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

Where are those Hyde Park noise guys when you need them?

i got myself a little burned out on Madonna by the time i submitted my ballot, so i'm appreciating the break, will be good and stoked for the Madonnaness later in the week.

JF, what's the cutoff on songs going to be -- 50?

I've just never hated Bruce Springsteen so much.

― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, March 5, 2013 9:54 AM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it paced to reflect the live version of The River or something?

POLLsalita (Roll Out Tonight)

JF, what's the cutoff on songs going to be -- 50?

Yeah, top 50. I'm doing the subpolls at the end instead of the beginning.

Are we just waiting until next week, basically?

must we rejoice at the thought of Elton John doing "Live To Tell"

...with surprise bridge by Eminem.

Yeah, top 50. I'm doing the subpolls at the end instead of the beginning.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aw man, i love having the subpolls as an appetizer, don't know how they'd go down as dessert. but hey it's your deal.

use them as a palate-cleanser at #35, #25 and #10

Well, I could do them at the beginning, but that might cause a slight delay because I haven't even tabulated them yet.

you just missed a golden opportunity to troll the thread

"and the number one Madonna video is... 'Dear Jessie'"

Swept Away, obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGYmN-1UQzI

I kind of want to redo my video ballot now

I know I've seen that before, because I remember Tinkerbell Madonna, but...wow.

I prefer Betty Boop Madonna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQeLJUK0Uk

Maybe this will soothe the Springsteen angst: http://www.eonline.com/news/391138/madonna-just-tops-bruce-springsteen-as-music-s-biggest-moneymaker

Also, I'm sort of surprised GIS gives me no pictures of Bruce and Madonna together.

I didn't vote as I only own madonna albums up until like a prayer and probably would only have voted for the singles anyway and that probably wasn't what was wanted but I am looking forward to the results.

how in the world can you look at a Madonna poll and think no one wants to see any singles in the countdown

I didn't mean that. I just know that people like deep cuts and bsides and they would get pushed out by singles. and lets be honest most of my ballot woulda been 80s songs.

And I failed Tim F's test

i think i voted one non single

she has a big catalogue and i think a lot of her singles are surprisingly subtle, like drowned world feels like a deep cut that is actually a big single

otm

Kicking this off tomorrow, btw.

and "Drowned World" was a single in the UK iirc

a top 10 single and all

but yeah as has been discussed you could probably fill out an entire ballot of "madonna songs that feel like deep cuts but were actually singles" and it'd be a good ballot too

wow i just checked and "burning up" really didn't chart anywhere except the us dance charts and in australia?????

yeah, everyone slept on that song

she doesn't really have many b-sides does she? only "supernatural" and "has to be" spring to mind from memory

crazy how "vogue" was initially a b-side for "keep it together" though before her label spotted its potential.

"Keep It Together" = classic "deep single."

well its too late now but I shall enjoy the results anyway! At least its coming before the 70s poll results so I can have time to keep up with reading madonna results thread.

xp oh yeah definitely, i'd take it over anything on LAP bar the title track. at least she attempted to immortalize it by making it blond ambition's closer.

I meant to say thankyou to DJP for compiling the Spotify playlist

so thank you :)

can't BELIEVE I almost left Lucky Star off my ballot
what the hell srsly

I think we need to have a sleepover and watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZlj7_ohess

"Justify My Love" has got to be the ultimate deep single; it is so sparse and minimal and so UN-POPLIKE

srsly. only madonna in 1990 could have got something like that to #1

I feel like hitting #1 and being truly omnipresent when it was released keeps "Justify My Love" from being a "deep cut single"

lolsome tru fact: JML is the only Madonna song my dad likes

if you watched MTV often in 1990/1991 there was nothing secret about Justify My Love. i was 10 and kids were talking about it at school.

"this used to be my playground" feels like a deep cut single even though it went top 10 worldwide a/c to wikipedia

i can't even imagine playing my parents "justify my love"

omg DJP, lol

I want to walk in on Mom giving Dad a good spanky.

you really don't

I did eat KFC extra crispy with my parents once, and it was finger lickin' good.

I actually watched Truth or Dare with my mother. THAT was awkward.

xpost I hope you were all wearing your raincoats.

the only music I ever self-censored around my parents was Eazy-E's album, mostly because I really really really wanted them to like what I listened to so I could control the music on our yearly car rides between MN and OH

My dad really got into The Cure circa Faith and most of the dance music I was listening to, especially The Prodigy and 808 State; my mom liked Soul II Soul and Massive Attack. They both loved Seal. I think my mom rolled her eyes at JML but my dad stole my CD single and played the song for about a week (I don't think I ever got around to playing Fear of a Black Planet for him).

never mind KFC after Truth or Dare I could never look at Evian bottles the same way again

nightline did a special on 'justify my love', that and snl (they watched it on waynes world predictably) were the only times shown on tv at the time i can think of, she sold it stand alone (not even a 'making of thriller' tack on to justify the purchase, just a four minute music video)(would've killed to have seen a 'making of justify my love' mind you), sold a shitload. despite having been nearly impossible to see on tv when wayne's world did their parody within a month w/ madonna everyone knew the video enough to get the jokes.

"...is that Prince?"