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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaQ4bQmTILA

possibly delusional but always credit madonna for that final push getting the stooges into the rrhof

The disco-metal of somebody's dreams...not mine--but I like the chorus.

The Stooges-Madonna thing was a two-way gift, probably--they made her induction almost okay for those who were appalled. (Will resist the temptation to characterize such people.)

I'm right back to being 10 and playing "Burning Up" on repeat

Didn't vote because I don't Madonna enough (unfortunately) but my favorite has been Into the Groove. cue laughs*

Amazing thread, superb primer and thank you all.

does anyone even hear "burning up" as a love song to an individual rather than a mission statement to the world? it's awe-inspiring

no one with any sense is going to laugh at someone picking "Into The Groove" as their favorite Madonna song

'into the groove' was clear favorite for #1 going in and still i think

into the groove and live to tell are the #1 and #2 in this poll.

probably right

how many ballots were there altogether? 50-something?

It's the quintessential Madonna song, isn't it? Sex + dancing + Jellybean + Desperately Seeking Susan.

with Holiday out of the way I'm all about Into the Groove

"into the groove" manages not just to encapsulate madonna but the entirety of pop music

like colossal achievement right there in itself

there were 6 songs that could have ended up as my #1; I expect all of them to place (three have already) and two of them were "Live To Tell" and "Into the Groove"

Still holding out hope that LAP lands in slot #1, but its placement among the videos doesn't make me very confident.

"Lucky Star" was the only thing from S/T I voted for, FTR.

"lucky star" is way too high at this point

feel the same way about it as lex does "holiday"

totally forgot about LAP. not among my favorites.

i'm thinking "live to tell" was one of the unanimous songs among the early ballots

"Lucky Star" gets the pass from me for sounding the most like something Larry Levan would've been spinning.

I do not understand loving all of the s/t singles, tbh

even my least favorite, "Borderline", is a great great song well deserving of tons of votes

does anyone even hear "burning up" as a love song to an individual rather than a mission statement to the world? it's awe-inspiring

also tying this in with "into the groove", when she sings that at live 8 and shouts "PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, NOW I KNOW YOUR MINE!" you feel like she's singing that knowing her wish from "burning up" has come true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjpKb3rb2Qc

Open Your Heart def reads like a conquistador manifesto

http://i.imgur.com/i4wJJyD.jpg

07. "LUCKY STAR" from Madonna (1983) [32 votes, 805 points, 3 first place votes]

That's the only version I knew until now. I should pick up the S/T I guess? xp

everyone's seen this but it hasn't appeared here yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwhstP7DIU

Vogue at no.10, you swine

I shouldn't be surprised someone would only know "Burning Up" as a Ciccone Youth song but still O_O

This poll is starting to remind me of the 45y.o.-ish women I saw traveling in packs ...

Hahaha oh

TOOOO LOW!

my #5 - favorite part might be the luxuriously slow tempo, and of course the intro. And while she's obviously saying that he is her lucky star, the clear message is that HE is the lucky one for being the star that she has noticed...

Only three of her 80s singles didn't make the Top 50 and I can't even remember how two of them went. Gambler? Look of Love?

"I'm a famed high-school dropout, so don't believe anything they tell you"--thank you, Sarah Palin.

'gambler's the other song from vision quest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqTsP7gTPIw

'look of love' was only a single in europe, third single from who's that girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HGfwg5OBAs

video is literally just random clips from the movie not even attempting to match up to the song

I don't think 108 BPM is "luxuriously slow"?

Bit late for this but Holiday Rap needed to be posted upthread.

"gambler" not making the list is a fucking scandal

i guess not enough ppl know about it? i'm just assuming that can be the only reason because nothing else makes sense to me

I don't know how I'd never heard of Holiday Rap, all its contemporaries were my jams as a nipper

I only just reacquainted myself with Gambler by watching the video and it's barely a song. It's more a sketch.

a very suave, urbane nipper

It was posted in the voting thread.

not a single in the united states either

yeah I just compared to the rest of the songs on the album and it's not particularly slow at all...oops. Maybe it's the emphasis on the downbeat that makes it sounds like there's more space there and the distance between the words in the verses. "Shine..on me...wher - ever - you - are..."

John Lennon: "I came out of the fuckin' sticks to take over the world."

Dick Clark (clip above): "What are your dreams, what's left?"
Madonna: "To rule the world."

that intro of "Lucky Star" is one of my favorite things that ever happened in music

^^^^

http://i.imgur.com/sPeO6TG.jpg

06. "LIKE A PRAYER" from Like a Prayer (1989) [39 votes, 938 points, 2 first place votes]

about right