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The third album is often where a band makes a great leap forward, and so it is with Madness’ Seven. Although they’re still clearly the same nutty band that tore it up with One Step Beyond, Seven finds the group expanding its horizons considerably, ratcheting up the melodious pop quotient in their songwriting, as well as the distinctly English character sketches. Much of the album comes across as a blend of the Kinks and Ian Dury backed by a propulsive ska beat, and the production is a appropriately just as imaginative, colored by the odd sitar, finding new carnivalesque flourishes for the horns, and expanding the rhythmic palette considerably. Sometimes, the group still gets ridiculously silly -- “Benny Bullfrog” is a novelty by any other name -- but the genius of Madness is that they would toss off these frivolous numbers as easily as they would throw out something as elegiac as “Grey Day,” while finding the sweet spot between those two extremes on singles like “Cardiac Arrest.” Not every band possesses such a light touch, and while they certainly got more refined just an album later with The Rise & Fall, Seven is where they revealed the full potential of their talents.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Lee Thompson, Composer - Daniel Woodgate, Composer - Graham McPherson, Composer - Mark Bedford, Composer - Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist - Christopher Foreman, Composer, Writer - Cathal Smyth, Composer - Michael Barson, Composer - Chas Smash, Composer, Writer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Graham McPherson, Composer - Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist - Christopher Foreman, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Graham McPherson, Composer, Writer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer, Writer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Graham McPherson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Christopher Foreman, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Graham McPherson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Christopher Foreman, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Graham McPherson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 BBC
Graham McPherson, Composer, Writer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer, Writer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 BBC
Graham McPherson, Composer - Mark Bedford, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Christopher Foreman, Composer - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 BBC under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Graham McPherson, Composer - Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Performance, MainArtist - Labi Siffre, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Lee Thompson, Composer - Daniel Woodgate, Composer - Graham McPherson, Composer - Mark Bedford, Composer - Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist - Christopher Foreman, Composer, Writer - Cathal Smyth, Composer - Michael Barson, Composer - Chas Smash, Composer, Writer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Madness, Composer, Performance, MainArtist - Michael Barson, Composer
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 1981 2010 Stirling Holdings Limited under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
Album review
The third album is often where a band makes a great leap forward, and so it is with Madness’ Seven. Although they’re still clearly the same nutty band that tore it up with One Step Beyond, Seven finds the group expanding its horizons considerably, ratcheting up the melodious pop quotient in their songwriting, as well as the distinctly English character sketches. Much of the album comes across as a blend of the Kinks and Ian Dury backed by a propulsive ska beat, and the production is a appropriately just as imaginative, colored by the odd sitar, finding new carnivalesque flourishes for the horns, and expanding the rhythmic palette considerably. Sometimes, the group still gets ridiculously silly -- “Benny Bullfrog” is a novelty by any other name -- but the genius of Madness is that they would toss off these frivolous numbers as easily as they would throw out something as elegiac as “Grey Day,” while finding the sweet spot between those two extremes on singles like “Cardiac Arrest.” Not every band possesses such a light touch, and while they certainly got more refined just an album later with The Rise & Fall, Seven is where they revealed the full potential of their talents.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:18
- Main artists: Madness
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Salvo
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company ℗ 2010 Stirling Holdings Ltd., under exclusive license to Union Square Music Limited, a BMG Company
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