COMPLETE MADNESS, UK, 1982

Format: LP
Release date: 23/4/1982
Label: Stiff
Catalogue No.: HIT-TV1
Secondary Cat. No.: –
Barcode: none
Chart Position: 1
Release notes: –

Tracks:
Embarrassment
Shut Up
My Girl
Baggy Trousers
It Must Be Love
The Prince
Bed And Breakfast Man
Night Boat To Cairo

House Of Fun
One Step Beyond
Cardiac Arrest
Grey Day
Take It Or Leave It
In The City
Madness
The Return Of The Los Palmas 7

Spent a whopping 106 weeks in the top 100, 19 in the Top 10 and 3 at no.1 in May/June 1982.
Certified Gold (100,000) on 21st April 1982 (presales), Platinum (300,000) on 7th June 1982.

Includes all 11 UK singles up to that point plus new track ‘House Of Fun’ which would be Madness’ only no. 1 single.

‘COMPLETE MADNESS’ master page

Sleeve

Glossy gatefold sleeve

Insert

Application form to join the MIS, and order form for the Complete Madness video

Labels

Variant 1

Label profile: 62mm lip, 32mm ring

Lacquer cut by Denis ‘Bilbo’ Blackham at Tape One, London W1, pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton

Runouts – any combination of A7, A8, A9, A10 and B7, B8:

A-Side: HIT TV-1-A7 BILBO.TAPE ONE ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY! / HIT.TV-1-A8 BILBO.TAPE ONE ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY! / HIT·TV-1-A9 BILBO.TAPE ONE ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? / HIT-TV ·1_A·10 BILBO.TAPE ONE (different to variant 2, the MPO A10)
B-Side: HIT TV.1-B.7 BILBO.TAPE ONE THEN WE’LL BEGIN. / HIT-TV-1-B8 BILBO.TAPE ONE THEN WE’LL BEGIN

Also:
A-Side: HIT-TV·1.A.13 B / B-Side: HIT.TV.1.B.10 A (different to variant 2, the MPO B10)

CBS B10 has a slightly longer gap between ‘Grey Day’ and ‘Take It Or Leave It’. It also includes ‘Goodnight’ after ‘The Return Of The Los Palmas 7’.

There is also an early pressing:
A-Side: HIT·TV-1-A4 A ARE YOU COMFORTABLE / B-Side: HIT-TV-1.B4 C THEN WE’LL BEGIN
This version is different to the main pressings above:
The gaps between songs are up to 5 seconds longer; ‘Shut Up’ is 30 seconds longer (a slightly sped-up version of the 7″); ‘Night Boat To Cairo’ plays slightly quicker and also fades out 15 seconds later; ‘Take It Or Leave It’ fades out 15 seconds earlier; ‘In The City’ fades out 7 seconds earlier.
These seem to be fairly rare. My version came with an A4 press pack in a folder.

Variant 2

Label profile: flat, faint 32mm ring

Lacquer cut by Denis ‘Bilbo’ Blackham at Tape One, London W1, pressed by MPO, France

This version is identical to the standard CBS pressings

Runouts:

A-Side: HIT TV1 A10 ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? BILBO.TAPE ONE MPO / B-Side: HIT TV1 B10X THEN WE’LL BEGIN BILBO.TAPE ONE MPO

Plug copy

The Ferret Plugging Company

Test Pressing

Label profile: 62mm lip, 32mm ring

Lacquer cut by Arun Chakraverty at Master Room, London W1, pressed by CBS, Aston Clinton

Runouts:

A-Side: HIT-TV.1-A-1 ARE YOU COMPFORTABLE. A ARUN / B-Side: HIT TV.1-B.1 A THEN WE’LL BEGIN

This version is almost identical to the A4/B4 pressing except the gaps between songs is slightly different and ‘Night Boat To Cairo’ is about 11 seconds shorter.