Madness - Embarrassment (Official HD Video)

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  • @julieking9481
    @julieking9481 Год назад +149

    Different era, absolutely class. Wish I could go back to this time of life.

    • @aliceseville
      @aliceseville 9 месяцев назад +3

      So do I, loved every minute of it

    • @julieking9481
      @julieking9481 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@aliceseville Me and you will build a time machine, so we can go back to the best era in music, Earley 80s.

    • @aliceseville
      @aliceseville 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@julieking9481 love too, I remember the boys and I listening to Madness whilst playing pool in the bedroom. Good memories

    • @julieking9481
      @julieking9481 9 месяцев назад

      @@aliceseville going to see them in Scarbough soon can't wait.

    • @stuartkelley2108
      @stuartkelley2108 6 месяцев назад

      Yes but no

  • @western-oud1898
    @western-oud1898 3 года назад +419

    The two saxophone solos during this record still gives me goosebumps

    • @jonr5636
      @jonr5636 2 года назад +4

      ive got terrible goose zits and they wont subside!

    • @cptskellern
      @cptskellern 2 года назад +6

      So glad you said that dude. Me too.

    • @kathjjjerinephillips4597
      @kathjjjerinephillips4597 2 года назад +1

      @@jonr5636 andthe

    • @haywoodsmith2822
      @haywoodsmith2822 2 года назад +15

      The first represented Lee Thompson's sister trying to explain how she got pregnant to her parents. The second is the sound of her heart breaking, from being misunderstood.

    • @joethelion6016
      @joethelion6016 2 года назад +3

      Me too.
      Lee T is the business 🖤💙🎷💙🖤

  • @GVRyoutube
    @GVRyoutube 11 месяцев назад +45

    I saw Madness in Bournemouth last December. Suggs told of how this song was written about Lee Thompson's sister dating a black man and how his family practically disowned her. He said how this song was amazing at showing how times have changed aince it was written. I love Madness. Their songs have such a deep meaning but are always so upbeat sounding.

    • @drapes36
      @drapes36 10 месяцев назад

      It was Lee Thompsons sister not Suggs.

    • @GVRyoutube
      @GVRyoutube 10 месяцев назад

      @@drapes36 Thanks for correcting me

    • @primemeridianx332
      @primemeridianx332 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@GVRyoutube also she got pregnant not just dating

    • @TheFakeyCakeMaker
      @TheFakeyCakeMaker 8 месяцев назад +4

      She got pregnant, that's why they disowned her (too late to reconsider, no one's gonna wanna know ya), Always wondered what happened. They probably came round once they saw the baby. They usually do. I hope it had a happy ending.

    • @paulmoneill
      @paulmoneill 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@TheFakeyCakeMaker I saw Lee and his sister and her daughter on The One Show a few years ago. As far as I know their parents did come to terms with the situation but I wouldn't know much more than that. It certainly gave Lee and the band a great song whatever happened afterwards.

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 5 лет назад +580

    This is a bloody good record. 40 years on.

  • @Publicinformation7
    @Publicinformation7 4 года назад +471

    The sax deserves a like.

    • @sheldontapp3769
      @sheldontapp3769 4 года назад +18

      One of if not the best saxophone players the world has ever heard.

    • @andreichivu7653
      @andreichivu7653 3 года назад +9

      "Kix" "El Thommo" Lee Thompson 😎🎷👍

    • @andreacarlini
      @andreacarlini 3 года назад +2

      Best sax ever...

    • @Fribby8
      @Fribby8 2 года назад +4

      It does

    • @jamesleeming912
      @jamesleeming912 2 года назад +6

      Sax dude also wrote the tune. Cool song

  • @philipingram1563
    @philipingram1563 Год назад +61

    English culture lyricised brilliantly.. I grew up with this.. Madness had the knack of absolutely capturing the circumstances and feeling and culture of the time in the early eighties that still resonates today

  • @final_mile_music9713
    @final_mile_music9713 Год назад +19

    The best, and for me definitive, Madness song.

  • @andrewmott7258
    @andrewmott7258 11 лет назад +692

    understanding the history and social context, madness make me proud to be english and british, them and the whole two tone record label / social movement

    • @callithowiseeit5806
      @callithowiseeit5806 5 лет назад +18

      Me too, I wouldn't say it out loud tho or Suggs will call you a Nazi

    • @SEANBANOG4
      @SEANBANOG4 3 года назад +8

      I hear you Andrew Mott.....to me the message of Madness goes Beyond!!... the 1% is not sharing or caring.

