Madhouse

For years have I been waiting for Madhouse to be reissued in CD format and there it is !!!! The vinyl first side had songs mixed all together (continuous mix) like some Gloria Gaynor or Donna Summer albums used to have. Madhouse is my personal favorite Silver Convention work. The lyrics of Madhouse and Plastic People were a prediction of what the world has become ( fake, violent, crazy). BBR also needs to put in CD Love In A Sleeper including Mission to Venus and Spend the Night With Me.

Silver Convention's third album release, and another arranged and produced by Sylvester Levay. Here it is in it's entirety, nicely remastered, along with 2 bonus tracks -- single versions of "Fancy Party" and "Dancing in the Aisles." From what I can tell, this seems to be the first time the album has been "officially" issued on CD. Classic disco! I like all the tracks, so I recommend it.

Excellent Seller and a great CD.

I'm always searching for stuff with the funk. Serious chops and space between them, so I end up looking at some disco bands naturally. This album is everything people hate about disco. It is also what everybody loved in it as well. Highly produced with airy string parts, female vocals with nothing to say but the stupidest of repetitive phrases. I mean it's terrible really but still retaining solid funk in the rhythm sections making it cool enough to add just enough of the cliche. I honestly cannot wait to hear some of their other albums. If there was more to be said for the vocals and lyrics I'd give it a 5.

Love the music..!!

I BOUGHT THE MP3 OF "SPEND THE NIGHT WITH ME" (MY FAVORITE SONG BY THE LADIES) & THE SOUND ISNT VERY GOOD,I AGREE WITH THE OTHER REVIEW ON THE SOUND QUALITY,I CAN "RE-EQUALIZE" THE PLAYBACK SOUND OF BURNED CDS I MAKE FROM THE MPS ON MY SYSTEM OTHERIWISE IT WOULDNT SOUND AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL 1977 LP "LOVE IN A SLEEPER" SOUNDED (THE LP THIS SONG WAS TAKEN FROM.)

EXELLENT

Madhouse is a brilliant disco ""concept" album composed/written by Sylvester Levay and Michael Kunze and featuring the German female trio who gave us the disco classics Fly Robin Fly and Get Up and Boogie. While those songs didn't stretch the ladies' vocal talents greatly, here the Silver Convention line up including Penny McLean get to show their range much more and if you love strings from the disco era you will love what you hear here, as they play a big part in the musical arrangements. This album doesn't seem to be available on CD but is still around on vinyl. Try to get the vinyl because the album cover is remarkable and the segueing which is an important part of the album's flow isn't disturbed.. As for the music - well it's all to a theme about the crazy mixed up world we live in so remains topical. Unusually, despite the disco styling, there's a kind of sinister tone to the music but mixed in with some lighter moments like Everybody's Talking About Love, the crooning in Land of Make Believe and the disco thumper Fancy Party (despite the manic party guests).Dancing in the Aisles is one of the best - slowly building as each element of the instrumentation gets added in - disco symphonics at its best.. This isn't just disco for the dance floor, but for the head as well (the lyrics are clever and far from the ''get down on it' typical disco chant). And, if you enjoy some good melodies, and strong souful vocals as well, then this classic album is for you. As others have mentioned the Mp3 quality could be better but if you are not too perfectionistic you won't notice the difference too much (I didn't, certainly not enough to disturb my enjoyment). And hopefully we will get a CD version at some point which corrects any weaknesses one may notice here. PS,. Breakfast in bed, Spend the night with me and Mission to Venus from the Love in a sleeper album are mysteriously included here which weren't included on the original vinyl version as the Sleeper album came later.