Madness : Absolutely

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  Union Square Music’s 30th Anniversary Madness reissue campaign continues with Absolutely, the band’s second album, and the one which features the classic schooldays anthem ‘Baggy Trousers’. It also contains the lighthearted instrumental ‘The Return Of The Los Palmas 7’ and the band’s first real foray in to the realms of social comment, with the excellent ‘Embarrassment’. This is classic early Madness, a snapshot of a band on the ascent from their beginnings as nutty ska boys to international pop superstars.

  CD1

  The Original Album

  1 Baggy Trousers 2 Embarrassment 3 E.R.N.I.E. 4 Close Escape 5 Not Home Today 6 On The Beat Pete 7 Solid Gone 8 Take It Or Leave It 9 Shadow Of Fear 10 Disappear 11 Overdone 12 In The Rain 13 You Said 14 The Return Of The Los Palmas 7

  The Bonus Tracks

  15 In The Rain (Single Version) (B-Side 12” 'My Girl’) 16 The Business (B-Side 'Baggy Trousers’) 17 Crying Shame (B-Side 'Embarrassment’) 18 That’s The Way To Do It (B-Side 'The Return Of The Los Palmas 7’ 7”) 19 El Regresso De Los Palmas 7 (Spanish Version) 20 Swan Lake (Live) (B-Side 'The Return Of The Los Palmas 7’ 12”) 21 Release Me / Close Escape / Solid Gone (Patches flexi-disc)

  The Promo Videos

  1 Baggy Trousers 2 Embarrassment 3 The Return Of The Los Palmas 7

  CD2

  BBC Live In Concert – Hammersmith Odeon, 23.12.80

  1 One Step Beyond… 2 E.R.N.I.E. 3 Mistakes 4 Disappear 5 Bed And Breakfast Man 6 The Return Of The Los Palmas 7 7 Close Escape 8 Overdone 9 Not Home Today 10 Razor Blade Alley 11 My Girl 12 Take It Or Leave It 13 On The Beat Pete 14 Embarrassment 15 Shadow Of Fear 16 You Said 17 In The Middle Of The Night 18 The Prince 19 Baggy Trousers 20 Rockin’ In Ab 21 Madness