Baggy Trousers

This was an antithesis to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall (part II)," in which Madness rejoiced in their school days. Frontman Suggs recalled in Uncut magazine March 2008: "'Baggy Trousers' was sort of an answer to Pink Floyd, even at that age I thought the line 'teacher leave the kids, alone' was a bit strange, sinister - though I think Floyd are a great band. It sounded self-indulgent to be going on how terrible schooldays had been; there was an inverted snobbery about it too. 'You went to a posh public school? You wanna try going to my school.'"

"Baggy Trousers" featured in the 2001 film Mean Machine, which starred Vinny Jones.

This was the third of 16 Madness pop promos directed by Dave Robinson, whose day job was their record label boss. It was filmed at Islip Street School, Kentish Town. Saxophonist Lee Thompson wore in the video 64-inch baggy trousers previously worn by the portly actor Peter Ustinov. When he played his saxophone solo he is shown flying through the air by means of a wire from a crane. Guitarist Chris Foreman recalled in the same Uncut interview: "One night Lee and I had bunked into see Genesis at Drury Lane - at a point in the set there was an explosion and Peter Gabriel went flying through the air. That's why Lee went flying in the 'Baggy Trousers' video-he always vowed that when he got the chance he'd do the same thing."