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

"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

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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
Voting

"crazy for you" is amazing, "la isla bonita" is fun bullshit, "material girl" is almost total bullshit

(this reminds me that "Where Life Begins" is probably the most underrated song on Erotica perhaps due to its subject matter)

"where life begins" is awesome but i didn't vote for it

oh wait i forgot to say "cherish" is sooooo great and i voted for it so sorry djp

i really like "Material Girl," and i think my affection for it over the years has been stoked by Madonna's disdain for it

when i say "almost total bullshit" i definitely mean i still like it

some dudes romance, some dudes slow dance, that's alright with me

so what's the worst song on Erotica? I suppose it's "Why's It So Hard" but I love that house sound.

ya the 'i want you' cover is rly good

― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:57 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep, a whole album that sounded like the space between this and "Bedtime Story" (and just generally exploiting that brief window of post-Post International Language of Megatron vibes) would have been great.

Yeah "Why's It So Hard" and "In This Life" would be the first to go for me but I still love them (spoken word bit in "In This Life" excepted).

Obviously no-one would notice "Did You Do It" (or whatever it's called precisely) being culled. I had an Erotica cassette in the mid 90s and it wasn't even on there.

Yep. Why's it So Hard, for me.

Lucky Star (new mix)
Borderline (new mix)
Into the Groove (8:31)
Material Girl (extended)
Dress You Up (12“)

Obviously no-one would notice "Did You Do It" (or whatever it's called precisely) being culled. I had an Erotica cassette in the mid 90s and it wasn't even on there.

it was the clean cassette!

yep, a whole album that sounded like the space between this and "Bedtime Story" (and just generally exploiting that brief window of post-Post International Language of Megatron vibes) would have been great.

Madge would reply: "That's what I did on Ray of Light."

"Where Life Begins" is too ridiculous imo, more puns about eating pussy than in Lil Wayne's entire discography

and yet it's not a dining room conversation, idgi

the closing one-two of "in this life" and "secret garden" is unfuckwithable

i know yall queered it upthread but fwiw 'waiting' is brutally otm enough for me to actually often skip it [submits post, avoids mirror]

the uncanny thing that amazes me every single time is how on earth is 'deeper and deeper' only 5:33 long, i listen and i swear to god it's an epic journey at least three times that

"in this life" is so amazing and devastating, don't think she's ever sounded so numb and angry

More songwriting insight:

According to Pettibone in his article "Erotica Diaries", he said that he produced a tape for Madonna listen to, and went to Chicago, where she was filming A League Of Their Own. She listened to the songs, and liked all of them.[5] After the filming was complete, Madonna met with Pettibone in New York to begin recording the album, on November 13, 1991.[5] Pettibone said, "'Deeper and Deeper', 'Erotica', 'Rain' and 'Thief of Hearts' made up the first batch of songs we worked on together. I did the music and she wrote the words. Sometimes I'd give her some ideas lyrically and she'd go: 'Oh, that's good,' or "That sucks.' I remember when I gave her some ideas lyrically for 'Vogue' and she said, very curtly, 'That's what I do.'"[5] "Deeper and Deeper" was not working for Madonna. Pettibone commented, "We tried different bridges and changes, but nothing worked. In the end, Madonna wanted the middle of the song to have a flamenco guitar strumming big-time."[5