The Business - the Definitive Singles Collection

Infobox Album | Name = The Business - the Definitive Singles Collection
Type = Box set
Artist = Madness

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Released = 1993
Recorded = 1979 - 1986
Genre = Ska/Pop
Length =
Label = Virgin Records
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:eajgtq7znu46 link]
Last album = "Madstock!"
(1992)
This album = "The Business"
(1993)
Next album = "Total Madness"
(1997)

"The Business - the Definitive Singles Collection" is a 3 disc box set by ska/pop band Madness released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). It contains all the band's singles with their b-sides and other bonus tracks, some rare. It also includes a 52 page booklet and snippets of interviews with people associated with Madness between some tracks. The interviews date from around the time of the "Keep Moving" album and were conducted by John Tobler. Among those interviewed were founder member John Hasler, former manager John "Kelloggs" Kalinowski and Dave Robinson of Stiff Records.

Track listing

Disc one

#"The Prince" (2 Tone single version)
#"Madness" (album version)
#"One Step Beyond" (album version)
#"Mistakes"
#"Nutty Theme"
#"My Girl"
#"Stepping into Line"
#"In the Rain"
#"Night Boat to Cairo"
#"Deceives the Eye"
#"Young And The Old"
#"Don't Quote Me On That"
#"Baggy Trousers"
#"The Business"
#"Embarrassment"
#"Crying Shame"
#"The Return of the Los Palmas 7" (single version)
#"That's The Way To Do It" (AKA "The Odd Job Man")
#"My Girl" (demo)
#"Swan Lake" (live)
#"Grey Day"
#"Memories"
#"Shut Up" (album version)
#"A Town With No Name"

Disc two

#"Never Ask Twice" (AKA "Airplane")
#"It Must Be Love"
#"Shadow on the House"
#"Cardiac Arrest" (album version)
#"In the City"
#"House of Fun"
#"Don't Look Back"
#"Driving in My Car"
#"Terry Wogan Jingle"
#"Animal Farm"
#"Riding on My Bike"
#"Our House" (Stretch Mix)
#"Walking With Mr. Wheeze"
#"Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)"
#"Madness (Is All in the Mind)"
#"Wings of a Dove"
#"Behind the Eight Ball"
#"One's Second Thoughtlessness"
#"The Sun and the Rain"
#"Fireball XL5"
#"Visit to Dracstein Castle"
#"Michael Caine"

Disc three

#"If You Think There's Something"
#"One Better Day"
#"Guns"
#"Victoria Gardens" (remix)
#"Sarah"
#"Yesterday's Men" (harmonica version)
#"All I Knew"
#"It Must Be Love" (live)
#"Uncle Sam"
#"David Hamilton Jingle"
#"Inanity over Christmas"
#"Please Don't Go"
#"Sweetest Girl" (extended version)
#"Jennie (A Portrait Of)"
#"Tears You Can't Hide"
#"Call Me"
#"(Waiting For) The Ghost Train"
#"One Step Beyond" (Italian version)
#"Maybe In Another Life"
#"Seven Year Scratch" (edited version)
#"Release Me"
#"Carols on 45"
#"National Anthem"