Total Madness – The Very Best of Madness (original) (raw)

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1997 greatest hits album by Madness

Total Madness – the Very Best of Madness
Greatest hits album by Madness
Released 9 September 1997
Recorded 1979–1985
Genre Ska pop[1]
Label Geffen
Producer Clive Langer Alan Winstanley
Madness chronology
The Business – the Definitive Singles Collection(1993) Total Madness – the Very Best of Madness(1997) Universal Madness(1998)

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AllMusic [2]

Total Madness – the Very Best of Madness is a greatest hits album by a British ska/pop band Madness, released in 1997. It was released exclusively in the United States and Canada.

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album three out of five stars and wrote that the album "[is] an overview of Madness in their decline, with a couple of earlier hits thrown in for good measure."

  1. "Our House" (Cathal Smyth, Chris Foreman) - 3:20

  2. "It Must Be Love" (Labi Siffre) - 3:18

  3. "Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)" (Smyth, Michael Barson) - 3:09

  4. "Shut Up" (Foreman, Graham McPherson) - 3:26

  5. "Grey Day" (Barson) - 3:38

  6. "The Sun and the Rain" (Barson) - 3:30

  7. "Wings of a Dove (A Celebratory Song)" (Smyth, McPherson) - 3:03

  8. "Michael Caine" (Smyth, Daniel Woodgate) - 3:36

  9. "One Better Day" (McPherson, Mark Bedford) - 4:06

  10. "Uncle Sam" (Foreman, Lee Thompson) - 4:16

  11. "Yesterday's Men" (Foreman, McPherson) - 4:32

  12. "One Step Beyond" (Cecil Campbell) - 3:33 (Version exclusive to compilation)

  13. ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Madness". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 508. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

  14. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r315569