Don't go for second best, baby. Put your ILM ARTIST POLL #31: MADONNA to the test.

I'd love to hear an arrangement of this song done Supremes style.

there's more than one "True Blue" video? I only vaguely remember one with her wandering through a thrift store maybe?

whatever it was, it did suck

love the song though, kind of hate "Cherish" for being a rehash of the style

There's hers, and there's the one that won an MTV contest.

More like true poo

man i think they spent twenty minutes working on the official (and pretty much not seen in america when true blue was a hit) video. debi mazar looks crazy young.

"Cherish" at least has the v beautiful "don't underestimate my point of view" bit.

haha I'm thinking of the fan video

it was terrible

the video is easily her most dated, but

http://24.media.tumblr.com/99d09e7b7b910bda7d66ce1c12e4720c/tumblr_mizt4sC72b1rl00x0o1_400.gif

<3

'true blue's fifties pastiche, 'cherish' is sixties pastiche (like a surprising amount of her catalog)

magical wink!

I don't even remember the incredibly blue "official" video

the video is easily her most dated, but

okay no one who has recently seen the "Dear Jessie" video could say this

DJP you are a rad dude but man I think you and I have directly inverse Madonna interests

haha apparently!

i'm not sure even madonna has seen the 'dear jessie' video, that thing was strictly uk, i think 'keep it together' was too funky for them (which reminds me i need to add 'too funky' to my house of style list).

Yeah, yeah!

"Cherish" >>>>> "True Blue"

peak of my tyra love (well, there was this one gq cover).

Last one for today coming up...

http://i.imgur.com/DczbBaO.jpg

36. "GET TOGETHER" from Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [11 votes, 246 points, 1 first place vote]

too low!

her best 00s song

"True Blue" my #1

our first 2000s song

I love both videos, especially the MTV contest winner

I sometimes think everything I ever learned about girls, I learned from Madonna

pretty shameless rip of the Deep Dish-EBTG collaboration but love it anyway

her best 00s song

I'd be inclined to agree.

I underrate the Confessions material, I think; I always forget this song exists but whenever I hear it I love it

our first 2000s song

Die Another Day was #46.

although I still maintain that her best 00s single is "What It Feels Like For a Girl"

whoops xpost

my least fave confessions single but only cuz i'm really really really crazy about all the other confessions singles

well i definitely remembered the True Blue video A LOT differently. weird.

I remembered her not being in that dress thing but the bustier and capris...even the backup girls were kinda crappy in the video? what the hell madge, I was CERTAIN you were way cooler. I dunno, I had this memory of her showing off her upper arms and being way less twee.
oh well. i still love the song for reasons words would not sufficiently explain.

woah, Get Together is fantastic. I didn't really notice it first time around

okay I should have kept "Impressive Instant" on my ballot I think

although I still maintain that her best 00s single is "What It Feels Like For a Girl"

― "Bellini." (DJP)

Agree with this.

Interesting list so far, plenty of songs I never knew were rated so highly, especially Die Another Day.

Never got the fuss over the Confessions album, I always found it too samey. Should probably give it another go.

I dunno, Get Together suffers, for me, from that stiff vocal style that characterizes so much of the latter day Madonna.

That said, if she opted to just make records that sounded like Confessions for the rest of her career, I'd be okay with that.

50. "WORDS" from Erotica (1992) [7 votes, 136 points]
49. "I'LL REMEMBER" from the motion picture soundtrack With Honors (1994) [6 votes, 142 points]
48. "THE POWER OF GOOD-BYE" from Ray of Light (1998) [8 votes, 144 points]
47. "KEEP IT TOGETHER" from Like a Prayer (1989) [9 votes, 148 points]
46. "DIE ANOTHER DAY" from the motion picture soundtrack Die Another Day (2002) [7 votes, 149 points]
(TIE) 44. "WHITE HEAT" from True Blue (1986) [7 votes, 161 points]
(TIE) 44. "SECRET GARDEN" from Erotica (1992) [7 votes, 161 points]
43. "WAITING" from Erotica (1992) [8 votes, 189 points]
42. "WHO'S THAT GIRL" from the motion picture soundtrack Who's That Girl (1987) [11 votes, 194 points]
41. "PHYSICAL ATTRACTION" from Madonna (1983) [10 votes, 195 points]
40. "CAUSING A COMMOTION" from the motion picture soundtrack Who's That Girl (1987) [11 votes, 201 points]
39. "RAIN" from Erotica (1992) [11 votes, 217 points]
38. "BEDTIME STORY" from Bedtime Stories (1994) [13 votes, 238 points]
37. "TRUE BLUE" from True Blue (1986) [12 votes, 240 points, 1 first place vote]
36. "GET TOGETHER" from Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [11 votes, 246 points, 1 first place vote]

fun rollout so far, JF! looking forward to tomorrow!

bollocks, i missed 'get together'. TOO LOW anyway, that was when she (and stuart price obv) really nailed that mid 00s euro electrohouse sound. would love to have heard it dropped into a set when i was out.

"missed" as in missed it showing up, voted it 11 i think.

oh no and 'physical attraction' too. that feels like quintessential early madonna to me, the little shimmery synth noise. could listen to it forever.

No first-place votes 'til no.37? Going to be quite a condensed poll indeed.

I love Get Together (it was my #5). I love most of Confessions, as well, but that one just leaps out of the speakers and right into my nervous system.

No first-place votes 'til no.37?

There were some outside the top 50, but I don't have the spreadsheet on hand to tell you how many.

Excited! Gorgeous images, JF.

Glad to see "Die Another Day" place (it was the first Madonna single that I remember paying attention to as an event or whatever, probably via FT/ILM). I think one of the reasons it's so sonically uncompromising is that she'd gotten any Bond theme pastiche elements out of her system via doing "Beautiful Stranger" for, well, Bond pastiche Austin Powers a few years earlier.

Love this, because I didn't have a chance to vote but wouldn't have voted for most of these so far. Or maybe I ultimately would have! Regardless, love how I have no idea what's coming next, at least not this far down the list. Reminds me how little I've listened to most of Madonna's albums.

Just catching up. Very distinctive images. My favourite song so far is "Who's That Girl," a bit of a surprise I would think.

although I still maintain that her best 00s single is "What It Feels Like For a Girl"

― "Bellini." (DJP)

agree w/ this with the caveat that the album version is so much better than the video (and i guess single?) mix.

I love both, tbh

There is plenty of room in my life for both pensive guitar elegies and face-stomping monster trance

Yeah, I really don't have a favorite between the two. Remix definitely suits the amazing video better, but the album version is like curling up in a blanket.