Madhouse - The Very Best of Anthrax

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Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax
Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax cover
Compilation album by Anthrax
Released June 26, 2001
Recorded 1985 to 1991
Genre Thrash metal
Length 61:00
Label Island
Producer(s) Anthrax, Mark Dodson, Paul Hamingson, Eddie Kramer, Mike Ragogna
Professional reviews
Anthrax chronology
Return of the Killer A's
(1999)
Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax
(2001)
Summer 2003 (EP)
(2003)


Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax is the name of the sixteenth release, and second compilation album, by the band Anthrax.

The album was released in 2001 by the Island Def Jam Music Group without the direct participation of anyone in the band, unlike the 1999 release Return of the Killer A's. Such was the haphazard nature of the release that guitarist and founding member Scott Ian openly criticized Island Def Jam for what he saw as the shoddy nature of the compilation, especially the accidental inclusion of the Persistence of Time track "Time" in place of the band's hit cover version of Joe Jackson's "Got The Time", which was listed on the cover. (The iTunes Music Store digital version of the album, and presumably subsequent pressings of the CD version, correct this mistake.)

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Madhouse" (Anthrax) – 4:18
  2. "A.I.R." (Anthrax) – 5:48
  3. "Armed and Dangerous" (Anthrax/Lilker/Turbin) – 5:45
  4. "I Am the Law" (Anthrax/Lilker) – 5:56
  5. "Indians" (Anthrax) – 5:41
  6. "Caught in a Mosh" (Anthrax) – 5:00
  7. "I'm the Man" (Belladonna/Bello/Benante/Ian/Moore/Rooney/Spitz) – 3:04
  8. "Antisocial" (Bonvoisin/Krief) – 4:27
  9. "Belly of the Beast" (Anthrax) – 4:47
  10. "Got the Time" (Jackson) – 6:55
  11. "Keep It in the Family" (Anthrax) – 7:09
  12. "Bring the Noise" (Ridenhour/Shocklee/Sadler/Anthrax) – 3:28
Anthrax
Scott Ian | Frank Bello | Charlie Benante
Neil Turbin | Dan Lilker | Joey Belladonna | Dan Spitz | Paul Crook | John Bush | Rob Caggiano
Albums
Studio albums: Fistful of Metal | Spreading the Disease | Among the Living | State of Euphoria | Persistence of Time | Sound of White Noise | Stomp 442 | Volume 8: The Threat Is Real | We've Come for You All
Live albums: The Island Years | Music of Mass Destruction | Alive 2
Compilations: Attack of The Killer B's | Return of The Killer A's | Madhouse - The Very Best of Anthrax | The Greater of Two Evils | Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (1985-1991)
EPs: Armed and Dangerous | I'm the Man | Penikufesin | Inside Out | Summer 2003