Running off into the dark of night...

It's a week till the holidays. I wont be back to Another World until the new year.

But the next stocking is going to be hung here at Christmas...


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Thought I'd get you something a bit older...

Waa Hoo Haa

Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, love the songs, love the rare tracks, got to hear it all, love love love.

Ok I know. I'm with you. With you all. But it's not all good you know. Songs can be underated true. But even in this world here, even taking into consideration the poor recording methods or experimentation involved in things we werent supposed to hear, even overlooking that, searching for lost gems, somewhere there still has to be a turd, and you have to flush...

WAA HOO HAA You wont find it here.

Dont forget that 15 brand new Madness tracks entered the real world together at The House of Fun Weekender and Madness are So Alive this band right now, and you are far better putting them in your ears in 2012 we hope. Look forward to that. Here's to the future on that other world, as well as our gems, It takes all kinds of songs to make the universe. Extinction included.

Most Days

...and so due to "reasons" many days pass.

Which for those who wait, means days can be dull and empty of promise. Who knows how much longer you wait for "S" day, do suits with spreadsheets care? When it comes down to THE owner$hip. Future days will tell on that one. For now nothing.

And what of the blogger who brought you unpolished surprises? Many days a world away. Days of being silly for FUN In November http://youtu.be/TAu4CKooiUo  Saturday is Miswas day ETA youtube December.  Or great days following a Ska Orchestra (see http://www.ltso.mis-online.net/) I reccomend it.

6 months have passed on Another world... With nothing. Did you miss it?

"Most days are like that..."

But today is not like those days. It's THE day for ...

MOST DAYS

Today is once again June 24th 1987. The song is Most Days. Given the post fix  (reggea jam).  It's one of the ideas started but totally lost to the mists of time. One of last things you've never heard. But here is a room recording, a bit far from the vocals of Carl, but mostly auidible. Enjoy your Jam, mostly a live band with just a little of that programming. Cus some days. Are different. This is one of them. There will be another in day in December. And many more in 2012 before the final day comes on Another World. Welcome back.

I'll meet you beneath the moonlight.

Ears required to hear somethings that are Not Of This World.

Are you Attending the House Of Fun Weekender?

Members wanted for a small cult.  Apply.   Jonsmad@hotmail.com

"I only hope you can rest in peace and cannot hear the tune they play"
"Because we're all tired of hearing that song"

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Our 2nd cover version on Another World is a re-write. It's not hard to think that 4BF although about Brian Ferry leaving roxy music, may have been inspired by emotions closer to home and the break up of Madness.

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Recorded in her school's music studio. Here's Shannan McBride on why she chose to put a spin of this song...

"I was eager to do this song as it is an under-rated track and also because really with out Mike there is the whole question of "Would Madness ever have happened?", and then Mike leaving "Would The Madness ever have happened?"

I know it may seem weird that I am a guitarist singing about a Keybord player, but I admire Mike. From a "quiet man who doesnt seem friendly" and turinng into a  "man who is more with it now," Which is basically what this re-write of the song is about. I was looking back on mike, a quite strayed human being blossoming into a character of smiles and wry laughter."   Shannan McBride.

Beat The Bride. Friday Night Live Backing Track. (A Big Thank You £277 raised to Comic Relief!!!)

Dont beat the bride. Ride the wave. Face the tide. Sing the words.

Beat The Bride Friday Night Live Backing Track

Only the lead vocals were live in the studio on the day that THE Madness made their one and only appearance on TV.  Backing tracks were recorded, for this appearance. Mixed in the recording studio before the album release, and delivered.  Like many standard tv shows of the day. Here it is clean, instrumental, only backing vocals mix, a nice alternate studio cut, a unique mix version from the TV backing tape, not from Transmission. Go on. Have a sing a long.  Have fun.

Heres the words to help you....

Don't treat the bride kneeling at your feet, feeling black and blue
Like an overworked upper cut side order of meat
Monkey see, what monkey do, looking up to you
Copy every move, they worship you

Look at yourself, self-respect
Dirt behind the ears
Gone is all that sense of pride
Run off with your tears

Don't beat the bride, ride the wave
Face the tide, and when the penny got tight
Take take off
Ride the wave, face the tide
And when the penny got tight

You're always hurting the one you love
And when they're dead and gone, the hurting gets even worse
So when tension, rears its ugly head
Look the other way, and stay just one step ahead
Don't beat the bride, ride the wave
Face the tide, and when the penny got tight
Take take off
Ride the wave, face the tide
And when the penny got tight

(This next bit is done for you, so wait for the last chorus)

Don't beat the bride, ride the wave
Face the tide and when the penny got tight
Take take off
Ride the wave, face the tide
And when the penny got tight

(And then we fade out earlier than the released full album mix)

Heres how Suggs sounded doing it, The one and only appearance in public of  THE band was a comedy TV show Friday Night Live. Let's have a look at it with some Comic Relief from Joise Lawrence, as she satirises the overuse of journalistic stupidity that the nutty nutty nutty boys had endured previous to wanting to create a more mature sound in the later 80's and beyond, and the 2 songs.

And there we have the only full band outing (with John Halser too)

Thanks to this rare recording of a song that clearly speaks out about issues of Domestic Violence.
Fans helped raise £277 for charitys combating domestic violence in the UK by sponsoring a page for Comic Relief. Women and children as young as 11 receive help from projects they sponsor. Thanks to your genorosity we hit our target of £200, and went well beyond. Thank you for your time and a little money. You've helped make THIS world, all the better. When the penny got tight. Thank you.

HAPPY OLD YEARS! - NAIL THE EARLY DAYS

So it's 2011. This year brings the return of THE Madness album. It's been deleted for a while. So this year is a year worth celebrating. While we wait the news of when we can buy the real thing again, and what the tracklisting of the full re-release will be, we continue here with another world of things you wont hear released ever. The rare, the rejected, the work in progress sounds from that 1988 year and even 1987 behind rehearsal room doors. Happy Old Years.   More than 20 years in the past...

3 Nails from the mouth of Mr Viedt, from 3 early days.

Here's the Nailed Down day of June the 24th 1987.

Here's a captured snippet of Overdub work on programmed rhythms, a day in the studio 1988.

Thirdly a near complete version but before the brass tracks had their day and final mixing.