I love that you were so startled by this KSO hahaha

@GunsmithSid

3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t she say she knew Madness? This is exactly the Madness I know!

@yorkiegeoff1825

3 жыл бұрын

If the video is confusing close your eyes and try just listening to the music If you see it performed live at a concert ( Like Reading festival which is on here ) you will probably get what it’s about 😀

Don’t over analyse, just move your feet to the rocking-est, rock-steady beat of Madness!

The first step to understanding the deeper philosophical meaning of this song, is realizing there is no deeper philosophical meaning! Just have fun!

@Isleofskye

3 жыл бұрын

Deeeeeppp Man :)

@gorey4more837

3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@Hi-kq1vi

3 жыл бұрын

This is it, they were a comedic band-albeit extremely talented musicians & arrangers with their videos & television appearances. They never took themselves seriously & their lyrics were not like Bob Dylan or Lou Reed where there are intricate layers to work out.

@ianballantyne6892

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@thisworldofwater8017

3 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear. I doubt the song was based on Nietzsche or anything.

Made 42 years ago and still so unique that you were stunned. Your face was priceless! Now try "Night boat to Cairo", it's even better! I use it as my ringtone.

@gafre2757

3 жыл бұрын

One step beyond is my ringtone..

Early 80s English Ska at its best 🤘😈🤘

@AzulinhoAzulinho

3 жыл бұрын

Late 70s mate, spot-on, some of the best English music is the two-tone and ska from that era. So good and universally appealling. Love from Scotland.

@andyjames6300

3 жыл бұрын

@@AzulinhoAzulinho yes late 70s

@jeanlongsden1696

3 жыл бұрын

SKA'ed for life.

The song is a cover. It was originally recorded in the 1960's by Jamaican ska singer Prince Buster. The group Madness was actually named after another ska song by Prince Buster. I wonder what ever happened to the nerdy guy featured in the video? The song must have made him very famous!

@ricardocima

2 жыл бұрын

Prince Buster says, hello...so sorry, I have to go, so soon.

Almost every major Ska group has a signature instrumental, and this was it for Madness.

@rossmacintosh5652

3 жыл бұрын

Prior to introducing 'One Step Beyond' into their set, Madness used to perform a cover of the Hawaii 5-O theme. I'd love to see a video of that!

@mypl510

3 жыл бұрын

@@rossmacintosh5652 And don't forget Swan Lake as well!

@andyyoung9463

3 жыл бұрын

And Return of the Los Palmos 7 of course

Such a great song! Ska is supremely wonderful.

In one interview while she was still married, Princess Diana said Madness was her favorite group, they were really popular in Britain at the time. That made her cooler to me☺️

@HVDonkeyPark

4 ай бұрын

While this would be cool if it were true and an interesting way to hook some people into giving Madness a listen, it appears from many sources that Duran Duran was her acknowledged favorite band. Maybe Madness once was? Maybe some of her last words were "please tell Madness they are actually my favorite band"? 🙂

Oh....your face was priceless!!! Maybe it was the time (1980 ish) or the fact that we loved anything that was fun to dance to (think Cyndi Lauper and B52s) but Madness will always bring a smile to my face, and get me up and dancing like a maniac! My cats will attest to that...haha.

Welcome to 2tone/1980s Ska. Madness were named after a track by Prince Buster and the opening shots were filmed at a famous Irish pub and venue in Parkway, Camden, London. In your spare time try Ranking Full Stop by The (English) Beat. If you don't dance to that you've got no feet

@garygardner5655

3 жыл бұрын

Agree 'Ranking full stop' the Beat try also tracks from the Selecter, they should get you skanking

One Step Beyond by Madness was part of a British ska Revival that started in the late 70s which also included such artists as The Selecter (on my radio) The Specials (gansters) The beat (too nice to talk to) and Bad manners (special brew)

That song is a fuggin masterpiece.

I love that the lead singer of the band stands poised with the mic the whole time, and yet he's not even the person "singing" the lyrics.

Class, these lads just having a great time playing music. The amount of blokes 50+ who all still do the dance when madness come on at a party.....

On to the next song : "Nightboat to Cairo"

It reminds me of the instrumental music of the early 60's . Tequila comes to mind and Herb Albert.

@leen8939

3 жыл бұрын

It is a cover version of a 60’s Prince buster song , one step beyond . Madness also named themselves after the prince buster song , madness

Hi K.S.O II love where the English, especially London of that era Culture's clash.....haha Madness once performed in front of 500,000 FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND in Brazil and was a "tongue-in-cheek" Fun Group. You must remember at all times that British people rarely take themselves or most situations too seriously.....lol

Madness - painted my first apartment (in St. Jamestown) listening to this album and David Bowie's Scary Monsters album.

