Very talented songwriters and performers who spoke to a generation. We didn't realise how lucky we were in the late 70's and early 80's to have so many great bands around at the same time..... the specials, the beat and the jam, to mention just three. Nutty boys forever!
at that point we still had the beatles etc... and later the pistols, the clash, blondie. souxie and the banshees, talking heads, queen. the list goes on and on
Leonie cheetham yes these were proper youth club days this was called ska music along with punk rock heavey metal and the fact that they actually played the instruments and not done digitally on computer good days had by all
RIP Tim Gough. Last song he ever played. Imagine dying to this…. (Had to edit weeks later. Never heard of this song until this poor man passed away on the air. A man I never heard of, thousands of miles an an ocean away, dies on air and still manages to introduce great music to people everywhere!)
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
What makes/made Madness so great is the fact that they sang and showed how miserable and determined we British people can be and yet they showed, like the great artists they are, how wonderful that is about British people!
Absolutely, madness were unique in that they didn't take it too seriously in fact I bet they had a right laugh most of their time, but still producing fantastic tunes at the same time. Videos were unique too
So begins another weary day... An old friend played this as what turned out to be his last tune on his breakfast show this morning shortly before dying on air mid-song. The irony being you'd struggle to find a cheerier bloke. You'll be missed by many, Jim Nasium...x OTBC🔰
I ask local Radio station to play it and they said they didn't have it on their playlist but all the other shit had on fuckin crap so I changed to another radio station One less Lesnar
@@alsie1 : Just like you never hear the best Bob Marley’s tunes in the radio: Always the same one’s ie One Love, Three Little Birds and No Woman no cry.
I went to see Madness last month and they are still doing all their popular songs and are absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend going to see them. I got into them aged about 14 and Im 51 now and still love them. These guys deserve a lifetime achievement award, so much better than the crap about today.
Tight as a drum, bass, rhythm all on point, brilliant band with brilliant talent and enduring sounds. The absolute soundtrack of my childhood and youth and I still can't name a band who can match them today. Haunting track which is very relevant today.
Hard working BRITISH life described perfectly.In the morning I awake my arms my legs my body aches the sky outside is wet & grey and so begins another weary day. *** BUT U GOTTA LOVE IT !!! ***
The Madness working class malaise they often sing about doesn't really translate well to the States. I think because it's a very "British" thing to do, to just carry on trudging and not complain. Out if some weird "mustn't complain about my lot" thing. In the States you just buck up your ideas and work harder or something. The more upbeat songs Our House or It Must Be Love probably translated as they are more universal. Dunno, just a thought anyway.
A big lot of us were miserable here in the states in the 80s. I know it's not written for us but, I still understood and felt the shit ya Brits were feeling. Thatcher-Reagan,Bush fuckers...
I can hear the grass grow...that's all I can remember of Move, though I did see them live as support group for Jimi Hendrix I believe at Brighton Dome. Jam? Who were they? or was it Marmalade? Madness was the only decent band to emerge after mid 70's, and they are still the only ones. Today's music is ' NOT '.
Madness is the best band. There is not a single song I hate, even their newest album. I love bullingdon boys, and that was only released a week ago. Madness is one of the parts that makes me, me. I don't know what I would do without Madness.
404 there's More to life than this shikari subliminal postmortem voodoo Green spell negative burning hell awaits led no Creep plastilina Venom sumo once social
Couldn't help notice that BP petrol sign was £1.56 /gallon for 4 star = 35p/litre in today's world !! Anyway, great band, great music, fantastic time to grow up as a tennager
I noticed on "one better day" the photo booth was 60p I paid £10 last month loved the cheaper days u could always jump in the booth & av ur pic took with ur mates 👍👌
Dunno if anyone has been lucky enough to see the lads in concert lately, its a testament to their talent that what you hear on CD is what you hear live, the interaction with the crowd and each other was phenomenal, 36 odd years and still doing SKA proud...keeping it real before the modern keeping it real were but a gathering in a hairy sack !!!
seen them in singleton park Swansea 21st of last month and they sounded on top top form it was awesome! my only downside was they didn't play this tune, i did shout out a couple of times "grey day"! , nether the less it was amazing!
@@deanosaur808 I didn't leave the UK because of the song, you plonker. I left in 1980 because of the same things indicated in the song , released a year later. Worked all over the world 1980-1989 and have lived in the US since then, now a citizen. Thing only seem to have got greyer in Britain in the years since, so no chance I'll ever return to that shithole except to visit family.
