Total Madness – the Very Best of Madness is a greatest hits album by a British ska/pop band Madness, released in 1997. It was released exclusively in the United States and Canada. Total Madness – the Very Best of Madness is a greatest hits album by a British ska/pop band Madness, released in 1997. It was released exclusively in the United States and Canada. false 2025-11-07 22:27:17 Total Madness: The Very Best of Madness 1997 1997-09-09 1997-09-09 44 Rock Ska 113569 2194834 c62263f1-e42a-4e90-9b2e-9019d7197e15 5f58803e-8c4c-478e-8b51-477f38483ede a5044596-7ad5-378c-888d-1eb02e2992b9 /media/data/media5/Music/Madness/Total Madness_ The Very Best of Madness/folder.jpg Madness Madness 1 1 Our House 03:19 1 2 It Must Be Love 03:24 1 3 Tomorrow’s Just Another Day 03:13 1 4 Shut Up 03:26 1 5 Grey Day 03:38 1 6 The Sun and the Rain 03:17 1 7 Wings of a Dove (A Celebratory Song) 03:02 1 8 Michael Caine 03:36 1 9 One Better Day 04:06 1 10 Uncle Sam 04:16 1 11 Yesterday’s Men 04:36 1 12 One Step Beyond 03:32 Madness are an English ska and pop band from Camden Town, north west 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. 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.