforgettable melodies create a personal connection, whether you’re reminiscing about past experiences or finding solace in their words. Madness offers a soundtrack that resonates with your life.

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Lola

Lee: 20 years after its release, Chris & myself wrote our inspired version, 'Mistress, Mistress' - it sounded fab but, as agent 1 would say, 'this song is available absolutely nowhere!' Lola obviously had an unearthly effect on myself as ...

Rain

Lee: Though Bruce Ruffin's version was plushly produced, the 'nursery rhyme' middle 8 always annoyed us so this was replaced by a James Bond feel with a dodgy sax solo over her. Trumpeter Simon Wilcox played a slurred, almost drunk-sounding ...

Tomorrow’s Dream

John Jones

Mike: There will always be someone bigger than you, you may not like it but whether you can do anything about it is another question!

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

So Much Trouble In The World

Cathal: Since the world began and the first stone was thrown, when violence was born and fashioned daggers from bone, nothing much has changed... protect the weak, don't hang with the freak, keep a smile on your cheek, find the peace that you ...

Israelites

Mike: I was with my brother Dan, we were on our pushbikes, it was the school summer holidays of 1968. We were slowly making our way out of the grime of North London on the long journey to our holiday destination, a railway cottage in Santon ...

Shame and Scandal

Mike: A complicated tale of matrimonial misadventure penned on the island by none other than Sir Lancelot himself.

One Step Beyond…

How different it might have been, though. In the early days, the band played "One Step Beyond" simply as a short instrumental introduction to the main set. Some nights, they played the theme from "Hawaii 5'0". Some nights, they played the ...

Chipmunks Are Go!

We did it as an encore, all at the front of the stage,” says Mark, and it’s this that sends shivers down his rhythm pal’s spine. “I had absolutely no love for this whatsoever,” says Woody.

Long Goodbye

It starts off with the ethereal tones of Tingsha-Tibetan Chimes, instantly conjuring memories of John Lennon's iconic ‘(Just Like) Starting Over’. At first blush, it seems like the tale might belong to Johnny the Horse, who faced similar ...

Turning Blue

Mumbo Jumbo

This Is Where

This is where the Danger begins, This is where the Danger ends, This is where there are no strangers,This is where there are only friends, This is here and now forever, This is us here all together, This is the heart, the soul of the sound, ...

Skylarking

The Business

'The Business' is an instrumental reworking of 'Take It Or Leave It' from the album 'Absolutely'. 'Take It Or Leave It' was inspired by the name of a Roxy Music track and set to quirky music presumably inspired by Sixties spy films. Mike Barson ...

It Must Be Love

Tarzan’s Nuts

Practically an instrumental with a few lines of banter to kick it all off, it's hardly surprising that these days, the band has a very shaky recollection of how the song came about.

In The Hall Of The Mountain King

Instrumental

My Obsession

Chris: I've got so many songs that I've written with Lee that have never seen the light of day, and I didn't want these to get lost. In the end, a lot of mine and Thommo's songs ended up on the 'box set' version of the album. So what happened ...