Lol I feel songs like this and Cardiac Arrest really added sad depth to my childhood lol. Madness were the first band I discovered that could do Everything
They were very Pythonesque in their videos. The scene of them walking down the street and going into front doors next to each other is borrowed from the Beatles' film Help where they go into front doors next to each other and then entering the same house as the internal walls had been removed.
Maybe this is obvious...but just had to point out what these guys do at the start...they are going to sing an incredibly downer of a song all about how hard and depressing life is, yet they are laughing all the way to the bank...damn those bastards, they fooled us again! awesome!
Said on another track, the coolest English band by a country mile...If you were a lad, around at the time and you didn't want to be in Madness, you're a liar...
One of my favourite bands when I was young. Must have been about 8 (years and years after they were big) and they made me realise that music was about more than the bollocks in the top 40.
I remember the singles coming out one after another and thinking, They've done it again - another great record. They were pretty much in another league to everyone else and I was genuinely sad when they broke up - like, Don't go!!!
à cette époque, il y avait 3,5 million de chômeurs en grande Bretagne. Ces groupes, specials, madness,jam ou squeeze étaient très en phase avec leur époque.
If "Ghost Town" was the Specials opus, with its dark themes that spoke volumes which captured the times, then "Grey Day" was an opus for Madness that also captured the same themes and the mundane bleakness we felt in that time of our lives..
Madness is the epitomy of THE GREAT BRITISH SPITIT OF THE 70'S..... AN ERA FULL OF EXPECTATIONS DREAMING AND SERENDIPITY EXPRESSED THROUGH THE MOST TALENTED GROUPS OF THE past and gone GREAT BRITAIN
Lived and worked in w10 ..w9 woodfield rd few of there tunes was done or was put together there sadly all the old building are long gone .. but still have the music and the old memories to keep it going ..big up Graham aka Sugs one love baby xx
Concordo con gli ascoltatori di questa imbattibile Band !!! . . Tra i brani dei Madnees, questo è uno dei più fantastici , puro genio musicale , . . E quanti strumenti o effetti , in una grande e unica armonia, in un susseguirsi di atmosfere una diversa dall'altra, anche rock 😊 . . . non c'è niente da fare, l'elevato punteggio di questo brano mi fa pensare che si comincia a 'invecchiare' molto, molto presto 😂😂. . indimenticabili. Non comprendo il testo, in quanto ignorante operaio, però credo abbia più un intento 'serio' , e questi Musicisti ,insieme al video ... fecero un capolavoro.
So much memorable music from the late 70's and early 1980's. I was in my teens then so it made a big impression. Possibly a sign of middle age but is any memorable popular music made now?
Yep very true.. It's weird I never took much notice back in the day, even though I loved madness.. Now at the age of 59 iv done a fair bit of research on the nutty boys 😁👍🎶
Very talented songwriters and performers who spoke to a generation. We didn't realise how lucky we were in the late 70's and early 80's to have so many great bands around at the same time..... the specials, the beat and the jam, to mention just three. Nutty boys forever!
2 true
I was born Jan 1966 so I was right in your time period as well. Such a great time for music.
at that point we still had the beatles etc... and later the pistols, the clash, blondie. souxie and the banshees, talking heads, queen. the list goes on and on
Leonie cheetham yes these were proper youth club days this was called ska music along with punk rock heavey metal and the fact that they actually played the instruments and not done digitally on computer good days had by all
Kraftwerk is superb
One of the best songs from Madness ❤
Woody is masterful on this. Such a dark, gloomy and brilliant song
One of their best songs
RIP Tim Gough. Last song he ever played. Imagine dying to this…. (Had to edit weeks later. Never heard of this song until this poor man passed away on the air. A man I never heard of, thousands of miles an an ocean away, dies on air and still manages to introduce great music to people everywhere!)
Brilliant Brilliant and true to life for a lot of people today the lyrics are brilliant
Really?! That's weird
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@@craigplatt3954same in the 80's ....great song
At least it wasn't...
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.
When it is going grab it and don't look back.
Memory and anticipation
When people say "Here's a photo of me when I was younger" every photo of you is when you were younger.
@@lewisner I KNOW! "Well, I did that when I was younger..." like it's an explanation and not an obvious thing.
What makes/made Madness so great is the fact that they sang and showed how miserable and determined we British people can be and yet they showed, like the great artists they are, how wonderful that is about British people!
Daniel. That is very true. Where are you from?
Best comment ever
Idiosyncratic, but yeah, I'll take that
pretty much!
