Madonna Singles

I have a soft spot for many Madonna tracks, but I'd definitely say that 'Like A Prayer' was my favourite of hers. It's that fucking bassline, man!

i think it sold really poorly compared to her prior records right?

ROL? It's her best-selling US album post-LAP.

It did everything she wanted, and it happened to coincide with the golden age of Soundscan sales: not only is it her best-selling album of the last twenty years but it's now regarded as an aesthetic touchstone.

'Ray Of Light' was a massive success here in the UK too, and if I remember it marked the point where a lot of indie kids started taking her seriously, because of the link with William Orbit.

if I remember it marked the point where a lot of indie kids started taking her seriously

I was in grad school, and it was the first Madonna studio album (to be fair they owned the two comps) my friends bought and regarded as a Serious Recording.

how young are you people?

young enough to have digested every Billboard of the last sixty years.

Wasn't it also the first (and last?) Madonna album to get a Grammy nod?

The vocals w/added harmonies in the last chorus of "into the groove" are strangely powerful. creates a more sensual tone.

think this 12" single from 1988 was more than worthy of a mention

Madonna - Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSbgcr4fvk0

a bunch of writing on a bunch of Madonna singles (I chose "Live to Tell" and "Papa Don't Preach" but almost went for "Express Yourself")

a link would help http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26058

Soto's first sentence regarding 'Bad Girl' is so fucking OTM. That's one of her best ever songs, IMO - the production still sounds gorgeous and I don't even want to begin imagining it being sung in her post-Evita voice, which I don't find anywhere near as pleasant to listen to as her voice beforehand.

Thank you.

We all did marvelous work, I must say.

I love reading reassessments of Madonna stuff, especially from different generational perspectives, and this is a good one. I should play her for my kids.

I suddenly have the urge to listen to Like a Prayer and Erotica back to back.

I decided to rank her closers.

Can’t argue with your top picks, but I’d definitely throw “Secret Garden” in among those three. One of her most purely haunting and seductive tracks.

"take a bow" too ffs

"Mer Girl" is glorious, FUIUD

Sounds good, looks fun:

Classroom Instruments: @Madonna, Jimmy, & @TheRoots perform “Music” 🎶 #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/7DRjRsABRJ

— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) August 11, 2022

Well, that was cute.

Glad she didn't try to french anybody.

Yeah, it’s refreshing to see her do something cute.

Can’t believe I missed this thread after 16 years lurking on this board. Just wanted to say that aside from all of the obvious choices, and I appreciate it’s not a single, but Pretender from Like a Virgin is Madonna’s most overlooked song. “You lie, you lie, you lie, you lie, I know all about your kind” is the most peak Madonna line ever.

I've heard eight of her albums, and don't know if there's any non-single I'd really call a favourite. Maybe "Something to Remember".

I can think of several:

White Heat
Where’s the Party
Skin
Impressive Instant
Swim

For a few years in the 1980s, there was a UK publication called the Rock Yearbook which featured articles, pictures, snippets of reviews from the UK papers, etc. The section on True Blue featured nothing but various reviewers' scathing comments on "Where's the Party?" I thought it unfair to single out the worst song on the album, but I'm glad someone likes it.

Just bought the new triple disc cd on a total impulse and I'm pretty pleased with it. Feels like this is her best compilation? With the earlier classics theres a lot of "single versions" or mixes which dont fuck with the song too much but brilliantly remastered imo. Mid period stuff has a bunch of fun, cool, or interesting versions, and the 3rd disc is stuff I dont know and it's pretty much solid bangers.

I made my own Madonna compilation, thanks to a close friend who was a collector, and I boiled down god knows how many CD's into four packed and tidy CD-R's. Pretty much everything I really liked from Madonna was released as a single - in many cases, I would prefer a mix that was released on one of those single releases rather than the original album. The one big exception is "Secret Garden" from Erotica - from what I can tell, it's never been issued as a single, at least not in the U.S.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtcD7qmpPw

Also re: two tracks from Music - "Impressive Instant" mentioned upthread and "Amazing" - the story is that the label wanted the latter to be the fourth single, Madonna wanted the former, and they wound up NOT releasing a fourth single, but actually both tracks HAVE been issued as promo-only singles. I do enjoy both regardless.

it’s quite remarkable madonna didn’t make it to either of the 2010s polls

is it? her output last decade is not well regarded by anyone really. madame x is endearingly weird but that's about it

yeah that’s what i meant

My jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRaq3t7X_Q

More super album tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Vm72XDljI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpkOb6JRKHM

The best B-side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8uCTFJbwUI

Should have been a single in the US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kLbsB1ynaE

"You're just jealous CUZ YOU CAN'T BE ME