Keep Moving

About Keep Moving

Keep Moving is the fifth studio album by the English ska/pop band Madness. It was originally released in February 1984, and was their final album release on the Stiff label. It's notably the band's last album to feature their keyboardist and founding member Mike Barson, but he did join them in 1986 for the recording of their last single before their original split, "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train". It also remained the last Madness album, before their 1999 comeback album Wonderful, to feature Barson. Keep Moving peaked at No. 6 in the UK album charts, and two singles from that album reached the Top 20 in the UK music charts. The album received some good reviews, with Rolling Stone magazine giving the album four out of five stars, applauding the band's changing sound, and NME ranked it number 13 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1984. This was an improvement as the last album reviewed by the magazine, Absolutely, was heavily criticised. The USA/Canadian pressing has a different running order to the UK version and includes the singles "Wings of a Dove" and "The Sun and the Rain" in place of "Waltz Into Mischief" and "Time for Tea" (although the cassette and CD both include all 14 tracks). A vinyl picture disc version, using the USA/Canadian track listing, was also issued in the UK. more »