You got that bang on mate
Genius. No other band like Madness.
We were blessed then,bands did their own thing,so many styles and talent
Absolutely, madness were unique in that they didn't take it too seriously in fact I bet they had a right laugh most of their time, but still producing fantastic tunes at the same time. Videos were unique too
Indeed
Still love this band.. Very unique and played a huge part to British music history
So begins another weary day...
An old friend played this as what turned out to be his last tune on his breakfast show this morning shortly before dying on air mid-song. The irony being you'd struggle to find a cheerier bloke. You'll be missed by many, Jim Nasium...x OTBC🔰
Chas Smash is absolutely brilliant in this video as a bloke completely on the edge
looks like a star of david on his face....
Joe
My fav Madness song, don't think there's many thinking the same though lol
This song is the theme tune for evrey shift worker out there 🙌 the lyrics are pure working class genius 👌
Careful, they'll start calling 'em woke and we'll have to burn our cds
Brilliant video and music timelessness music
Hear you friend.
Imagine writing this stuff.be around d long after we shuffle off.
Probably one of their best songs, but doesn’t get any airplay these days, unlike other Madness songs.
We won't see this greatness again 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I ask local Radio station to play it and they said they didn't have it on their playlist but all the other shit had on fuckin crap so I changed to another radio station One less Lesnar
Yeah Micheal,obscure but right at the forefront at the same time.
My favourite Madness without a doubt! Top tune, you never hear it, they always play Our House etc. such a shame
@@alsie1 : Just like you never hear the best Bob Marley’s tunes in the radio: Always the same one’s ie One Love, Three Little Birds and No Woman no cry.
Their music will be every bit important and out live both us and them.!!😂
I went to see Madness last month and they are still doing all their popular songs and are absolutely brilliant. Highly recommend going to see them. I got into them aged about 14 and Im 51 now and still love them.
These guys deserve a lifetime achievement award, so much better than the crap about today.
I totally agree mate the most underrated band EVER ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nailed it
Seen them as part of two tone tour in the late seventies with the selector and the specials some gig brill live gig
I agree with you son 💯
Great band, great musicians too
Most uniqeu band ever. Madness was my childhood, and it will be my old day too. 60 year young fan forever here.
My mates.. Lee kix.. Mr b in my gang from 70 till 77...skins
I remember listening to these guys in the 80s - such a great group. Their music holds up pretty well. It still sounds great.
Never fails to make me smile, for about 40 years now, and yes, my body aches after holding down the same job for almost all those 40 years!
Tight as a drum, bass, rhythm all on point, brilliant band with brilliant talent and enduring sounds. The absolute soundtrack of my childhood and youth and I still can't name a band who can match them today. Haunting track which is very relevant today.
This song is pure genius. Maybe the best song by Madness, even.
Hard working BRITISH life described perfectly.In the morning I awake my arms my legs my body aches the sky outside is wet & grey and so begins another weary day. *** BUT U GOTTA LOVE IT !!! ***
Three superb bands never really cracked it here in the States: the Move, the Jam, and especially these guys.
The Madness working class malaise they often sing about doesn't really translate well to the States. I think because it's a very "British" thing to do, to just carry on trudging and not complain. Out if some weird "mustn't complain about my lot" thing. In the States you just buck up your ideas and work harder or something.
The more upbeat songs Our House or It Must Be Love probably translated as they are more universal.
Dunno, just a thought anyway.
A big lot of us were miserable here in the states in the 80s. I know it's not written for us but, I still understood and felt the shit ya Brits were feeling. Thatcher-Reagan,Bush fuckers...
"The Beat" too.
I can hear the grass grow...that's all I can remember of Move, though I did see them live as support group for Jimi Hendrix I believe at Brighton Dome. Jam? Who were they? or was it Marmalade? Madness was the only decent band to emerge after mid 70's, and they are still the only ones. Today's music is ' NOT '.
The Jam might have been the biggest band in the UK for about half a decade in the late 70s/early 80s. Look it up.
My absolute favourite Madness tune!
I was 14yrs old....this song still has the same effect on me at 57
A fellow 57 year old went to see them at London dominion theatre at 14 !
Such an innovative band. before their time.
The 1st single I ever bought aged just 9!...still listening to today! Time certainly whizzes by!
Madness is the best band. There is not a single song I hate, even their newest album. I love bullingdon boys, and that was only released a week ago. Madness is one of the parts that makes me, me. I don't know what I would do without Madness.
