i was about to say, what about "rain"? :-/
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i bet when those songs aren't in the big karaoke catalog.
― the turdlike genius of Jeff Tweete´ (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I should have gone with "Fever" since that was a big club hit but didn't do anything on the pop chart
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
LAP, too easily.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
(also "Erotica" hit #3 so I'm betting a ton of ppl do actually remember it)
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Kevin John Bozelka's butt is NOT canon
― the turdlike genius of Jeff Tweete´ (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_singles_discography
wau Canada
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Uh oh. Is that Hi Dere's new login name (or whatever those things are called)?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
haha no, I only pick on Mondays
― I have a set of penises leftover from some bach party somewhere (HI DERE), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i would absolutely agree w/this and it's the only madonna i will ever need
― the turdlike genius of Jeff Tweete´ (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
but there's nothing from erotica on it. :(
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
(the erotica backers are, of course, correct.)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Singles to album track ratio of True Blue: 5/0Like a Prayer: 6/11
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
er, 5/9
haha i was gonna say true blue is like rift in the space time continuum!
― the turdlike genius of Jeff Tweete´ (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Then Play Long writes a little letter to Madonna: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/madonna-like-prayer.html
― agincourtgirl, Sunday, 28 June 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
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.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:41 (seven years ago) link
SHE'S NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM ANYMORE
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
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!
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Why did we both listen to this album yesterday? ~mysteries~
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
'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!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Saturday, 17 June 2017 07:50 (six years ago) link
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S NOT IN THE COMPUTER!?
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 19 June 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
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)
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 19 June 2017 19:00 (six years ago) link