good time fun pop or just a silly gimmicky noise?...

 

launched on the back of the two tone ska revival , bad manners gave us a string of 'fun time pop' hits... but how have the years treated their material?.. was it any good? it certainly wasnt inovative! :lol:, acceptable nonsense or just rubbish?..

 

over to you!

I loved Buster and the gang. The first two albums i bought were Complete Madness and the Best of Bad Manners. Top tunes!

 

I especially liked these

 

Lip Up Fatty

 

My Girl Lollipop

 

Special Brew

 

Walking in the Sunshine

I remember them performing at Leeds Poly Student's Union in 1984! I distinctly remember having a brilliant night dancing to them with a fellow scouser as that night Liverpool had beaten Roma to win the European Cup for the 'nth time!

 

Great night, good fun - but apart from a couple of songs on a Ska compilation album - I haven't got anything from them.

 

Norma

I think they are still fantastic!

Not anything like the sophistication of The Specials or The Blockheads, but inoffensive and harmless enough... I liked them when I was a kid tbh.... I think I was about nine or ten when Lip Up Fatty came out....

at the time i didnt like them..... thought they were for younger schoolboys, i was probably right! :lol:

 

i liked 'walking in the sunshine', and now looking back i think they filled a niche. they were good time pop and theres nowt wrong with that! they were easy enough to ignore if you didnt like them.

I too liked "Walking In The Sunshine" and little else (except perhaps Ne Ne Na Na..." when it first came out). I found them a bit silly to be honest.

thought they were for younger schoolboys, i was probably right! :lol:

 

Speaking as a "young schoolboy" at the time, I can agree with that.... :lol: Me and my mates went around the playground singing "Lip Up Fatty"...... :lol: :lol: But we also loved Madness as well..... The latter have aged far better....

 

oh theres no doubt madness were the party pop group of that era, damn good pop, a touch of humour, a touch of seriousness, tongue in cheek fun pop. madness were i think for older music fans besides a youth appeal.

madness were i think for older music fans besides a youth appeal.

 

Speaking personally, I loved tracks like "Baggy Trousers" and "House of Fun" when I was a kid... Although, I didn't quite grasp the full lyrical content of the latter until I was a wee bit older..... :lol:

I think that Madness were one of the great British pop groups and as much a chronicler of British Life as The Kinks and The Jam.

Not a huge fan of them, a couple of tracks were ok though :)