"Angel" is in my top five iirc
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
"jimmy jimmy" is just so in love with itself and with pop and with being alive in nineteen-eighty-whatever that i will happily continue to overlook any flaws in its writing.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
for pretty much the same reason, happy to see "who's that girl" on here even though i didn't vote for it.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
DJP yr ears are broken imo, 'Over and Over' is fantastic
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
I was wondering earlier, piscesx, if you saw her at the Haçienda
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/A9jBo6d.jpg
40. "CAUSING A COMMOTION" from the motion picture soundtrack Who's That Girl (1987) [11 votes, 201 points]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^ usually what I have in mind when thinking bout "deep singles"
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
voted for Causing A Commotion, fabulous pop moment
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
heh no i'm not.. quite that old. she doesn't remember it supposedly.
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure I read once about her sleeping on someone's floor during her stay
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
the (awesome and gorgeously unified) pictures are making me realize that it may now be unconscious and thus a lot subtler and source-decayed but half the girls i know are still ripping her off, and thank goodness
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
This is absolutely my favorite of her "deep singles". I was positively livid when it was left off Celebration in favor of shit from Hard Candy and American Life.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
otm xp
― Euler, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
broke for lunch and missed a buncha stuff, so...
Have never seen Who's That Girl. Worth watching?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:00 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No. Make that HELL no.
listening to "Secret Garden" right now, which is striking me as a poppier version of "I Am Stretched On Your Grave"
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:10 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM!!!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:41 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It made my ballot for this very reason (though you articulated it much better than I could have)
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
^^ that's why I love "Open Your Heart."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
cept "Open Your Heart" is flawless.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
I was like 11 & suddenly girls in my classes were wearing underwear outside their clothes & it was very lacy & oh my & that was basically the best thing ever & still is
― Euler, Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
I once thought that I could give it a go during karaoke but I realized 40 seconds in that the song was going to defeat me and I still had more than three minutes left. It made me realize what an underrated vocalist she is and how much I suck.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Causing A Commotion is fab, I love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
xpost Yeah that would be hard to karaoke - you forget how much 'oomph' she has in her voice, it's hard enough to GET up there let alone stay up there for the chorus, it's exhausting. I give up just singing it out loud in the car, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Oh fuck yes for "Waiting" placing
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Proof of how, just, overflowing with hits Madonna was in the 80s: when "Causing a Commotion" hit the charts, the TV version of Casey Kasem's Top 40 that aired on Saturday mornings after cartoons, they didn't even have a video to show, so the clip was just the song playing over a spinning image of the Who's That Girl album cover. Like the song hit so fast its like they didn't even have time to prepare for it.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
"Causing a Commotion" was at #2 for three weeks in the U.S. I should poll her #2 hits.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/rMv8Onl.jpg
39. "RAIN" from Erotica (1992) [11 votes, 217 points]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Cut Rain from my ballot in favour of Waiting at the last second. Glad to see it place anyway.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
"Rain" and "I'll Remember" were record company exhalations of relief after sexxytime Madonna.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
i could write a book about "open your heart." and i probably still wouldn't discover any flaws.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
late late single from erotica, after the album had (relatively) flopped, the only erotica song i ever hear on the radio anymore
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
I never heard this song on the radio but saw the video a bazillion times
the bridge is beautiful
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
I remember thinking the double tracked vocals on Rain were the coolest thing I'd ever heard at the time.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
Erotica album tracks > Erotica singles IMO.
― piscesx, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
the bridge is incredible yeah
i read somewhere that the song is actually about a dead lover (or maybe her mother cf. "kisses from heaven above" in "deeper and deeper"), which actually makes a lot of sense. even the straight up radio friendly love ballad on the album is dark stuff
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Let's say that the album tracks are as fab as "Deeper and Deeper" and "Bad Girl."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
My first vote to place so far!
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
only two of mine have placed so far ('i'll remember' and 'white heat') but my ballot beyond the top five or so was just throwing stuff at the wall, there's only a couple of tracks so far i really doubt could pop up in my top twenty at any random moment ('dad' and 'who's that girl').
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QauiGvo.jpg
38. "BEDTIME STORY" from Bedtime Stories (1994) [13 votes, 238 points]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Lots of people dislike "Bedtime Stories" but I get off on its garishness: she Madonna-izes trip-hop like she'd do with "electronica" four years later.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I still dig the shit out of this song
didn't make my ballot though
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't think I liked this, but when I heard it again I was really impressed. It missed my 20 but not by much.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
an impressive instant?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
trying to remember how much pop house was still getting on the radio when erotica hit, it was definitely all over the radio circa 90 when 'vogue' blew up (and credit madonna for being a factor in that moment happening), wondering if maybe the moment passing (on radio, the moment never passed in my heart) was a secret factor in erotica underperforming. when did cece peniston hit? totally want to dj a night of house of style bumper music.
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
I remember seeing her do a rubbish performance of it at The Brits I think, it soured me unfairly.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
CeCe Peniston was '93 IIRC
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
and after two consecutive top fives, one of which became her longest-running #1 ever, she thought she could release an "experimental" single and get it into the top forty.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
Peniston's "Finally" was very late '91 and early '92
what i remember most about the first time i heard bedtime story was being happy that madonna was into bjork and that bjork was cool/smart enough to give madonna a song.
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
crystalwatersvevo going on in my other tab
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
trying to remember how much pop house was still getting on the radio when erotica hit, it was definitely all over the radio circa 90 when 'vogue' blew up
"Vogue" was the height of the Late 80s/Early 90s Dance and Pop Songs with that Latin-ish Thing of Going Up and Down an Octave with the Same Chord era.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think in large part due to "Bedtime Story," 1994 is kind of the mental demarcation in my head between old-Madonna and nu-Madonna. Erotica seemed to me like the early part of her career taken to its absolute extreme, and Bedtime Stories seemed like a complete and total fresh start. I still don't like much of that album, but "Bedtime Story" is all-time.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
i mentally divide her career into pre-evita and post-evita
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link