important question: can we do a madonna boyfriends poll while this is happening
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
xxpos JF otm - League of Their Own makes me love playground soooooo much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
man it sucks thinking back to how true blue was like the big family car tape of my youth and it was actually all about sean penn
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
God, my ballot is going to be so fucking challopy.
If it's going to have a chunk of songs from 'Confessions...' on it, then we'll be of like mind.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
Also, for your consideration (look there's a fucking ORBITAL remix!!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0R8MYGREmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si3GJdpe_ro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_sMHc3Tsx4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h44AGRkobIU
― ICANN Tina Turner (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
I'm adding another sub-poll for Top 5 Videos. This one wins IT ALL for me (also love the Above & Beyond remix used in the video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYwgG2oyUbA
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
yes, I love that video to death
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm strictly a non-voting Immaculate Collection guy, but my #1 would be the time I had to step around her and Sean Penn making out in the aisle of the Metropolitan Opera after Robin Williams' 1986 stand-up show there.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
Also love (and will vote for) "This Used to Be My Playground."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's the only video I ever bought on a dvd single.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
I was listening to Immaculate Collection on my way in to work bcz it's the only Madge I had on my ipod -- they cut off all the songs at least 10-15 seconds early!! All my favorite hummy parts off the early singles are gooooooooone. Jerks.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, the Immaculate Collection mixes are garbage.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Plus the remixes of the LAP songs = ehhh
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
I was already voting for at least 2 tracks off Erotica but Tim F and Eric otm --- relistening to it this morning goddamn it's a gorgeous album
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
love the lyrics of "Bad Girl" and she straining at the limits of her pre-opera-snob voice.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
"Bad Girl" = her greatest video and ballad
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Bad Girl is awesome.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
oh man if we're gonna talk about best videos maybe there should have been a video sub-poll
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm adding another sub-poll for Top 5 Videos.
Already did.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh you should get that added to the top of the thread, i missed it
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Who here is a mod? Can I get a mod to add that to the op, plz?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
try asking on MRF, you will probably get a faster answer
signed, an ex-mod who would have been all over that request back in the day
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
done.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
i only got into madonna about three years ago. i think its because of how much i hate contemporary madonna. not just the music although the last time she released a single i could stand was maybe don't tell me. a big thing that stopped me hearing the back catalogue properly was my projections of her current gay icon golden statue media presence, that is there is something beyond iconic about her, she's kindof hardened into a set of signifiers. its really boring to me. this is her curse and her blessing i think, the thing that makes her textually convoluted and judith butler and paris is burning and all that but on the other hand makes her kindof static and monolithic and so overcoded. its the very earliest stuff i like most, Borderline, the shiny scruffiness of it. arriving in new york with $35 in her pocket. something so sly and canny about it. a whiff of the street, the warm air out of subway stations. i think of her first album as being such a great new york album in tradition of like vu&nico or parallel lines. i just love this ballsy girl in these songs. and its a shame that her media persona has congealed around her. ray of light is her only good album after the first three i think, though obviously there's highlights out of most things along the way. remembering that thing she used to do, a hint of the underground. the blissed out bubbling of a rave on another beach down the coast, parts of it almost wild but so soft and distant and so clear and liquid. i also like her singing on that album, how she was suddenly a grown up. Also don't vote for vogue because of cultural imperialism guys.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
i have to vote for "Vogue." it's an amazing song. kind of feel like ~principles~ have no place in a Madonna poll. my top video picks are going to be largely dictated by male gaze.
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
must resist terrible pun
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Don't like "Vogue," never have, for some reason.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
great post, plax
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah vogue also kindof sucks and the video is gross
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
VG OTM, that was a great plax post
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, just cued up "Oh Father" for the first time in far too long. Those strings still give me the goosebumps.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
it has been far too long since I've listened to the singles from her first album
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
my best friend met her in the Danceteria days when she was dating Basquiat.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
also I want to make sure no one forgets about "White Heat" from True Blue
http://youtu.be/w-MtJ9Pgslk
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
lovely post, plax
For me her boringness now isn't how she's a set of hardened signifiers so much as an artist who's lost considerable songwriting talent AND, to be expected, isn't as interested in keeping her ear on the ground listening for distant rumblings.
Still, I don't have a problem admitting that she's responsible for the greatest collective body of singles since Washington became president.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
White Heat is fantastic. Last night, I developed a new affection for Where's The Party? as well.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
Here's another forgotten one: "Keep It Together." I love both the singles remix and the guitar-bass-drums album version.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
the shimmering glissando that opens "Lucky Star" is one of the most important moments in pop music in my lifetime
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
so so so so so stoked for this!
― you know that your shoes are broken (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
(that's actually not quite true, but Lucky Star is a shoe in for top 3, this whole thread is OTM X 10000)
― you know that your shoes are broken (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
oooh I almost forgot to rep for my favorite Like a Virgin album track
it's a great combo of slow-dreamy but groovy enough to dance do, it's just so hooky and dreamy and lovelyher voice sounds so young and BIG here. it makes me v nostalgic and happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbgHnzMltI
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty unschooled in Madonna, but I'm tempted to vote just because "Borderline" deserves all the #1 votes it can get.
― I Don't Wanna Be Dissed (By Anyone But You) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
xpost **dance to
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
from what I remember of Like A Virgin the album, I loved all of the singles and detested all of the non-singles
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
"White Heat" is great, was probably the next deep cut i was gonna post. instead, the only Madonna song from the Who's That Girl soundtrack that wasn't a single, "Can't Stop," which is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXb4aQnnG-c
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
True story: I've never seen any of the Madonna movies from the 80s.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
I really, really dig Ray of Light album tracks as well, particularly "Skin":
http://youtu.be/mtOCIHLLqz4
also I've always liked "Angel" and "Dress You Up" more than "Material Girl" and "Like A Virgin"
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
has there ever been another artist who parcelled out so many of their biggest hits to album soundtracks? xp
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Fever!!!
you gotta see Desperately Seeking Susan at LEAST.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
If you've never seen her monologue from SNL in 1985, you aren't alone. It's especially hard to find now. Just tracked it down on a sub-youtube video site: http://facedl.com/fvideo.php?f=aowokxoikwnnoqw&madonna-snl-monologue-1985
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago) link