Mad Not Mad

Infobox Album | Name = Mad Not Mad
Type = Album
Artist = Madness

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Released = September 30 1985
Recorded = March to April 1985
Genre = Ska/Pop
Length = 42:19
Label = Zarjazz
Producer = Clive Langer,
Alan Winstanley
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8bkku3r5an4k link]
Last album = "Keep Moving"
(1984)
This album = "Mad Not Mad"
(1985)
Next album = "Utter Madness"
(1986)|

"Mad Not Mad" is the sixth album by the British ska band Madness, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). It was their only album not to feature founder member Mike Barson, who had left the group the year before.

Only a few weeks after its release, the writers of NME included this LP on their list of the 100 best albums of all time. The band themselves have been less satisfied with the album. In a BBC Radio 1 interview in 1993 Suggs described this "Mad not Mad" as "a polished turd" (referring to its glossy '80s over-production).

Track listing

#"I'll Compete"
#"Yesterday's Men"
#"Uncle Sam"
#"White Heat"
#"Mad Not Mad"
#"Sweetest Girl"
#"Burning the Boats"
#"Tears You Can't Hide"
#"Time"
#"Coldest Day"

Personnel

* Suggs (Graham McPherson) – Lead Vocals
* Chris Foreman – Guitar
* Mark Bedford (Bedders) – Bass
* Lee Thompson – Saxophones
* Daniel Woodgate (Woody) – Drums, Drum Programming, Keyboard Sequences
* Chas Smash (Cathal Smyth) – Backing Vocals, Lead Vocals on track 8
* Steve Nieve – Keyboards
* Roy Davies – Piano
* Judd Lander – Harmonica
* Louis Jardim – Percussion
* Tom Morley – Computer Supervision
* Gary Barnacle – Horns
* David Bedford - Strings and MD
* Rupert Bowden – Strings
* Bill Benham – Strings
* Belinda Blunt – Strings
* Trevor Ford – Strings
* Rusen Gunes – Strings
* Adrian Levine – Strings
* Basil Smart – Strings
* Afrodiziak – Backing Vocals
* Jimmy Chambers – Backing Vocals
* Jimmy Helms – Backing Vocals
* Jimmy Thomas – Backing Vocals
* Clive Langer – Production
* Alan Winstanley – Production
* Matt Howe – Associate Production
* Mark Saunders – Associate Production
* Richard Sullivan – Associate Production