Make Me Scream Suggs 1989 - Happy Halloween

This video was brought to you from Madness Central who have been hosting it on their video player this Halloween Weekend. You can download this rare track from http://www.madness-central.com/downloads/Featured.html It's a rare remnant from the frightening wilderness period of 1989-1990. When there was no Madness! Here is "Make Me Scream" from Suggs. In the last fan club comics of the 80's, there was talk of a ghostly themed album that ultimately never emerged and was never worked on. Beyond the last Madness single of the 80's "Ghost Train" and before "Haunted" made it to Suggs first solo album, betwixt "Make Me Scream" is convincing evidence of these monstrous ideas being thrown around, and also evidence that living in difficult Mad times can make you go a bit insane! Channel X was a Programme offered by alternative remit station Channel 4 in its early days that made pop videos of non-existent songs, an art experiment really. So one night a rare appearance from Suggs popped up on TV, like the ghost of Madness past, an outlet for this one hauntingly-themed song. "Make Me Scream" is a disturbing performance from the Madness frontman. A twisted disembodied Suggs spirit haunts a house and sings of the dark joys of relief from the horror genre. Suggs cites the authors of murder-based thrillers like "The Talented Mr. Ripley" as well classic and modern horror films from "Frankenstein" to George A. Romero zombiefests. It's a chilling tale perfect for this spooky time of year. It's also a bit of laughable 80's TV, too, that visually still can't quite escape nutty flamboyance and now suffers the period-piece dating of early computer graphics. Whether you think Suggs is the Lone Deranged-er here or just gurning a lot, it's an experimental first step towards the idea of Solo Suggs that would come five years later. Enjoy, but try not to have any nightmare, nightmares. Happy Halloween from Madness Central, with huge thanks to Darren Balsdon's haunted loft.

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• Suggs
• Halloween
• Scream

[madstock2000]

i too have this on vhs, was on channel 4, was one a night on for a week, some kind of "showing art" thing? i think? suggs only did this one in that series, again saves me having to look thrrough all me tapes, ty for posting :)

[dashassfrost]

Oh my god, I've never seen this video before! :))) Последнего Саггсового появления, как в этом клипе, вполне хватило бы, чтобы всех напугать XD sry ^^;

[floored1]

I also recall recording this and found it odd that it never appeared as an official release, and always wondered what the background to the song was... when and where recorded etc. Good to see the video again....saves me digging out the old vhs tape from the loft!

[Rumpio]

weird. i remember the song being mre uptempo. I think there's another version out there.. darn it.

[Rumpio]

I found this on a VHS i'd recorded once. Had no idea where it came from, but I am *DELIGHTED* to see it here. Thank you SO much :)