404 there's More to life than this shikari subliminal postmortem voodoo Green spell negative burning hell awaits led no Creep plastilina Venom sumo once social
The most underrated band ever ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Chaz really smashed this. Great performance
Couldn't help notice that BP petrol sign was £1.56 /gallon for 4 star = 35p/litre in today's world !! Anyway, great band, great music, fantastic time to grow up as a tennager
I noticed on "one better day" the photo booth was 60p I paid £10 last month loved the cheaper days u could always jump in the booth & av ur pic took with ur mates 👍👌
Love this band. I like all sorts of music from rock, indie etc, but these guys are unique. Good humour, Good music, Good lyrics
WOT A BLINDER......LOVED THIS TRACK FOR DECADES......BARSON'S KEYBOARDS ARE KOOOOOOL ON THIS ONE
Dunno if anyone has been lucky enough to see the lads in concert lately, its a testament to their talent that what you hear on CD is what you hear live, the interaction with the crowd and each other was phenomenal, 36 odd years and still doing SKA proud...keeping it real before the modern keeping it real were but a gathering in a hairy sack !!!
seen them in singleton park Swansea 21st of last month and they sounded on top top form it was awesome! my only downside was they didn't play this tune, i did shout out a couple of times "grey day"! , nether the less it was amazing!
The 1st Madness tune that I ever heard, thanks to my brother and his new cassette. Still fantastic to listen to
Always...
I left the UK in 1980 because this song exactly described my life there. Never returned except to visit relatives.
Mirror16: You did the best thing.
So you left one year before the song was released? Care to share that time machine 😂😂😂
@@deanosaur808 I didn't leave the UK because of the song, you plonker. I left in 1980 because of the same things indicated in the song , released a year later. Worked all over the world 1980-1989 and have lived in the US since then, now a citizen. Thing only seem to have got greyer in Britain in the years since, so no chance I'll ever return to that shithole except to visit family.
Nowhere is perfect though. The novelty soon wears off whenever you relocate to.
Lol I feel songs like this and Cardiac Arrest really added sad depth to my childhood lol. Madness were the first band I discovered that could do Everything
Great Album 'Madness 7' their best stuff imho
Absolutely ❤️💿
Slushpuppie. Excellent album. Madness 7.Grey day, shut up, cardiac arrest, opium eaters, when dawn arrives, Mrs Hutchinson, pac a mac.
@@TheUrbanflyman no bi
Absolutely LOVE Madness
these guys made the best music videos in the history of music videos
Ok Go enters the chat....
Wanker comment.
They were very Pythonesque in their videos. The scene of them walking down the street and going into front doors next to each other is borrowed from the Beatles' film Help where they go into front doors next to each other and then entering the same house as the internal walls had been removed.
Such a banger. Grew up with this. So relevant.
They had a unique sense of humor...GREAT MUSIC !!!👍
Great song,very underrated and under played.
Great bass line too
Maybe this is obvious...but just had to point out what these guys do at the start...they are going to sing an incredibly downer of a song all about how hard and depressing life is, yet they are laughing all the way to the bank...damn those bastards, they fooled us again! awesome!
BuddyWaste That's probaly why they could buy a house in expensive London in the middle of a street.
@@owentomos2306 Love your comment
@@owentomos2306 Where there was always something happening and it was usually quite loud....
That horn ending is fabulous
I've seen them live twice and would not hesitate to see them again. Their music will always stand the test of time.
musical touches in this song are something else,it literally has it all.amazing song
My mother at 1:26 and my aunt at 2:15. Another true story
Dan Shaw Great claim too fame there.
also would like to know
Men
Ufff the aunt
The mother looks like Arya
This song reminds me off many a hangover,but it tells me the night before was a good one,madness have been there.
Madness made the best videos in the history of contemporary music. Period.
Your right one of the best British bands ever awesome long live the madness
Forse la più bella canzone dei grandi Madness!!!
Said on another track, the coolest English band by a country mile...If you were a lad, around at the time and you didn't want to be in Madness, you're a liar...
Even a dreary Madness song is uplifting.
Bass playing is great
One of their very best songs, and they had many good ones. They were original, infectious and more British than the Queen. Still love them.
They were/are so underrated.
Tim Gough brought me here, sadly. But hey, he picked an appropriate song to leave us with.
These guys are brilliant LEGENDS
Madness, great band!
I started listening to Motown, northern soul, got into two tone, moved onto reggae and dub finished with the rave scene that was my 80s
Great song and equally great lyrics!
