A Salvo of Madness Coming in September

Many of the box sets announced this year have been pretty nuts, in some way, shape or form. But none have been quite as nutty as this one: a career-spanning box by those nutty boys in Madness.

The long-running British ska band, whose large handful of U.K. hits like “Our House” and “One Step Beyond” have filled dance floors the world over, has had an exceptionally busy few years with their catalogue, offering nearly all their discography, from their early hits on Stiff Records to their late-’90s comeback Wonderful on the Virgin label, as generously expanded multi-disc editions through U.K. label Salvo Music.

Salvo’s work culminates with A Guided Tour of Madness, a four-disc package featuring three discs of hits and notable album cuts and B-sides (including one new-to-CD track, “Le Grand Pantalon”) along with a video recording of the group’s Madstock reunion performance in 1992 (which has only seen release on an out-of-print videocassette).

A Guided Tour of Madness is in U.K. shops on September 19. You can order this box at Amazon U.K. and read the track list after the jump.

A Guided Tour of Madness (Salvo, 2011)

Disc 1

1. The Prince
2. Madness
3. Mistakes
4. Bed and Breakfast Man
5. One Step Beyond
6. The Young and the Old
7. Deceives the Eye
8. My Girl
9. Believe Me
10. In the Middle of the Night
11. Night Boat to Cairo
12. On the Beat Pete
13. Not Home Today
14. Baggy Trousers
15. Disappear
16. You Said
17. Embarrassment
18. Take It or Leave It
19. The Return of the Los Palmas 7
20. Grey Day
21. Tomorrow’s Dream
22. Mrs. Hutchinson
23. Shut Up
24. Sign of the Times
25. It Must Be Love
26. In the City
27. Cardiac Arrest

Disc 2

1. House of Fun
2. Don’t Look Back
3. Primrose Hill
4. Driving in My Car
5. Calling Cards
6. Blue Skinned Beast
7. Our House
8. Madness (is All in the Mind)
9. Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)
10. Wings of a Dove
11. March of the Gherkins
12. Keep Moving
13. The Sun and the Rain
14. Samantha
15. Prospects
16. One Better Day
17. Michael Caine
18. Victoria Gardens
19. Yesterday’s Men
20. All I Knew
21. I’ll Compete
22. Uncle Sam

Disc 3

1. Waiting for the Ghost Train
2. The Wizard
3. The Communicator
4. Lovestruck
5. Elysium
6. Drip Fed Fred
7. Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
8. Johnny the Horse
9. Sarah’s Song
10. Girl Why Don’t You?
11. Lola
12. I Chase the Devil a.k.a. Ironshirt
13. Shame & Scandal
14. You Keep Me Hanging On
15. NW5
16. Forever Young
17. That Close
18. Dust Devil
19. On the Town
20. Sugar and Spice
21. Le Grand Pantalon

Disc 4: DVD – Madstock 1992

1. One Step Beyond
2. The Prince
3. Embarrassment
4. My Girl
5. The Sun and the Rain
6. Land of Hope and Glory
7. Grey Day
8. Razor Blade Alley
9. It Must Be Love
10. Tomorrow’s (Just Another Day)
11. Take It or Leave It
12. Shut Up
13. Driving in My Car
14. Bed and Breakfast Man
15. Close Escape
16. Wings of a Dove
17. Our House
18. Night Boat to Cairo
19. Madness
20. Swan Lake
21. House of Fun
22. Rockin’ in A♭
23. Baggy Trousers
24. The Harder They Come

Disc 1, Tracks 1-2, 4-5, 8-11 from One Step Beyond… (Stiff, 1978)
Disc 1, Track 3 was the B-side to “One Step Beyond…” (Stiff BUY 56, 1978)
Disc 1, Tracks 6-7 from Work Rest and Play EP (Stiff, 1980)
Disc 1, Tracks 12-19 from Absolutely (Stiff, 1980)
Disc 1, Tracks 20-24 and 27 from 7 (Stiff, 1981)
Disc 1, Track 25 from non-LP single (Stiff BUY 134, 1981)
Disc 1, Track 26 was the B-side to “Cardiac Arrest” (Stiff BUY 140, 1982)
Disc 2, Tracks 1-2 from non-LP single (Stiff BUY 146, 1982)
Disc 2, Tracks 3 and 5-9 from The Rise & Fall (Stiff, 1982)
Disc 2, Track 4 from non-LP single (Stiff BUY 153, 1982)
Disc 2, Track 10 from non-LP single (Stiff BUY 181, 1983)
Disc 2, Tracks 11-12 and 14-18 from Keep Moving (Stiff, 1984)
Disc 2, Track 13 from non-LP single (Stiff BUY 192, 1983)
Disc 2, Track 19 and 21-22 from Mad Not Mad (Zarjazz, 1985)
Disc 2, Track 20 was the B-side to “Yesterday’s Men” (Zarjazz JAZZ 5, 1985)
Disc 3, Track 1 from Utter Madness (Zarjazz, 1986)
Disc 3, Tracks 2-8 from Wonderful (Virgin, 1999)
Disc 3, Track 9 from Our House: The Original Songs (Virgin, 2002)
Disc 3, Tracks 10-14 from The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (Live and Intensified, 2005)
Disc 3, Track 15-2o from The Liberty of Norton Fulgate (Lucky Seven, 2009)
Disc 3, Track 21 from digital single (Salvo, 2011). Previously unreleased on CD.
Disc 4 previously released as Polygram Video 086 014-3 (U.K.), 1992. Previously unreleased on DVD.