Madness - Yesterdays Men

Madness - Yesterdays Men
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[@GavinLeckie]

I was the boy in the video getting his ear pulled by the policeman the video was filmed in Stockwell london and the Brixton Academy .

[@ZeldaFitz]

gavin leckie How did you get the part?

[@tattskink9589]

Awesome claim to fame

[@udofah68]

[e-mail] Which one were you and who was the other kid , did you know each other and what was it like having to work together as kids .

[@iainkinehan7030]

Wow! A-fucking-mazing!

[@LambastMercy]

A speck of youth that has an amazing claim to fame.

[@EdelweisSusie]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written - makes me sob like a baby every single time. An under-rated classic with a gorgeous sax solo. Stunning.

[@MatthewBrannigan]

It's my favourite Madness song, the second being One Better Day. Melancholy and soulful Madness is the best Madness. I hope that they can upload a better quality version of this sometime soon.

[@JCStorm76]

@@MatthewBranniganMad Not Mad is underrated

[@MatthewBrannigan]

Hugely. I remember at the time how much less successful it was to its predecessors, and finding it rather confusing!

[@JCStorm76]

@@MatthewBrannigan Agreed

[@udemeudofah8987]

By the way Gavin's right the black kid was me and we were best mates and we live this down like a treat , I'll never forget this day best day of the 80s .

[@ChrMmn]

That's so cool! I read Gavin's post. You both had great taste in music at such a young age. Who actually pulled you guys by the ear? (I tried but can't make out who it is with their outfit & helmet on.)

[@Bikewithlove]

Madness are real musicians, not the run-of-the-mill music industry fodder with trust funds. Hardworking musical geniuses disguised as goofballs. The song “Our House” has been in my head this week, because it still blows my mind how it gets right under my skin and sounds eternally familiar. Only a group of uniquely experienced & talented professionals could pull something like that off. All these years later and I appreciate them more than ever.

[@Joe-w8m6e]

Not what said when wrote my girl 'mainly guy at work in ear.

[@NancyDrewe]

Every single one of them is ridiculously talented. And their gear was tops. ❤️

[@UncleJoeLITE]

You're so right, I've clocked up 43 straight years of being Mad. Hearing Monsieur Barso's piano techniques helped mini-me understand music much better.

[@rogerhuggettjr.7675]

The songs that stick with me are Must Be Love and Shut Up. I've loved their self-titled album for almost 40 years, but am doing a deep dive tonight and am amazed at all the beautiful music they made.

[@wmnoe]

One of my favorite, IF NOT my all-time favorite Madness song. It's just so damn pretty. Really shows how Suggs could actualy sing! Harmonies work so well too.

[@SamHaynesMusic]

Their best song by a mile. Love the ska stuff but they really wrote some great songs in the mid 80s. This is perfect.

[@timbayliss4153]

@*Uncle Joe* The real trouble with this country, in my opinion, assuming you are talking about Mrs Thatcher, is we should have had two Poll Taxes. One for the very rich say pay £100, and the poor pay about 5 or 30p. Or every country whose turn it is, to run the EU, treat it like a General Election, be the governing economy, for every five years.

[@shane-irish]

LoL nope

[@herbertvonzinderneuf8547]

Yep - as each year passes.

[@robtudor3785]

Great song. Fantastic song. However, not their best. Much underrated along with the album.

[@markcf83]

A criminally underrated song in my humble opinion.

[@matmc71]

True, their melancholy stuff is brilliant. Still, we've got it all to listen to forever!! Hoorah for that!!

[@lindalulu3677]

An insolent speck of youth Being taken for a walk So tightly by the ear That he can hardly talk Yesterday's men, hang on to today To sing in the old-fashioned way It must get better in the long run Has to get better in the long run A metropolitan marathon Marathon Has been held today But who you need to catch Will be coming the other way Yesterday's men, hang on to today To sing, any old way It must get better in the long run Has to get better in the long run Because when you're told to start How far can you go? When your race is run And you already know Because when you're told to stop Stop! How far will you go? When your race is run And you already know Yesterday's men, hang on to today Hang on To sing, any old way It must get better in the long run Has to get better in the long run Will it get better in the long run? Will we be here in the long run? (Saxophone) Do-do-do-do-do-do Hang on Yesterday's men, hang to today Hang on To sing, any old way It must get better in the long run Has to get better in the long run Will it get better in the long run? Will we be here in the long run? Do-do-do-do-do-do Hang on In the long run.

