Madness - Embarrassment (Official HD Video)
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2011
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Another UK Top Five single from British band Madness. Video and audio have been cleaned at top London studios.
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The sax deserves a like.
One of if not the best saxophone players the world has ever heard.
"Kix" "El Thommo" Lee Thompson 😎🎷👍
Best sax ever...
It does
Sax dude also wrote the tune. Cool song
The two saxophone solos during this record still gives me goosebumps
ive got terrible goose zits and they wont subside!
So glad you said that dude. Me too.
@@jonr5636 andthe
The first represented Lee Thompson's sister trying to explain how she got pregnant to her parents. The second is the sound of her heart breaking, from being misunderstood.
Me too.
Lee T is the business 🖤💙🎷💙🖤
Different era, absolutely class. Wish I could go back to this time of life.
So do I, loved every minute of it
@@aliceseville Me and you will build a time machine, so we can go back to the best era in music, Earley 80s.
@@julieking9481 love too, I remember the boys and I listening to Madness whilst playing pool in the bedroom. Good memories
@@aliceseville going to see them in Scarbough soon can't wait.
Yes but no
This is a bloody good record. 40 years on.
You're everywhere
@@JohnWick-ro8zv who is
@Samuel slack Geoff joffy
Yeah
42 years on too!
Even after forty years... the opening bars of this iconic seminal song, still make my heart skip a beat. Madness did and still do have something so British and unique and will be forever held as one of the best bands from these Sceptered Isles xxx
Too dight
understanding the history and social context, madness make me proud to be english and british, them and the whole two tone record label / social movement
Me too, I wouldn't say it out loud tho or Suggs will call you a Nazi
I hear you Andrew Mott.....to me the message of Madness goes Beyond!!... the 1% is not sharing or caring.
Madness make me proud to be a human....tis Universal lad!
@@callithowiseeit5806 who gives a shit what Suggs thinks? Suggs is only a musician - don't get me wrong I luv their music but he's not God ffs - Nothing wrong with being proud of all the great things achieved by the nation that you belong to!... and you are allowed to think what you like and anyone else who tells you otherwise is the Nazi!
@@callithowiseeit5806 ,
The older these songs get THE BETTER THEY SOUND....PROUD TO BE 1980S GIRL XXXX
i'm 64 now..and would i want to go back to the 80's?..in a heartbeat leanne,in a heartbeat..for real.
Amen
Well said Leeann. Was a great time for music. Left school in 81 so grew up on this stuff and still listen to it all today
My favourite Madness song.. utterly brilliant band that started out of the two tone ska of the late seventies and were one of the biggest hit makers of the eighties. The two saxophone solos just blow you away in this song and it has a morale message. Madness may have come across as the nutty boys making silly videos but they were just a brilliant band behind that, that made unique catchy songs often with social messages of the time and the challenges and prejudices that were in Britain at the time. When we talk about Great British bands Madness seem woefully forgotten and underated.. a huge thanks for the great soundtrack of my teen years and beyond with your music
And mine , brilliant 👍🏻
@@thornbird6768 Its mine to
And mine too ..
@@rachelcaullay172 thanks for your reply
It’s about his daughter having a black baby and she’s an embarrassment
English culture lyricised brilliantly.. I grew up with this.. Madness had the knack of absolutely capturing the circumstances and feeling and culture of the time in the early eighties that still resonates today
and told it well
The best, and for me definitive, Madness song.
2024???
call me an old bastard but this song just has everything modern music mostly doesnt have
I can't call you an old bastard because I agree with you which would make me an old bastard
im old too but you are bang on todays music is utter crap you old bastard lol
I’m only 16 and I can 100% agree with you mate, I hate this era- the music is shite! We need this old stuff again, it’s proper good music 🎵
@@mattinfullvision9598 Amen
it has a soul
This is so very british, it's great. The saxophone player is incredible !
Lee Thompson. I think "Embarrassment" is his creation.
@@darrylroff3932 Correct Lee Thompson, due to his families turmoil when his sister Tracy got pregnant by a black man
It is! But it's more Çockney Sparrruuu Laaaanduuun matey!
Me?
I'm from up West mate!
Kensington and Chelsea in London. 🇬🇧😉🎾🏏⚽
Madness, quite simply the best band ever.
Hi from Russia! Madness is one of my favorite groups 🙃
I agree
@@cols-muscle-power i wouldn't go that far.
Correct😎
There could only be one kind of Madness,
44 years on and this record was for me it was how I was made to feel by my old man still know all the word's off by heart
Growing up in the early 80’s .. i didn’t realise what such a powerful message this song had
Do you now what this song represents
@@jademeredith6071 Sure do. Sad story of a family rejectin their daughter for havin a baby with a black man.
