The Sweetest Girl (Single):Madness

"The “Sweetest Girl”" is a song by British band Scritti Politti, released in 1981 as a single. The single peaked at number 64 in the UK Singles Chart. The piano is played by Robert Wyatt.

The B-side, "Lions After Slumber" takes its title and quotes, in its final lines, from the 1819 political poem The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Contents

 [hide] *1 Track listing

• • 1.1 7" and 12" vinyl (UK, US, Germany)
  • 1.2 7" vinyl (France, Japan)
• 2 Madness version
  • 2.1 Track listing
    • 2.1.1 7" vinyl
    • 2.1.2 12" vinyl
  • 2.2 Chart performance
• 3 References

Track listing

7" and 12" vinyl (UK, US, Germany)

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The “Sweetest Girl”"	4:34

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lions After Slumber"	4:58

7" vinyl (France, Japan)

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The “Sweetest Girl”"	4:37

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Confidence"	3:04

Madness version

"Sweetest Girl"
[1]
Single by Madness
from the album Mad Not Mad
B-side	"Jennie (A Portrait Of)"
Released	10 February 1986
Format	7" vinyl, 12" vinyl
Genre	Ska
Length	4:20 (single version) 5:46 (album version) 7:01 (dub mix) 6:34 (extended mix)
Label	Zarjazz
Writer(s)	Green Gartside
Producer(s)	Clive Langer Alan Winstanley
Madness singles chronology
"Uncle Sam" (1985) "Sweetest Girl" (1986) "(Waiting For) The Ghost Train" (1986)

The cover of the song by ska-pop band Madness was included on their 1985 album Mad Not Mad and released as a single the following year. The song spent 6 weeks in British charts peaking at number 35.

Track listing

7" vinyl

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweetest Girl"	Green Gartside	4:20

• Horns:- Gary Barnacle
• Backing Vocals:- Afrodiziak

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Jennie (A Portrait Of)"	Lee Thompson, Daniel Woodgate	3:24

12" vinyl

Although the "dub mix" is only a voxless version of the "extended mix", the kind of version which usually appears as mere filler on 12" vinyls, it appears alone on Side one, the "extended mix" which usually is the main version appears on Side two with the 7" Side two filler song.

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweetest Girl" (Dub Mix)	Gartside	7:01

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sweetest Girl" (Extended Mix)	Gartside	6:34
2.	"Jennie (A Portrait Of)"	Thompson, Woodgate	3:05

Chart performance

Chart (1986)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	35
Irish Singles Chart	29