Madonna: Erotica POLL

Mine are:

Erotica
Madonna
Like a Prayer

i don't think it's her best either. tbh i think that's kind of an over-inflated standpoint.

FIGHTIN WORDS

Madonna is my #3, definitely.

my 2 favorites are Madonna and Like a Virgin.

I think Like A Virgin has the biggest gulf in quality between the singles and the album tracks.

i enjoy the buzz-y fluff of Shoo-Bee-Doo and Stay, and all the other trax are golden, non-smashes included (Over and Over, Angel). plus all the remixes of Angel are awes

"Angel" was a top 5 single...?

but obv, i know what u mean. i think the bubbly nothing sort of sound to some of the trax is one of my favorite things about the album, actually.

yea but it doesn't compare to Material Girl, Dress You Up, the title track or Love Don't Live Here Anymore in terms of modern-day popularity or overall recognizability, if i'm not mistaken.

Well nothing compares to "Material Girl" in terms of modern-day popularity, considering that is still what Madonna gets called.

if Madonna would somehow have swapped "Shoo-Bee-Doo", "Pretender" and " "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" for "Into The Groove", "Crazy For You" and "Gambler" then the album would have been 1000 times better at least.

i would venture to guess that a lot of ppl would be far more familiar with Like A Virgin, Dress You Up or even Love Don't Live Here Anymore more readily than they would know Angel. but maybe that's just the ppl i happen to know.

Actually, I don't know too many (straight people) who regard Erotica as anything other than one of her worst. Geir is sadly not alone.

And one of the reasons I think it's her best probably has something to do with the fact that I don't like most of her other albums much beyond the singles.

I'd guess her worst is Something To Remember, which ironically I can't remember a single song from.

i thought that was just a collection of her ballads or something?

Yep, those songs all sounded like stuff she did before.

xp :)

ha no wonder I don't remember anything from it; I was looking at the singles off of it on Wikipedia and going "wtf are these songs"

Evita is clearly her worst, if that counts.

basically what i was trying to say is that i think Like A Virgin seems like it has more fillers than it actually does. when you actually look at the tracklist, most of the songs were either huge or very solid.

hard candy is her worst by...a fair distance

heard a smooth jazz cover of "fever" at work last week.

(followed by renditions of "songbird" and "please please please let me get what I want")

heard a smooth jazz cover of "fever"

That's why I love the Erotica version so much. It's just a 100 percent aggressive desecration of the original's musicality but inverts its sexual chemistry into a whole 'nother Kinsey pinpoint. Equal and opposite type thing.

I think Like A Virgin has the biggest gulf in quality between the singles and the album tracks.

otm.

I'm not too crazy about True Blue's album tracks either. LAP has a couple of album tracks as good as its singles.

there was a good long while where "White Heat" was my favorite song on True Blue

Come on baby, MAKE MY DAY

My Top 3 Madonna are:
Like a Prayer
Ray Of Light
Like a Virgin

Honorary mentions also to "Music", "Madonna", "True Blue" and "Confessions On a Dancefloor", all of them great albums.

I'm not too crazy about True Blue's album tracks either

They aren't all good "Scooby Doo" being quite horrible even), but "Surrender" is one of my favourite tracks on that album.

No wonder the typical RYM poster is stuck in the early 90s btw. You have to be stuck there to think positive of "Erotica". It is extremely of its time. A time that is now luckily long gone and hopefully will never return. The early 90s were one of the worst ever eras for music. Absolutely horrible.

What copy of TB do YOU own?

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What copy of TB do YOU own?

Aren't they all alike? Except for the remaster (which is the one I own) sounding better and containing a couple 12 inch mixes in addition?

what are "Scooby Doo" and "Surrender"?

Hmm... Sorry. Read that as "Like a Virgin".

As for TB album tracks, I do like "Jimmy Jimmy". But the rest were a bit weaker, surely.

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why's it so hard to poll one another?

deeper and deeper really is am amazing song

Shoulda voted "Where Life Begins."

But then "Fever" wouldn't have gotten a vote.

Man, this album.

hehe i would have such a good time with the 2 of u with gin and tonics and this album

so basically the same results as last time.

WHY ISN'T BAD GIRL HIGHER THAN RAIN?

BC RAIN IS EPIC

What a fantastic scenario, surm!

RAIN IS EPIC

If you're a photographer, it may be......

I feel like "Waiting" is definitely the most underrated track on this album. The post-"Justify My Love" production suits Madonna's (then) sultriness so well (plus the drums on this are beautiful) and for what seems like an understated, part-spoken-word track it's actually overloaded with so many different hooks. The way the generic lyrics fit together is just masterly as well, like the "don't go breaking my heart like you said you would / baby you're no good / but I love you like no other lover ever could" bridge - all the internal rhyming. And when the piano chords come in! And the ticking clock!

point taken. her voice! so husky