I feel like "Waiting" is definitely the most underrated track on this album. The post-"Justify My Love" production suits Madonna's (then) sultriness so well (plus the drums on this are beautiful) and for what seems like an understated, part-spoken-word track it's actually overloaded with so many different hooks. The way the generic lyrics fit together is just masterly as well, like the "don't go breaking my heart like you said you would / baby you're no good / but I love you like no other lover ever could" bridge - all the internal rhyming. And when the piano chords come in! And the ticking clock!
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 May 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
point taken. her voice! so husky
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of an understatedly perfect representation of the album's sound
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Juzwiak for the defense:
http://gawker.com/5953385/madonnas-pussy-is-the-temple-of-learning-erotica-at-20
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 October 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
What sucks about it is I can't listen to the album now.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, as in you can't right this second or...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Bad Girl" 2
Wut!?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
I don't get people who love this album but don't like "Bad Girl."
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
btw: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8006663/madonna-erotica-album-sex-book-oral-history
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
It's one of her finest tracks, IMO... sonically it sounds OTM, too. Great production.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
She was really trying to push people's buttons around this time... what other established pop star of the time would have dared to adorn the back sleeve of their latest record with a picture of themselves giving someone a "toe job"? What established pop star would dare do that now, even!?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
SHEP: I guess I’m always trying to out-top myself, I told her, the next thing should be bigger than the last. Madonna just turned and looked me straight in the eye. It had been a long time since I’d been star-struck by her, but she was glowing differently now. Shep, she began, no matter how fierce something is, you can’t ever do the same thing twice. She sat down to record the final vocals on Erotica and looked out onto the terrace and into the New York City night. Ever, she repeated.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
"deeper and deeper" is prob objectively the best song on this record but i would've voted for "words," love the gallop of the rhythm track and all those whirring sounds. second place "rain" which is an excellent cocteau twins song
lotta great weird bridges on this record
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
my god "Words"
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link
the best album
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
BITCH
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
<crash>
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
Yes, best album, no discussion allowed
FeverEroticaWhere Life BeginsDeeper and DeeperBad GirlWordsSecret GardenRainThief of HeartsWaitingIn This LifeWhy's It So HardBye Bye Baby― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:20 PM (twelve years ago)
― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:20 PM (twelve years ago)
No.
Deeper and DeeperBad GirlThief of HeartsEroticaWordsFeverRainSecret GardenIn This LifeWhere Life BeginsBye Bye BabyWaitingWhy's It So Hard
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
"Words" is my top pick -- it sounds like a 4 am drug racket in my head while dancing at a modestly cool gay club in my '20s.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
I guess I like "Waiting" a lot better than y'all. Also, while I respect "In This Life" and the inclusion of such a song on a Madonna album in 1992, I usually skip it.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
I'm all about 'Bad Girl'
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:27 (two months ago) link
drunk by six!
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:36 (two months ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, May 28, 2022 10:48 AM
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 April 2024 20:13 (two months ago) link
you screw ityou fake it
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 20:16 (two months ago) link