Absolutely

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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.

Steffen Hung (15 June 2006). "Norwegian charts portal". norwegiancharts.com . Retrieved 14 October 2011. 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\06 - Madness - Time for Tea.wav Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\12 - Madness - Wings of a Dove (A Celebratory Song).wavFilename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\05 - Madness - The Sun and the Rain.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\01 - (Hey You) One Step Beyond.wav

Media Control Charts". charts.de. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014 . Retrieved 18 September 2013. 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\07 - Madness - One Step Beyond.wavFilename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\04 - Madness - Grey Day.wav Steffen Hung (7 October 2011). "Swedish Charts Portal". swedishcharts.com . Retrieved 14 October 2011. Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\02 - Embarrassment.wav

Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\01 - Madness - Our House.wav The 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:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\07 - Baggy Trousers.wav Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\11 - Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man.wav

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Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\08 - It Must Be Love.wav a b Marcus, Greil (19 February 1981). "Madness: Absolutely". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007 . Retrieved 17 July 2015. The front cover sees the band standing in front of Chalk Farm tube station in Camden. When the original vinyl was released the first, more sombre, cover photograph was changed to a more animated pose after around 10,000 albums were pressed. The two sleeves can be distinguished by keyboardist Mike Barson's holding of the umbrella: in the earlier pressing he holds it up to his chin while in the later, and subsequently used, releases the umbrella is on the ground. [4] Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\03 - Madness - House of Fun.wav In a 2020 interview with GQ magazine Lee Thompson said it was his favourite Madness album. [1] Album title [ edit ]

Filename C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\The Best of Madness - The Millennium Collection\02 - Madness - Calling Cards.wav Close Escape is basically a rather seedy sex song – it’s written as a direct sequel to In the Middle of the Night from One Step Beyond, and the first lines; “That was a close escape/Had to get a new hobby to relate” directly refer to the end of Middle of the Night, as George, the song’s protagonist moves on, after fleeing his newsagents, from stealing underwear from washing lines to making obscene phone calls. Lee Thompson’s lyrics are perfectly wrapped up by fantastic guitar accompaniment from Chris Foreman. Ominously, the song ends with the heavy clang of a prison cell door, the song becoming suddenly distant. Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Tammi. p.178. ISBN 951-31-2503-3. Filename C:\temp\RIP\Madness - 1998 - Universal Madness- Live in Los Angeles\09 - Bed & Breakfast Man.wav

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