Madness are all but forgotten today вЂ“ maybe this will help reverse that. It's Madness вЂ“ you're going to get all the big hits and some songs you forgot that Madness sang and that you knew. ' Are you ready, Steve?'ДЇeatured on the album Utter Madness, this medley/mash-up of the hit songs of Madness is more than just songs joined together, with some overlays, although there is at least one dodgy transition. And it was how I introduced my son to Sweet. I already had a Sweet's greatest hits album, and this was just something interesting to own because, well, it was a medley and I think we've established I am weird. I only ever saw or heard the 12-inch, which I own (of course) on vinyl. Here's a track I'm not sure if they ever released a single version of. I got it on one of those 1980s K-Tel compilation albums and, truth be told, it was my first introduction to The Hollies. Their songs worked really well in this format.

The Hollies were sort of making a bit of a comeback in the early 80s and so they capitalised on the growing medley market by putting together their own, which they performed on the UK's Top Of The Pops, so maybe it was somewhat popular. I had a group of friends in primary school who enjoyed 60s music and we grooved to this track. There was another medley on the album вЂ“ ' Beach Boys Ballads' вЂ“ but this one is just so much more fun. I love the way they mixed the songs together. The version in the video is the 12-inch mix there is a great single version as well (which I also own).Дesigned, I believe, to sell a greatest hits album (which I bought without knowing about the medley), this was a track that really suckered me in, as I mentioned earlier. Yes, I bought a compilation CD of medleys. I didn't manage to get a copy until the late 90s on a CD of medleys. In Australia, I saw it on a music show twice and then never saw it again. Tight Fit released this as, I believe, their follow-up to their cover of ' The Lion Sleeps Tonight'. The 1980s seemed to be the time for medleys. One of my favourite medleys, I just enjoy the way they merge all of these classic rock songs together into one gorgeous, seamless piece of music. And I know this because I learnt this medley in guitar class. ' Anniversary Waltz (Part 1)' by Status QuoДЄ song that has come up before, this is Status Quo doing their own version of the ' 4 Chord Song' (though a little less tongue in cheek). And in concert when he performed a polka, the video on the back screen was just like this вЂ“ video clips with the speed changed to match Al's vocals. The earnest music of the 1990s was just delivered in the only way it should have been recorded вЂ“ as a polka medley! SeriouslyвЂ¦ for those of us who grew up in the 1990s (I was in my 20s), these songs were everywhere and this was the perfect antidote to that. Weird Al's polkas are often a highlight of his albums. ' Alternative Polka' by 'Weird Al' Yankovic Speaking of live, here is a live version of the Axis Of Awesome version as well (NSFW!!: Rob Paravonian does the same with Pachelbel's Canon but I've only seen live versions of that. Basically, it's showing how many songs have the same four chords by singing an absolute shed-load of them. I have seen it referenced by Youtubers from the USA, UK and Japan вЂ“ and all of them positively. Axis Of Awesome were an Australian comedy music trio (how many great comedy trios did Australia produce? DAAS, Tripod, these guysвЂ¦ great!) and this was the song of theirs that really hit the zeitgeist. This does mean that ' Grease Megamix' by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John with only three songs does not make the cut. I wanted it to be more than 3, and 5 sets itself as a decent point. Third, a medley here has to consist of at least 5 songs. A medley done live is a short-cut for time (imagine how long a Springsteen concert would be вЂ“ they can be 4 hours long as it is вЂ“ if he didn't do medleys!). Second, no songs that were recorded only in a live version. I am not sure if Pentatonix's ' Evolution Of Michael Jackson' was released on an album or just on YouTube, but because I've looked at it before, I won't risk it. First, these have to have been recorded or put together and released on an album. Everyone knew the Beatles medley track, but on the album it was longer, and there were three other medleys on side two! Then, also in 1981, was released ' Beach Boys Medley' on the greatest hits album they released that year. One of the first albums I was given was Stars On 45 in 1981 (I was 10 it was my choice).

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