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  • Audio CD (29 May 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B00004SCMB
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 96,168 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Baggy Trousers
2. Embarrassment
3. ERNIE
4. Close Escape
5. Not Home Today
6. On The Beat Pete
7. Solid Gone
8. Take It Or Leave Me
9. Shadow Of Fear
10. Disappear
11. Overdone
12. In The Rain
13. You Said
14. Return Of The Los Palmas 7

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5.0 out of 5 stars Madness - Surely they mean Genius, 1 Nov 2000
By M. Cartwright "Deggsie" (Preston, England) - See all my reviews
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Well, what is there to say about this album? It is a Madness Masterpiece. Three top-twenty singles taken from this album alone do it credit ('Baggy Trousers', 'Embarrassment' and 'Return of the Los Palmas 7'), but there are many other great tunes to choose from.

'On The Beat Pete' is a stomping Ska/Pop tune to really get your teeth into; 'You Said' is another darker song for the fans and non-fans alike; 'Disappear' will lull and calm you with its bright tones and lucid rhythms; 'In The Rain' sings of the all-to-often bleak weather one experiences as a youth in Blighty.

Simply excellent, simply Madness at their greatest. Forget the Best Of's and the Greatest Hits, this is the album for those fans who want to leave the fake fans behind and explore that long-and-winding road to Madness themselves.

Many records of the time capture the feeling of the early 80s, but this one does that time period justice - truly a heavenly record.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Album, 17 Jan 2003
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If you think of Madness as a singles band,think again.
This album is absolutely crammed with well-crafted tunes that reflect both the melancholy and more frivolous approach that really define the band.Highlights include Close Escape Not Home Today,Take It Or Leave It,the classic singles Baggy Trousers and (The peerless) Embarrassment,and Disappear,arguably the bands best ever track.
I've had the album since 1981 and now on CD and although Madness's time has been and gone,it still stands up today,and i can literally smell those school corridors it reminds me of !
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Their best one, 19 Nov 2002
By Simon Gibbons (Portsmouth, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is Madness at their best - they'd freed themselves from the constraints of trying to be a ska band (they never really were) - and became a pop band (which underneath it all, they always were). Brilliant tunes, great singles and top production - it still sounds fantastic today.
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