Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax

Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax
Compilation album by
Anthrax
ReleasedJune 26, 2001
Recorded1985–1991
GenreThrash metal
Length61:00
LabelIsland
ProducerAnthrax, Mark Dodson, Paul Hamingson, Eddie Kramer, Mike Ragogna
Anthrax chronology
Return of the Killer A's
(1999) 		Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax
(2001) 		Classic Anthrax: The Universal Masters Collection
(2002)

Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax is the sixteenth release and second compilation album by the band Anthrax.

The album was released in 2001 by the Island Def Jam Music Group without the direct participation of any band member, unlike the 1999 release Return of the Killer A's. Such was the haphazard nature of the release that guitarist and founding member Scott Ian openly criticized Island Def Jam for what he saw as the shoddy nature of the compilation, especially the accidental inclusion of the Persistence of Time track "Time" in place of the band's hit cover version of Joe Jackson's "Got the Time", which was listed on the cover. The iTunes Music Store digital version of the album, and presumably subsequent pressings of the CD version, correct this mistake but incorrectly list "Keep It in the Family" as a live version. Metallica's James Hetfield is featured on the "I'm The Man".

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AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]
  1. ^ Prato, Greg. "Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax". AllMusic. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 2006. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  3. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 20. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.