Album · Madness
Keep Moving by Madness
Keep Moving is an album by Madness, released in 1984. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Keep Moving”, on 2 lists with a best position of #269.
Keep Moving, the fifth studio album from Camden Town's Madness, came out on Stiff in February 1984, their last for the label and the last studio record with founding keyboardist Mike Barson before the band's 1986 split. Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley produced it, and the lads have plainly grown up: the two-tone ska bounce is still in there, but Suggs, Lee Thompson's saxophone, Mark Bedford's bass and Daniel Woodgate's drums are pushing toward a richer, more wistful kind of pop.
It went to No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart, put two singles in the Top 20 and reached 109 on the Billboard 200, their best showing for a studio album in America. Rolling Stone gave it four stars out of five for the way the sound was shifting, and NME placed it 13th among its albums of 1984.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Keep Moving on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep Moving | 2 | #269 | – | 1989–1991 | |
| 2 | Turning Blue | 1 | #1752 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.