[@PearsonProduction]

Once you've seen this video you can't get it out of you're head. This band is just too good

[@timbayliss4153]

This is the most clever Madness video, speaking in an Indian dialect, at the start, about ordering a meal in Italian, in a Chinese restaurant.

[@leehodges2162]

left school in 85 so this song is in my heart .grey day and one better day also ..Keep the SAX alive .........

[@timhall3575]

My favourite Madness song. Hugely powerful track. Love it.

[@bigcountry7852]

Great song,grew up listening to these lads,Total maddness🥃🍻🍺👋

[@leonardozolecio7586]

Increíble banda, increíble tema, cuantos buenos recuerdos de los años 80s.. Saludos desde Argentina!!

[@hernanluna8795]

¿Bs. As?

[@hernanluna8795]

@@leonardozolecio7586 ¿Piincharrata o tripero?

[@leonardozolecio7586]

​@@hernanluna8795La Plata

[@leonardozolecio7586]

​@@hernanluna8795De Boca

[@derek-press]

they were very underrated as songwriters actually,I was a total Jam fan and listened to nothing else but has I get on a bit I've started listening to a lot of eighties bands and realise now there were some cracking songs back then, really well written and produced songs,madness tears for fear talk talk crowded house and and and ..............

[@thomastempelmann]

If you like Crowded House, check out the predecessor Spliz Enz. Wacky, unique and catchy.

[@hooch87]

So many Madness videos begin with them walking into a commercial premises.

[@armosa]

A very underrated song by this band

[@stefkachurch9894]

What a song! Love it so much! ♥️

[@hit8090]

Saudades! tinha 15 anos e adorava esta musica... Parabéns Madness pela incrível sensibilidade traduzida em sons inesquecíveis...

[@patricksullivan7854]

They were saying goodbye to us all and each other. That’s what I thought at the time. They stepped back by choice. I thought then.

[@afrcw]

I was one of the madness fans who did not appreciate this at the time, it became "old fart" music at the time (I was about 14!!) However haven fallen back in love with the band in the past few years, including actually seeing them live and the superb oui oui album I can honestly say this song is a classic and deserves its place alongside some of the great madness songs

[@shaun5944]

Brilliant track. Madness, such a great band. Very clever with their music and their videos are well done 👍🇬🇧

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

This is far better than their 2 Tone era stuff. Shame few people were still listening by '85.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

Nonsense

[@ZeldaFitz]

This is true, 1983 was their peak, when 83 turned into 84 they found themselves out of step with the U.K. pop world and it was a slow decline until the split in 1986.

[@juliofc56]

Suggs sounds like Ferry and the band is Roxy, fabulous song!

[@hectamus]

Probably my favourite ever Madness song. An underrated classic

[@andybaron3994]

ah madness uve been a constant over the last thirty years before cancer started its on going journey through my body but ur tunes old and new give me hope I won't be yesterday's man

[@kernzyp]

research cannabis oil. youtube "rick simpsons, run from the cure" total healing. good luck :)

[@eavannicgabhann]

Andy, I hope you're alright. x

[@goody390]

Andy Baron god bless you my man !

[@fireyflower6643]

I hope you're ok Andy, Madness are wonderful.

[@richardfox913]

get well soon, Andy. Huge strength to you.

[@edgarnugent907]

is there any comedy without a bit of darkness?. this is Madness

[@spalf73]

With this and One Better Day the band actually peaked, but no one noticed, not even Madness....

[@tuddles71]

What u mean peaked?

[@juliofc56]

One Better Day brilliant song so well executed, love this group and I’m a real oldie

[@patriciacook8761]

I seen met madness Bondi we got fried

[@markrimmer7428]

Amen to this observation. Back in the day, I used this track as therapy as a college kid frightened to f#####g death of the future. I'm still here. It worked. I salute Madness today and forever more.

[@Jeff-zx6rt]

this song hits a certain spot for me. heard it at my dads one evening only once. it stuck with me

[@boris1387]

As the boys grew up, so did the rest of us...but I'll never stop looking back now and then to see the fun and sad times we all had. Madness played a huge part in my life. And always will. ❤

[@stuartmorgan1150]

we're still here in2024 my friend....

