It must be madness!

Advantages: Nostalga, Ska, foot stomping.
Disadvantages: Some dross amongst the diamonds.

...I have been making some playlists on my ipod recently and added a Madness track (playlist was called Paul 16-18), then another, and before I knew it I thought I might as well buy the album. It works out cheaper on itunes to do that anyways. Madness first hit the charts and radio as I was leaving school, or about to. Although they first formed around '76, I first heard of them in '78, I left school in '79. In case you don't remember, this was the line up: Suggs - Vocals Mike Barson - Keyboards Chris Foreman - Guitar Lee Thompson - Sax Mark Bedford - Bass Daniel Woodgate - Drums Chas Smash - Vocals and resident dancer Madness released their first single, entitled 'The Prince' in 1979 on 2 Tone records, who also signed The Specials and other bands in what was to become a real Ska revival. The song was a dedication to...

paulhanton 07.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Complete Madness - Madness

It's more than mad!

Advantages: Great Visuals, Satisfying Violence.
Disadvantages: Poor Multiplayer, Graphics seriously mess with your eyes!

...Madworld, is a hack and slash game, with a difference, there is no game out there that even matches the look and feel of this insane adventure. I should warn you now, this game is not for the weak hearted, it contains plenty of sexual references, lotsof mindless gore, and well, it's also bad for your retinas. Story Varrigan City has become a target for a group of terrorists known as "The Organizers". They've cut all the cities ties to the outside world and released a deadly virus on the citizens that will kill them in less than a day. The terrorists claim that they will give a vaccine to anyone who publicly kills another person. I know what you're thinking, this is kinda starting to sound a bit like Battle Royale or Condemned movies, and, you'd be right! The entire city has been transformed into a game show called 'Death Watch...

bengoeswild 23.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of MadWorld (Wii)

Yes it IS Madding - not Maddening !!

Advantages: A beautiful film
Disadvantages: A little long

... FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD 1967 I remember going to the cinema in the 70?s to watch this film and loving it, Thomas Hardy had always been one of my favourite writers, and ?Far From the Madding Crowd? a close second favourite behind ?Tess of the D?Urbervilles? The film was released in 1967 by MGM and directed by the same man who directed "Midnight Cowboy, John Schlesinger, another popular film at the time. When I saw the DVD cheap on Amazon I decided to add it to my list to watch it again. "Far from the Madding Crowd" is set around the 1860?s in the English countryside of ?Wessex? in a setting of chalk cliffs leading down to the sea, green countryside and small town manners and prejudices. The film stars Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene, the daughter of a poor widow, who cares for her wealthy uncle. When her...

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Review of Far From The Madding Crowd (DVD)

It's a Mad, Mad underworld

Advantages: A different view on some famous criminal events
Disadvantages: Jumps from incident to incident, doesn't really flow

...'Mad' Frank Frasier kept cropping up in various books I was reading about crime in London during what can be called the glory days, the 40's through to the 60's. After hearing his named mentioned so many times I looked further into his story. Frank's own biography, Memoirs of a life of crime, is the story of a man who has an incredible past to tell about the life he has led as one of the key figures in the underworld. 'Mad' Frank is a book that takes you back to a forgotten era and starts his life in 20's London when life was very hard. He was brought up by two hard working parents living in the Victorian terraces when street fights were commonplace. He tells you that his mother and father were both straight, so he doesn't have any excuses there as to why he stared into a life of crime. He began his criminal career...

Paid.Ark.Man 20.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Mad Frank: Memoirs of a Life of Crime - Frankie Fraser, James Morton

A Mad Poem

Advantages: Something to read
Disadvantages: That will be up to you

...I must confess I like mucking about with poetry, I excelled at it in school, however afterwards my literary skills took a downward direction. So this will be my interpretation of a mad poem. My head fills with inexplicable thoughts, They invade every avenue of my brain, Like ships that traverse to many ports, They come and go while I remain, Locked in some time warp of space, Sometimes no expression on my face. Dark and gloomy aliens ravage my head, I play host to all who trespass my mind, They have no meaning they are not lead, They inhabit every area they can find, Not even the usual comfort of sleep, Prevents me having to weep. Why oh why do I submit to their will , Can I not withstand their force, When my mind is not blank and still...

paisleyman 03.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Poems of Madness

Madness Madness they call it Madness

Advantages: It's Madness need more be said... well ok then the tunes are stunning, the lyrics are wonderful
Disadvantages: No one bought this album.. WHY WHY O WHY!!!

