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

Submitted!

I send out a confirmation reply when I add a ballot into the spreadsheet. I'm taking my time with that, but definitely if you haven't heard something back from me by Sunday morning, you should check up.

sorry about no points i didn't realise!

submitted. amazed at some of the tracks i left off.

I'm amazed by the tracks I put in

yes yes alfred you're wonderful we know :P

you're just jealous cuz you can't be me!

on the topic of producers doing their best work with Madonna: the exception is Patrick Leonard, no? Last year he assembled the Leonard Cohen record and did a damn fine job.

that leonard cohen record was great (best since the future imo) but his best work is still w/ madonna

i'm sure i'm forgetting something but fave non-madonna production by a madonna producer i can think of off the top of my head is jellybean doing whitney's 'love will save the day'.

and even there (w/ that definitely in my top 5 whitney, in the running for #1) i'm still taking the madonna productions w/o question.

well, there's also Stephen Bray and Dan Gilroy's "Right on Track" for The Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club - "Right On Track"

^^^^^ THIS WINS EVERYTHING

I almost voted for Dan Gilroy in the boyfriends poll *solely* because of Right On Track.

I should have. I'm a jerk.

I liked "Show Me The Place" better than anything else on tht Cohen record, but still < Leonard's work with Madonna.

Submitted. I have talked abt Madonna so much on this board; I better get a damn pull quote or two.

true story, Patrick Leonard had been wanting to work with Cohen much earlier but LC rejected the demo of "Who's That Girl"

there's a mix of Cohen singing "Frozen" someplace.

I suppose voting is closed now, but if you squeak a ballot in between now and the time I wake up tomorrow, I'll count it.

We're currently at 57 (wow!).

damn, nice turnout.

never woulda guessed this poll would match the Pavement poll's turnout

This has been a pretty busy thread by voting/hype thread standards too. Over 1500 posts.

yeah felt like a really rare confluence of an artist that EVERYBODY has an opinion about but hasn't really been discussed to death on ilm in the past

I'm glad I ended up getting to do this one. I was originally going to do her (lol!) at #8, but switched to Guided By Voices. Then there was some kind of kerfuffle between parties who will go unmentioned, a rogue poll, an abandonment, and a re-opening. The drama befits a Madonna poll, imo.

lol

i will say that at the time all i really knew was some cabal had decided polls had to be authorized (ag has gotten past this thru sheer maniacal will, emphasis on maniacal) and that the first authorized one was the beatles so my first reaction was disgust on two levels ie. fuck the beatles - MADONNA! that i ended up trolling a certain party was "regrettable". have to admit top down administration of poll rollouts has worked out fairly well, sometimes think maybe two polls could be going at once, more often don't really have time to engage w/ one poll (eg i'm gonna have to skip miles poll despite him probably being the musician i've listened to most in my life cuz daunting catalogue and irl business).

Regrettable is the best parody Madonna album title possible.

Also, Madonna covering Vic Chesnutt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i852nyVxTtU

Can't decided if I'm more excited for the results, or to see the individual ballots.

*decide

I kind of wish there were a "5 Least Favorite" sub-poll. Guessing "Where Life Begins" and maybe "Express Yourself" would make both.

yeah definitely was making a 'least favorite' list in my head while putting together my ballot

there are some really canonical revered Madonna songs that i just loathe

did JF get my ballot? I didnt get a confirmation

Least faves: American Life, Mother and Father, Love Don't Live Here Anymore, 4 Minutes, Spanish Lessons and, yeah, In This Life.

People don't like Express Yourself?

pre-emptive go fuck yrself on that front btw

yeah re: that vic chesnutt cover (and i have to for an athens boy it was very surreal to be sitting in a dentist's chair in italy and suddenly hear madonna singing vic chesnutt coming over the radio), here's the original (sorta, madonna heavily reworked it) of 'don't tell me':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uaoDLcqo9I

go fuck yourself, hey hey hey hey

xpost lol

'express yrself' is a huge one that hasn't really gotten much discussion in this thread, wouldn't be surprised if it placed kinda low for such a big part of her iconography (hopefully not gaming results at this point saying that). love love love the vid (sideboob was pretty novel and interesting to me in 1989), as singles go it's one of a few ('like a prayer' falls here too) that don't really hit me anymore. if i thought about it it would probably be different (i'd probably have to cede 'like a prayer' best status) but in my heart right now i probably rank like a prayer singles: cherish>oh father>keep it together>>like a prayer>express yrself (w/ dear jessie after keep it together i guess but even knowing that was a single in the uk or whatever it seems such an album cut, pure set up for oh father).

it was pretty high up on my ballot, if i had to pick anything to be THE madonna song that goes in a time capsule or something, it'd be the shep pettibone video mix of that song

I really regret not voting for "Sidewalk Talk", but I'm hoping some of you did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrr9mJ2AVwY

D.A.M. I've counted your ballot and sent a reply. Odd if you still haven't received it.

I'm still adding ballots, so if you don't have a reply yet, don't sweat it. If you don't have one by Sunday, definitely let me know.

SPOILER ALERT: this was my #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv4nCDbdBV8

I really like Express Yourself, its a little baffling that it's only got lukewarm accolades so far itt

express yourself is great! I guess it's overplayed and maybe that's the yawn factor...but idk, it's actually a great song to dance to and even when I think, 'uh maybe I'm kinda over that song' as soon as Madge says C'MON GIRLS and I'm like YES MADONNA? OH HEY THAT'S ME! SURE LET'S GO!

Maybe I'm the only "Express Yourself" contrarian!

Kinda ridic how much better the Shep Pettibone version of "Express Yourself" was, made the album version sound so little and limp by comparison.

How futuristic that percolating synth and the machine gun snares must have sounded. And that piano vamp in the second half!

Yeah Pettibone's version is killer

Word! I don't much care for the album version and was surprised to see some animosity early on in this thread regarding Shep's remix.

I can't stand Express Yourself. She sounds so full of herself.

If I was full of Madonna I'd sure as hell sound it.