This how Britain adopted black music with love and why we remain one of the most diverse and tolerant places on Earth. Ska was HUGE in the early 80s.

@robbie_

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to say just that.

@CHRISANDREOU4199

7 ай бұрын

To be honest this is a million miles away from Jamaica ska

@Lynnimod

5 ай бұрын

@@CHRISANDREOU4199 Because this is two tone ska

@CHRISANDREOU4199

5 ай бұрын

@@Lynnimod no fkkn shht

Quite an achievement to come up with basically an instrumental that becomes a party anthem. If you want a Madness track with meaningful lyrics go for "Embarassment"!

'My Girl' or 'It Must Be Love' by them

@jameskitchell7547

3 жыл бұрын

My 2 faves

Madness and The Specials. "One Step Beyond" -- the perfect tune for a Halloween bash.

Welcome to the early 80s my dear now here's the thing I think it was way back in the mid-60s even while the Beatles were just starting there was a lot of folks that came from Jamaica and different places in the Caribbean and they were playing this music from the Highlands and you know a lot of it was reggae style but what happened is a lot of the English blogs put bands together and they started playing that music but they would speed it up and put saxophone to it and they called it. Ska now if you listen to that group No Doubt which has Gwen Stefani as the singer of course now she went on her own and went solo and did really well but she also was in the band No Doubt so if you listen to some songs from that group they are in that style of the Ska music whereas groups like the police they just did reggae music and changed it up in their own style but Madness is more like a throwback because that was part of the whole new wave movement you went back in time and took some of the early Rock before the Beatles for the hippie movement and all that people like Elvis Costello The Pretenders even Devo was thought of as New Wave purse they were way out there yeah the whole new wave movement kind of happened right after the punk movement of the late seventies with of course that wonderful band The Sex Pistols Annie Hall yeah check out no doubt they'll give you an idea they were pretty good that I really good horn section when you're playing that style of music you got to have some good horns okay doll see you in a bit itsfunneh see you confused you'll get it one of these days but it is a little different I know I mean I grew up with this stuff it was the early 80s you know heck I was still in my late twenties when this came out

@Isleofskye

3 жыл бұрын

You know your stuff bryan....

Love your reaction 😄 - the whole point of many Madness songs is not to over analyse - just go with the flow, join in the madness of it all 😊

The look on your face is priceless 😂😂😂

one of the best groups of the 80's so many top ten hits too many to mention, they were all about fun not taking themselves to seriously. One track is a must though, your an embarrassment is truly a masterpiece, i will let others let you into the story behind it. keep doing what you do young lady.

@Hi-kq1vi

3 жыл бұрын

Classic song-although Grey Day is my favourite, followed by Tomorrow's Just Another Day.

Sister you make me laugh 😂 your face was priceless thanks 🙏🏽 you made made my day but really like this one reminds of myself as kid growing up in the uk 🇬🇧 London late 70s to early 80s period such different world back them before mobile phones internet

@peterbuckingham5866

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree I’m from a white background in UK and my youth on early 80s. Ska was a beautiful music movement and did more for lifting youth spirit than the govt could ever do. Great era for British music :-)

Your reaction is priceless and timeless

Love that you're reacting to more Madness videos. Hope some more get sent your way.

I was lucky enough to see them play in Stockholm a few years back. Not quite as mad as they used to be but still a good act live - especially when the bass sax played the opening hoots of Night Boat to Cairo.

I'm liking this just for the look you gave when the song ended. :)

So Ska!!🤣😂and even after 42 years is still unique, when they came to Canada they did their crazy walk around Pickering Town Center mall.

"One Step Beyond" was also the title of a late '50s/early '60s TV series about the supernatural.

Love the look on your face at 2:21😂 First saw these guys on MTV & my own face may have had a similar expression. They definitely are a fun group, though.

I have enjoyed watching your uncontrollable laughing, crying and snorting previously. However this is great too - that stunned look of total incomprehension after watching a Madness vid. I guess the clue's in their name. Brilliant.

I saw them in Daytona Beach in 1983. It was a free concert and I was about 2 feet from the stage. I was a big fan then and I still am now.

