Keep Moving (Madness album)

Keep Moving
Studio album by
Madness
Released20 February 1984 (1984-02-20)
Recorded1983
Studio
Genre
Length43:18
Label
Producer
Madness chronology
Madness
(1983) 		Keep Moving
(1984) 		Mad Not Mad
(1985)
Singles from Keep Moving (UK)
  1. "Michael Caine"
    Released: 30 January 1984
  2. "One Better Day"
    Released: 2 June 1984
Singles from Keep Moving (US)
  1. "Wings of a Dove"
    Released: 20 August 1983 (UK; not issued as a single in the US)
  2. "The Sun and the Rain"
    Released: 29 October 1983 (UK); 1984 (US)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]
Sounds[3]

Keep Moving is the fifth studio album by the English ska/pop band Madness. It was released in February 1984, and was their final album on the Stiff label. It's notably the band's last studio album to feature their keyboardist and founding member Mike Barson, before the band split in 1986.

Keep Moving peaked at No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart, and two singles from the album reached the Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart.[4] It also reached number 109 on the US Billboard 200, their highest position for a studio album in the United States. The album received some good reviews, with Rolling Stone magazine giving the album four out of five stars, applauding the band's changing sound,[5] and NME ranking it number 13 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984.[6]

The album was re-released in the United Kingdom in June 2010 on the Salvo/Union Square label, featuring bonus material. The reissue is a 2-CD set with the original album digitally remastered; the bonus content consists of associated singles, 12" mixes and B-sides. It also features liner notes written by comedian and Madness fan Phill Jupitus.

  1. ^ Keep Moving at AllMusic. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
  2. ^ [1] Archived 25 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Bushell, Garry (25 February 1984). "Caine and unable". Sounds. p. 24.
  4. ^ "The Madness Timeline: 1984". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.
  5. ^ Puterbraugh, Parke."Rolling Stone "Keep Moving" review". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved on 1 August 2007.
  6. ^ "Albums and Tracks of the Year". NME. 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2018.