6 Reformed Criminals Formed a Band…Had 30 Hits Including This BIG 1983 #1 Song! | Professor of Rock

It’s interesting how a band can blow up on the other side of the pond in the UK and be one of the most renowned bands of it’s time and then over here in the States are just a one-hit wonder… Well, today’s band and song are a lot more than that! The band Madness were trailblazers in their native England with 30 top 40 hits over the course of the 70s 80s and 90s with 17 of those going to the top 10. In America, they conquered the charts in 1983 with their only hit stateside but it was a big one. Our House by Madness was a monster smash. It’s a classic we all still sing along to pretty much every week. Madness is a band where every member came from a working-class family trapped in cramped quarters and several members even had criminal records before they hit the big time. It’s a compelling story of a band of brothers who rose above poverty and crime to create a musical movement that changed everything. We break down this sentimental classic by the “working man’s Pink Floyd"…NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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It’s time for another edition of our series Bottled Lightning where we celebrate a song or album that was king for a day. Here honor artists and bands and that rocketed up the charts… but for reasons unknown weren’t able to sustain that success. Called by some ‘one-hit wonders’, we celebrate them instead as lightning in a bottle.

On previous episodes we have covered Broken Wings by Mr. Mister, Wishing Well by Terence Trent D’Arby, and She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals. Today was explore a band and their signature American hit but the reality is before I even mention this band, they are superstars. Legendary with so many hits in their Native UK they could compete with anyone in their time from Elton John to Duran Duran… They actually had 30 top 40 hits over the course of 4 decades with their most successful run from the late 70s into the 80s. 17 of their song have gone to the top 10. They started a movement that’s effects we’re still feeling today! It’s Madness and their only big hit in America with Our House.

So The plan was for each of the 7 band members of the legendary British Ska band Madness to jot down their childhood memories- what they remember the most about their families. The happy times and the sad times. It was supposed to be the theme behind the group’s 4th studio album The Rise & Fall. However, only multi-instrumentalist Carl Smyth, known as Chas Smash, bothered to follow the plan. Chas’s writing became a Norman Rockwell-like portrait of a British family captured in a nostalgic New Wave Era classic titled “Our House.” The genesis of Madness came from the formation of the North London Invaders in Camden Town.