After Mike Barson left, Madness recorded Mad Not Mad with session players, a thick layer of synthesizers and strings, far from the ska the band started with. The album produced the singles Yesterday's Men and Uncle Sam, plus a version of Sweetest Girl by Scritti Politti. The lyrics are bleaker than the early work, dealing with growing older, decline and a loss of direction. Commercially it fell short of its predecessors and in 1986 the band broke up. It originally appeared in 1985 on Zarjazz, the band's own sublabel.

This edition is an LP.