Mad Not Mad - Discography and Reviews
Released: 1985
Personnel involved:
- Suggs - lead vocals
- Chris Foreman - guitar
- Mark Bedford - bass guitar
- Lee Thompson - saxophones
- Daniel Woodgate - drums, drum programming, keyboards
- Carl Smyth - backing vocals, lead vocals on "Tears You Can't Hide"
- Steve Nieve - keyboards
- Roy Davies - piano
- Judd Lander - harmonica
- Louis Jardim - percussion
- Tom Morley - drums, computers
- Gary Barnacle - horns
- Rupert Bowden - strings
- Bill Benham - strings
- Belinda Blunt - strings
- Trevor Ford - strings
- Rusen Gunes - strings
- Adrian Levine - strings
- Basil Smart - strings
- Afrodiziak - backing vocals
- Jimmy Chambers - backing vocals
- Jimmy Helms - backing vocals
- Jimmy Thomas - backing vocals
- Clive Langer - production
- Alan Winstanley - production
- Matt Howe - associate production
- Mark Saunders - associate production
- Richard Sullivan - associate production
- Ian Wright - illustrations
- Simon Halfon - design
- Anton Corbijn - photography
- John Stoddart - photography
- Clare Muller - photography
Songs:
- I'll Compete
- Yesterday's Men
- Uncle Sam
- White Heat
- Mad Not Mad
- Sweetest Girl
- Burning the Boats
- Tears You Can't Hide
- Time
- Coldest Day
Remastered, double disc album (Released October 2009):
Disc 1:
- I'll Compete (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Yesterday's Men (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Uncle Sam (1999 Digital Remaster)
- White Heat (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Mad Not Mad (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Sweetest Girl (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Burning the Boats (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Tears You Can't Hide (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Time (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Coldest Day (1999 Digital Remaster)
- Yesterday's Men, Extended Version (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Uncle Sam, Ray Gun Mix (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Sweetest Girl, Extended Version (2010 Digital Remaster)
- (Waiting for the) Ghost Train (2010 Digital Remaster)
Disc 2:
- Yesterday's Men, Demo Version (2010 Digital Remaster)
- All I Knew (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Yesterday's Men, Harmonica Mix (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Uncle Sam, Demo Version (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Please Don't Go (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Inanity over Christmas (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Sweetest Girl, Dub Mix (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Jennie (A Portrait Of) (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Call Me (2010 Digital Remaster)
- Maybe in Another Life (2010 Digital Remaster)
Disc 3 (DVD):
- Yesterday's Men (2002 Digital Remaster)
- Uncle Sam (2002 Digital Remaster)
- Sweetest Girl (2002 Digital Remaster)
- (Waiting for the) Ghost Train (2002 Digital Remaster)
- Yesterday's Men (Wogan - 19/08/85)
- Uncle Sam (Top of the Pops - 21/11/85)
- Burning the Boats (Whistle Test - 26/11/85)
- Time (Whistle Test - 26/11/85)
- Time (Hammersmith Odeon - 31/12/85)
- I'll Compete (Hammersmith Odeon - 31/12/85)
- Uncle Sam (Hammersmith Odeon - 31/12/85)
- Yesterday's Men (Hammersmith Odeon - 31/12/85)
- (Waiting for the) Ghost Train (Top of the Pops - 13/11/86)
Music videos:
- Yesterday's Men
- Uncle Sam
- Sweetest Girl
- (Waiting for the) Ghost Train
Reviews:
In my opinion, this is the worst album of Madness' career. It isn't that this is a particularly bad album, it's just that Madness' other albums are so much better. Burning the Boats is excellent; as are Mad Not Mad, Uncle Sam and White Heat.
Mad Ems
I don't like Sweetest Girl, but that's the only song on the album that I feel lets it down at all.