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

Bruce Gaitsch, sun warming his sky

http://autumnrecords.com/files/uploads/2008/12/bruce-gaitsch-300x236.jpg

express yourself, btw

that express yourself dude pretty much completed my puberty on the spot

funny how a "women in Madonna videos" discussion wouldn't have nearly the same level of traction

balearic rework of "la isla bonita"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSt0yRw00mM

...got screencaps...uploading

does anyone know which guy i'm talking about?! the longhaired guitar player she sees out the window?

Richard Marx?

<3 <3 <3 you random guitar man
he made madonna cry a tear while she watched him out the window, and then she magically turned into a flamenco dancer

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8106/8495389387_2eb980ec1a_m.jpg

i don't think i've ever seen this video. also is it an island off the coast of Spain or a Caribbean island, for god's sake?

it was not my intention to ruin this thread when i started posting. i'm sorry.

it's hard to tell
it's LA ISLA BONITA where hot men play guitar outside your window
it's where a girl loves a boy and a boy

loves

a girl

i just wanted the opportunity to express my long-silent feelings about this random man
done now

sorry: brief interruption: Express Yourself dude is apparently Cameron Alborzian - yoga instructor, I can't even imagine

http://www.persianmirror.com/Images/Articles/1468/CameronAlborzian.jpg

horseshoe! you need to vote!

also yes early madonna eyebrows ruled

i lied -- one more

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The second half of Bedtime Stories is as strong as I remember, love "Sanctuary". She was actually so good at slow jams at this point! (this reminds me that "Where Life Begins" is probably the most underrated song on Erotica perhaps due to its subject matter)

Another one of my mythical Madonna-albums-that-never-were imaginings is if she made an entire album with Nellee Hooper in 1996 (with Massive Attack guesting?), all moody slow jams and alternately pretty and throaty vocals.

"La Isla Bonita" is like (the superior) "Who's That Girl?" at the wrong speed. And the latter has a much, much better bridge.

That mysterious Ndegeocello bass poke is perfect.

"Who's That Girl" and "This Used To Be My Playground" are two #1s she's wiped from her repertoire.

can't have a discussion about hottt boys in madonna videos without mentioning tony ward in "justify my love" like omg

don't forget danny aiello. ooh baby...

Hot guy:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/Like_a_surgeon.jpg/220px-Like_a_surgeon.jpg

"This Used To Be My Playground" was included on the 'Something to Remember' comp of ballads she put out in 1996.

A poll of that comp would be interesting i think.

A poll of that comp would be interesting i think.

Yeah, the order of songs that come in after Live to Tell, that is.

Ha I was thinking the same thing...

speaking of forgetting existence, I haven't heard "One More Chance" since the mid nineties.

1. Live to Tell
2. Crazy for You
3 ... is Secret a ballad?

I remember when "Secret" came out with its black and white video clip and replaced Kylie's "Confide In Me" at the top of the charts here and I was like "woah the ladies of pop are taking it ~deep~..."

― Tim F, Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm reasonably sure like 50% of any video channel's playlist in 1994 was black & white

lots of sepia too.

I wasn't taken with the black and white ness of the clip specifically, so much as just the general deep vibe of the song which the clip obviously sought to enhance.

in honor of this thread i'm gonna play the entire "bedtime story" vinyl 12 inch that i just dug out of a box. its over 40 minutes long and does not include the album version.

yeah. it was a Very Serious time, though, and b&w was one of the most popular signifiers of Seriousness. xp

Another one of my mythical Madonna-albums-that-never-were imaginings is if she made an entire album with Nellee Hooper in 1996 (with Massive Attack guesting?), all moody slow jams and alternately pretty and throaty vocals.

― Tim F, Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:38 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

This Used To Be My Playground" was included on the 'Something to Remember' comp of ballads she put out in 1996.

A poll of that comp would be interesting i think.

― Tim F, Thursday, 21 February 2013 22:48 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya the 'i want you' cover is rly good

Crazy For You sounds like prom-eternal

in a good way

I never went to a prom so to speak so I'm allowed to think of prom as a good thing

classic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5EuYkBOJI

now playing:

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Crazy For You sounds like prom-eternal

in a good way

Yep! That's what I wrote about in the piece I linked above.

in a bad way for me, that is

AND IF YOU DON'T VOTE, YOU'RE GONNA GET A SPANKING

clearly I should read your piece (shame)

AND IF YOU DO VOTE, YOU'RE GONNA GET A SPANKING

i'm sure i've told ilx the story of how "secret" almost got me suspended from school before

'crazy for you' is ultra classic, veg otm

Feeling a bit shamed into voting, will vote ...

come on josh! do you believe in polls? cause i got something to say about it!

Don't vote for second best, baby, put your poll to the test.

he's so tired of boring polls and losing at this game before

Because I'm craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy for pollllllllllllllllllls

Beautiful faces no cares in this world
Where a girl loves a boy and a boy

loves

a POLL

Wanting
Needing
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