I adore you Sinceraly KSO, for your naturalness and when the video started I saw the expression on your face and it made me laugh. I am exactly like you, that is to say that I was born in France but with African origins coming from my parents. This style of music is not part of my musical culture, but I have learned to love the band Madness through friends who have a completely different musical culture than mine. We share our tastes and when we are open-minded like you and me, we finally come to love. 😘😘😘 Djamel From France Yours

madness madness, they call it MADNESS

You are brave girl. I was in tears laughing with your initial reaction. It is understandable not hearing them before. Love your reactions, keep it going !

Two years later I just watched your reaction to Madness' official music video of "One Step Beyond", also the main title of their 1979 album (released in October 19 of that year, and they actually started out in 1976). The rock steady beat is the ska sound, which it started out sometime in the 60's. It is a mixture of reggae, calypso and some rock type music. It never really caught on during the 60's. But it did become very popular in the late 70's and early 80's mostly by British bands, and many of them were a mixture of white and black singers and musicians in the same bands. There were 'The Specials', 'The English Beat', 'Bad Manners', 'Toots and the Maytals' (they started out in 1961) and 'The Clash' which they also did some ska music. Many ska bands also started out in the 90's and in the 2000's.

It looks like Madness used to have lots of fun ... just like us, listening to their songs. Those were the days, growing up in the 80's was great.

I love your reaction - I have been a Madness fan since they first started out .... and their whole ethos is to be fun & different ... they are the Nutty Boys ❤️❤️

First time I watched this, I fell to the floor laughing.

That sax solo!!!..I could loop it all day 👏🏼👏🏼

Speechless! I love it.

Every time I watch that video it makes me laugh... and your initial reaction is Awesome to see... LOL!!!

Love this one. You're facial expressions are priceless!

Brilliant. Was at school when this came out, we all loved it.

They're not trying to say anything except just enjoy the music.. They've got loads of great songs and are still going strong 40 years on..

Brilliant tune from a great band just go with the music and move yer feet and dance. Your reaction classic like you have just seen a alien. Aw best Mac

LOL! I'm sorry for dying laughing at your reaction! You looked so confused and taken aback through the whole song. It looked as if your body and logic were in conflict because your were shaking your head in time with the music but your logic wouldn't let you go further than that or change the expression on your face. Priceless reaction. I've been listening to this song for years, love it to death!

If this intrigued you,go and hear Double Barrel by Dave and Ansell Collins, and Papas Got a Brand New Pigbag , by Pigbag

😂,I loved the look on your face when it was over Priceless.

One Step Beyond was a US sci-fi TV show 1959-61, its already been mentioned that the track is a Prince Buster &The All Stars cover, with the other side of the original Prince Buster release (1964) being a track called Al Capone which had its main riff ripped off by The Specials and used in a track called Gangsters

OMG you have me laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MTV used this song as an intro when they first came on the air in the early 80's.

Absolute Madness!

Nightboat to Cairo just has to be next,I thank you

Wow Madnes is about fun fun fun 😂😂😂😂 you need to lighten up…come on SKA!!!

Hi KSO, welcome to the start of the Madness 🤪👍

Welcome to the wonderful world of Madness KSO, you want to watch some of their other videos to try to understand what Madness is all about

OMG I cant describe how much i love this song !!!!!

Love them - the Nutty Boys are back - such a great fun sound ^*^

The best of British Ska!

it's just means they want you to move your feet to the rocking-est, rock-steady beat of Madness! #itsadancesong LOL

Seen these live 5 times...Best gigs ever

Regarding the bit at the beginning - when they produced a compilation album, Madness would produce a video compilation to go with it, and to make it even better, they added fun bits before the music began. By the way, this is actually a cover of a Prince Buster tune (the man they paid homage to in their first single, 'The Prince'

Love this song👍👍

Hahah that reaction (I completely agree, and I have seen that video way way back). ;D

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am literally dying right now...

Madness took their name from a Song by the Jamaican Ska Legend Prince Buster. Their Song The Prince is a tribute to him. They covered his Songs Madness and One Step Beyond.

