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

"Did You Do It" seems the obv choice for the most dispensable song on Erotica.

"Borderline" is a great, great song that only suffers because of its proximity to a bunch of greater songs

^^^obviously wrong

The coolest thing abt this poll may be that I genuinely have no idea ow the results are gonna go.

from the v first note borderline is obviously just from another planet

I can only presume "Like a Prayer" wins, but yeah, I could just as easily see it outside the top 5.

xp: That is true of every single from her first album

yea pretty much

my boyfriend was in a cab the other night and thought a cathedral was pretty, so he says to the cabby, that's a pretty church. and the cabby goes, you think that's a pretty church? and blasts Like a Prayer thru the streets of Brooklyn

out of everything on her first album "everybody" is mad underrated - that bassline! o_O

I think the underrated song on her first album is "Physical Attraction"

I hope "Like a Prayer" doesn't win.

xp me too altho i think it's been getting more love lately, i've noticed it referenced much more. it punches you in the gut with that refrain.

I'd very much like to see something other than "Like a Prayer" finish first. For me, it's her "Losing My Religion"--didn't like it when it came out, have never changed my mind. Yet both are considered masterpieces by friends and critics whose opinions are generally in line with my own.

I like Like a Prayer, but not Losing My Religion...that's me, though. Fence straddler.

only when i'm polling can i feel this free, at night i cast my votes where no one else can see...

xxxp Physical Attraction is magic. every song on the first album (except "I Know It") deserves a vote.

clemenza otm as usual. Holiday and Into the Groove should take this

actually it's looking like "Open Your Heart" may take it, if we note enthusiasm.

live to tell is going all the way. mark my words.

if i vote it'll never have the chance to go very far :)

Not many people are voting in the sub-polls, btw. At this point, not even enough to really share any meaningful results. Consider voting in the sub-polls!

Man I like Like A Prayer but unless something MAJOR happens between now and me casting my ballot it's not gonna make my 20

this is fucking impossible. what kind of monster would create such a poll

I'd be very happy with "Open Your Heart" as #1, and "Live to Tell" as #2. Or swapped, but I'd rather an uptempo song be first.

HALLO! xp

:D

i could live with into the groove being number one. live to tell number two.

When I made the push for Open Your Heart early in the thread, I sort of thought it was one of her forgotten hits. It made me all warm inside to see how much other people love it too.

Album tracks for your consideration:

Till Death Do Us Part
Love Song
Waiting
Thief of Hearts
Words
Forbidden Love
Love Tried To Welcome Me
Sanctuary
Swim
Skin
Sky Fits Heaven
Impressive Instant
Amazing
Paradise (Not For Me)
Let It Will Be
Forbidden Love

hay imagine if True Blue was #1

feel "hung up" is going to do really well due to being most ppl's token vote for some post-90s representation

stop!

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IMAGINE IT, SCOTT.

"Hung Up" is one of her very best; the problem is it's gotta compete with 19 other very bests.

Alfred's list is missing "White Heat"

ugh even you people aren't THAT perverse.

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co-sign on that xp

i wouldn't be surprised if #1 was "Frozen." or "Deeper And Deeper." or "Vogue."

i'm finishing my deep cuts Spotify playlist soon!

given the boosterism in this thread, I expect Erotica to do very well

calling #1 as "like a prayer" or "borderline" though i'd love to be surprised

Alfred's list is also missing "Physical Attraction"

into the groovvvvvve has to be top five cuz everyone loves that one. its universally loved.

"Into the Groove" has a very good chance of winning IMO, because it's likely to be in a lot of people's top 5

there are so many defining songs that i really have no idea if they'll be in the top 10 or way outside it -- "Express Yourself," "Holiday," "Like A Virgin," etc

given the expressed "Material Girl" backlash itt, I am expecting a top 10 something like (unordered):

Into the Groove
Express Yourself
Like a Virgin
Holiday
Borderline
Frozen
Like a Prayer
Deeper and Deeper
Open Your Heart
(some other Erotica song, not sure which one)

"Lucky Star" and/or "Hung Up" have a shot as well

Do we have to submit 5 albums in our ballots for the subpoll? I obv have a very specific pony in that derby and don't want to dilute my vote.

any song included on Immaculate Collection is not a "forgotten hit". Dress You Up and Angel on the other hand...

I hope Burning Up makes the top 10

I remember "Borderline" suddenly appearing on my local "Top 10" video show in NJ that I used to rush home from school to watch. I think it was called "Hot" or something like that. Had no idea who "Madonna" was. Probably have to vote for that, just as Beatles fans often have to vote for the first Beatles song they ever heard. It's funny to recall that, at the time, the name "Madonna" sounded very strange, just as "The Beatles" must have sounded strange to a lot of people at one point.

i'm finishing my deep cuts Spotify playlist soon!

― D4y0 (some dude), Friday, February 22, 2013 10:35 AM (8 minutes ago)

Looking forward to this! I've been doing my Miles Davis homework early, and jumping from him to DJP's Madonna singles playlist was like moving from a cold spring into a hot tub.

do ppl like "like a virgin" that much? i always thought for the signature hit (if she has one) of someone of her stature it's pretty weaksauce

(i do love it tho)