Mad Not Mad

Mad Not Mad is the sixth studio album by the English ska and pop band Madness. It was released on 30 September 1985, their first release on their own label Zarjazz, a sub-label of Virgin Records. The album was recorded over a span of two months in 1985 at Westside Studios and at AIR Studios, both in London. The album was their last recording of original material until they officially reformed in 1992. The album peaked at No. 16 on the UK Albums Chart, and achieved silver status from the British Phonographic Industry. However, Mad Not Mad remains the band's poorest-selling studio album. Upon its release, the album was received favourably by the majority of music critics, although opinions have become slightly more negative in subsequent decades. After only a few weeks of its initial release, the writers of NME listed this album at number 55 on their list of the "100 Best Albums of All Time". The NME's view of the album is still favourable, including it in its 2015 list of "50 Albums Released in 1985 That Still Sound Great Today". The band themselves have been quite vocal that they were less satisfied with the album. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Not...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)