Madness - Dangermen Sessions 1
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Artist: MadnessEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:
- This Is Where
- Girl Why Don't You?
- Shame And Scandal
- I Chase The Devil A.K.A. Ironshirt
- Taler Than You Are
- You Keep Me Hanging On
- Dangermen A.K.A. High Wire
- Israelites
- John Jones
- Lola
- You'll Lose A Good Thing
- Rain
- So Much Trouble In The World
Music reviews of Dangermen Sessions 1
Music Review: Covers album that doesn't cash in...
Rating: 5 Stars
Thirteen years after their reunion at MadStock with Mike Barson in tow after his years in residence in Holland (and his original defection being what made the band call it a day to start with), Madness have been back at it and the latest is this album of old ska standards when the form was still called bluebeat along with ska reworkings of old 1960s soul/mod songs (Supremes, Kinks, etc.) that Paul Weller used to toss off over in a similar black suit and tie.
Being a fan of the nutty boys since their appearances on The Young Ones in the 1980s (yeah, I'm old, I know), it's nice to see them back and that they waited until that awful fratska boom of the mid-1990s had used up its half life so as not to seem as if they were cashing in as an oldies act, going "Hi! Remember us? Sorry about that swing revival that came about indirectly."
Madness did the impossible as far as not being necrophiliacs as far as the past goes. This is a fine album, even if there are no originals and therefore no chance of a new "House of Fun" or "Night Boat to Cairo" or even "Baggy Trousers" (anyone else remember when the melody to it was used for the Colgate ad when they introduced the Colgate Pump?) Let's hope the lads keep it together for a new release of new material. 'Til then, see if their cover of "Lola" doesn't best Ray Davies' original.
Signed,
epsteinsmutha
Description of Dangermen Sessions 1
The UK's ska-besotted Madness were one of the most consistently pleasing bands of the entire new wave era, yet a group who never seemed to break-up so much as fade away in a series of largely ill-fated reincarnations and partial revivals. But this joyous full band reunion presents a Madness who's lost none of its loose, loopy charm or potent musical chops in the ensuing decades. The product of a series of informal shows in their hometown of Camden, it's an album that revolves around an inviting, vintage r&b/pop covers conceit so logical it's surprising the band didn't attempt it the first time around. If choices like the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hanging On" and Kinks' chestnut "Lola" don't seem to offer much promise at first glance, the band tackles them with such a giddy, irreverent sense of reinvention as to be irresistible. Desmond Dekker's "Israelites" and the instrumental "Dangermen Theme" become kitsch-happy delights, while a delicious reworking of the Blues Busters' "Shame and Scandal" ranks with the best of the band's infectious ?80s oeuvre. --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock CDs
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