DISCOGRAPHY SONG LYRICS, VIDEOS & FAN REVIEWS

Dust Devil

Dust Devil

Kitchen Floor

Kitchen Floor

Woody: 'Kitchen Floor' was the first of a bunch of songs I wrote with my brother Nick. He absolutely cannot stop writing songs. He makes things quite simplistic, and his songs can be monotone - he doesn't resolve melodic lines. But that's ...
Powder Blue

Powder Blue

Mike: 'Powder Blue' was one of my favourite songs on the album. It was an old song, from back when I'd been working with Suggs, before he decided to do his solo career. He'd given me the lyric and l'd written the tune to it ages ago - it was a ...
Madness (Is All in the Mind)

Madness (Is All in the Mind)

Razor Blade Alley

Razor Blade Alley

Bands on the Two Tone Label had a following of skinheads. If you judged solely by the song title, "Razor Blade Alley," you might assume it was about mindless violence or football hooliganism.
Mad Not Mad

Mad Not Mad

Blue Skinned Beast

Blue Skinned Beast

House of Fun

House of Fun

Promises Promises

Promises Promises

Sunday Morning

Sunday Morning

My Girl (Demo)

My Girl (Demo)

The demo version of "My Girl" was released on the B-side of the 12" version of "The Return of the Los Palmas 7", featuring Mike Barson on vocals. The track was recorded when Madness recorded thier first three demo tracks, The Prince and Madness ...
Going To The Top

Going To The Top

Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)

Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)

Take It or Leave It

Take It or Leave It

'Take It Or Leave It' was inspired by the name of a Roxy Music track and set to quirky music presumably inspired by Sixties spy films. Mike Barson mentioned that writing it was mainly a poetic expression of my continuing mental state, though I ...
Israelites

Israelites

Mike: I was with my brother Dan, we were on our pushbikes, it was the school summer holidays of 1968. We were slowly making our way out of the grime of North London on the long journey to our holiday destination, a railway cottage in Santon ...
Hunchback of Toriano

Hunchback of Toriano

Can’t Touch Us Now

Can’t Touch Us Now

Don’t Quote Me On That

Don’t Quote Me On That

"Don't Quote Me On That" was a commentary on press coverage which had tried to paint the band as racists who supported the National Front (NF). Some of the band's shows had been disrupted by skinhead violence, and, in a 1979 NME interview.
Turning Blue

Turning Blue

Embarrassment

Embarrassment

'Embarrassment' dealt with an altogether more serious issue. Lee Thompson's 17-year-old sister Tracy had become pregnant with a mixed-race child, which caused consternation among some of the family's friends, relatives and neighbours, who ...
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