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

I would love to hear a Prince version of "Hanky Panky."

best things to come from i'm breathless: 1) vogue

2) this performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s15GTGdUuvM

vogue recontextualisation as d&d unstoppably crests is probably one of the triumphant moments in music period

"there's nothing better that i'd like to do" is such an interesting bravura finish though - after a whole epic trapped on the dramatic coils of longing, that seems to have already reached emancipatory release and resolution, then comes that one final line hitting this strange (and strangely satisfying) queasy lighter note of, idk.... preference? but commingled with a sudden resignation almost. sorta placid yet stinging

it fascinates me that two non-gays (Bernard Sumner and Madonna) helped created two of the best realizations of the AIDS-era Dance of Death ("Perfect Kiss" and "Deeper and Deeper").

singing the vogue line at the end of deeper & deeper is amazing because like what else can there be better to do immediately after coming out than going to a club getting drunk and vogueing it up. like nothing.

3) http://www.wotyougot.com/pictures/madonna-michael-jackson-people-magazine-friendship-twenty-years-ago.jpeg

she's RAUNCH-CHAAYYY
she's made of WOOD

Oh yes - just running through Erotica now; Deeper & Deeper is absolutely epic in this proper context, one of those pieces like A Day In The Life that captures and concludes everything that's gone before, and then takes it somewhere strange & new.

Funny having it at track 4, it's such an obvious closer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-JPjmUOiRQ

i guess i should save tim the trouble of mentioning this by-the-by

Just discovered this poll and there's no way on earth I'm going to read the >1,000 posts already on here. I'm going to try to fire off a ballot in the next half hour. I don't think I've bought anything by Madonna since I was 12 (I got the Like A Virgin album and Get Into The Groove) so my ballots going to be extremely singles heavy.

Just remembered I bought La Isla Bonita too.

They're good posts.

My two or the other thousand or so?

You've taken the thread to a new level

But my mediocre posts dragged the thread back to its original level.

Heh. I'm sprinting through everything on spotify - working my way through True Blue at the moment. To be honest, it all sounds very dated at the moment and is giving me flashbacks of youth club discos.

which sounds awesome!

It's August 1990. I'm 17. I'm on holiday with my family staying in a cottage at a farm in some Welsh village somewhere in the middle of nowhere. We go to a pub one lunchtime so me and my brother can have a game of pool. There are about ten people in there, all well-known to the publican. We don't exactly blend in. After ten minutes or so of silence (broken by the clack of pool balls) my dad decides to liven things up by putting some money in the jukebox. He attempts to get down with the kids with his selections. To my horror, as I go to take a shot, I realise what he has picked. "You better like hanky panky...nothing like a good spanky...my bottom hurts just thinking about it." A world of embarrassment.

i finished my deep cuts playlist, spotify link within: http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2013/02/deep-album-cuts-vol-3-madonna.html

Great list though the choice of "Don't Stop" is weird esp. when I realized the "Forbidden Love" you'd chosen was the other one.

haha somehow i never clocked that she has completely different songs on different albums called "Forbidden Love," wtf Madonna

but yeah i kinda split the difference between conventional wisdom/this thread's emerging favorites and my own personal gut reactions

I actually like "Don't Stop" more than most but the second half of that album is deep cut central.

Love that story xps, though iirc if you're 17 your dad could lead off with Groove Is In The Heart and you'd still want to curl up and die

yeah apparently madonna forbids herself a lot of love

i can relate tbh

"Can't Stop"!!!

"The Look of Love" was the discovery. I think I'd heard it just once (never released as an American single). It's the last of the Leonardified "La Isla Bonita"-"True Blue" sound but with a poignant melody. Not a classic, but worth checking out.

haha somehow i never clocked that she has completely different songs on different albums called "Forbidden Love," wtf Madonna

i think this is literally the most annoying thing madonna has ever done

like DOES SHE NOT CONSIDER MY METADATA WHEN NAMING HER SONGS WTF

It turns out loads of artists do that! These polls are an education.

WHY would you do that? why why whyyyyyyyyyyyy

things like that make me wonder if Madonna is even a 'singles artist' to herself -- like anything that wasn't big enough to stay in her stage show past the initial album cycle, could she hum it now?

She's never seemed terribly sentimental about her own songs. I think that's too her credit, and also why despite getting pegged, sometimes, these days as a nostalgia act, her live shows really don't bear that dismissal out. Even her hits are often radically remade.

The Dylan influence. (Not kidding--my guess is she studies and knows her pop history quite well.)

yeah she has said repeatedly that "Material Girl" is "garbage."

which is ... stupid

when i first heard material girl i played it about 500 times

like, my family was upset

I'd love to see her own ballot for this

if you're 17 your dad could lead off with Groove Is In The Heart and you'd still want to curl up and die

To be honest, I'd have felt far more comfortable if he'd played that and danced on the pool table

think she hates "material girl" more because of the nickname that has followed her ever since. she said it is the one single she regrets

yeah, i was about to say

"Material Girl" is definitely on my songs ballot AND my videos ballot

iirc she said her fav single is "live to tell"

tho its probably "la isla bonita" considering the amount she sings it.

Good interview.

la isla bonita is nice and all but the amount of love it gets is weird to me

it's like she pressed the latin button on her casio and came up wit a diddy

xpost Does she ever open up like that anymore, or is she fully in gated community/live in a castle mode these days?

it's like she pressed the latin button on her casio and came up wit a diddy

closer to the mark re "Who's That Girl"

I read that like One Night Only! Maonna Live! In A Castle

would see imo

Surely she's done that?

One More Chance: Madonna Live in a Castle