I'm burning up, burning up for your VOTES! — ILM Artist Poll #31 is Madonna

Title track is still my least favorite thing on Bedtime Stories. It was at that point I realized the only person who can sing a Bjork song is Bjork.

"Love Tried To Welcome Me" is so downy-soft.

I also really hate material girl

holy shit how did I forget about "Love Don't Live Here Anymore"

dan i really urge you to hear "inside of me" (lush, murmuring seduction - this if anything is M's "that's the way love goes"), "love tried to welcome me" (lush, murmuring bleakness and cursed solitude) and "sanctuary" (tactile, drifting trip-hop with PAN PIPES) off bedtime stories

Lol at the guy in the velvet to hat in the video for that's the way love goes. Such a pick up artist

"Inside of Me" falls so nicely in line with George Michael's laidback post-jack stuff from the same era.

what do we think of "You'll See"? Talk about a forgotten hit, but notable for the debut of the Opera Snob voice. Worth noting that co-producer David Foster hadn't sounded this restrained in years, so let's give Madge the credit.

Is "Love Tried To Welcome Me" based on George Herbert's "Love Bade Me Welcome" and does it incorporate any bits of Vaughn Williams' setting of it in "Five Mystical Songs"? That's what keeps leaping to mind whenever I see that song title.

i thought "you'll see" was really boring at the time but i kind of love it now

don't forget Carson McCullers.

I can't not laugh anytime I see Tisha in a janet. video.

I'm glad some people are finally thinking outside of the received notion about American Life. To me it sounds like she was doing what she wanted and not caring about commercial succes, just doing it for the music. She wasn't following the current trends at radio at all.
But people wanted hits and called it shit. It may not have worked perfectly as a whole, but a lot of it is pretty good or interesting. You have to give it to her for being so "experimental". I can't think of another singer of her stature that would ever try that.

pump it boo!

Yeah, Hard Candy really put American Life in a new light.

Now let's see...which single should bump "Hung Up" out of my top ten?

just reposting my Spotify playlist of singles for those who missed it upthread:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/4b5pRHtluXpNzZWeQgxNbr

I really want to put Love Don't Live Here on my ballot but holy shit this is getting harder and harder to narrow to 20. Worst game of lifeboat ever

I'm beginning to collect images for the countdown, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Madonna is one of the most photographed human beings on the planet today.

I currently have a list of 41 songs I'm trying to narrow down to 20

this sucks

also man, what the hell was everyone thinking re: "Beautiful Stranger"

there's a good song lurking in there somewhere though

I never cared for Beautiful Stranger.

oh dear god, I'd forgotten exactly how pathetic "American Pie" is

I would really like to sit both Madonna and William Orbit down in front of an automatic slapping machine for doing this cover

hahaha

Down to 29. Five from Erotica still in the mix, and I'm pretty proud of myself for managing to whittle it down to that.

I currently have a list of 41 songs I'm trying to narrow down to 20
this sucks

Same here, give or take. I'm tempted to select by 'most overlooked' and/or 'was on a movie soundtrack album'.

I will report anyone who doesn't mention "Angel" to the IRS.

oh shit, I always forget that the original album version of "What It Feels Like For A Girl" is devastating

goddammit the Just Dance remixes complicate EVERYTHING for me now. I blame you for this Alfred. *cries*

:)

I thought remixes were explicitly a separate side poll?

They are.

"human nature" is the best song in the world for basically all of its harmonies which are perfectly chilled

xpost. Ooops! Duh. Well then that uncomplicates things. thank god other people ITT can read :/

in yr face, Alfred :)

oh my god i just realized "sanctuary" samples the beer bottle from the head hunters version of "watermelon man" oh man i probably gotta put this on my ballot on principle

second side of bedtime stories is all time

holy shit i forgot that "you'll see" ever existed but i think i had the chorus in my head for the majority of third grade

The longer this thread gets, the harder it becomes for me to make a decision. Please start a new thread that begins with the supposition that choosing 20 songs will be easy, thanks.

If this were easy, it wouldn't be any fun.

Fun shmun. I'm tempted to just sit this one out and watch what happens.

I still can't believe the song with Lil Wayne on it isn't Madonna's most embarrassing single

It doesn't matter what the rest of your catalogue contains; if there's a cover of "American Pie" in there, it's the worst thing you've ever done.

i love "cherish" so much, i am a puppy

xpost OTM

lol

"Give Me All Your Luvin" is definitely giving "American Pie" a run for its money tho

The day the music died, iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXTVZf0sZQ

Dear fans,

Aren't you glad I didn't release this as a single?

Love,

Madonna

i always kinda wished that she had worked with better people. genius people. i mean i love the stuff that i love so it all worked out and everything but her desire to be top dog might have stopped her from working with people who would have pushed her harder or made her try things in a different way? i'm not a huge fan of anyone she has collaborated with really. not even shep or jellybean. and i never liked the like a virgin album much even though i like nile. i like 70's nile. i had never listened to anything william orbit had done prior to ray of light and i didn't listen to anything he did after it. same with mirwais. i'd never even heard of mirwais until madonna. and then i never heard about him again. i liked bedtime stories okay. i think the babyface thing worked for her. would have killed for a timbaland album though. and it could have sounded even better. that album. i dunno, feel like the latter-day stuff SHOULD be state of the art and cyber-madonna cuz lord knows she's got the money to do it, but it rarely sounds like a million bucks.

what does madonna even listen to? what's on her ipod? she definitely was the proud owner of one of the most baffling record labels in history. her albums should sound at least as good as janet jackson albums. but i don't think they do.

(speaking of which, ever hear any 12 inches on jellybean's dance label? yeah, there's a reason for that. what did nile do after like a virgin? what did anyone do after working with madonna? the plot thickens...)

what did nile do after like a virgin?

Released his own albums. Also, formed a "supergroup" called Outloud, which was unforgivably terrible.