I always wondered what this song was about
@@patrickhenry7036 I always thought it was a sad song about a family having to deal with a disgraceful daughter having a mixed baby. It's clearly in favour of the racist family.
@@oman9492 It clearly isn't
The madness ‘absolutely’ album is by far one of the best - reeks real life experiences put into beautiful and meticulously crafted songs that may seem very poppy and swingy on the surface but once you scratch past that it’s pure genius and meaningful lyrics that are relatable and just all round brilliant. Favourite band ever and absolutely brilliant live 10000/10 for the nutty boys
That Madness album, you know, the one that goes bop bop bop, yeah, thats my favorite. ALL of them!!
Cudnt agree more. Have tickets to.see them in Dublin end of November. Great live band. Never disappoint
Serious subject from the nutty boys and boy didn't they do it really well
Madness = Genius. This song is a gem and possibly Lee Thompson's best showcase of his great talent.
Top of their game, even John Lennon loved them, their music was part of the soundtrack to my youth, cheers Madness!!
@@Just_another_Euro_dude They released their first single in Audust 1979 and released another 4 singles, 2 albums and an EP before Lennon was shot in December 1980...
He said in an interview how he liked 'One Step Beyond '. He didn't get get the opportunity's to explain further
@@Just_another_Euro_dude 😂
@@Just_another_Euro_dude he mentions liking them in his last bbc interview and even does a funny impression of the one step beyond intro
Still as fresh today as it was 41+ years ago
MADNESS AT THEIR BEST
Great
Best Madness song ever!! FACT :)
I totally agree with you there !! I have been a Madness fan since 1979 and I have about 60 cds and all their vinyl albums as well as picture discs, red vinyl, blue vinyl,brown vinyl,clear vinyl ,yellow vinyl and every song they ever recorded. Madness are surely the best band off all time. My favourite song by them is 'Embarrassment' and my second favourite is 'Bed & Breakfast Man' There are so many to choose from though. Another one of my most liked is 'Close Escape' from the album 'Absolutely followed closely by 'Night Boat To Cairo' ' I hope you enjoy every madness album because they are surely the best group that ever came out of the Ska revival. Cheers
Deffo
I don't get it; it's a good backing track but that's about it. I can count at least eight or nine better Madness tracks and that's only the singles.
defo not the case. It must be love is their top tune, then after that this and uncle sam, and waiting for the ghost train, and thats it all their other songs are rubbish
'One Step Beyond' is what gets me in gear for work. I love 'Might Boat To Cairo' and House of Fun', and I smile whenever I hear 'Mummy's Boy', and I'd only recently heard 'Embarrassment'. It's heavy. I wasn't much younger than Thompson's sister when the song came out, and could have easily been in that situation.
When I heard this song for the first time I did not realise this was about a serious subject within family circles. Priceless now when u realise what it is about
The best of Madness's songs
Songs with actual words, and that Sax is just mind blowing good.
Madness at their peak absolutely
I was a massive Madness fan when I grew up in the 8T's. Still am. How can you not be?
80s, not 8T's, you must be what, at least in your 50s?
Grow up Man!
@@Docv400 I write however i please. You seem like a bitter old fart. Lighten up pal.
@@Docv400 I thought the same to be honest 😆
A big hit in the UK singles charts in November-December 1980.Remember it well.
I saw Madness in Bournemouth last December. Suggs told of how this song was written about Lee Thompson's sister dating a black man and how his family practically disowned her. He said how this song was amazing at showing how times have changed aince it was written. I love Madness. Their songs have such a deep meaning but are always so upbeat sounding.
It was Lee Thompsons sister not Suggs.
@@drapes36 Thanks for correcting me
@@GreatonValley also she got pregnant not just dating
She got pregnant, that's why they disowned her (too late to reconsider, no one's gonna wanna know ya), Always wondered what happened. They probably came round once they saw the baby. They usually do. I hope it had a happy ending.
@@TheFakeyCakeMaker I saw Lee and his sister and her daughter on The One Show a few years ago. As far as I know their parents did come to terms with the situation but I wouldn't know much more than that. It certainly gave Lee and the band a great song whatever happened afterwards.
The sound of my childhood.
The song the music, the text, the sax... Hearing it once just ain't enough... Masterpiece
First band I ever saw at 12. 55 now and still go whenever they're playing near us. Top british band
If you know the backstory to this song you realise haow brilliant it is
Your so right if anyone hasn't looked into the meaning and the reasons behind the song please do.its absolutely excellent.
eighties music and saxophone, the perfect match. it dissapeared in the nineties
My brother love madness all his life til he passed away suddenly in 2020 aged 46. I grew up listening to them and listen to them even more so now the music is timeless 💜
I lost my 46 year old brother as well in Jan 2020 Jayne. He was into Madness as a kid and got me into them.
