Don't go for second best, baby. Put your ILM ARTIST POLL #31: MADONNA to the test.

"Don't Tell Me" too low imo

― some dude, Friday, March 8, 2013

sent my ballot in too late but this was my #1. based on totals so far it looks like the only difference that would have made would have been to place it ahead of Music at 32 so I'm afraid it wouldn't have changed much. hoping the same is true for my #2.

oh i would've been happy if "Don't" had just placed above "Music," that's the real injustice here

amazing

― prolego, Friday, March 8, 2013 1

^^ good album track

"Music" is only 32?! What the fuck, people, have you even heard this song??

This track is so BIG and MAXIMAL and EXPLOSIVE and multi-layered and fun!!

"amazing" is what "beautiful stranger" should have sounded like the first time round

"Runaway Lover" is another good'un.

"Music" is only 32?! What the fuck, people, have you even heard this song??

yup, that's how it got to #32

"Music" is the rare dumb song that succeeds as more than kitsch. It's weirdly cool despite all its not-cool stuff.

It's not heresy to suggest she might have 31 better songs, she's Madonna.

I mean I guess but idk "Music" to me is her most well-executed OTT mega dance floor banger and manages to transcend tacky kitsch

when I was little I used to think that "music made the boys run free and the rebel"

i'm sure its not rebel btw, isnt it "rabble," that makes way more sense right. i mean like "sense"

I think "Music" is fine but if I was just ranking Madonna singles, ignoring album tracks, I don't know if I'd put it much higher that #32

wtf why can't I type today

It certainly made fans of Madonna the club goddess relieved in 2000, and rode a wave of ROL good will.

tiarnan wouldn't it be such a clever and delightful use of syllepsis if it was actually "music makes the boys run free and rebel"?

It's actually "music makes the bass referee in the treble"

http://i.imgur.com/Iwm9Ibz.jpg

31. "LIKE A VIRGIN" from Like a Virgin (1984) [17 votes, 334 points, 1 first place vote]

damn her signature song outside the top 30

it's okay, she has like 14 other signature songs

!!!

Maybe "Where LIfe Begins" will be top 5 after all.

It's one of those songs that's canonical and impactful bcz of its context and "classic" but I mean come on she has made many more better songs than this.

I mean I guess but idk "Music" to me is her most well-executed OTT mega dance floor banger and manages to transcend tacky kitsch

Third most, after "Hung Up" and "Ray of Light"...

Like is this song really *that good* when you isolate it?

Okay, now I'm shocked. LAV was something shiny & new, it deserved higher than that.

It isn't. xp

xp I ranked "Ray of Light" higher than "Music" but I still think the latter is more ott/explosive/big and loud and etc

You missed a trick not starting the countdown at no.30; imagine getting to the top five and we're all trying to cram eight or nine songs in there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLDrh-5HZU

Haha, that would've been fun. xp

aw i should probably have thrown a vote to LAV, sad to see it miss the 30. the lion in the video always cracks me up.

didn't vote for it but i'm still glad to see "music"! acid rock

"Music" sadly her last American #1.

The US being just about the only country in the world where "Hung Up" didn't go #1

I didn't realize the hook from "Hung Up" was an ABBA sample until two weeks ago :-(

The drums on Like A Virgin are amazing. It's not just the production, he's hitting them so hard. It's almost comical in effect.

http://i.imgur.com/VXhO6Od.jpg

30. "TILL DEATH DO US PART" from Like a Prayer (1989) [16 votes, 337 points]

hey here's something i voted for

I'm on a train facing backwards, looking out the window, with Sorry on my headphones, and all the overhead lines, signals, passing trains and buildings were synching past like in the Chemical Brothers' Star Guitar video. They've dropped out of synch now, but that was a strangely thrilling twenty seconds.

great song, dunno if it'll be her highest album cut but it's her best imo xp

hoping and praying probs futilely that "love tried to welcome me" will still place

http://i.imgur.com/ha1ksje.jpg

29. "EVERYBODY" from Everybody 12"/Madonna (1982,83) [15 votes, 344 points]

agh all of this has been going full steam ahead while i've been offline

hurrah to many, many tracks so far - bit worried that all the erotica tracks showing up in the 30-50 section will mean less of the right at the top, where they belong...

"everybody" is amazing

It is. How come I had it at no.25? Idiot.

bit worried that all the erotica tracks showing up in the 30-50 section will mean less of the right at the top, where they belong...

It's had 5 of the last 22, better than any other album she's released. Did you want to see the whole thing place?

yes

(apart from a couple)

wow #30

In trying to figure out why I always align Everybody with Genius of Love, I decided it's like Tina Weymouth and Madonna had the exact same dream and each of them channeled it into the songs we currently know.

wow things happening! great rollout so far, is making the upcomers v interesting

DANCE AND SING GET UP AND DO YOUR THING

*dances*