funny u should say that, this is the song that killed off Madness's chart career

@@iansmith8263 wouldn't say that cos it's a great song

Sorry and madness is such a cool band even though I am only 26 now

I'm very sorry for your loss, but would it be rude to ask what song was played?

R i p to your brother jayne. He had great taste in music, im sure hes looking down on the nutty boys having a chuckle.👍

Those were the days!

Never really thought of it as their prime, as it was their first to not reach the Top 20 and they split up the next year. Always felt like their death throes (of their original run) but I do like the song.

Yes n absolutely brilliant ❤

Andrew to me this the last "real" madness song. After this they appear to have "grown-up" and got serious!

theirs

agreed.

I'm from Orange County, CA and think they're brilliant. They were/are one of my all-time favorite groups.

That is cool..Yeh I'm a British scootering and madness always felt very personal to me..so I getcha bruv👍

I am from south Carolina, 🇺🇸 and been listening to madness since 82. This is a fav.

MADNESS forever from Rovigo (Italy)

Madness 😎💯🇬🇧

Am also American and I agree.

I'm not American, but I am in agreement, anyway.

Thanks A BRITISH SOLDIER

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You don’t get to wanker

Totally unique very sad age catches up with us all 😢😢😢

Their was more to them than just happiness

Just absolutely brilliant music and nutty video true madness classic

May he sail safe and with the wind at his back 🫡

And their music, blasted through headphones, is an instant mood-booster at work, too.

hardly, this was so bad that it sank without a trace and madness never returned to chart action again

@@iansmith8263 it's a great song but each to their own

@@iansmith8263 It’s as good as all the earlier stuff. One thing killed it’s chances. Timing

Taking a pot shot at the UK being a US lap dog, is that what you dislike?

@@iansmith8263 this song is way better then " The return of the los Palmas 7" - which was an instrumental. That song reached number 7 in the charts oddly enough.

your father must be a truly elementary fellow :@)

same cause here lol xD

Your father has good taste

Same

Lol same😂

1986 - more like 30 but still a long time ago.

How the hell is this song still relevant? It doesn’t have have top tier lyrics just lyrics that sound good together like other madness songs it has no other meanings? You talking shit mate

@@JinxTheCat_plays In many ways we have been influenced by American Culture... drive in take aways, More American style food around, sports events with American style pomp, kids using American slang /rapping terms - i.e. what's up my man? Dude, Bro, Blood etc, young men wearing baseball caps in a backward manner. Sport team event that have VAR , TMO which originally derived from American Football. Low cost Airlines also originally an American concept. Shopping Malls another American concept. Halloween trick or treat was more a rage state side then the UK, out kids don't do "penny for the guy" (which is traditionally British) , why because they focus more on Halloween. When this song was released. People thought that the UK was becoming the 51 st State, other groups / songwriters made the same point like Madness like The The - "Heartland " which had the words " ...this is the 51st State of the US of A " A rock group called NEW MODEL ARMY had a song called "51st State". Again at the time when this song was released the US bombed Libya from planes that was stationed in the UK. After the incident, Internationally the UK was referred to as "Americas unsinkable air craft carrier". So in some ways its still relevant.

With dodgy US Internet channels attempting to push anti-Russian hate, is it not more so

Jakeb Arturio Braden I grew up with this and I’m 14 sooooo yeahhhh cheers Dad

I'm 24 years old and grew up with this master piece too. This band is timeless. Cheers!

Great fun,especially with the video,but kind of a last hurrah in their unmatchable original era.

@@rjjcms1 agreed - I hope that most people have forgotten all about their final years when they thought that releasing singles like "waiting for the ghost train" was a good idea !

I just read this comment mate and realised it is 10yrs old itself ...so this track is now some 40yrs old... I'm sure it's not that old but ...Where does time go.man??!

@@TheSlighty too true.....another decade of my life gone since I last typed under this video !

hyalinejeon Including our sense of humor. If it wasn't for Monty Python and a Terry Gilliam Films, we probably wouldn't find some of the surreal humor funny. I also want to thank them for Douglas Adams (Sci-fi comedy), Doctor Who, and Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

time to pay up

Didn't Suggs friendship with Donaldson cease when Donaldson started writing extreme right-wing stuff?

The 10 hole doc marten slide n shuffle..

Emma D bollix white boy dance you a racist

While most people in the UK like the American people, it is just the nature of US Foreign Policy we have issues with

@@antispindr8613 What about our current foreign policy do you take issue with? I'm genuinely asking out of curiosity.

@@Bionicbunnywabbit Sorry, are you suggesting that the UK has its' own policy?

Gary D 1985 you'll find

great do you remember anything from that day? Does Bedders still deliver the post? Interestingly you can't view this street on Google Maps.

hey man how ya doing

Sorry, I but do not we Brits have the right to make digs at US Foreign policy?

Who did you vote for in 2016 and 2020?? 🤔

But it's empire will

@@DaveMiller6042 yeahhhhh, right on 🖕🏻

@@boogieboy1974 oh it's just a joke. Calm down.

Having left the EU to 'take back control', why did we then hand it to the US?

After 11 years, you made me laugh!

By the way, what do you think about the underlying message? Not mad at all?

And the lyrics to this song?

But that's what ska's all about

Madness early style was '2 tone' - a late 70's early 80's ska revival in the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Tone_(music_genre)

I know that, but in 1981 they shifted to reggae I guess

Yep to me the last "real" madness song.

What do you know?

I don't why either...

Mainly to do with Zarjazz (Madness’ now defunct label)