Complete Madness


Complete Madness is the first greatest hits album by ska/pop group Madness. It was released in 1982 and included Madness' biggest hits from their first three studio albums and the stand-alone singles. Complete Madness spent 99 weeks on the UK charts, peaking at number 1.

Content

When issued originally many of the tracks faded early into each other with no banding, sometimes very abruptly. This continued on the 1985 CD issue. The first time the songs appeared in full for this compilation was for the 2003 Virgin reissue, although a similar, shortened version of "Shut Up" continued to be used, and continues to be used on subsequent reissues.
The original Australian version of the album, issued some months later than in the UK, replaces "In The City" with 13th UK single "Driving In My Car".

Music video

An accompanying video cassette was also released, containing all thirteen of the group's music videos up to that point, with specially filmed introductions to each video, together with the car commercials the bad had done for Honda in Japan.

Track listing

  1. "Embarrassment"
  2. "Shut Up"
  3. "My Girl"
  4. "Baggy Trousers"
  5. "It Must Be Love"
  6. "The Prince"
  7. "Bed & Breakfast Man"
  8. "Night Boat to Cairo"
  9. "House of Fun"
  10. "One Step Beyond"
  11. "Cardiac Arrest"
  12. "Grey Day"
  13. "Take It or Leave It"
  14. "In the City"
  15. "Madness"
  16. "The Return of the Los Palmas 7"

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