DISCOGRAPHY SONG LYRICS, VIDEOS & FAN REVIEWS

Dangerman AKA High Wire

Dangerman AKA High Wire

Cathal: Take a piece of thread, pass it thru the eye of a needle and wash it in purple sand. Stitch a circle of gold silk to a blue mohair jacket and whisper three times beneath a full moon the incantation... love is the answer... all will be ...
One Step Beyond…

One Step Beyond…

How different it might have been, though. In the early days, the band played "One Step Beyond" simply as a short instrumental introduction to the main set. Some nights, they played the theme from "Hawaii 5'0". Some nights, they played the ...
I Believe

I Believe

A Town With No Name

A Town With No Name

Written by Chris Foreman, who was then the king of B-sides, A Town With No Name was the B-side to the single 'Shut Up' and drew inspiration from the lawless settings of classic Spaghetti Western films. The latter's dramatic and haunting ...
Believe Me

Believe Me

"Believe Me" was one of the earliest original songs by Madness. It was written by John Hasler and Mike Barson. Hasler used to write many things, including poems, songs and even the first two pages of a novel. He would give his lyrics to Mike so ...
You’ll Lose A Good Thing

You’ll Lose A Good Thing

Suggs: A beautiful Barbara Lynn track, which I only knew from an extremely battered reggae 45 by a girl known only as Audrey, on the Down Town label. In fact it was in such bad condition that bits were inaudible and we had to interpret an ...
Sweetest Girl

Sweetest Girl

Mistakes

Mistakes

According to John Hasler, the band played a two-chord vamp, and the songwriter wrote the lyrics in the next room. On the other hand, Cathal admires the lyrics of "Mistakes," saying that it is an astute and poignant observation of life at a ...
Never Ask Twice

Never Ask Twice

Blackbird

Blackbird

Black and Blue

Black and Blue

Mike: I wrote 'Black and Blue' about breaking up with my missus, Sandra. We'd been married for a very long time. That song was about the breakup, and the relief, in some ways, when you've been stuck in the negative spiral that some ...
Tarzan’s Nuts

Tarzan’s Nuts

Practically an instrumental with a few lines of banter to kick it all off, it's hardly surprising that these days, the band has a very shaky recollection of how the song came about.
Girl Why Don’t You?

Girl Why Don’t You?

Suggs: 28 years ago? There was a stall in Berwick St. market, in London's Soho, that sold 45s and had a great selection of Blue Beat records - I would buy as many as I could afford and rush home to play them. The ten second crackle of static ...
Pam the Hawk

Pam the Hawk

Culture Vulture

Culture Vulture

Okay, it’s been over 30 years in the making—well, not really. Though some might try to draw a strange connection to the song once heard in 1996 at Madstock, this is not that tune. The only common thread here is the title, 'Culture Vulture.' ...
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