Madness (band)

Madness were a British ska band of the 1980s.

Discography

Studio albums

• One Step Beyond (1979), UK #2
• Absolutely (1980), UK #2
• 7 (1981), UK #5
• The Rise and Fall (1982), UK #10
• Keep Moving (1984), UK #6
• Mad Not Mad (1985), UK #16
• The Madness (1988), UK #48
• Wonderful (1999), UK #17
• The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (August 1st 2005), #11 UK

Compilation and live albums

• Complete Madness (1982), UK #1
• Utter Madness (1986), UK #29
• The Peel Sessions; Madness (4 tracks for BBC, 14th August 1979) (1986)
• Divine Madness (1992), UK #1
• Madstock (Live album) (1992), UK #19

Singles

• 1979 "The Prince" / "Madness" #16 UK
• 1979 "One Step Beyond" / "Mistakes" #7 UK
• 1979 "My Girl" / "Stepping Into Line" #3 UK
• 1992, re-issued, reaching #27 UK
• 1980 "Work Rest and Play" EP (lead track: "Night Boat to Cairo") #6 UK
• 1980 "Baggy Trousers" / "The Business" #3 UK
• 1980 "Embarrassment" / "Crying Shame" #4 UK
• 1981 "The Return of the Los Palmas 7" / "That's The Way To Do It" #7 UK
• 1981 "Grey Day" #4 UK
• 1981 "Shut Up" #7 UK
• 1981 "It Must Be Love" / "In The City" #4 UK
• 1983, reached #33 US
• 1992, re-issued, reaching #6 UK
• 1982 "Cardiac Arrest" #14 UK
• 1982 "House of Fun" / "Don't Look Back" #1 UK
• 1992, re-issued, reaching #40 UK
• 1982 "Driving In My Car" #4 UK
• 1982 "Our House" / "Walking With Mr. Wheeze" #5 UK, #7 US
• 1983 "Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)" / "Madness (Is All In the Mind)" #8 UK
• 1983 "Wings Of A Dove" #2 UK
• 1983 "The Sun and the Rain" #5 UK, #84 US
• 1984 "Michael Caine" / "If You Think There's Something" #11 UK
• 1984 "One Better Day" #17 UK
• 1985 "Yesterday's Men" #18 UK
• 1985 "Uncle Sam" #21 UK
• 1986 "The Sweetest Girl" #36 UK
• 1986 "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train" #18 UK
• 1988 "I Pronounce You" (as The Madness) #44 UK
• 1988 "What's That?" (as The Madness) did not chart
• 1992 "The Harder They Come" #44 UK
• 1999 "Lovestruck" #10 UK
• 1999 "Johnny The Horse" #44 UK
• 2000 "Drip Fed Fred" (with Ian Dury) #55 UK
• 2005 "Shame and Scandal" #38 UK