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Union Square Music's 30th anniversary reissue campaign for Madness continues with Absolutely, the band's second album featuring the classic school anthem "Baggy Trousers."

It also features the upbeat instrumental "The Return Of The Los Palmas 7" and the band's first real foray into the world of social commentary with the excellent 'Embarrassment'. This is classic early Madness, a snapshot of a band on their way from their beginnings as crazy ska boys to international pop superstars.

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'Absolutely' is an album that clangs in minor keys to lyrics of lottery losers (E.R.N.I.E.), prisoners (Not Home Today) and dejected lovers (In The Rain). There's another brilliant single to be heard in Embarrassment, a gritty sink drama about a family in trouble over their daughter's mixed-race pregnancy..." (4/5 - Simon Goddard, Q Magazine)

"A great document of a particular era as well as a sublime collection of timeless pop music? Absolutely."(Paul Lester)

40th Anniversary Edition of Madness ' second Studio album "Absolutely" [UK #2], re-released on 180g black vinyl with exclusive liner notes by Stevie Chick, including interviews with Chris Foreman and Lee Thompson. Includes the singles Baggy Trousers, Embarrassment and The Return of the Los Palmas 7.

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Artist: Madness

Label: BMG, Union Square Music

Format: LP

Units: 1

Country: UK

Genre: Pop & Rock

Style: Ska
A1 Baggy Trousers
A2 Embarrassment
A3 E.R.N.I.E.
A4 Close Escape
A5 Not Home Today
A6 On The Beat Pete
A7 Solid Gone
B1 Take It Or Leave It
B2 Shadow Of Fear
B3 Disappear
B4 Overdone
B5 In The Rain
B6 You Said
B7 Return Of The Los Palmas 7.

Madness Vinyl Records

Madness – Keep Moving (E/VG)

Madness – 7 (VG/VG+)

Madness – Absolutely (VG+/VG+)

Madness – Absolutely

Madness – Baggy Trousers (VG+/Generic)

Madness – Absolutely (E/VG+)