What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

MADNESS  "total madness" cd, 2009.

only really needed this one as it came with a bonus dvd of their videos.
started off as a Ska band from London, evolved into a pop group.
were never really big outside of the UK as their subject matter was strictly British.
album contains 23 tracks, 21 of which were singles, and most of those were sizable
hits in their homeland, the remaining two tracks were/are band album track faves.
pretty hard for me not to love this this as I can relate to a lot of the songs from my formative
years in the UK as a child.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

I don't really have a favourite track by these guys but I do love this one:





Naughty boys in nasty schools
Headmasters breaking all the rules
Having fun and playing fools
Smashing up the woodwork tools
All the teachers in the pub
Passing 'round the ready-rub
Trying not to think of when
The lunch-time bell will ring again.

Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to...

The headmaster's had enough to-day
All the kids have gone away
Gone to fight with next-door's school
Every term, that is the rule
Sits alone and bends his cane
Same old backsides again
All the small ones tell tall tales

Walking home and squashing snails. 


Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways

To make a difference to the days. 


Lots of girls and lots of boys
Lots of smells and lots of noise
Playing football in the park
Kicking Pushbikes after dark
Baggy trousers, dirty shirt
Pulling hair and eating dirt
Teacher comes to break it up

Back of the 'ead with a plastic cup. 


Oh what fun we had
But, did it really turn out bad
All I learnt at school
Was how to bend not break the rules
Oh what fun we had
But at the time it seemed so bad
Trying different ways
To make a difference to the days.
Baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers
Baggy trousers, baggy trousers, baggy trousers

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and their infectious almost instrumental Ska debut single: