Wonderful (Madness album)

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Wonderful
Studio album by Madness
Released	November 1, 1999 (UK)
Recorded	1999
Genre	Ska/Pop
Length	41:54
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Madness chronology
Universal Madness (1999) Wonderful (1999) The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (2005)

Wonderful is an album by the British ska band Madness. It was released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). Wonderful is their first studio album in original lineup since 1985 Mad Not Mad LP.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Lovestruck" (Thompson / Barson)
2. "Johnny the Horse" (Smyth)
3. "The Communicator" (Smyth)
4. "4 am" (McPherson / Barson)
5. "The Wizard" (Smyth)
6. "Drip Fed Fred" (Thompson / Barson)
7. "Going to the Top" (Barson)
8. "Elysium" (Thompson / D Woodgate)
9. "Saturday Night Sunday Morning" (McPherson)
10. "If I Didn't Care" (Jack Lawrence)
11. "No Money" (Thompson / D Woodgate / N Woodgate)

[edit] Personnel

• Suggs – lead vocals
• Mike Barson – keyboards
• Chris Foreman – guitar
• Mark Bedford – bass guitar
• Lee Thompson – saxophones
• Daniel Woodgate – drums
• Chas Smash – backing vocals, acoustic guitar

• Ian Dury – guest vocals on track 6
• Michael Kearsey – trombone
• Jason McDermid – trumpet
• Jason Bruer – saxophone
• Terry Edwards – saxophone
• Pablo Cook – percussion
• Robert Stimpson – design
• Clive Langer – production
• Alan Winstanley – production
• Mark Bishop – engineering

[edit] Notes/trivia

• "4 am" is a rerecorded version of the song that appeared on Suggs' solo album The Lone Ranger.
• "If I Didn't Care" is a cover of The Ink Spots.
• Providing the vocals to Drip Fed Fred would be Ian Dury's last chart single release and final appearance on Top of the Pops before his death in March 2000.
• Despite being the title of the album (and arguably one of the best of the new songs), 'Wonderful' only made it as a B-side on one of the editions of the 'Johnny the Horse' single.

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