Wonderful (Madness album)


Wonderful is an album by the British ska band Madness. It was released in 1999, and was the band's first studio album since 1984's Keep Moving to feature their classic seven-piece line-up.

Track listing

  1. "Lovestruck"
  2. "Johnny the Horse"
  3. "The Communicator"
  4. "4 am"
  5. "The Wizard"
  6. "Drip Fed Fred"
  7. "Going to the Top"
  8. "Elysium"
  9. "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"
  10. "If I Didn't Care"
  11. "No Money"

    2010 reissue

Disc 1 contains the full album plus three "promo" videos:
  1. "Lovestruck"
  2. "Johnny the Horse"
  3. "Drip Fed Fred"
Disc 2 contains the "bonus tracks":
  1. "You're Wonderful"
  2. "Round and Round"
  3. "We Are Love"
  4. "Johnny the Horse"
  5. "I Was the One"
  6. "Dreaming Man"
  7. "Light of the Way"
  8. "We Want Freddie"
  9. "Drip Fed Fred"
  10. "Maddley"
  11. "Simple Equation"
  12. "Sarah's Song"
  13. "It Must Be Love"
  14. "My Old Man"

    Reception

The BBC's Chris Charles said "... Wonderful finds the boys in their best form since 1981's Madness 7." Allmusic's Evan Cater gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and said "On the whole, it's a pretty successful return." In a review of the 2010 re-release, Terry Staunton of Record Collector stated that although "All the essential components are in place...something doesn’t quite gel…". Staunton thought the opening single Lovestruck was well done but "elsewhere there’s a niggling feeling that the band are trying too hard to replicate the sound of yore, studiously ignoring the fact that times – and the players themselves – have changed."

Chart performance

Personnel

;Additional personnel: