The Best of Madness: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection [Original recording remastered]

Madness | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B0009IW9RU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #233,894 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > British Ska

Editorial Reviews

The 20th Century collection includes their most popular hits from the era. Each selection has been newly remastered for superior sound. Features the hits 'Our House' & 'It Must Be Love'. Hip-O. 2005.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Intended To Be A Great Compilation!!, January 16, 2006

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Charles "Charles" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Madness: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

Any fan of Madness who opted to buy their individual albums remastered knows how frustrating it was that either the band or label decided to leave off key singles as bonus tracks. Just to irritate us further they included them as videos within the enhanced portion of the rematers but not the songs themselves. The Specials remastered albums were handled the same way.

This compilation in and of itself is not very comprehensive but is eseential for buyers of the individual remasters in order to have the songs that were not included, such as House of Fun, The Sun And The Rain and Wings of a Dove (A Celebratory Song). If you haven't purchased any of their studio albums remastered yet then I recommend that you pick up The Lot and be done with it. But if you're in the same boat I'm in this is the cheapest way to get the missing songs in a remastered form.

If pressed I'm sure the band or some fan boy would say the usual, "the albums were meant to be released this way...", yadda, yadda, yadda, but the bottom line is that it was lame the way they handled it. Thanks for the videos, but sheesh, what's the point if the songs aren't included as bonus tracks!?! The bottom line is that its just another way to force fans to buy another album that they shouldn't need in the first place.

I hope this helps others avoid the same fate I'm in.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incomplete Madness, May 26, 2005

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Jose Ruben Orantes Garcia (Chiapas, México) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Madness: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

This CD is not a complete collection of Hits. Prefer the "Complete Madness". This is a great compilation.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Has the three songs you want., January 2, 2010

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M. Vargo "rat in a wheel" (K'zoo,MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of Madness: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

Of course anyone who is a fan of this band would be silly to buy this album with the other more thorough collections out there. What this album does offer though is the three songs most American fans will be looking for-

1) Our House: Performed on the Young Ones series from the Eighties and their most well known track.
2) House of Fun: The second song on the same episode and just as much of a classic, fun and crazy.
3) One Step Beyond: An instantly recognizable song and also a classic mentioned by Jack Black in 'High Fidelity'.

Now I am no fan of 'ska' by any stretch of the imagination but not so narrow minded to not recognize these three tracks as an essential part of what is described as "eighties music". Furthermore, this band was written off as a one hit wonder in this country(U.S.A.) and that is a shame not only because of the aforementioned tracks, but although I dislike 'ska' in general can still appreciate the talent level of this bands overall work. I have to go watch my old Young ONe's episodes now, thank you.