"Open Your Heart" is the greatest song in the history of the universe
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
young girls with eyes like potatoes
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
HEY THAT SONG IS GREAT TOO
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
AND SO ARE POTATOES
― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
i had la isla bonita in my head & then i saw this thread revive it was kismet
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
My wife says she and her friends used to replace "THIS IS A BUST!" with "THIS IS MY BUST!"
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
Wait ... “Open Your Heart” didn’t win this poll?!
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
No, instead it is one of the greatest songs ever which won, a song which BY COINCIDENCE (really) I talked about in a podcast that went up yesterday
https://www.megaphonic.fm/mixtape/6
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
If anyone has not seen "At Close Range," you should, immediately, depressing though the movie may be. That song practically has a co-starring role.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
Lex OTM way, way, way upthread - when the intro kicks in on 'Open Your Heart' it's so fucking energising.
I can't complain about the top two - prefer the follow-up far more, though.
― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican), Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
I had a chance to write at length about "Papa Don't Preach" last summer: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/songs-of-the-summer-1986/
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
WUTCHOWT
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 February 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
I'm really enjoying Ned's discussion on this podcast, btw. I'm only up to the "Live to Tell" part, but great discussion on Madonna (and also Kermit the Frog!).
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:20 (six years ago) link
The interviewer is typical of a certain generational divide that I've noticed: as someone young enough that Madonna, for him, is Confessions on a Dance Floor, he's unable to conceive of Madonna as anything other than "a gay artist." But, like Ned, my experience of her, at least up until the Erotica era, was that pretty much everyone I knew was into her.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
"Open Your Heart" is the greatest song in the history of the universe― droit au butt (Euler), Saturday, February 17, 2018 2:11 PM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This was my conviction for the longest time, but I have failed to connect with it in recent years it's weird
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Sunday, 18 February 2018 03:31 (six years ago) link
Thanks for linking "A Different Corner" and "Live to Tell," Ned.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 February 2018 04:59 (six years ago) link
Opposite for me. I always considered it a good single, but in recent years it's become untouchable brilliance.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 18 February 2018 07:15 (six years ago) link
It's far from my favourite thing on here, but the "why oh why" hook in 'Jimmy Jimmy' is pretty neat! Also, 'Where's the Party?' is a jam.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 25 October 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
the jimmy jimmy “why oh why” hook is pure bliss. peak girl-group madonna.
everything written about “open your heart” in this thread is otm, except for the fact that it didn’t win, which is not otm.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
"Open Your Heart" man
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 October 2023 19:59 (six months ago) link
open your heart. it just makes you feel like you can do _anything_
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:22 (six months ago) link
Listen to how Madonna rewrote this damn thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbpqItgBGdo
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 October 2023 21:16 (six months ago) link
“I’ve had to work much harder than this for something I want, don’t try to resist me” is one of the all time great pop lyrics - especially in the context of a song that works pretty damn hard.
― Tim F, Thursday, 19 October 2023 21:43 (six months ago) link
in 5th grade (1986, the year of our lord madonna) i let myself get talked out of performing a dance to “open your heart” for a school concert & i regret it to this day
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 October 2023 03:44 (six months ago) link
:(
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 October 2023 11:36 (six months ago) link
this is my favorite thread revival in years.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 21 October 2023 16:09 (six months ago) link
This album is awesome, and 14 years later the poll results stand.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 October 2023 17:40 (six months ago) link
Incredible mix, one of the best extended 12"s of an 80s tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvvnGsqtZA4
― piscesx, Saturday, 21 October 2023 20:58 (six months ago) link
otm`
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:03 (six months ago) link
I have the clearest memory of listening to this on my Walkman on a trip with my fam. Jimmy Jimmy was my fave and I was Madonna that year for Halloween lol
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:16 (six months ago) link
whyoh why oh whyoh why
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:19 (six months ago) link
Oh why Oh why Oh why
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:20 (six months ago) link
it's so underrated
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:21 (six months ago) link
Personally I would have added a wig but my mom made me the lace dress by hand nd drew on my mole.
https://i.ibb.co/WDt7BWH/Screenshot-20231021-222257.pngpost a pic
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Saturday, 21 October 2023 21:24 (six months ago) link
fab u lousi remember going over to my friend’s house when I was 10 - her older cousin Mandy from the city was visiting Mandy answered the door at like noon on a Sunday in full Madonna. Like, FULL madge:arms full of silver & rubber bracelets massive earings, loads of necklaces & crosseshair scarf jacket over layered tank tops & tube skirt electric blue lycra leggings studded high heeled ankled bootsTHE. WORKSshe chewed gum & smelled like 10 cans of hairspray & i didn’t know whether to fall to thr ground or pee or both i was so in aweand for like 2 years that was basically how she dressed her name was Mandy & she is still like a god to
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:15 (six months ago) link
me
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 October 2023 22:16 (six months ago) link
I think this is a really uneven album - half of it's great, half of it not-so-good - but worth owning just for the cover, probably my favorite portrait of Madonna.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:09 (six months ago) link
I guess that's fair, tbh. But the best songs are so good the rest are almost like bonus tracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:12 (six months ago) link
True. This is why she's really a singles artist to me, which is not a bad thing to be at all, it's just how she performs best as a recording artist.
Also, another thing about the cover: I've never seen an original pressing unopened, but IIRC it was packaged in blue plastic wrap with the title adhered to it as a sticker, and when you removed it, you're left with a textless gatefold portrait. I didn't grow up with vinyl, but when your albums typically have that kind of thoughtful design, I can see the appeal from a non-audiophile perspective.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 21 October 2023 23:16 (six months ago) link
the album cover is a fabulous photo
― brimstead, Sunday, 22 October 2023 00:01 (six months ago) link
My vinyl copy bought at the time with my birthday money isn’t a gatefold, but it was perhaps different in the UK.
― Madchen, Sunday, 22 October 2023 06:03 (six months ago) link