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.

Complete Madness
Greatest hits album by
Madness
Released23 April 1982
Recorded1979 - 1982
Genre
Length45:24 (Original) / 47:24 (Re-issue)
LabelStiff Records
ProducerClive Langer
Alan Winstanley
Madness chronology
7
(1981)		 Complete Madness
(1982)		 The Rise & Fall
(1982)
Alternative cover
Cover of the Virgin Records 1985 CD re-release
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic link

Content

This compilation includes the original 7-inch single mixes of most tracks (House of Fun being an exception). The vinyl and initial CD releases have shortened fade-outs for many tracks, to reduce the running time of each side of the original LP version. The first time the songs appeared in full for this compilation was on the 2003 Virgin CD reissue.

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 (the twelve UK singles plus Bed and Breakfast Man, which was a single in Canada), with specially filmed introductions to each video, together with the car commercials the band had done for Honda in Japan.

Track listing

The following track listing is for the original 1982 UK release (Stiff Records, HIT-TV1).

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Embarrassment"
2:59
2."Shut Up"
2:48
3."My Girl"Mike Barson2:38
4."Baggy Trousers"
  • Graham McPherson
  • Chris Foreman
  • Mike Barson
2:26
5."It Must Be Love"Labi Siffre3:19
6."The Prince"Lee Thompson2:27
7."Bed and Breakfast Man"Mike Barson2:29
8."Night Boat to Cairo"
  • Graham McPherson
  • Mike Barson
3:13
Total length:22:24
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."House of Fun"
  • Mike Barson
  • Lee Thompson
2:47
2."One Step Beyond"Cecil Campbell2:17
3."Cardiac Arrest"
2:52
4."Grey Day"Mike Barson3:30
5."Take It or Leave It"
  • Mike Barson
  • Lee Thompson
3:17
6."In the City"
  • Graham McPherson
  • Mike Barson
  • Cathal Smyth
  • Chris Foreman
  • Bill Crutchfield
  • Daisuke Inoue
2:55
7."Madness"Cecil Campbell2:35
8."The Return of the Los Palmas 7"
2:29
Total length:22:49

Personnel
Madness
Production

Chart performance
Chart (1982) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart[1] 1
Australia (Kent Music Report)[2] 2
Dutch Albums Chart[3] 7
New Zealand Albums Chart[4] 11

References
  1. Complete Madness at Official Charts Retrieved 26 August 2016
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. Complete Madness at Dutch Charts Retrieved 20 June 2013
  4. Complete Madness at Dutch Charts Retrieved 26 August 2016
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