Madness Albums Ranked

[Gundenia Ransbottom]

Listof the best Madness albums, including pictures of the album covers when available. This Madness discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Madness albums can be found at the top of the list. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Madness singles, EPs, or compilations, so everything you see here should only be studio albums. If you think the greatest Madness album isn't high enough on the list, then be sure to vote for it so it receives the credit it deserves. Make sure you don't just vote for critically acclaimed albums; if you have a favorite Madness album, then vote it up, even if it's not necessarily the most popular.

If you want to know, "What is the Best Madness album of all time?" or "What are the top Madness albums?" then this list will answer your questions. The British ska band first formed back in 1976 and were together for 10 years before disbanding. However, the reformed in 1993. All in all, they have a number of great albums, many of which have been certified as gold and even platinum in the UK. Everything from The Rise & Fall to The Liberty of Norton Folgate is included on this list.

This list of popular Madness albums has been voted on by music fans around the world, so the order of this list isn't just one person's opinion. Share your opinion and help rank each album by voting up your favorites and voting down any albums you feel shouldn't be near the top.

From artists like PinkPantheress releasing their long-awaited debut album, to veterans of the game like Drake releasing yet another (somewhat disappointing) album, this school year has brought a slew of new albums for the listening pleasure of NVOT students. In honor of the March Madness tournament, we here at The Lance have ranked the (arguably) eight biggest albums of the school year in a March Madness style bracket. Choosing which albums to include came down to the following:

It's that time of the year again when everyone's filling out a bracket for March Madness. Everyone has their own way of choosing which teams will win; the most obvious and pragmatic way would be choosing higher-ranked seeds for each match.

Instead, I've decided to fill out my bracket using an incredibly silly premise: voting based on whether I think Sufjan Stevens would write a song about each school. I can already tell you I am not going to win the bracket challenge, a fact that I even noted in the title of my bracket below.

Why would I do such a thing? For one, I'm a big Sufjan Stevens fan, so much so that I've even ranked all 100 of his Christmas songs. Two, he once tried to make an album for every state in the U.S., something he ultimately said was "a joke," but only after he'd released the albums Michigan and Illinois. (He did make a song about every state though, so that probably fills that void.) Three, aside from the NCAA Tournament, March is also home to Casimir Pulaski Day, a holiday observed in Chicago dedicated to a Polish soldier, and the title of a depressing Sufjan Stevens song, which has little to do with the holiday.

The point is, I might as well integrate the good, weird parts about Sufjan Stevens in order to make unconventional, bad decisions about March Madness. I don't blame you if you decide to close the tab after reading all this nonsense. But I'm too far into this bit to turn back, so let's get into the reasoning here.

This is how you know immediately I'm not winning any bracket challenge, because I chose 16-seed Austin Peay over 1-seed Kansas. That doesn't mean I think Austin Peay is bad -- they have an amazing chant -- but statistically, they don't have a chance against Kansas. But I feel like Sufjan would be into recording a song where he can make a bunch of pee jokes. He'd probably title the song "Austin Peay, Urine the Governor's Seat Now," and the song's content would be a depressing ballad about how Peay suddenly died from a cerebral hemorrhage. Death, by the way, is a recurring theme in Sufjan's music.

There was one time when Sufjan went through a pretty heavy animal theme in his music -- birds, bears, rabbits, you name it. The animals I think Sufjan would associate himself with would have to be creatures worth revering, as well as things you'd often find in rural areas. The one exception would be the Stony Brook Seawolves, who I picked over Kentucky because a) we already have too many Wildcats in this bracket and b) I don't know what the hell a seawolf is, so I'm depending on Sufjan to write some backstory on that mythical creature.

I may be correct in my national championship pick, but because a bracket challenge encompasses every game, my recklessness still opens me up to failure. I probably should've eaten mascots instead.

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Recently I've spent a lot of time reflecting on my journey as a content marketer. To be fair, I only have about 5 months under my belt in this role. That being said, I've always been a writer, and I've always been an artist.

Something that struck me recently was just how remarkably similar the path to success seems to be to that of a professional musician. I've been playing local venues, recording albums and writing music for years, but it was never anywhere near lucrative enough to support myself on alone.

Content Marketing just made sense. I have worked in the advertising industry for over 7 years, I've always been fascinated with the study of human behavior, what motivates people, how trends begin and why things go viral.

Music, content marketing, social media. It all comes down to the right people seeing it. Everything we do is in the hopes that a music executive, editor or influencer either happens to be in the bar the night of our gig, opens our email, or stumbles across our content in their feed and shares it.

All you need is that one person, that particular group of people who really "matter" -- in their specific bubble of influence, that is -- to convince everyone else in the world that your work matters. That you're worth listening to. That you're the real deal.

So, what do we do? We take every gig possible, no matter how badly it pays. We email our pitch to everyone whose email we can find. We spend hours researching what keywords we can rank for, how we can land on that first SERP.

And sometimes, it works. Sometimes I feel like I've finally figured out the method to all the madness... right up until I spend a month or two with no success at all. I bang my fists against the table wondering what was different this time. Were the other wins just a fluke? Is it really just all about luck?

I've had my triumphs, my wins, and a hell of a lot more frustration. I wholeheartedly have plunged myself into the pursuit of a second career wrought with all the same frustrations as my first. But if there's anything I've learned about myself in the process, it's that failure will never defeat my need to connect with others and make a difference in the world.

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