Even "Why's It So Hard," Tim?
I love the beat and synth strings -- of a piece with the lyrics. It's like second-tier Deee-Lite.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 April 2009 01:18 (fourteen years ago) link
What's good about house, really? Undynamic beats, pointless and clichéd diva riffing and cheap piano rolls. I can't think of any era of pop in the last 50 years I like less.
― DiSTORTOTRON (Johnny Fever), Friday, 24 April 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
House is (was?) an era?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 24 April 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 April 2009 04:31 (fourteen years ago) link
As far as actually getting Top 40 chart love and mass appeal? Approximately 1990-92.
― DiSTORTOTRON (Johnny Fever), Friday, 24 April 2009 05:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"As far as actually getting Top 40 chart love and mass appeal? Approximately 1990-92."
NB. The US does not equal the whole world.
Also, based on "Undynamic beats, pointless and clichéd diva riffing and cheap piano rolls", I call sockpuppet.
Kevin, "Why's It So Hard" is a lesser track but its cheap piano roles and clichéd diva riffing appeal to me.
― Tim F, Friday, 24 April 2009 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
The US does not equal the whole world.
Oh, soooooooory. I guess I should've specified it was a garbage era for US pop and r&b radio. Thankfully it was brief, except the next things that came along were post-New Jack Swing harmony groups and post-Grunge urgency rock and that was no better.
Basically, 1990-95 or so in the US was a TERRIBLE time for popular mainstream music.
― DiSTORTOTRON (Johnny Fever), Friday, 24 April 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"post-New Jack Swing harmony groups"
Woah, you hate that too???
― Tim F, Friday, 24 April 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Johnny Fever OTM
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 24 April 2009 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Does rap count as popular?
― Kevin Yates, Phys. Ed. (u s steel), Friday, 24 April 2009 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Hating 1990-1992 pop radio, house and new jack across the board would seem to me a sad and miserable existence.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Friday, 24 April 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
scum of the earth
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Friday, 24 April 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, pop radio between 1990-1992 paled in comparison to the glories of Daniel Ash, The Railway Children, and Jesus Jones.
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 April 2009 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesus Jones >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> typical early 90s house-influenced dance-pop.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 24 April 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Deeper and Deeper may be one of my favorite songs of all time. It was one of the last songs where I got the sense that Madonna was having fun.
― Nicodle Otago (Nicole), Friday, 24 April 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
why you always have to be so rong-o, Hongro?
― \m/ anger on stick \m/ (Ioannis), Friday, 24 April 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Rain". But this is still perhaps her weakest album (well, apart from stuff like "I'm Breathless" and the pointless "Evita" soundtrack)
― Geir Hongro, Friday, March 27, 2009 7:16 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
The point was presumably to provide music for the movie "Evita".
― Bill Magill, Friday, 24 April 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 24 April 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel sorry for "Waiting", "Thief of Hearts" and "Secret Garden". I love all those tracks. The results make the album seem really lopsided, but I guess it really just points to the consensus surrounding "Deeper & Deeper".
― Tim F, Friday, 24 April 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get the impression that madonna's having fun on 'deeper and deeper' at all
― lex pretend, Saturday, 25 April 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
it's what makes it great!
When I first got this record, I pretty much only listened to "Deeper & Deeper" and the title track, so these results don't surprise me much. I did vote for "Fever," tho, for shitting all over a classic and being arrogantly housey and bleak.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Saturday, 25 April 2009 05:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah the version of "Fever" is surprisingly great! It's the most Erotica of all the songs on the album, which is oddly fitting.
(this would make an interesting thread: cover versions which, by dint of being a cover, somehow capture the vibe of an album better than all the original songs)
― Tim F, Saturday, 25 April 2009 08:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Where Life Begins" would've gotten my vote.
― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Monday, 8 June 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that was mine.
― Eazy, Monday, 8 June 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
KISSING SOMEONE ELSE'S LIPS
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Some days I think 'Bad Girl' is her best song - today is one of those days!
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link