    • @SEANBANOG4
      @SEANBANOG4 3 года назад +24

      Madness make me proud to be a human....tis Universal lad!

    • @lisadowsett6836
      @lisadowsett6836 3 года назад +24

      @@callithowiseeit5806 who gives a shit what Suggs thinks? Suggs is only a musician - don't get me wrong I luv their music but he's not God ffs - Nothing wrong with being proud of all the great things achieved by the nation that you belong to!... and you are allowed to think what you like and anyone else who tells you otherwise is the Nazi!

    • @terrymcallister3505
      @terrymcallister3505 3 года назад +3

      @@callithowiseeit5806 ,

  • @paully1969
    @paully1969 Год назад +78

    Even after forty years... the opening bars of this iconic seminal song, still make my heart skip a beat. Madness did and still do have something so British and unique and will be forever held as one of the best bands from these Sceptered Isles xxx

  • @nevdoel7008
    @nevdoel7008 3 года назад +266

    Growing up in the early 80’s .. i didn’t realise what such a powerful message this song had

    • @jademeredith6071
      @jademeredith6071 3 года назад +6

      Do you now what this song represents

    • @patrickhenry7036
      @patrickhenry7036 3 года назад +64

      @@jademeredith6071 Sure do. Sad story of a family rejectin their daughter for havin a baby with a black man.

    • @clairebell3328
      @clairebell3328 3 года назад +6

      I always wondered what this song was about

    • @oman9492
      @oman9492 2 года назад +10

      @@patrickhenry7036 I always thought it was a sad song about a family having to deal with a disgraceful daughter having a mixed baby. It's clearly in favour of the racist family.

    • @truebodi4493
      @truebodi4493 2 года назад +51

      @@oman9492 It clearly isn't

  • @Totalavulsion
    @Totalavulsion Месяц назад +7

    Some significant messages and stories embedded in many 80’s songs. They’re like a time capsule, giving an insight to how things were. People would do well to look at the lyrics from many of their favourite 80s songs. They often run deep. I’m glad I grew up through this decade.

  • @johndickson3364
    @johndickson3364 3 года назад +168

    Madness, quite simply the best band ever.

  • @sssssssssggggggg
    @sssssssssggggggg 2 года назад +89

    This song can bring tears to your eyes. (especially the injustice of the back story) You really feel for the sister.

    • @lolacherrycola7035
      @lolacherrycola7035 Год назад +2

      Can you explain more please? Thanks

    • @sssssssssggggggg
      @sssssssssggggggg Год назад +27

      @@lolacherrycola7035 A band members sister got pregnant by a black man. Her family disowned her and she was left to have the baby alone. A different time.

    • @batdebaseball1850
      @batdebaseball1850 Год назад +2

      Yeah and I realised the pianist at 2:48 is black

    • @MichtenFrinz
      @MichtenFrinz Год назад

      @@batdebaseball1850 yes 😢

    • @bieni78
      @bieni78 Год назад +3

      @@sssssssssggggggg it was Lee Thompson - the Sax players sister.

  • @leeannmansfield5254
    @leeannmansfield5254 5 лет назад +90

    The older these songs get THE BETTER THEY SOUND....PROUD TO BE 1980S GIRL XXXX

    • @chenoah2010
      @chenoah2010 3 года назад +9

      i'm 64 now..and would i want to go back to the 80's?..in a heartbeat leanne,in a heartbeat..for real.

    • @trina415
      @trina415 3 года назад +5

      Amen

    • @johnraby4214
      @johnraby4214 2 года назад +3

      Well said Leeann. Was a great time for music. Left school in 81 so grew up on this stuff and still listen to it all today

    • @Araceofimbeciles
      @Araceofimbeciles 2 месяца назад

      Im 60 and i pity our youth of today, not their fault but the most amazing time of my life was the amazing 80s. I miss them😢😢. I need a time machine😂

  • @djhonz45
    @djhonz45 4 месяца назад +5

    Thank goodness for reggae!!! Without reggae, there wouldn't be Madness. Thanks Jamaica, thanks Britain!!

    • @TheCatBilbo
      @TheCatBilbo Месяц назад +2

      Amen to that. Two brilliant, musical traditions produced Ska & everything related. Much like the subject of the song: it was good in the end 😊

  • @alexpiva9672
    @alexpiva9672 2 года назад +16

    Madness = Genius. This song is a gem and possibly Lee Thompson's best showcase of his great talent.

  • @r.l4406
    @r.l4406 6 лет назад +183

    This is so very british, it's great. The saxophone player is incredible !

    • @darrylroff3932
      @darrylroff3932 4 года назад +14

      Lee Thompson. I think "Embarrassment" is his creation.

    • @scotttracy9333
      @scotttracy9333 4 года назад +12

      @@darrylroff3932 Correct Lee Thompson, due to his families turmoil when his sister Tracy got pregnant by a black man

    • @steffanhoffmann8937
      @steffanhoffmann8937 2 года назад

      It is! But it's more Çockney Sparrruuu Laaaanduuun matey!
      Me?
      I'm from up West mate!
      Kensington and Chelsea in London. 🇬🇧😉🎾🏏⚽

  • @mathiasjonsson8222
    @mathiasjonsson8222 2 года назад +16

    I was a massive Madness fan when I grew up in the 8T's. Still am. How can you not be?

    • @Docv400
      @Docv400 2 года назад +1

      80s, not 8T's, you must be what, at least in your 50s?
      Grow up Man!

    • @mathiasjonsson8222
      @mathiasjonsson8222 2 года назад

      @@Docv400 I write however i please. You seem like a bitter old fart. Lighten up pal.

    • @lesblack8996
      @lesblack8996 Год назад

      @@Docv400 I thought the same to be honest 😆

  • @chazmork8265
    @chazmork8265 2 года назад +143

    Top of their game, even John Lennon loved them, their music was part of the soundtrack to my youth, cheers Madness!!

    • @steviemusic1
      @steviemusic1 Год назад +4

      @@Just_another_Euro_dude They released their first single in Audust 1979 and released another 4 singles, 2 albums and an EP before Lennon was shot in December 1980...

    • @mducker1
      @mducker1 Год назад +7

      He said in an interview how he liked 'One Step Beyond '. He didn't get get the opportunity's to explain further

    • @roronora
      @roronora Год назад +1

      ​@@Just_another_Euro_dude 😂

    • @thirdlotusprince1983
      @thirdlotusprince1983 Год назад +4

      @@Just_another_Euro_dude he mentions liking them in his last bbc interview and even does a funny impression of the one step beyond intro

  • @goldengooner5654
    @goldengooner5654 2 года назад +11

    Songs with actual words, and that Sax is just mind blowing good.

  • @padraigsisk4057
    @padraigsisk4057 3 года назад +23

    When I heard this song for the first time I did not realise this was about a serious subject within family circles. Priceless now when u realise what it is about

  • @amazingpudding6359
    @amazingpudding6359 3 года назад +462

    call me an old bastard but this song just has everything modern music mostly doesnt have

    • @mattinfullvision9598
      @mattinfullvision9598 3 года назад +26

      I can't call you an old bastard because I agree with you which would make me an old bastard

    • @nickprica3127
      @nickprica3127 3 года назад +6

      im old too but you are bang on todays music is utter crap you old bastard lol

    • @Manicarts3D
      @Manicarts3D 3 года назад +35

      I’m only 16 and I can 100% agree with you mate, I hate this era- the music is shite! We need this old stuff again, it’s proper good music 🎵

    • @emergencyteds
      @emergencyteds 3 года назад +1

      @@mattinfullvision9598 Amen

    • @Dharmaville
      @Dharmaville 3 года назад +4

      it has a soul

  • @sophiedevlin3882
    @sophiedevlin3882 7 лет назад +87

    The madness ‘absolutely’ album is by far one of the best - reeks real life experiences put into beautiful and meticulously crafted songs that may seem very poppy and swingy on the surface but once you scratch past that it’s pure genius and meaningful lyrics that are relatable and just all round brilliant. Favourite band ever and absolutely brilliant live 10000/10 for the nutty boys

    • @thecocktailian2091
      @thecocktailian2091 3 года назад

      That Madness album, you know, the one that goes bop bop bop, yeah, thats my favorite. ALL of them!!

    • @annlagan5623
      @annlagan5623 3 года назад +1

      Cudnt agree more. Have tickets to.see them in Dublin end of November. Great live band. Never disappoint

  • @jacooba7389
    @jacooba7389 Год назад +6

    First band I ever saw at 12. 55 now and still go whenever they're playing near us. Top british band

  • @StaceyV86
    @StaceyV86 5 месяцев назад +19

    One of the most unique bands to ever exist, quintessentially working class british. Long live Madness.

  • @leemccrudden3726
    @leemccrudden3726 9 лет назад +500

    This song is NOT about Ireland someone already mentioned what the songs about
    This song is about the turmoil that engulfed Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson's sister Tracy, after she fell pregnant by a black man. The lyrics expressed the shame felt throughout the family of having a mixed race baby, an attitude sadly still prevalent in early 1980s Britain. Lee Thompson told the BBC "It was just not accepted in those days. She was shunned by a few people in the family. My father tried to talk her into getting it terminated. My sister dug her heels in and I was caught in the middle, wanting everyone to be happy.

    • @bluegirl0208
      @bluegirl0208 9 лет назад +21

      Thank god :) the amount of people I've had to say this to

    • @waynegibbons3740
      @waynegibbons3740 7 лет назад +4

      His sister had a black kid that what this song us about

    • @vimfuego7409
      @vimfuego7409 6 лет назад +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassment_(song)

    • @umaralvi940
      @umaralvi940 6 лет назад

      Jackie Linda how!

    • @umaralvi940
      @umaralvi940 6 лет назад

      Http: get a life

  • @briankelly5816
    @briankelly5816 2 месяца назад +3

    Shame we can't rewind time back to the 70's!!! Great times, no hassles, not a lot of money but god it was fun as a kid!!!

  • @NicoNico-79797
    @NicoNico-79797 Год назад +30

    Lyrics
    Received a letter just the other day
    Don't seem they wanna know you no more
    They've laid it down given you their score
    Within the first two lines it bluntly read
    You're not to come and see us no more
    Keep away from our door
    Don't come 'round here no more
    What on earth did you do that for?
    Our aunt, she don't wanna know she says
    "What will the neighbors think, they'll think
    We don't, that's what they'll think, we don't"
    But I will, 'cause I know they think I don't
    Our uncle he don't wanna know he says
    "We are a disgrace to the human race", he says
    "How can you show your face
    When you're a disgrace to the human race?"
    No commitment, you're an embarrassment
    Yes, an embarrassment, a living endorsement
    The intention that you have booked
    Was an intention that was overlooked
    They say, "Stay away
    Don't want you home today
    Keep away from our door
    Don't come 'round here no more"
    Our dad, don't wanna know he says
    "This is a serious matter
    Too late to reconsider
    No one's gonna wanna know ya"
    Our mum, she don't wanna know, she says
    "I'm feelin' twice as old", she says
    "Thought she had a head on her shoulder
    'Cause I'm feelin' twice as older
    I'm feelin' twice as older"
    You're an embarrassment

  • @olivierjansen694
    @olivierjansen694 Год назад +5

    The song the music, the text, the sax... Hearing it once just ain't enough... Masterpiece

  • @terrygoldsmith335
    @terrygoldsmith335 6 месяцев назад +2

    I can’t believe it, I’m 48yo m, heard this song a million times and it’s the first time I’ve shed a tear 😢 to it, crazy times!

  • @jayneburr7055
    @jayneburr7055 3 года назад +16

    My brother love madness all his life til he passed away suddenly in 2020 aged 46. I grew up listening to them and listen to them even more so now the music is timeless 💜

    • @rian202003
      @rian202003 2 года назад +1

      I lost my 46 year old brother as well in Jan 2020 Jayne. He was into Madness as a kid and got me into them.

    • @fireyflower6643
      @fireyflower6643 Год назад

      Hugs

  • @Mark-ew1hn
    @Mark-ew1hn 22 дня назад +1

    In my all time top 3 favourite bands of all time …ideas Madness daft growing up and had every Madness single and album …..this was jyst pne of many of their all time classics

  • @markennyee
    @markennyee 5 месяцев назад +8

    44 years on and this record was for me it was how I was made to feel by my old man still know all the word's off by heart

    • @Totalavulsion
      @Totalavulsion Месяц назад +1

      Similar. But you’re not him. He can only hurt you now if you let him. Let it go. Don’t carry it anymore.

  • @scaramangabopper2961
    @scaramangabopper2961 9 лет назад +350

    Best Madness song ever!! FACT :)

    • @denzil4
      @denzil4 7 лет назад +18

      I totally agree with you there !! I have been a Madness fan since 1979 and I have about 60 cds and all their vinyl albums as well as picture discs, red vinyl, blue vinyl,brown vinyl,clear vinyl ,yellow vinyl and every song they ever recorded. Madness are surely the best band off all time. My favourite song by them is 'Embarrassment' and my second favourite is 'Bed & Breakfast Man' There are so many to choose from though. Another one of my most liked is 'Close Escape' from the album 'Absolutely followed closely by 'Night Boat To Cairo' ' I hope you enjoy every madness album because they are surely the best group that ever came out of the Ska revival. Cheers

    • @stephenjackson4195
      @stephenjackson4195 6 лет назад +3

      Deffo

    • @paulw.9669
      @paulw.9669 5 лет назад +5

      I don't get it; it's a good backing track but that's about it. I can count at least eight or nine better Madness tracks and that's only the singles.

    • @questioneverything8301
      @questioneverything8301 5 лет назад

      defo not the case. It must be love is their top tune, then after that this and uncle sam, and waiting for the ghost train, and thats it all their other songs are rubbish

    • @pennypay1
      @pennypay1 5 лет назад

      'One Step Beyond' is what gets me in gear for work. I love 'Might Boat To Cairo' and House of Fun', and I smile whenever I hear 'Mummy's Boy', and I'd only recently heard 'Embarrassment'. It's heavy. I wasn't much younger than Thompson's sister when the song came out, and could have easily been in that situation.

  • @terrycunningham8961
    @terrycunningham8961 3 года назад +37

    Madness at their peak absolutely

  • @UncleBooBoo
    @UncleBooBoo 3 года назад +14

    Can we just take a moment to enjoy probably the best ending to a Madness song, possibly any song ever? Glorious! And knocking over the wine glass. Perfect!

  • @derekstark5985
    @derekstark5985 3 месяца назад +2

    As a senior citizen 57 candles burnt this track makes a happy memory for me proper old skool😊

  • @edotom12
    @edotom12 Год назад +3

    eighties music and saxophone, the perfect match. it dissapeared in the nineties

  • @uziknesset9403
    @uziknesset9403 4 года назад +75

    The soundtrack of walking the streets alone at night, feeling the cold on your shaved head, the echoe of your boots on the empty street.

    • @MarkAnthony-pq9nx
      @MarkAnthony-pq9nx 4 года назад +8

      That is brilliantly put my friend l feel you've lived it & that travells across your blog. Quite poetical & l admire your thought process. I too know this feeling of belonging to empty street lamp streets.

  • @vincentkeen6020
    @vincentkeen6020 3 года назад +9

    The best of Madness's songs

  • @Rob-ze1wi
    @Rob-ze1wi Год назад +5

    Underrated song, band, attitude.

    • @RosieHarp
      @RosieHarp Год назад

      No way are Madness underrated 🇬🇧

  • @jean-louisfernandes6832
    @jean-louisfernandes6832 2 года назад +6

    J adore , c est une époque où on écoutait du bon ska avec the specials,Bad manners...une époque formidable !!

  • @paulph12002
    @paulph12002 2 месяца назад +1

    I was never that keen on Madness, but this ia a great song that still stands up today.

  • @geoffreyjonathanwilson5826
    @geoffreyjonathanwilson5826 4 года назад +6

    A big hit in the UK singles charts in November-December 1980.Remember it well.

  • @selenabryden5347
    @selenabryden5347 Год назад +2

    It never ages. I frigging love this. I still have the original albums and the man in the mad suit tour. My cousin used to play for Chelsea, so we were privilege to watch them making the blue day video.❤

  • @alballoch84
    @alballoch84 Год назад +9

    I saw Madness for the first time at Lindisfarne in September 2022 and they were absolutely magnificent.
    If you haven't seen them live, DO IT!
    If you have... DO IT AGAIN!

    • @davidanderson650
      @davidanderson650 Год назад

      I grew up in that area and saw them live and the specials and selecter

  • @DavidMcdonald-bq8rc
    @DavidMcdonald-bq8rc 5 дней назад

    Absolutely brilliant, absolutely brilliant love to see them back again😮😮😮😮

  • @deletebilderberg
    @deletebilderberg 4 года назад +31

    IMO their best song. Shot in my old manor. Used to see them bouncing around often back in the day. Top lads, all.

    • @megano2000
      @megano2000 4 года назад +3

      AHHHHHHH LUCKYYYY
      What I'd do to meet a young Suggs, he was SO CUTE back in the day!!!!

  • @noblegraham3824
    @noblegraham3824 Год назад +13

    Bunch of young guy's hard to believe they were capable of such quality great little band plenty of hits .

  • @blabla8762
    @blabla8762 13 лет назад +17

    i love every song from Madness!!!

  • @Toffeezigger
    @Toffeezigger 3 года назад +7

    I love this whole album. I just get lost in that sax at the end. It takes me right back to school, flight jacket and an arm full of two tone badges.

  • @bennickss
    @bennickss 2 года назад +4

    46 years on. I have only co-existed with Madness for 14 of those years, and yet they’ve managed to become my number one favourite band.

  • @Hellwyck
    @Hellwyck Год назад +1

    This has an almost RnB/Motown soul style to it, incredible.

  • @paulselkirk2345
    @paulselkirk2345 Год назад +6

    Another brilliant song from the brilliant madness i love their songs 🤩😊😎🤗❤🎉

  • @davemiles1409
    @davemiles1409 4 года назад +11

    Brilliant record, best by Madness by a mile very very deep lyrics.

  • @davidwison9193
    @davidwison9193 6 лет назад +13

    I love Madness, they are a great band! Today I listened to all my favorite songs from Madness on RUclips, all I can say is that all the videos are great, I don't think any other video would top them, they are a genius group! I want to learn how to play the saxophone! from watching this song. Too bad they don't issue other songs now, the music today is not as good as the eighties, I'm 48 now and love that era.... you keep listing to those songs and never get bored. This is my favorite song from Madness.

    • @speleokeir
      @speleokeir 2 года назад +1

      Some of their tracks from later albums (late 90s, early noughties) are great too. Check out: Johnny the Horse, Drip-Fed Fred (featuring Ian Dury RIP), Never Knew Your name, Lovestruck, Mr Apples, etc.
      Johnny the Horse is one of my favourite Madness Songs and has a fun, uplifting tune with poignant lyrics which was inspired by a tramp that Carl Smyth used to know who was tragically kicked to death by some yobs.

  • @bigcloudsofgreen4052
    @bigcloudsofgreen4052 3 года назад +1

    😩 Sat here listening to this before Rob Forrest's funeral, the guy told me about this song and all the crazy times back in the day!! He had some crazy stories from sound managing with madness an others.
    God bless you Rob Forrest 💚

  • @danielhowe7362
    @danielhowe7362 6 лет назад +10

    My very first single bought! What a gem! Another classic from one of the best all time British groups!

    • @deandouglas2659
      @deandouglas2659 3 года назад

      Mine too..bought from the bargain bin in my local village shop.

  • @bikerfrenzy
    @bikerfrenzy 3 месяца назад +1

    Usually playing in the background with stories about corruption and incompetence in the establishment . We need it now more than ever.

  • @keshaw9034
    @keshaw9034 4 месяца назад +3

    Love Madness! Big childhood memories. Big love lads

  • @domr3978
    @domr3978 9 месяцев назад +1

    Madness' best songs, Embarrassment, You Said, Sign of the Times, Missing You, In the Rain.

  • @richardprescott8628
    @richardprescott8628 5 лет назад +12

    I'm 51 years old... and have gone back to when I was just 12.All these songs are still brilliant because the lyrics are so easy,fun,and you know the tunes from the first bars.I remember wearing nutty boyz badges,cromby coats and a trilbyMy girl is my favourite song.❤️👍

    • @thecocktailian2091
      @thecocktailian2091 3 года назад

      Never liked the trilby, stingy brim and all that. Pork Pie for me.

  • @karenbrabin1004
    @karenbrabin1004 Месяц назад +1

    I fell in love with Suggs after watching this video, I was 10 and 44 years later I still love him 💙

  • @mod69
    @mod69 10 лет назад +45

    Serious subject from the nutty boys and boy didn't they do it really well

  • @paulus894
    @paulus894 4 месяца назад +2

    This remains a very good song, just like most music of Madness, nostalgia of the highest level.
    💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻💯👍🏻

  • @jannelonnqvist2947
    @jannelonnqvist2947 Год назад +11

    Always loved the song but now digging it even more after having just learned what it was about. Well done Nutty Boys!

  • @susannedzneladze5830
    @susannedzneladze5830 2 месяца назад +1

    I love Madness since my youth and ever will! Thank them for Such great Songs! ❤❤❤

  • @CardanoETF
    @CardanoETF 9 месяцев назад +4

    this is their best song

  • @joedexys
    @joedexys 11 лет назад +30

    MADNESS AT THEIR BEST

  • @rian202003
    @rian202003 2 года назад +3

    This is one of the best songs of all time

  • @joethelion6016
    @joethelion6016 2 года назад +2

    FANflippingTASTIC
    Wonderful Madness 💙🖤♥️🖤💙

  • @Mikeymoz1
    @Mikeymoz1 7 лет назад +4

    How has this only been watched 300k times! What a classic. Grew up with these tunes.

  • @jackfredrick3891
    @jackfredrick3891 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wish i was around when this was released thank you dad for introducing me to the best era of music

  • @GBDeadnation
    @GBDeadnation 13 лет назад +6

    One of the first singles i ever bought, just brilliant.

  • @steffanhoffmann8937
    @steffanhoffmann8937 2 года назад +2

    Outstanding social comment; and superb tight musicianship.
    Suggs posing correctly, singing SUPERBLY, with no pretentious USA accent.
    For a short period of time, they were unsurpassable.
    This their best I believe.
    Love the ending; it's so unexpectedly surprising ....then.....!

  • @richardhay8556
    @richardhay8556 3 года назад +3

    Legends, pure & simple.

  • @kerry7932
    @kerry7932 Год назад +1

    I love that all their videos look like they were filmed in their basement or in the street when traffic cleared, and they drew straws to determine which member of the band had to hold the camera and couldn't be in that shot.

  • @ABCABC-fn4fg
    @ABCABC-fn4fg Год назад +9

    If you know the backstory to this song you realise haow brilliant it is

    • @slyestfox935
      @slyestfox935 Год назад +2

      Your so right if anyone hasn't looked into the meaning and the reasons behind the song please do.its absolutely excellent.

  • @a1fi385
    @a1fi385 10 месяцев назад +2

    If you didn’t know what the meaning behind the song. It was about Lee Thompson’s (the saxophonist) sister was carrying a black man’s baby and the mother and the father of Lee Thompson disowned the daughter, as of why Lee wrote the lyrics. “our dad don’t wanna know, he said, this is a serious matter, too late to reconsider, no ones going to want to know you” hence why the song is called “embarrassment” it shows the corruption of the black community 30-40 years ago.

  • @annmarietanham8608
    @annmarietanham8608 4 года назад +10

    First single I ever bought, aged 11. I think i did very well! Thank you Madness.

    • @StewartyMac
      @StewartyMac 3 года назад +1

      Also the first single I ever bought, although you were considerably older than me. I was 10, lol.

    • @chenoah2010
      @chenoah2010 3 года назад +1

      briljant choice ann-marie👍

  • @lotuselise4432
    @lotuselise4432 Год назад +1

    Saw then years back at a gig years back with Our Daughters Wedding and Tenpole Tudor supporting.

  • @jjkey7120
    @jjkey7120 Год назад +6

    The song is so-so, they recorded many far superior tunes, but the video is fantastic; pure art. The collected Madness videos deserve to be recognised as something special - Chapl8n, Keaton, Madness - there is a genuine connection, the combination of music AND video is what the band will be remembered by; whoever made them deserves to be recognised for their immense talent

  • @MichtenFrinz
    @MichtenFrinz Год назад +2

    Thank you for everything
    i love you from the start.......when i was a little kid 😅Kiss from Belgium ❤

  • @Scottish_Son
    @Scottish_Son 5 лет назад +134

    Something today's "musicians" should learn, write lyrics that actually mean something & with a relevant point to it, anyone who grew up around the time this was released will know exactly what I mean ✌🏻💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @lilab151
      @lilab151 4 года назад +14

      u do know that good modern music exists right???? songwriters didnt just die out

    • @Scottish_Son
      @Scottish_Son 4 года назад +7

      @@lilab151 yeah, obviously, but the manufactured sorry excuse for popular music is at best abysmal
      & don't get me started on the lame ass attempt called mumble rap ffs
      Now music is all about the money & more importantly, being "politically correct"
      The exception being Gerry Cinnamon of course.

    • @spacegrass6632
      @spacegrass6632 4 года назад +7

      @@Scottish_Son You really need to listen to more music, I'll agree with pop music being shit but there is so many great bands with amazing and relevant lyrics that arent cash grabby or worried about being "politically correct"

    • @freddieparrydrums
      @freddieparrydrums 3 года назад +1

      @@Scottish_Son mumble rap more like mumble crap. Lil’ lump looks like a rainbow fruit loop

    • @moosca2144
      @moosca2144 3 года назад

      Spacegrass could you recommend some?

  • @haywoodsmith2822
    @haywoodsmith2822 5 месяцев назад +1

    Word around the campfire is that this is based upon Lee Thompson receiving letters from the family while Madness was on tour. His sister, Tracey, had become pregnant by a Brotha which, was a definite no-no even in 1980.
    The first sax solo is his sister trying to explain what had happened.
    The second is the sound of her heart breaking from her family's disapproval.
    The interesting thing is that, the family fell in love with the baby. Today, everything's all good.

  • @hj7008
    @hj7008 4 года назад +14

    A cutting-edge brilliant piece of work.

  • @ozjuice
    @ozjuice Год назад +2

    Absolutely classic band

  • @crazymax5704
    @crazymax5704 3 года назад +3

    seriosly BEST the song EVER

  • @mikeluke7417
    @mikeluke7417 Год назад +1

    ❤ Lying in the Sun in NZ listening to madness! Bliss 😅 brings back great memories of growing up in North London ❤ hello Suggs from 'cookie" proud of you ❤

  • @MasterLambo
    @MasterLambo 4 года назад +68

    Best song by the nutty boys. The 93 people with thumbs down must have their phone upside down, tha nuz

    • @robtudor3785
      @robtudor3785 3 года назад +1

      No just ignorant racists.

    • @mattinfullvision9598
      @mattinfullvision9598 3 года назад +2

      Those who disliked are an embarrassment

    • @Shiggiesmalls02
      @Shiggiesmalls02 2 года назад

      @@robtudor3785 you clearly know nada

    • @robtudor3785
      @robtudor3785 2 года назад +2

      @@Shiggiesmalls02 not sure what you mean. This song was written as a result of Lee’s sister getting pregnant and the father was black. He was singing about how his father and aunts took it badly. My comment was saying the 93 thumbs down must be from racists. This is a brilliant song. Not sure how you can say I know nada?!

  • @wayneb9253
    @wayneb9253 22 дня назад

    These lyrics wouldn’t go down well today 😂😂. What a band and what a song. Saw them at Wembley when I was about 17 and it was amazing

  • @johnpluck6126
    @johnpluck6126 3 года назад +15

    As 'goofy as the general public perceived them as, they wrote bloody good songs!! Really and truly!

  • @darrylwiggins4799
    @darrylwiggins4799 4 месяца назад

    Jake Burns understood exactly what his genre was and how to throw it in your face. Also,having the drum kit up front while he stood in the back has never been done by any live band.Genius.

  • @waynepinnock5874
    @waynepinnock5874 4 года назад +35

    That brass section is the bollocks. Later in tunes like "Tomorrow is Just Another Day" the brilliant brass motifs were rendered tinny by specious production.

    • @Spectrescup
      @Spectrescup 4 года назад

      Very true. 80's production was horrible, as far as pop records went. By 80's, I guess I mean about '83 on.

  • @rachel1230
    @rachel1230 8 месяцев назад

    Instantly transported back to 1980
    Thanks guys, you were the soundtrack to my life . Ohhhh yes 👏🏾

    • @grahamcheesman2252
      @grahamcheesman2252 7 месяцев назад

      That's the beauty in music and RUclips is nearest thing to time machine we have

  • @London1064
    @London1064 2 года назад +5

    Still as fresh today as it was 41+ years ago

  • @user-mq3ey4he1e
    @user-mq3ey4he1e Месяц назад +1

    When I was 10, in 1980 this was the best song ever.

  • @spice3767
    @spice3767 2 года назад +3

    Outstanding song…..

  • @jamiefletcher1171
    @jamiefletcher1171 Год назад

    Knew about madness before i knew what music was. Big part of the soundtrack of my youth.

  • @saints16o5o87
    @saints16o5o87 Год назад +5

    Music like this kept folk sane through a an ever more depressing era for the working class youth in Britain

    • @RosieHarp
      @RosieHarp Год назад +1

      I was in my youth in the 80's. Loved every minute of it. 🎉🥳