[@Bandit_Pete]

Me too lads . My school dinner lady was called Cathy Bedford, the mother of Mark Bedford from Madness. It was about 1978-79 she gave us all us kids badges, with nutty 7, the big M with a pork pie hat on top, and all other deisgns. She told us all that was her sons band, and we would hear about them soon. Little did we know..... I wish I kept those badges. But great memories. Still listening to them now. @@stuartmorgan1150

[@slyestfox935]

​@@Bandit_Pete That's a brilliant life story um jealous 😊👌👍

[@George19672010]

Classic tune by Madness ♥

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

So poignant because they had peaked and were on their way out as this came out. I find it even more poiganant because my grandfather passed away the day after I heard this song for the first time. My grandfather was a wonderful man and I still miss him now. I can't watch this video without thinking of him.

[@Maltloaflegrande]

Yes, I remember that feeling they were hanging on despite being in danger of answering the description in the title. But I thought this was good. I never saw the vid on TOTP, just a clip from it in the countdown. And I never heard it on the radio more than twice, but it was catchy enough to remember on that. Brilliant record, but less successful than the follow-up "Uncle Sam" which I thought was a tad mediocre.

[@rogerhuggettjr.7675]

Here's to you enjoying the song together on the other side!

[@willardr100]

Aside from the epic tunes and outstanding visual entertainment there’s not a racist bone in their 7 bodies. Quite refreshing for the era! I met Suggs in a Primrose Hill pub once. I played it cool. I wish I had dropped to my knees and praised him. Life is full of regrets.

[@graemekeable8461]

Ah! So you're the bloke that flogged him that dodgy van 😂

[@davie6543]

and it did get better in the long run, unforgettable madness

[@Icemannaz]

Great bit of saxaphone , madness will never be yesterday’s men

[@MrVibrating]

Lee "Max Wall" Thompson..

[@DrumsTheWord]

What a beautiful song. What talents!

[@iantriplett3151]

Very underatted. .. great song

[@andy3974]

Love when a band you love grows and matures . This is from Mad Not Mad and the whole album is awesome

[@djh29971]

Some Madness fans at the time missed the point completely. They didn't like the band moving on and wanted them to be stuck in 1980, which just showed how some fans didn't understand the band at all. This is a great record, period.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

This song is garbage

[@stevehorrill5755]

@@dkizxpt-su3ze dick

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

@@stevehorrill5755 Oh I'm so sorry for not cheering on Madness ripping off the fucking Thompson Twins

[@markrimmer7428]

@@dkizxpt-su3ze you have your opinion. Personally, I think you're wrong (on a scale almost incalculable), but have a nice day anyway.

[@katoness]

@@dkizxpt-su3ze The Thompson Twins are garbage!! LOL

[@gerrysmith1782]

Brilliant underrated song by the great madness

[@rickogden204]

Another Madness classic...the meaning runs deeper than the words

[@Davidlouis3]

Your kidding!,,

[@ElvarMasson]

David McGuire - Your ?

[@MrMadtheory]

The melody in this is just beautiful. The lyric makes me wonder if they felt they were buring out at that point as a band trying to keep on top of the charts. I suppose they had to live up to the 'nutty boys' image with the comedy video but it takes away from the song which to me calls for a more contemplative and simple treatment. This song is highly underrated as well as well as many other songs they wrote.

[@blackmore4]

Yes, apparently they did feel 'burn out'. Funny now but this and a lot of the parent 'Mad not Mad' LP were all about weariness and ageing... written in their 20s!

[@rjjcms1]

They'd had hit after hit for 6 years by that time,starting with The Prince in 1979.

[@robertstorey7476]

Totally agree. Clowning around just doesn't suit the song. The song is generally a thoughtful reflection on how we all too soon become yesterdays men but have to carry on with life anyway. It was surely inspired by how they saw themselves as the end was in sight for the band as a major force.

[@andys325]

the video has darker undertones with the prisoner sequence

[@geraldpower5491]

Well put!

[@NorthernFella]

great song. cant believe it only got to no18 in the charts! I think one of their best!

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

I often feel bitter sweet about this song. I was eighteen when this was a hit and wonder if Madness (who were one of my favourite bands knew it was going to be one of if not their very last big UK hit. It wasn't as big as their earlier stuff in terms of chart position but in my opinion it's actually one of their best all time top 3 songs. The other 2 are in my opinion Wings Of a Dove and the incomparable My Name (is Michael Caine). So many great songs sung irreverently but with such serious messages and undertones that they still resonate today. I was ecstatic to hear they still perform live sometimes.