For those people, like me, who like to nerd out a bit: Ska shares a common origin with Reggae and Rocksteady (they even mention Rocksteady in this clip) in Jamaica, dating back to at least the 50s, but possibly the 40s, very likely, actually. What most people around the world identify as Ska is actually the second generation of Ska that spread from the UK; which Madness is a part of. The first wave came from Jamaica, but in the post-war period, Jamaica being a part of the British Commonwealth, was given preferential treatment for its immigrants to the UK to help rebuild the country after the war. That's how Ska made its way to the UK. And, because Jamaican immigrants settled in very working-class neighborhoods, many white Britons adopted the genre. Ska was, in essence, a very working-class youth genre in the UK in the first decade or so. In the 70s, when Punk music broke out in the UK, many of its aspects, like the high energy and electronic instruments (and some post-punk) fused with the earlier Ska to create what you see here: second-wave ska. Ironically, this also coincided with much of the Thatcher period. I say ironic, because Thatcher was very conservative in the Cold War drive while most UK Ska bands were very racially integrated; as were the audiences and tended to have a very strong working class and militant anti-racist stand. Third generation Ska isn't really that interesting (with perhaps my personal liking of the band Save Ferris). In general it was a 90s American suburbanite pop infused thing that was empty of any significant social lyrics. Most of you may not know this, but this song by Madness is actually a cover of Prince Buster's original version. In fact, their name "Madness" also comes from a Prince Buster song; along with their song of the same name. Prince Buster's considered the godfather of Ska. I leave the link below of the original version of "One Step Beyond." kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z6mfvM-idq7gn8o.html

Great sounds and music great live lots of music to listen to

Ska! Put on your sunglasses, your black jacket, your sneakers and dance your own Madness Ministry of Silly Walks... that's all! Skanking!

Let me point out Cathal Smyth AKA Chas Smash, who does the rap and the shout in this song. He was the band's original bass player but left before the band made it big. So he isn't in the main shots of the band performing and doing that crazy walk. And he also isn't pictured on the cover of their debut album. Chas would often join the band on stage and just be the life of the party. So when the band were recording their first album they knew that "One Step beyond" SHOULD be on there and that Chas should sing it since he brought it so devastatingly each time they performed it live. So Chas-rejoined Madness as a trumpet and harmonica player and to be the life of the party onstage and in the music videos.

Just a cool song, wonderful

Ska music was so fundamentally important to 80s UK

MADNESS THEY CALL IT MADNESS

Ska music was a way to combine black and white music and break down the barriers between black and white cultures, so being a step behind

This track is so British! It's all about fun< K.S.O., just move your feet to the beat!

No more words needed...

The music is SKA, the inspiration in Prince Buster, his songs were: madness, they call it madness, one step beyond 1964. Check out his work . Madness or the Los Palmas 7 as they were once know were part of the 1980 ska/2 tone music scene here in the Uk 👍🇬🇧

it is a song that gets all the rude boys hitting the dance floor to do some good old fashioned moon stomping.

One Step Beyond !! And then again... All my childhood :B

Well - at least they live up to their name - Madness. Post-Punk Britain in the early 1980's, with talented musicians who can really play their instruments, a little ska and rock and you get something like - well, Madness. I think I'm repeating myself repeatedly.

Just MADDNESS !... seriously , a very uplifting sound and band ... love them

This is my ring tone that's how much I love this song, It's just to get you up and dancing.

Those were the days!!🤗

It must be love is probably the best loved song by madness

This was a Ska music instrumental. It does have the feel of an early-1960s Rock dance instrumental.

Me and my brother saw them perform this song on "American Bandstand". We were laughing about their suits and "Herman Munster" platform shoes!

Gloriius...💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

K.S.O., once again: your face! Believe me, they weren't trying to SAY anything. (Many of their later songs are much different, though.) Generally, I don't think it's fruitful at all to try to decipher the MEANING of a song by studying the lyrics. Oftentimes, the words are there because they sound good and scan rhythmically. There are many, many exceptions, of course, but primarily music should make you FEEL something, maybe put some interesting abstract pictures in your head. Does it make your brain chemicals buzz? Anything else is purely academic. This is not homework.

well. It's madness... what fun! :)

There's a time before listening, then after. Let the fun begin

This was their big breakthrough song here in 1979 long before Riverdance was around, the music was Ska & appealed greatly to new wave fans, reggae fans & skinheads as punk was dying off-they refined their sound to be more commercial as time went on. You don't need to waste time thinking about their lyrics-the songs were just meant to be fun & there is no deep meaning behind most of them.

not trying to say a damn thing! just jammin out with a funky ass rock steady beat!!! also you must appreciate this song is ahead of its time coming from *1979* and taken from a Jamaican ska singer in the 1960s!!! THIS SONG IS FIRE! Just wish it was about 5 minutes longer.......

Your face! Your face!! 😂

This is typical Madness...listen, have fun, and move to the beat. I'm so upset that the only song of theirs to get much airplay in the 80s was "Our House". It was only after the internet came about and KZread that I got to discover how great and fun their music is.

We need a Ska revival in pop music!