Mad Not Mad is the sixth album by the British ska band Madness, released in 1985. It was their only album not to feature founder member Mike Barson, who had left the group the year before. Only a few weeks after its release, the writers of NME included this LP on their list of the 100 best albums of all time. The band themselves have been less satisfied with the album. In a BBC Radio 1 interview in 1993 Suggs described Mad Not Mad as "a polished turd" (referring to its glossy 1980s over-production). Mad Not Mad is the sixth album by the British ska band Madness, released in 1985. It was their only album not to feature founder member Mike Barson, who had left the group the year before. Only a few weeks after its release, the writers of NME included this LP on their list of the 100 best albums of all time. The band themselves have been less satisfied with the album. In a BBC Radio 1 interview in 1993 Suggs described Mad Not Mad as "a polished turd" (referring to its glossy 1980s over-production). false 2025-11-07 22:27:19 Mad Not Mad 1987 1987-07-01 1987-07-01 96 Electronic New Wave Pop Pop Rock Rock Ska 113569 2125513 9aebb056-f157-473b-a914-b637f37cdb81 5f58803e-8c4c-478e-8b51-477f38483ede eb2f2ad9-4abc-3f10-964e-54c8930749d5 /media/data/media5/Music/Madness/Mad Not Mad/folder.jpg Madness Madness 1 1 I'll Compete 03:08 1 1 I’ll Compete 03:21 1 2 Yesterday's Men 03:37 1 2 Yesterday’s Men 04:37 1 3 Uncle Sam 04:27 1 3 Uncle Sam 04:15 1 4 White Heat 03:47 1 4 White Heat 03:52 1 5 Mad Not Mad 04:10 1 6 Sweetest Girl 05:46 1 6 Sweetest Girl 07:10 1 7 Burning the Boats 04:30 1 8 Tears You Can't Hide 03:19 1 8 Tears You Can’t Hide 03:08 1 9 Time 04:21 1 9 Time 03:58 1 10 Coldest Day 04:25 1 11 Yesterday’s Men (extended version) 08:10 1 12 Uncle Sam (Ray Gun mix) 06:46 1 13 Sweetest Girl (extended version) 05:46 1 14 (Waiting for) The Ghost Train 03:45 Madness are an English ska and pop band from Camden Town, North London, who formed in 1976. One of the most prominent bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s two-tone ska revival, they continue to perform with six of the seven members of their original line-up. Madness's most successful period was from 1980 to 1986, when the band's songs spent a total of 214 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. (UB40 shared the same number of weeks, the largest for any British group in the decade, but over a longer period.)Madness have had 16 singles reach the UK top ten, including "One Step Beyond", "Baggy Trousers" and "It Must Be Love", one UK number-one single "House of Fun" and two number ones in Ireland, "House of Fun" and "Wings of a Dove". "Our House" was their biggest US hit, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2000, the band received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection.