After 28 years of marriage my husband passed on Valentines day this year, This was always our tune and played it at his funeral, He loved me always like I was his queen, and even though my tears flow when your song starts to play by the end I am smiling and remembering the way he always looked at me and sang the words while we danced away, Thank you Madness for giving me a banging tune to remember my Gary
Fun fact: The violinist on the right (0:44, 1:26, 2:17, etc.) is Labi Siffre, the writer and original recording artist of this song. He honestly loved the cover so much that he asked to be in the video!
In the US yes, not in Britain or South America for instance. They are still selling out shows and performing at the UK’s biggest festivals, just look at some of their shows on RUclips. They are definitely under appreciated in the US but most good music is.
genuinely stunned, amazed in fact, that you resisted the youtube comments section 'underrated' fetish and opted instead for 'underappreciated'. Still, the psychosis largely holds....
For some reason I just had to hear House of Fun last week and I got pulled into a Madness video vortex. Now I'm listening to this and various others at least once per day.
I think think they are still very highly regarded in their home country of England, but here in the U S A, there is probably a pretty solid base of fans around my age who still love them for the songs and videos on MTV in the early 1980s
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Madness and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands?
Just what I thought, I’m a member of an American rock band and I just wish we took some inspiration from British bands, but it’s hard because they don’t listen to me lol
@@WinslowLeach1974 Course it is!! Just hate it when British people come on here and post comments in American accents, too much time on youtube lol, no one and i mean NO ONE, says ¨sorry ass input¨ in the UK
Madness , probably the only Band that managed to make it in to the earworms of every single person around the eighties without them even knowing about it . Nuff said.
I'm a lunatic, and it gives me some comfort to know that I'm not alone. Only Madness could produce a video for a love song dressed as undertakers, brilliant!!!!!!!
A good friend of mine has just passed and the family have asked me to speak The opening words to this says it all, miss you George, and bless you Madness, nothing more nothing less love is the best.
I lived as a schoolboy through the '80s, and I think that decade was quite poor for pop music compared to the sixties and seventies. It's continued to decline since. Why do people always think the decade when they were young was the best?!
I'm a 42 year old British bloke, travelling the world and currently in rural Guatemala. Was walking past a garage the other day and this song was playing. Took me right back to my childhood. Felt completely surreal as I hadn't heard it in years. Still sounds fresh as it did then, and miles better than the rubbish put out nowadays 😅
I married my soul mate Queen to this track. 18 years later she chose drugs and drink for reasons beyond her control and I lost everything. 5 years on I can play Madness and get those warm fuzzy feelings of being 16 again. One life. Live it well. x
This song will always be in my heart my dad loved madness we played this at his funeral. Yes I may cry listening to it but I always listen to it to remember him love you dad forever missed
Listening to these songs (and occasionally watching) as a teenager I loved them. Back then I knew I was hearing something special, but I had no idea why they spoke to me so strongly. Coming back so many years later I still have very little clue as to why that is, except to say that the music makes my soul sing along. Thank you Madness, from a tone deaf teenager, and a tone deaf coffin dodger. You made my day in the '80's and you can still do it now. If I live to 100, I'll still feel uplifted by this music.
I tell ya a little secret....I saw Madness live November 2019 at The House of Fun weekend and when they started to play this song I was hit with so much emotional nostalgia it was incredible, I cried. This band means so much to me, their music will never get old and I will never stop playing it, simply brilliant. Thank you for the Music and all my amazing memories. Nutty boys rule..................
That's a really touching Easter Egg, and yep, he's got that ear-to-ear smile on his face, not only because of the endorsement of his art by Madness thinking enough of it to bring it to a new generation, but yeh, those royalties gonna see him into his autumn years... (3:05)
I remember this song well because a schoolmate was a junior sound engineer at the studio and I sat in. I totally missed it at the time that the song is about loss. Good to know that you learn as you get older.
Chosen for my brothers funeral,he was a huge fan back in the day.RIP Tony.McD,Thanks to madness for the happy memories of my bro and his madness tunes..And thank you to the Harlow ppl who was there for my bro as he missed london.Give us a shout.!1luv
They helped our generation get through high school they were briilant they are still going strong today 42 years later thanks to suggs and the guys for helping us and for giving us such lovely memories of a happier time godbless them
@@reggiekray270 I was born less than a month before the millennium ended, and I like music from the '80s and earlier…there's some good newer music but it generally doesn't get very popular.
Incredible to think this only made number 4 back in the December of 1981, it should have been that year’s Christmas number 1, alas it was Don’t you want me baby.
I really miss these singers from the 1980's. Growing up as a teenager and listening to great music like this will never leave my heart. EVERYTIME I hear today's music (if that's what you call it) I think of my generation of music from the 80's. Today's music just doesn't have that sound. Music today is all digital where it is just one sound. In the 80's we had analog sound, Drum machines, Synthesizers and much more.
Madness. Absolutely brilliant, nutty boys to the core, a thousand winners every week! Cannot chuck enough praise on these guys, unbelievably good live. I remember pogo-ing to one song at one of their concerts in London and my glasses fell off and landed amongst all the pogo-ers. Took me a few minutes to find them in amongst all the bouncing fans and amazingly, and no-one had crushed them. I got back up and continued pogo. It Must be Love and Baggy Trousers are still in my top ten and will probably remain there forever. Though E.R.N.I.E. was a favourite for many years.
What pushes this song to greatness is how the clever melodies and weird offbeat "It must be love" part somehow work so well together. Great song and a great band.
Bob Newton Madness is one of the best post-punk bands out there. Alternative is by far the best genre (sub-genres include punk, post punk, goth, new wave etc)
After 28 years of marriage my husband passed on Valentines day this year, This was always our tune and played it at his funeral, He loved me always like I was his queen, and even though my tears flow when your song starts to play by the end I am smiling and remembering the way he always looked at me and sang the words while we danced away, Thank you Madness for giving me a banging tune to remember my Gary
I am so sorry. Such a beautiful story!!
So sorry for your loss Maggie. Keep singing and loving Gary every day. :* )
So sorry to hear that. But wonderful it still brings out such wonderful memories.
❤️
Your husband had excellent tastes in music, I'm really sorry for your loss.
Fun fact: The violinist on the right (0:44, 1:26, 2:17, etc.) is Labi Siffre, the writer and original recording artist of this song.
He honestly loved the cover so much that he asked to be in the video!
And you see him on 3:21. The camera goes right to his face. He's Smiling.
I only just found out this week he wrote this gem! The Madness version got more air time I guess
@@davidwright4495That's lovely when he takes his s/glasses off and smiles!
I came here looking for him and thought so. Thanks for the clarification ❤
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Madness is genuinely one of the most underappreciated british bands of our time
In the US yes, not in Britain or South America for instance. They are still selling out shows and performing at the UK’s biggest festivals, just look at some of their shows on RUclips. They are definitely under appreciated in the US but most good music is.
More so for Labi Siffre, the original songwriter.
genuinely stunned, amazed in fact, that you resisted the youtube comments section 'underrated' fetish and opted instead for 'underappreciated'. Still, the psychosis largely holds....
In the US perhaps, madness were huge in Europe and S America
Thanks for sharing rizz-god1987
This song is so British, it turned my coffee to tea
😄
Songs so British it turned my teeth crooked and made me hate the french
Makes me want to watch old Carry on movies. ❤️
@@sawkmicoc4287 I live in the uk, and most people don't have bad teeth, and they don't hate the French either.
@@mauriceosullivan6832 so do i, it’s a joke
So happy that Labi Siffre is in the video
2024 ... still loving this ... anybody else with me ? :)
Abso-frigging-lutely!! 😃
Of course...
For some reason I just had to hear House of Fun last week and I got pulled into a Madness video vortex. Now I'm listening to this and various others at least once per day.
It must be love....
Every one is with you
I’m 13 and I know many bands like madness, oasis, queen and many more because my dad many people say he raised me well with music !
