Madness One Step Beyond Full Album

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Accordingto Alan Winstanley, one of the producers, the released Madness version was a rough mix, created by taking the original 1 minute 10 second instrumental and repeating it, with the second half treated with an Eventide harmonizer to make it sound slightly different. Langer and Winstanley intended to do a full remix but found that the double-length rough mix had already been sent for mastering before they got the opportunity. The cover art for the single is from a photoshoot by Cameron McVey. It is similar to the photograph used on the album cover art, but features the band in a slightly different pose.

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i cant wait to get this. this will be my third time buying one step beyond and absolutely, and second time for the rest of them.

however, i feel like theres a glaring oversight in not including their first single on here, seeing as how the two tone versions of Madness and The Prince are different then the album versions and i feel like theres not a copyright issue since the dance craze songs are on there.

im psyched for the peel session and the b-sides though. itll be nice to finally have the b sides on CD since i never got the bsides box set for many reasons, including lack of money and those annoying interview clips tacked on to the ends and beginnings of songs.

I was freakin' 13 in the fall of 1979. Even though I was a fairly clueless lad, I was aware of punk rock (and remember being very amused that a band was calling themselves the Sex Pistols, which I interpreted as a double-entendre for The Penises!) and was becoming a huge fan of new wave (B-52s, Devo, Blondie, Ramones)--but hadn't really discovered 2 Tone yet (that would take another year or two).

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For reasons that don't matter, I felt a powerful urge this week to listen to One Step Beyond, the debut album by Madness. Madness were so universally popular in the 80s, it's surprising you don't hear them played on the radio more often. I still have a vivid mental image of their first appearance on Top of the Pops, some time around my birthday in 1979, then rushing out two months later to spend my hard-earned on One Step Beyond, taking it back to my friend Sean's house in Croydon and listening to it over and over again.

Forty-one years later, I can still remember every word, even though I can't remember where I put my bank card yesterday. So it was with some excitement that I searched up the album on Spotify and limbered up for a bit of a Nutty Boy dance down Memory Lane.

Why oh why oh why oh why oh why do record companies have to ruin classic albums by adding all sorts of 'bonus' tracks? A classic album is a work of art, finite and complete. Like John West fish, it's the tracks that get rejected that make it perfect(ed).

Of course, they do it to 'add value'. And they 'add value' so they can 'add to the price'. What they don't seem to get is that every 'bonus' track they add reduces the value of the original. It's like covering Van Gogh's Sunflowers with Post-its showing his preliminary sketches and a spud print of a snail that he did when he was three. Or building a shed on the side of the Parthenon, with cafeteria and gift shop.

Quantity, as we all know, does not equate to quality (don't worry, there's not much more). In fact, it usually means the opposite. The best response this blog has ever received was for the word Succinct. Three words, not including the title. Made a few people smile, saved me time, win-win. But if I was trying to sell it, you can bet someone would have complained that they weren't getting value for money. And that's the problem with money. It confuses the concept of value.

Fortunately, no-one has yet 'embellished' that particular work of art with 'bonus' lines to 'add value' to the original play. Such behaviour is clearly madness, except in the case of Madness, when it doesn't feel like Madness any more.

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