{"id":8330,"date":"2012-12-27T23:57:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2012-12-27T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T06:57:48","slug":"madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/12\/madness\/","title":{"rendered":"MADNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8331\" title=\"MADNESS-M-Review-NOV-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MADNESS-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MADNESS-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MADNESS-M-Review-NOV-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>M<\/strong><strong>ADNESS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Cooking Vinyl]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, 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 reuniting in 1992 is typically jaunty, and while the band hired some new producers, they stick with classic sounds like mod soul (\u201cMy Girl 2\u201d), blue-eyed reggae (\u201cKitchen Floor\u201d), perky piano-pop (\u201cLeon\u201d) and boot-stomping ska (\u201cSo Alive\u201d). \u201cDeath of a Rude Boy\u201d marks a rare foray into dub, while \u201cNever Knew Your Name,\u201d the only real outlier, is string-laden disco. As always, the hooks hide undercurrents of melancholy, but <em>Oui Oui<\/em> is lighter than vintage Madness sets. It\u2019ll do more for the collective mood than it will for the group\u2019s legacy, and that\u2019s fine. The former is more in need of a boost.\u00a0 \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADNESS Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da [Cooking Vinyl] In the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,282,5593,5592,5589,5475,5590,5591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}