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Win a Madness deluxe edition SIGNED by the band

By Paul Sinclair

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MADNESS

Courtesy of our friends as Salvo, SDE has FIVE copies of the 35th Anniversary Edition of Madness‘s debut album One Step Beyond… to give away and each CD+DVD deluxe set is fully SIGNED by The Nutty Boys themselves!

This was originally issued late last year and as well as a newly remastered version of the album (from the original tapes) it includes some unheard rehearsal recordings and a DVD packed with promo videos, Top Of The Pops appearances and a documentary.

How to Enter:
This competition is open to all until noon GMT/UTC on Friday 30 January 2015. To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, please:

  • 1. Subscribe to the free SDE weekly newsletter – click here.
  • 2. Leave a comment on this post – tell us your favourite Madness track!

If you already subscribe to our free newsletter, then just leave a comment. The winner will be picked at random and revealed via the newsletter on Sunday 1 February 2015. Good luck!

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  11. My fave Madness track has to be The Sun and The Rain. It’s still sounds as fresh as a daisy

    (although daisies don’t actually emit audible sound)

  46. I began listening to Madness chronologically backwards, so the more recent tracks are quite closer to me. “NW5” became one of my favourites through its feature in the German Edgar Wallace spoof “Neues vom Wixxer” (it had an own mix on the soundtrack, though). Its predecessor was built around a cover of “The Wizard”, which I love as well. From their last album, “Leon” has struck me. I’m in awful need of their classic catalogue ;)

  48. It is a real struggle to choose as i love them all so i will say House of fun although i do love Shame & scandal from The Dangerman Sessions one of their later album releases.

  58. One Step Beyond on many days is my nutty fave, but today it’s another another because I am feeling 1 with its protagonist:
    E M B A R R A S S M E N T

  66. How do you choose a fav track? This is one of those rare albums where every track is a classic. It is superbly produced and I always loved their clear sharp drum sound. This is truly deserving of a 24bit surround mix as well. Anybody else agree?

  75. Impossible, it will change every day, especially as I think they did a lot of quality b-sides too :) Okay, just to be different – Besides the sublime single (Waiting for) The Ghost Train, and almost single Victoria Gardens how about… Deceives the Eye, Don’t Quote Me on That, That’s the Way to Do It and Animal Farm.

  90. ‘Our House’ is my favorite song because it is the only song I know of theirs.
    That’s why I need to win this Box Set! Thanks for the chance to win! :-)

  128. I was at the very first Prince’s Trust concert at the Dominion Theatre in London in 1982. (Seat, right in the middle of the front row!) Who opened proceedings? Yep, Madness with a storming rendition of God Save The Queen! (in the presence of Charles and Diana). Also performing(!) that night by the way were Joan Armatrading, Kate Bush, Pete Townshend, Jethro Tull (with Phil Collins on drums) and Gary Brooker. What a night and all for a paltry 25 quid.
    Favourite Madness song: Disappear from the album Absolutely

  139. It’s a Sophie’s Choice question for me, but I will go for Drip Fed Fred. When there were rumours of Jose coming back to Chelsea, we went around everywhere singing: “We want Jose for our leader” :D XXX

  168. Already have this album as a double 10″ vinyl but I could add it this one to my collection as it’s signed and comes with bonus tracks not on the vinyl.

  175. There are too many to list; from the older releases “Stepping Into Line” and “In The City” are tracks that were worthy of a single release, with the same energy as Night Boat and the like. Later on “New Delhi” and “Waltz Into Mischief” are really underappreciated album tracks, and coming bang up to date both “Forever Young” and “NW5” from Norton Folgate are always crowd-pleasers along with “Misery” from Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da, Da. And that’s without a mention of any Dangermen tracks.

    If a gun was put to my head (“Guns”, that’s another good track), I would say it is a toss-up between “Night Boat To Cairo” and “Forever Young”, with the former edging it slightly if only because it is responsible for a flurry of fezzes at every gig, and even before Matt Smith was born Madness were aware that fezzes are cool.

  206. My favorite all time Madness track is House of fun! An awesome promo video for that track as well! Be thrilled to win this reissue

    Scott

  219. Embarrassment.
    Actually, it’s difficult to choose a single favourite track. I still have “The Complete Madness” LP, and all tracks on this record are top-notch.

  253. It’s the only ban I deeply love all the songs, from “One Step Beyond” to the last “Oui oui si si ja ja da da”.
    I would say “On the town” woth Rhoda Dakar, depite making the choice is impossible!
    Seriously guys, this item is a real treasure …. I NEED IT!!!!!!

    BTW : big hello from France and thanks for the great job

  254. This is always tough for me because it’s usually a dead tie between Shut Up and Bed And Breakfast Man. If forced it would probably be Shut Up.

  264. Mmmm Perhaps “yesterday’s men”, or maybe “bed and breakfast man” , or maybe “it must be love” or maybe “one better day”…or maybe any of 20 others…!

  290. SO many to choose from – but oddly one of my favourites is a non-single from a period when they were, perhaps, commercially on the wane – Blue Skinned Beast – a song about Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War.

  310. One of the things that’s not so wonderful about getting older is that it’s harder to find those fantastic moments when something sends electric chills through your entire body and you can’t believe your good fortune. But, when they do come… Oh, it’s so fantastic. One of the very best I’ve had, in a long, long time, was the moment the lights went down in the Warfield in San Francisco and out of the darkness came Chas’ “Hey, You! Don’t watch that…” Best of all was watching people aged 12 to 60, each and every one of them, absolutely lose their minds. So, yeah, I’m going to go with One Step Beyond. :)

  325. Walked down the aisle to “It must be love”, got “Baggy Trousers” as my ringtone, but OSB and “Night Boat to Cairo” my two all time faves, classic music with so many lifetime memories associated with it.

  330. My favourite track is The Liberty of Norton Folgate. It showed that after all these years the boys still have London in them, and is one of only a handful of songs around the ten minute mark that manages to not only not outstay its welcome, but to be packed with enough ideas to comfortably be even longer!

    Zarjaz!

  353. That hard to only list one favourite track!! Can’t even do that from each LP.
    – Baggy Trousers –
    Has to be, great memories, always puts a smile on my face!

  380. Man, I’ve not heard this album in a long while. I always liked ‘Razor Blade Alley’ as it really stood out as being different from other Madness tunes from that time.

  388. Paul, thanks for doing this.
    ‘Our House’ is a killer song and would be my fav track over all.
    From the album for this contest I would pick ‘Bed & Breakfast Man”.

  396. I just had a new system fitted in my car and the first track I played on it was “Driving In My Car”!!! So that’s my favourite Madness track at the moment!

  413. Favorite track is either “Michael Caine” or “Wings of a Dove” (though neither are on this CD that I’m hopefully going to win!)

    1. Torn between Our House, Embarrassment and One Better Day.

      If you held a gun to my head and said I had to pick just one it would have to be Our House. Just.

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