[@MrLocolaca67]

Time too :-)

[@Greatest1979]

MrPeterpiper1969 Is 1969 the year you were born, Mr Piper? Cos if it is, you were 15 instead of 18 when Yesterday's Men was a hit. I know so cos I was born in 1969. But you are right, it's one of their many best songs. The b-side to this song, a song called "All I Knew" is also very good. Madness is far better than a lot of people aka music industry and critics give them credit for.

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

Greatest1979 I could've sworn this was an '87 release not '84 mate. Other than that I completely agree, they were a fabulous band who never got taken quite as seriously as they deserved to be.

[@Greatest1979]

Exactly. But believe me Yesterday's Men, Uncle Sam and Mad Not Mad all have been released in 1985. I know so cuz i've bought all their records back then. In 86 they released Sweetest Girl and Ghost Train and broke up. In 88 four of them came back as The Madness!

[@MrPeterpiper1969]

Greatest1979 Ah well, guess my age has fogged my memory a bit. I have the greatest hits album (Divine Madness) on CD and listen to it pretty often but I never bothered to read the dates of release for the songs. I just remember them as being a huge part of the soundtrack to my life through most of the eighties.

[@PEC2528]

I love all their stuff but MNM has a special place in heart, specially this song and Coldest Day

[@ZeldaFitz]

PEC2528 coldest day should have been released as a single instead of sweetest girl.

[@bradley2brad2]

i love the bit with the saxaphone and the bubbles

[@Mortthemoose]

And dressed up as Max Wall!! 😅😅

[@ZeldaFitz]

I love them sunglasses suggs is wearing in this video, Apprantley the band use to get them in Japan. I always wanted a pair and still do.

[@udemeudofah8987]

What do you think of it then? Cos from where I'm standing it taught us that you don't need a drama school to learn how to act you just need good skills and to enjoy being with a bunch of fellas that you're a great fan of that's more than lucky .

[@houseoftheted637]

simply beautiful

[@ongachongagimmethewonga1835]

From the vastly underrated final album by one of the best groups ever(until they reformed yesssss)

[@patriciacook8761]

Still love madness played must b love at mums funeral and tommorow this at my brothers funeral doing madness play list in Australia I work radio

[@Paula-if1js]

Lov this ❤

[@mickdrfc]

Quite simply the MOST underrated Madness song

[@IAMPLEDGE]

No it isn't. That honour falls on All I Knew, its B side.

[@ElvarMasson]

Underrated by whom, exactly ?

[@comanchio1976]

@ELVAR MASSON Bob Geldof

[@terryrichardson5173]

​@@ElvarMassonall the people who didn't buy it, and all the stations that never play it..

[@blacksunshine7485]

Pound for pound, I'd go as far as to say that Yesterdays Men is probably the greatest song ever written. For my money anyway. All 10 bob of it.

[@stephentimoney6951]

Love madness but this is definitely one of my favourites

[@nickhoare6616]

Blessed to see these guys a couple of nights ago at Festival Hall Melbourne. Legends. Awesome music awesome show.

[@gregghorner9107]

Wish they would come to the States...

[@liamosullivan3187]

Great tune ❤

[@raindrops21_9]

Chas sure knew how to swivel them hips...

[@Mortthemoose]

I thought I was the only one that noticed! Hehe 😍

[@cirotroilo7293]

Bellissima ero anni che non la sentivo bravi.

[@AndrewMckay]

i think we all forget how good Madness were

[@bwyd]

No we don't. Madness have always been one influential major band. Whatever the times.

[@60skidd72]

Nah, I'm turning 20 this year and i just got obsessed with Madness. We won't forget.

[@angelafarrell3446]

should have been played on the radio more one of the best song they did

[@mrbosh0115]

Been a fan of Madness since i was 10 now 51 ,love em to bits.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

That Opening was like a fusion of *Patrick Mcgoohan's the Prisoner and Patrick Macnee's The Avengers,* I really dig it.

[@filippolanciani6020]

Crazy beautifully. Filippo from Italy.

[@mikestaak7951]

I miss u guys

[@rickogden204]

If I invented a time machine how many people would travel back to the 80's with me and do it all again?

[@markcf83]

I'm there.

[@stevenorr2643]

Fuckin A

[@MARCELOBCS]

✌🏻

[@williamrand5854]

I would and I'm a millennial.

[@rickogden204]

And I'm back listening to this in 2020 to cheer me up through this lockdown bullshit which is obviously a scam

[@lima1394]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUGGS..... 🎉😊❣️

[@shaunspies1108]

Clever, beautiful, explicit melody with a great hook and message. Greetings from a Boer in South Africa.

