Posts tagged with "MADNESS"
MADNESS
MADNESS
Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da
[Cooking Vinyl]
In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Madness scored a Beatlesque run of U.K. hits, and for good reason: a Beatlesque way with melody. Initially affiliated with the 2 Tone ska movement, the septet put Jamaican bounce behind quintessentially British songs, sidestepping the political sloganeering of their post-punk peers to paint nuanced portraits of everyday London life. Their fourth album since...