...After such a long time some people probably doubted that Suggsy, Barson etc would be able to recapture the same lyrical genius. With this album they have succeeded, although the 3 singles released were all woefully undersold. Lovestruck for example got to number 10 in the charts, when in a chart with taste, it surely would of got to number 1. Lovestruck ********** - the most popular single and was surely my contender for single of the year, lyrically and musically this song was a tour de force. Madness have the uncanny knack of taking a subject such as alcohol abuse, and turning it into a jaunty sing along tune. The lyrics were also extrmeley clever in that the song had a double meaning. For example "I've fallen for a lampost, spilling out my deepest feelings" The proper meaning is obvious, he is leaning on a lampost...

Del_Boy 22.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Wonderful - Madness

You'll Be a Mad God if you Miss it.

Advantages: Hints of more to come
Disadvantages: The ending felt a little rushed

...The ideal middle part to a trilogy is one that hooks you, reels you in and leaves you desperate to find out what is going to happen next. Feist achieved exactly that with "Into a Dark Realm", the middle part of his Darkwar trilogy and so it was with excitement and anticipation that I turned to "Wrath of a Mad God". Perhaps it's wrong, but an opening scene which involves a major character being psychologically and magically tortured seemed like a decent start. In all ways, "Wrath of a Mad God" picks up where "Into a Dark Realm" left off. The linked worlds of Midkemia and Kelewan are under threat of invasion by the Dasati. There have been initial skirmishes from the Dasati into both worlds and Pug and his son Magnus have travelled to the Dasati world to try and prevent this. It seems that the Dark God of the Dasati has the upper...

Soho_Black 04.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Wrath of a Mad God (Darkwar) - Raymond E. Feist

The Things People Will Do for Money!

Advantages: Plenty of madcap mayhem! ie slapstick humour aplenty, good cast, good story
Disadvantages: The humour is a little violent, the English character is very stereotyped - what-ho!

...- Introduction - I heard of this movie after looking up info. on one of my favourite comedies, 'Rat Race'. It turns out that, that movie was basically a modern re-make of a 1963 movie called 'Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' and after seeing a trailer for this movie that was shown recently during the Christmas/New Year holidays, I thought I recognised it as being a movie that I'd seen as a kid and really enjoyed but never recorded. So I decided to record it and I got around to watching it this morning. It was quite amusing! - Main Credits (non-actors, which are mentioned further on in the review) - Source:- IMDB (see:-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/fullcredits) Director - Stanley Kramer Story & Screenplay - William and Tania Rose Producer - Stanley Kramer Cinematography - Ernest Laszlo (director of photography...

IzzyS 04.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (DVD)

Mad... it's insane

Advantages: Lots of tracks...lots of memories
Disadvantages: Not fully comprehensive.

...If you were not around at the height of Madness' career then you will probably still appreciate this album. It is full of the greatest hits, and so will be the ones that you remember, plus a few more that you will soon learn to love. If you were there at the time though, then you might not find this album to be the most comprehensive. For me though, it has the lot: It must be Love, House of Fun, Our House, Wings of a Dove, Uncle Sam, Grey Day, Cardiac Arrest. I'll stop. I was just going to list my favourites, but that would have been almost the whole album. Money wise, it is very good value, as it contains 24 tracks, all of which have been digitally remastered, so it is better than the last hits album. It also includes their two new hits, Lovestruck, and Jonny the Horse, both of which were great, just proving that Madness are...

RussellC 24.03.2001 (22.10.2002) · Read review
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Review of Divine Madness [Remastered] - Madness

Is Max Mad? Well just a bit!!

Advantages: A classic movie on DVD
Disadvantages: Violence may offend some

..., the person that they hold responsible. The ensuing action is toe curlingly gruesome in parts as the biker gang leave no person connected to Max Kotanski untouched, including his family and friends. . I won't say more here for fear of spoiling the story line for others. Availability and cost My copy of the DVD had been sitting unwatched in the cupboard for ages and I do not recall where we bought it or for how much. A quick search shows that www.amazon.co.uk is selling this DVD for £1.49 new or from 79p used and www.ebay.co.uk currently has it listed from 99p. My Thoughts and Conclusion For a film that first hit the cinema screens in 1979, Mad Max has stood the test of time. The film was as mentioned earlier in the review, the first in the three Mad Max films and Max Kotanski is the archetypal anti-hero. The plot...

brittle1906 06.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mad Max (DVD)