TS: Madonna's "Like A Prayer" vs "Erotica"

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Erotica is a lot of people's favorite Maddie studio album

??? the mind boggles as to who the "a lot of people" in this statment are...i.e. like the vast majority of people in the world that don't even remember erotica at all?

The vast majority of us who have better ears and believe in freedom.

Also better butts.

wouldn't a lot of ppl's favorite be like a virgin?

(don't want to see your butt kevin, no offense)

What people? I've never heard anyone rep for it. In order of frequency of mention: Like a Prayer, The Immaculate Collection, Erotica.

http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/best-madonna-albums.asp
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10584534401&topic=7853
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2555983
http://www.rankopedia.com/ZoneID=3/2566/Best-Madonna-album/Step1/1016.htm

None, Madonna sucks (8 votes, 50%)

the 21 million ppl that bought like a virgin as opposed to 5 mil that bought erotica?

also, i looked at erotica's tracklist and can't even recognize or think of one song on it besides the title track.

"Deeper and Deeper"?

honestly doesn't ring a bell.

but according to yr polls maybe it's actually "ray of light"

"It can't be this popular! I haven't heard it!"

"deeper and deeper"? "bad girl"? those were both biggish, both great too. i could have sworn "justify my love" is on it too, but i guess not.

anyway, erotica looks to be the muso choice but no it is not the global consensus pick by any means

xps

ok so we're really gonna sit her and pretend that "deeper and deeper" and "erotic" are as well known as "like a virgin" "express yourself" "cherish" "material girl" "like a prayer" etc etc?

You seriously don't know this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc_42BbKqU4&feature=player_embedded

I actually was going to say Ray of Light but was wondering if Google would turn up enough data points to back me up; funnily enough, the other album that gets mentioned a lot is... Confessions of a Dancefloor.

(xpost, justify my love is on "it takes a nation of millions to hold us back" actually)

(xxpost) ah yeah okay i remember it now

critics /= "people," btw

I mean seriously, it's not like ppl are going "WTF you've never heard 'Rain' before?????????"

i'm not talking about rock critics, i'm talking about actual human beings!

i was about to say, what about "rain"? :-/

i bet when those songs aren't in the big karaoke catalog.

haha I should have gone with "Fever" since that was a big club hit but didn't do anything on the pop chart

LAP, too easily.

(also "Erotica" hit #3 so I'm betting a ton of ppl do actually remember it)

Can we call Erotica a critical fave (perhaps noting that Madonna signifies most as a singles artist [if even that, really]) and then get back to dancing/our better butts?

Kevin John Bozelka's butt is NOT canon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_singles_discography

wau Canada

Kevin John Bozelka's butt is NOT canon

Uh oh. Is that Hi Dere's new login name (or whatever those things are called)?

haha no, I only pick on Mondays

I don't think any of Madonna's albums are particularly well-remembered by people generally, outside of the singles - Matt do "the people" whose opinion you want to put forward here remember any tracks from Like A Virgin outside its two big hits (and "Angel" at a stretch)? Like A Virgin is possibly Madonna's least talked-about album-qua-album.

Like A Prayer probably would rate best in terms of "songs people remember" but only because, like, over half the tracks were released as singles and all had reasonably strong promo push.

But in general what "the people" remember is The Immaculate Collection.

Anyway you should go and listen to Erotica, it's fantastic. A bit sad though: a friend pointed out to me recently that "Words" has really good lyrics, and I immediately thought to myself "yeah I like it too, but isn't that supposed to be the worst song on the album lyrically?", and then I realised she was comparing it to recent Madonna lyrics.

But in general what "the people" remember is The Immaculate Collection.

i would absolutely agree w/this and it's the only madonna i will ever need

but there's nothing from erotica on it. :(

surely people remember true blue as an album, given how many of its songs were singles? and standards, at that.

always got the impression that like a prayer was the consensus ::canon:: favourite, with a smaller but significant minority of critics/fans (most of whom are pretty hardcore madonna fans) repping for erotica.

(the erotica backers are, of course, correct.)

Singles to album track ratio of True Blue: 5/0
Like a Prayer: 6/11

er, 5/9

haha i was gonna say true blue is like rift in the space time continuum!

Then Play Long writes a little letter to Madonna: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/madonna-like-prayer.html

til death do us part is my favorite madonna song at this point. It's just utterly irresistible. That dry-ass chicken clucking against the liquid guitar splashes and that melllooodyyyy, oh heavens help me.

Every time I play LAP all the way through I like it more and more as an album too. Might be my favorite Madonna album as a whole now.

SHE'S NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM ANYMORE

i listened to this album yesterday and 1. i don't think i voted for "cherish" in the madonna poll 2. i think it's my favorite madonna song now? 3. it's at least the closest she came to recording a scritti politti song. that instrumentation!

Why did we both listen to this album yesterday? ~mysteries~

'Till Death Do Us Part' is perfection, one of my Top 4 tracks on the LP along with the title track, 'Dear Jessie' and 'Oh Father' ... I've been listening to Like a Prayer a lot recently. Excellently produced, almost every song is fantastic and it has Prince on it!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT IN THE COMPUTER!?

Wait, how come Erotica has been polled twice and Like a Prayer hasn't been polled at all?

(Not counting the artist poll, of course)

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