Greatest Madness song ever!
Such a great Band ❤
I always loved the dark side to their songs.
You knew they started at the bottom. They understood.
J'ai lu que cette chanson racontait la journée d'un chômeur.
Est-ce vrai ?
@@stevemorgan6366 Nah
great comment
It's not dark....just grey !!!
One of best songs of the band, in my opinion.
Still on the road and winning the audiences is the talented, show stopping Madness 🙂👍
The moment I realised that Madness were an important band. Superb
One of my favourite bands when I was young. Must have been about 8 (years and years after they were big) and they made me realise that music was about more than the bollocks in the top 40.
I remember the singles coming out one after another and thinking, They've done it again - another great record. They were pretty much in another league to everyone else and I was genuinely sad when they broke up - like, Don't go!!!
My favourite was always the drummer, VERY cute ❤️🇬🇧
great work by bedders
Difference between the manufactured boy bands and the real talent that these guys had.
The best Madness song... ❤
couldn't have picked a less grey day for the video if they tried lol
A great song = my favorite from these guys
Great backing vocals from CS.
Timeless brilliant video and music madness just pure music
à cette époque, il y avait 3,5 million de chômeurs en grande Bretagne.
Ces groupes, specials, madness,jam ou squeeze étaient très en phase avec
leur époque.
Chas is brilliant on the chrous of this song
If "Ghost Town" was the Specials opus, with its dark themes that spoke volumes which captured the times, then "Grey Day" was an opus for Madness that also captured the same themes and the mundane bleakness we felt in that time of our lives..
I agree pal ..just my opinion thou that ghost town was more eerie to reflect a time so perfectly.
I agree pal ..just my opinion thou that ghost town was more eerie to reflect a time so perfectly.
@@anthonyaylmer1704 That's true 👍🏾
Madness is the epitomy of THE GREAT BRITISH SPITIT OF THE 70'S..... AN ERA FULL OF EXPECTATIONS DREAMING AND SERENDIPITY EXPRESSED THROUGH THE MOST TALENTED GROUPS OF THE past and gone GREAT BRITAIN
When England was England very sad watching this
I love the bass in this song!
It still sounds great.❤
Love the dark element to this! great songwriters,played all their instruments,went their own way basically after Ska! top band period
So begins another weary day , thank god for the ,one and only Madness
what can i say,loooooooooove this band,they was my idol when i was young :))))
That Chorus gives me chills. I think about it often. Love This dark lyric. I'm black and bloody from my life.
It's 2020 and this song still speaks to me.
Lived and worked in w10 ..w9 woodfield rd few of there tunes was done or was put together there sadly all the old building are long gone .. but still have the music and the old memories to keep it going ..big up Graham aka Sugs one love baby xx
Concordo con gli ascoltatori di questa imbattibile Band !!! . . Tra i brani dei Madnees, questo è uno dei più fantastici , puro genio musicale , . . E quanti strumenti o effetti , in una grande e unica armonia, in un susseguirsi di atmosfere una diversa dall'altra, anche rock 😊 . . . non c'è niente da fare, l'elevato punteggio di questo brano mi fa pensare che si comincia a 'invecchiare' molto, molto presto 😂😂. . indimenticabili.
Non comprendo il testo, in quanto ignorante operaio, però credo abbia più un intento 'serio' , e questi Musicisti ,insieme al video ... fecero un capolavoro.
Me and a few mates used to copy that walk.. It's not as easy as it looks you have to get co ordination spot on
My favourite Madness song. Brilliant.
Every time I'm missing old England I just watch a madness video for the youths and their haircuts and clothes etc takes me right back there I miss it
So much memorable music from the late 70's and early 1980's. I was in my teens then so it made a big impression. Possibly a sign of middle age but is any memorable popular music made now?
No not really from South dakota USA
Fantastic song, long live MADNESS
Me and my grandad always listen to this in his 1997 Jagaur XJR6.. Amazing song ❤
badass riff......
Their Dublin gig on July 1 could be heard four miles away .
Good days for sure
I am a die hard Hip Hop Head to the Core But this is what we call DOPE!!!❤️💎
Amazing isn't it?
Classic Madness brilliant band, and many if their songs have a real meaning, research (Your an Embarrassment ), great writers.
Yep very true.. It's weird I never took much notice back in the day, even though I loved madness.. Now at the age of 59 iv done a fair bit of research on the nutty boys 😁👍🎶
* You're an embarrassment
It's just called Embarrassment.