Madness

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 2005

First Recording: 1979

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Madness
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
One Step Beyond... (1979)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
It Must Be Love (1981)
Our House (1982)
House of Fun (1982)

Madness @ Wikipedia

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Lacking a Prince Buster page, I'll post this here, with a band named after one of his songs. Peaceful journeys and a million thanks.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/sep/08/prince-buster-obituary-ska-musica-jamiaca

Posted by DarinRG on Thursday, 09/8/2016 @ 19:03pm


Hey, Madness are cool. But they are to ska what UB40 are to reggae. Popularizers and gateway artists, not really influential because they are so obviously influenced.

Posted by msicism on Thursday, 03/4/2021 @ 16:41pm


YES PUT THEM IN. From the late 70s to the early 80s, their songs, like It Must Be Love, House Of Fun, and Our House, are essential, and might be iconic. Our House even successfully charted in Billboard Hot 100. They were also good in the late 1990s with their album Wonderful, and its single Lovestruck. So please, please, please put them in!

Posted by Aabhash on Thursday, 08/4/2022 @ 06:55am


Madness were one-hit wonders. Their one hit was "Our House." I saw that one at least one VH-1 show that featured 100 songs from one-hit wonders.

Posted by Brian Schonour on Sunday, 09/4/2022 @ 21:55pm


So many top 10 hits around the world - House of Fun, My Girl, It Must be Love, Baggy Trousers, Wings of a Dove, Our House, One Step Beyond, The Sun and The Rain, etc. Still going strong today and released the critically acclaimed Liberty of Norton Folgate in 2009. Not to mention they closed the London olympics and performed on the roof of Buckingham Palace! Unknown in the USA bar a couple of hits though so unlikely to get the nod.

Posted by James Petch on Saturday, 03/18/2023 @ 09:42am


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