Hugs
Best song by the nutty boys. The 93 people with thumbs down must have their phone upside down, tha nuz
No just ignorant racists.
Those who disliked are an embarrassment
@@robtudor3785 you clearly know nada
@@Shiggiesmalls02 not sure what you mean. This song was written as a result of Lee’s sister getting pregnant and the father was black. He was singing about how his father and aunts took it badly. My comment was saying the 93 thumbs down must be from racists. This is a brilliant song. Not sure how you can say I know nada?!
i love every song from Madness!!!
Suggs has such a soft voice, madness is always incredible by making the interments music look so complicated, yet as they had seven musicians their music was perfectly specialised. Yet If you take a look at each instrument it’s not difficult. And actually each instrument complements each other. Mike and the others were musical geniuses
The only Madness song I bought as a kid
46 years on. I have only co-existed with Madness for 14 of those years, and yet they’ve managed to become my number one favourite band.
J adore , c est une époque où on écoutait du bon ska avec the specials,Bad manners...une époque formidable !!
Always loved the song but now digging it even more after having just learned what it was about. Well done Nutty Boys!
I can’t remember when and where I first heard Madness; I just remember liking them!
Brilliant record, best by Madness by a mile very very deep lyrics.
I love this whole album. I just get lost in that sax at the end. It takes me right back to school, flight jacket and an arm full of two tone badges.
Wish i was around when this was released thank you dad for introducing me to the best era of music
This is one of the best songs of all time
Lyrics
Received a letter just the other day
Don't seem they wanna know you no more
They've laid it down given you their score
Within the first two lines it bluntly read
You're not to come and see us no more
Keep away from our door
Don't come 'round here no more
What on earth did you do that for?
Our aunt, she don't wanna know she says
"What will the neighbors think, they'll think
We don't, that's what they'll think, we don't"
But I will, 'cause I know they think I don't
Our uncle he don't wanna know he says
"We are a disgrace to the human race", he says
"How can you show your face
When you're a disgrace to the human race?"
No commitment, you're an embarrassment
Yes, an embarrassment, a living endorsement
The intention that you have booked
Was an intention that was overlooked
They say, "Stay away
Don't want you home today
Keep away from our door
Don't come 'round here no more"
Our dad, don't wanna know he says
"This is a serious matter
Too late to reconsider
No one's gonna wanna know ya"
Our mum, she don't wanna know, she says
"I'm feelin' twice as old", she says
"Thought she had a head on her shoulder
'Cause I'm feelin' twice as older
I'm feelin' twice as older"
You're an embarrassment
I love Madness, they are a great band! Today I listened to all my favorite songs from Madness on UA-cam, all I can say is that all the videos are great, I don't think any other video would top them, they are a genius group! I want to learn how to play the saxophone! from watching this song. Too bad they don't issue other songs now, the music today is not as good as the eighties, I'm 48 now and love that era.... you keep listing to those songs and never get bored. This is my favorite song from Madness.
Some of their tracks from later albums (late 90s, early noughties) are great too. Check out: Johnny the Horse, Drip-Fed Fred (featuring Ian Dury RIP), Never Knew Your name, Lovestruck, Mr Apples, etc.
Johnny the Horse is one of my favourite Madness Songs and has a fun, uplifting tune with poignant lyrics which was inspired by a tramp that Carl Smyth used to know who was tragically kicked to death by some yobs.
This has an almost RnB/Motown soul style to it, incredible.
Absolutely classic band
Another brilliant song from the brilliant madness i love their songs 🤩😊😎🤗❤🎉
The soundtrack of walking the streets alone at night, feeling the cold on your shaved head, the echoe of your boots on the empty street.
That is brilliantly put my friend l feel you've lived it & that travells across your blog. Quite poetical & l admire your thought process. I too know this feeling of belonging to empty street lamp streets.
Madness' best songs, Embarrassment, You Said, Sign of the Times, Missing You, In the Rain.
FANflippingTASTIC
Wonderful Madness 💙🖤♥️🖤💙
Still play this song in 2020 never gets old 👍🏻👏🏻
This song can bring tears to your eyes. (especially the injustice of the back story) You really feel for the sister.
Can you explain more please? Thanks
@@lolacherrycola7035 A band members sister got pregnant by a black man. Her family disowned her and she was left to have the baby alone. A different time.
Yeah and I realised the pianist at 2:48 is black
@@batdebaseball1850 yes 😢
@@sssssssssggggggg it was Lee Thompson - the Sax players sister.
Underrated song, band, attitude.
No way are Madness underrated 🇬🇧
How has this only been watched 300k times! What a classic. Grew up with these tunes.
Legends, pure & simple.
