Madhouse - 16 (1987)

Madhouse's second and final album appeared in the same year as their debut. This one sports a gangster motif: buxom cover model Maneca Lightner returns, this time toting a Tommy Gun, and the music contains occasional samples from The Godfather. According to an interview with Eric Leeds on The Last Miles, the players on this album are actually Eric Leeds on saxophone, Levi Seacer, Jr. on bass, Sheila E. on drums and, of course, Prince. The actual touring band is credited on the CD liner notes: Prince and Sheila E. are substituted with Matt "Doctor" Fink on keyboards and John Lewis on drums.

The subtitle under the album title is "New Directions in Garage Music," which I suppose gives us either Prince's perception or intention. Shortly afterward, Prince merged Madhouse into his New Power Generation. It's possible to get a sense of where Madhouse might have headed by listening to the Eric Leeds solo albums that followed. Eric Leeds' solo debut Times Squared, in particular, is based mostly on unrealized Madhouse material.

Check out the combo music video for "Ten" and "Thirteen":



As with my post of 8, I've included all of Madhouse's 12" single mixes and b-sides as bonus tracks. I've pulled these from a bootleg CD release called Rehearsals & Mixes. These extra tracks were mastered louder, so I used MP3Gain to manually correct the levels to match the rest of the album. Madhouse's numbered songs are normally spelled out, but for some of the additional tracks, numerals were used. The titles may seem inconsistent, but they are exactly how they appeared on the label of each release. As a final bonus, I've included as the final track the band's last official release, "17." This appeared on the compilation 1-800 NEW FUNK, released by the newly-formed (and, like Paisley Park, also Warner Bros. distributed) NPG Records in 1994. As I don't own this disc, I grabbed a nice LAME encoded 192kbps MP3 version using eMule. Although released in 1994, it's unclear what year this track was actually recorded.

Madhouse - 16 (1987)
1. Nine (2:06)
2. Ten (5:04)
3. Eleven (6:13)
4. Twelve (5:12)
5. Thirteen (4:45)
6. Fourteen (5:12)
7. Fifteen (3:48)
8. Sixteen (4:14)
From 10 12" (1987):
9. 10 (The Perfect Mix) (7:12)
10. Ten and 1/2 (3:18)
From 13 12" (1987):
11. 13 (The Paisley Park Mix) (7:49)
12. 13 and 1/4 (5:45)
From 1-800 NEW FUNK Compilation CD (1994):
13. 17 (5:24)

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