HE HAS!!!!
Dude go even further back, you’ll find gold.
Dude, it's the first time I hear Madness, maybe it wasn't so spread in South America 😅
Like my 14 year old son... devo, b52's, inxs, madness, tears for fears, and pet shop boys!
Madness always having fun
It was absolutely fantastic
growing up in the 80s listening
to music like this.
Great Times.
The most underrated group in British pop culture. How come Suggs hasn't been given a Knighthood?
because unlike Sir Jimmy Savile he hasn't
Knighthoods are worthless titles, Bowie declined one, that should tell you everything you need to know about them.
busterkeatonsbriefs Titles are ackoledgements of your service, Not a ticket to more money and success, It's just like a trophy.
You got right.
Don't think Suggs is much of a royalist.
I've said it about many bands and artists but truly Madness must be the most underrated band in the world
They had more songs in the charts in England than ,Madonna 👊
I think think they are still very highly regarded in their home country of England, but here in the U S A, there is probably a pretty solid base of fans around my age who still love them for the songs and videos on MTV in the early 1980s
@Vlad The Lad actually you're right. These comments are always underrated.
No gotta be kinks or dexys midnight runners
XTC is even more underrated, yet geniuses
One of the greatest songs ever written, in my opinion.
@Truth Reigns Forever 😘
This is a cover of a Labi Siffre song written in 1971, cheers
I agree!
Who else played on the roof of Buckingham Palace?
@@tvdinner325 Queen
Madness is criminally underrated!
Absolutely
I agree
They're not though are they? They are very massively and well regarded. Luther original composer/writer of this song is a truly underrated artist.
Never underated, over used comment.
@@darrincassidy9045idiots keep writing this to make themselves sound like they’re the only people ever to have liked a band. They think it’s clever.
This song is better than 98% of the songs on the charts today. Fantastic.
early 80s classic
Do you mean 100%?
The song is actually a cover the original was LABI SIFFRE - It Must Be Love (1972)
Its better than 100%😁😁😁
Yes when bands had there own sound the saxophone is just heaven awesome song loved this song since it first came out madness brilliant with out a fact
My sister sung this at our old man's funeral. Will be with me for the rest of my days.
Got married to this song the best song ever....😊
I'm 54 & grew up it in this incredible time for music
Ok boomer
1981
Up the Buzz 🎉❤❤😂
Shut up you retarded spas@@TheMusicalElitist
and Labi Siffre in the heavenly orchestra - gives a smile to the camera - what a gent
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Also shows the madness has respect to the original song
True rows, bless Brother!
Of course he's smiling: he must have made a small fortune from the royalties.
I thought that might be him! Thanks for the confirm.
I think this song is so disarming, a genuinely beautiful cover by Madness. The arrangement is perfect.
This first notes on the piano from Mike Barson just instantly grab your attention.
What a song, what a band.
Epic doesn't even come close.
👌👌👌🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏
Trust me songwriters agonise over this one.
1981
British New Wave music changed the world. One can't articulate that enough.
dedicate this one to my late father. rip my best friend 13/7/1972 - 26/4/2024
So sorry love...he was young. RIP ❤
Rest in peace, sorry for your loss
1981
Sorry for your loss. Hope you are doing well 🙏
Up the Buzz 🎉😂❤
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Madness and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands?
Benedetto Bruno were really not that great no better than another country but saying that I'm happy here
eye like muse who come not far from me
Just what I thought, I’m a member of an American rock band and I just wish we took some inspiration from British bands, but it’s hard because they don’t listen to me lol
This is a great cover of a Labi Siffre song -he's in the video smiling at the end. I'm not sure if he's British by birth or not.
@@Jossette888 Labi Siffre was born in London.
I remember when Madness hit the States back in the 80s, all the other kids were all about "Our House" but THIS song was my jam. Hell yes! 👍❤️
This and my girl are there best imho
1981
The song is not THAT underrated come on now
House Of Fun and Baggy Trousers pretty big for them aswell.Class of 85-89 in that's me
@@paultreadaway102 Waiting for the ghost train probably their best ever song.
I love how the song's writer and original singer is revealed when the camera pans to him taking off his sunglasses.
Fun Fact: The original creator of the song, Labi Siffre, makes a cameo in this video as the violinist on the furthest right.
I think that is common knowledge to be fair!
Most of older people know.
Shitty "fun fact". Everyone knows that.
No i didnt
maybe he plays the violin in the recording
Madness music videos are always so fun to watch
Wat I could watch all they're music videos in a row ! they're so original
One of the few that are worth watching.
I should try it sometime, rather than spending the whole song browsing the comments
I know
They're Madness
If this doesnt play at my wedding i'm not getting married
I support that! 😉
I get the feeling it will 🤣
It was at our wedding, what better song?
Aw so hope so xxxxx
I bet I can guess your birthday .
Never stop listening to Madness, a daily dose of Madness is necessary to live better.
John lennons favourite band before he passed, so you know Madness are legit!
@Khalid Al Mutawaa give a shit what lennon thinks .. Madness were legit without his sorry ass input
@@davidkindness6791 why are you trying to sound like an American?
@@mickduncan3564 are you trying to sound like an idiot
Is it ok if this American has loved Madness for forty years, no matter what John said? Huge Beatles fan too, but their word isn't the law to me.
@@WinslowLeach1974 Course it is!! Just hate it when British people come on here and post comments in American accents, too much time on youtube lol, no one and i mean NO ONE, says ¨sorry ass input¨ in the UK
Ime here all the time because i love and live madness
A true gem. I never understood how they hit the pulse so often.
Madness , probably the only Band that managed to make it in to the earworms of every single person around the eighties without them even knowing about it . Nuff said.
One of the best UK bands of the 80’s. 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
I just found the vinyl in its original print for $3.99. What a steal.
If it was that cheap you shoulda paid for it!
😍
👍
1980
All this time ... All I've known was Our House. I dig it. I really do.
It Must Be up there with the best ever songs !
Yes, for your information, it is the 2nd most popular Madness song ... on Spotify, at least, but...
82
I'm a lunatic, and it gives me some comfort to know that I'm not alone. Only Madness could produce a video for a love song dressed as undertakers, brilliant!!!!!!!
Tribble Booth that intro with them standing at the edge of an empty grave, always makes me giggle
Love their tongue in cheek humour
The Kinks did that in '66 - "dead end street" ;D
Lol join the club I'm mad 2
1981
The 2nd British Invasion of the early 80’s was a gravest time for music. We need another one to revive the music industry.
I remember crying too this song as,a teenager after a breakup . Now I'm older I realise wasted tears
Anyone here because they just like madness?
Not like. LOVE. It must be that.
@@catherinel1374 You, my lady, are a genius.
Yeah I don’t need godd@mn commercials to find music lol
I'm here because I like Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass but clicked the wrong video.
@@Jeremy-ql1or then why are you going through the comments instead of just going back?
A good friend of mine has just passed and the family have asked me to speak
The opening words to this says it all, miss you George, and bless you Madness, nothing more nothing less love is the best.
Makes me feel old. 1981 - the year I left school. Thumbs up, if you agree with me. 1980's BEST Decade for new bands and music!!
No
I lived as a schoolboy through the '80s, and I think that decade was quite poor for pop music compared to the sixties and seventies. It's continued to decline since. Why do people always think the decade when they were young was the best?!
@@garydixon1198 lmaooo
@@BadgerBotherer1 Nostalgia, that's why.
82
I'm a 42 year old British bloke, travelling the world and currently in rural Guatemala. Was walking past a garage the other day and this song was playing. Took me right back to my childhood. Felt completely surreal as I hadn't heard it in years. Still sounds fresh as it did then, and miles better than the rubbish put out nowadays 😅
Labi Siffre, what a talent.
I've just recently discovered his work, and while I was a Madness fan before due to my ska 'phase', I love that there was this connection.
Been in to these since 82 I'm now 53 and still love it
Played at my brother funeral 3yrs today miss you so much John ❤️💔
I'm sorry for your loss but you can still remember the good times with these songs
❤️
sorry for your loss
82
I havent forgotten you G.S. Best wishes to you. St Michael.
Keep plugging away Gram.
St.Michael. Reaching out.
1981
I married my soul mate Queen to this track. 18 years later she chose drugs and drink for reasons beyond her control and I lost everything. 5 years on I can play Madness and get those warm fuzzy feelings of being 16 again. One life. Live it well. x
❤️
@@welshlad6427 I’m welsh two
Know that all to well
My husband and I had this as our walking out song at our wedding last week, it was perfect!
One of the most pure love songs ever.
This is not a love song u dweeb
But he is in the video
@@marielacey7928 Say who??
@@fkhooligan labi siffre at the very end he loved their version
@@marielacey7928 Every night, every day
is that labi siffre in the string section, close up at 3:18?? i'd never realised! how totally cool, madness dudes...
This song will always be in my heart my dad loved madness we played this at his funeral. Yes I may cry listening to it but I always listen to it to remember him love you dad forever missed
Ü
Keep strong my friend god bless
Such a fun,happy,quirky band of fellows. There will NEVER BE another decade of music like the 80's ❤
Que buena canción. Cada vez que la escucho me hace sentir feliz. Saludos desde Tijuana México 🇲🇽
After all these years of listening to them and others, I'm still finding gems in the ska/punk catalog/cannon.
British pop groups made the 80's music we still enjoy today.............. fact ! Will always be the best music no matter how old you are.
This song will forever be a classic. Simply timeless
Yes it will
82
My husband and i have been together since schooll. This was our song .
Got to see these last year went with my daughter memories forever one of the best gigs in a long time
Listening to these songs (and occasionally watching) as a teenager I loved them. Back then I knew I was hearing something special, but I had no idea why they spoke to me so strongly. Coming back so many years later I still have very little clue as to why that is, except to say that the music makes my soul sing along. Thank you Madness, from a tone deaf teenager, and a tone deaf coffin dodger. You made my day in the '80's and you can still do it now. If I live to 100, I'll still feel uplifted by this music.
lo im tone deaf cant hold a tune in a bucket
You say “coffin dodger” What did you mean by that?
A memory of that movie License to wed 💒 brought me here today to hear this song again..there, that was nice.
80's Masterpiece
Our Greatest decade of Music
Lives On Forever!!
Somewhat nice hook - lets repeat it a million times - Madness
Madness best funtime band of all time hands down .
Loved this song. Hugely underrated in the USA
So why am i listening to this? It must be love. J Xxxxxxxx.
👍🏴
Nice that they invited Labi at the end to honour the song with respect
I tell ya a little secret....I saw Madness live November 2019 at The House of Fun weekend and when they started to play this song I was hit with so much emotional nostalgia it was incredible, I cried. This band means so much to me, their music will never get old and I will never stop playing it, simply brilliant. Thank you for the Music and all my amazing memories. Nutty boys rule..................
Sad this have no likes
1981
How nice when a new love comes into your life after losing your husband and he sends this to you. 😊💛
1987
Labi Siffre in the video smiling all the way to the bank 😊😊😊😊
That's a really touching Easter Egg, and yep, he's got that ear-to-ear smile on his face, not only because of the endorsement of his art by Madness thinking enough of it to bring it to a new generation, but yeh, those royalties gonna see him into his autumn years...
(3:05)
82
I like how Labi Siffre is in the video as well, so cool.
I remember this song well because a schoolmate was a junior sound engineer at the studio and I sat in. I totally missed it at the time that the song is about loss. Good to know that you learn as you get older.
What studio was it recorded in?
82
Chosen for my brothers funeral,he was a huge fan back in the day.RIP Tony.McD,Thanks to madness for the happy memories of my bro and his madness tunes..And thank you to the Harlow ppl who was there for my bro as he missed london.Give us a shout.!1luv
They helped our generation get through high school they were briilant they are still going strong today 42 years later thanks to suggs and the guys for helping us and for giving us such lovely memories of a happier time godbless them
Madness - The name fits perfectly but they were so talented.
One of the best British bands of all time...and there's a lot of 'em!
My grandads favourite band. Passed away this morning💔
❤❤❤
1981
how many of us had and still have a heartbeating crush on suuuuuuggggsssss!!!
8yr old granddaughter went to her first gig.. She loved it 😂 gotta bring them up right
I wasn’t even alive in the 80s, but I love 80s music and culture, and this is my all time favorite song!!
Same here I wasn’t spat out until the mid 90s but always have and will love eighties tunes 👍
@@reggiekray270 I was born less than a month before the millennium ended, and I like music from the '80s and earlier…there's some good newer music but it generally doesn't get very popular.
And the Original version I believe is from 1972
@@dynodin81 yes! Labi Siffre
Suggs is a British legend. Madness was a great band and they made a lot of classic songs. 👍👍👍
This is such a sweet song. Niceness and Madness.
Incredible to think this only made number 4 back in the December of 1981, it should have been that year’s Christmas number 1, alas it was Don’t you want me baby.
Best love song ever written.
+Lita Dark Go to Labi Siffre. He wrote the song that made a hit a decade earlier. Labi is in this video as the last violin player. Write some songs.
1981
This was a cover song they did of Labi Shiffre's original. It's also interesting that Labi is in this same music video (chap closest to camera) 0:29
I really miss these singers from the 1980's. Growing up as a teenager and listening to great music like this will never leave my heart. EVERYTIME I hear today's music (if that's what you call it) I think of my generation of music from the 80's. Today's music just doesn't have that sound. Music today is all digital where it is just one sound. In the 80's we had analog sound, Drum machines, Synthesizers and much more.
OK...fun fact, I've NEVER heard this song until just now. 🌱 Yep. And you know what? I do THiNK these young men were spot on!
Check out the original too - it's gorgeous.
1981
Madness. Absolutely brilliant, nutty boys to the core, a thousand winners every week! Cannot chuck enough praise on these guys, unbelievably good live. I remember pogo-ing to one song at one of their concerts in London and my glasses fell off and landed amongst all the pogo-ers. Took me a few minutes to find them in amongst all the bouncing fans and amazingly, and no-one had crushed them. I got back up and continued pogo. It Must be Love and Baggy Trousers are still in my top ten and will probably remain there forever. Though E.R.N.I.E. was a favourite for many years.
Sometimes,rarely ,a masterpiece comes along and that's what we have here. Never ever get tired of this song, Madness were and are a class act.
My dad was a massive fan and we played this at his funeral so it hits hard when hearing this 😔
sorry to hear that friend. i hope things are getting better. has it been a while since he passed?
1981
It must be love yeah
I've been married for 12 years and this is our song!
Labi Siffre was one of the violinists! All these years and i never noticed that bit. Showing Madness much respect and vice versa!❤️
What pushes this song to greatness is how the clever melodies and weird offbeat "It must be love" part somehow work so well together. Great song and a great band.
If anyone still think this is a love song, you rock on soldier 😢
still brings a tear to my eye, real men, real music
Madness were/are so under-rated - fantastic songs, intelligent arrangements, worthwhile lyrics - ALWAYS interesting - great bunch of combined talents!! Love em!
+R Maybe they were referring to some other of Madness' stuff?
Madness & The Stranglers. English Gold!
Bob Newton
Madness is one of the best post-punk bands out there. Alternative is by far the best genre (sub-genres include punk, post punk, goth, new wave etc)
Shot Bro, Post Punk?????
The stranglers no no no no
I was born in 81 and it still makes total sense to my generation ,no one compares these days in that style ,shame,
William Hunter I was born 67 this is all I knew
1981
The best in my days!
Just sitting here and started singing the "every night every day"lyrics .Made me want to listen to this one more time.❤❤❤
Blimey, same here!! Starting singing whilst prepping tea, so had to listen 😁
1981