This song is NOT about Ireland someone already mentioned what the songs about
This song is about the turmoil that engulfed Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson's sister Tracy, after she fell pregnant by a black man. The lyrics expressed the shame felt throughout the family of having a mixed race baby, an attitude sadly still prevalent in early 1980s Britain. Lee Thompson told the BBC "It was just not accepted in those days. She was shunned by a few people in the family. My father tried to talk her into getting it terminated. My sister dug her heels in and I was caught in the middle, wanting everyone to be happy.
Thank god :) the amount of people I've had to say this to
His sister had a black kid that what this song us about
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassment_(song)
Jackie Linda how!
Http: get a life
Magnificent now and then
I don’t know anyone who didn’t like madness , I still do and always will !
Makes me feel good, not sadness but madness
One of the first singles i ever bought, just brilliant.
Thank you for everything
i love you from the start.......when i was a little kid 😅Kiss from Belgium ❤
It never ages. I frigging love this. I still have the original albums and the man in the mad suit tour. My cousin used to play for Chelsea, so we were privilege to watch them making the blue day video.❤
"Yes an embarrassment you're living in Dorset".
I thought it was living in Dorking.
Yea God help you
@@alittlepeaceandkarma "yes and embarrassments a living endorsemnt.
This post was made by the somerset gang
Lol!
Outstanding song…..
Still brilliant to this day.
This should be used against those that willingly give the BBC licence fees :)
That brass section is the bollocks. Later in tunes like "Tomorrow is Just Another Day" the brilliant brass motifs were rendered tinny by specious production.
Very true. 80's production was horrible, as far as pop records went. By 80's, I guess I mean about '83 on.
Epic band! One of my favorites!
What a band!
Still Wonderful 43 years later! X
I think this is my fave Madness song
I cant decide!
They never made a bad record. They are the Greatest 🤩
Great track from a great album from a great band. Have to say though, their 5th and 6th albums were a big let down compared to what they did previously imo.
Proper Music
I remember hordes climbing over 25ft gates at Finsbury Park N4 to see Madness! Lol 😆 🤣 😂. Uk
Love you so much guys, forever in my heart !
A la folie Madness looooove band
seriosly BEST the song EVER
3:00 my brain when i make a mistake in public.
Same
Recuerdo perfectamente este tremendo tema en concierto Madstock 1992,,,,,Gran banda!!!!
Something today's "musicians" should learn, write lyrics that actually mean something & with a relevant point to it, anyone who grew up around the time this was released will know exactly what I mean ✌🏻💙🏴
u do know that good modern music exists right???? songwriters didnt just die out
@@lilab151 yeah, obviously, but the manufactured sorry excuse for popular music is at best abysmal
& don't get me started on the lame ass attempt called mumble rap ffs
Now music is all about the money & more importantly, being "politically correct"
The exception being Gerry Cinnamon of course.
@@Scottish_Son You really need to listen to more music, I'll agree with pop music being shit but there is so many great bands with amazing and relevant lyrics that arent cash grabby or worried about being "politically correct"
@@Scottish_Son mumble rap more like mumble crap. Lil’ lump looks like a rainbow fruit loop
Spacegrass could you recommend some?
Wow. The soundtrack to my school days at Wright Robinson, Gorton Manchester 😀
Can we just take a moment to enjoy probably the best ending to a Madness song, possibly any song ever? Glorious! And knocking over the wine glass. Perfect!
Bunch of young guy's hard to believe they were capable of such quality great little band plenty of hits .
Amazing saxophone part. Wonderful song❤
Outstanding social comment; and superb tight musicianship.
Suggs posing correctly, singing SUPERBLY, with no pretentious USA accent.
For a short period of time, they were unsurpassable.
This their best I believe.
Love the ending; it's so unexpectedly surprising ....then.....!
Gotta be one of their best tunes
I saw Madness for the first time at Lindisfarne in September 2022 and they were absolutely magnificent.
If you haven't seen them live, DO IT!
If you have... DO IT AGAIN!
I grew up in that area and saw them live and the specials and selecter
this is their best song
When you know what this song is about it adds extra layers
IMO their best song. Shot in my old manor. Used to see them bouncing around often back in the day. Top lads, all.
AHHHHHHH LUCKYYYY
What I'd do to meet a young Suggs, he was SO CUTE back in the day!!!!
Gorgeous suggs xx
I love that all their videos look like they were filmed in their basement or in the street when traffic cleared, and they drew straws to determine which member of the band had to hold the camera and couldn't be in that shot.
😩 Sat here listening to this before Rob Forrest's funeral, the guy told me about this song and all the crazy times back in the day!! He had some crazy stories from sound managing with madness an others.
God bless you Rob Forrest 💚
2020 is an embarrassment.
Really he.
But this song will never be
@Sid Hawkwind Biden has just sent Trump a link to “Our house”
to whom?
Were a discrase to the human race