[@LyonThroy-RSA]

🇿🇦

[@SirJimmySavileOBEKCSG]

Joe Biden's ringtone

[@hansvanstaveren6952]

Good music 48 years

[@donelliot5726]

Tune..

[@vinniepage5990]

I used to play this song when I was sad or on a Sunday

[@rickogden204]

There is no racism here...never was...just enjoy

[@DomainExpert]

Hi Ray Booster, I am from India and that song from 0.03 to 0.44 is "bar bar dekho hazar baar dekho" from the 1962 Hindi Language Film 'China Town'. It is a classic film starring yesteryear heartthrob Shammi Kapoor and this song was sung by The Voice (Indian) Mohammed Rafi. Both have passed away, Rafi Saheb, sometime back and Shammi Kapoor recently. Any song of Rafi Saheb picturised on Shammi was not only to be heard, but also to be seen because of Shammi Kappor's crazy dance moves and mannerisms. To sample another Mohd. Rafi song, try this, "jan pehchan ho" used in a Heineken Commercial. But no, it does not have Shammi Kapoor. Read the comments there too! And yes, I am sorry I am late in posting this. All the best.

[@ritchyfox]

Thank you so much for this. Have always wanted to know the song in the background. What a great song it is too. Taali ho! Taali ho!

[@jcBurton2094]

Such a gorgeous tune

[@rickogden204]

Complete genius..glad I was born 1966 Appreciate Madness in their prime

[@travisbickle7706]

Funny videos but always a dark side to their songs - immense.

[@Rikstik]

This has to be my favorite Madness song. These guys made some classic tunes and it is a shame that most of there good stuff doesn't get airplay

[@karljeffery5934]

in hindsight you can see this as the start of the band Madness always had the potential to be

[@mozdickson]

The piano, the strings, the tenor, the maimbas - Keep Moving is their best lp . Suggs called it a "polished turd" but it has aged better than a lot of the other albums

[@mikefahey28]

Good song, very strange and 'Mad' video :D

[@katiesilver5090]

Having a madness hour....loved them x

[@aaroncanniford9237]

They were all down the red lion in sundon today 🤣

[@joalco146]

muy lindo video el tema esta muy bueno

[@mystychrysmthehumanprism3507]

Very Motown, this tune. Quite the duality so pervasive in Madnees pairing relaxing island music and yearning, pensive lyrics presented in a comical and at times sinister way.

[@TheAnnas4cats]

Mystychrysm The Human Prism yes I hade the same perception

[@tuddles71]

Motown my ass

[@thecinematicmind]

Whoever chose this song on that Electricity Safety Public Information Film was a genius.

[@gustavomartinez6087]

Great!!

[@chrisedwards3883]

Love this period from Madness.Quality.

[@kevindavies2066]

Their popularity has started to wain by this time, times and music were charging. However they were still putting out great stuff.

[@tonypuccio154]

Madness for ever the best

[@eish999]

Been listening to surf guitar music which brought this song to mind. Genius lyrics.

[@dennybish67]

Always loved this one. A brooding melody that always hit me in the heart.

[@alzyerpal-TV]

As I remember it, this was received as something of a post Madness comeback record after all the earlier 80's success. It was certainly viewed that way by all my Nutty Boy mates who'd followed their every move up until this more mature sounding release. I wasn't a Madness officionado at all, more a Simple Minds/U2 kind of a guy but thought this was a tremendous, inward looking, soulful tune and still love it now. A bit like Duran Duran's 'Ordinary World' lyric a few years later, to me it was about getting slightly older and looking back at former glories, with an eye to moving on. God knows if that's what either song was about but it made sense to me in my mid teens era back then.

[@eamonnhoulihan1366]

Truly one of there best, I bow to there brilliance

[@lincbond442]

Such a beautiful song and the b-side "All I Knew" is pretty amazing too!

[@ZeldaFitz]

The outside shots of this video are all filmed back to front

[@WalterSobchak1000]

It Must Get Better In The Long Run

[@richwilkinson7495]

2nd best favourite MADNESS record. Always played this record back 1985 when I, was going out with this modette.😎🕴️🛵

[@Sameoldfitup]

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[@chaddmcadamchadwick6578]

Brings back lots of warm and happy memories.... Coming towards the end of a classic era.... But after only a few years reunited, for an earthquake in Finsbury Park....