http://i.imgur.com/DczbBaO.jpg
36. "GET TOGETHER" from Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [11 votes, 246 points, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
too low!
her best 00s song
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
"True Blue" my #1
― Euler, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
our first 2000s song
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
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
I'd be inclined to agree.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
I underrate the Confessions material, I think; I always forget this song exists but whenever I hear it I love it
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
Die Another Day was #46.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
although I still maintain that her best 00s single is "What It Feels Like For a Girl"
whoops xpost
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
my least fave confessions single but only cuz i'm really really really crazy about all the other confessions singles
― balls, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
woah, Get Together is fantastic. I didn't really notice it first time around
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
okay I should have kept "Impressive Instant" on my ballot I think
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
― "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.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
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]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
fun rollout so far, JF! looking forward to tomorrow!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― So: The Answers (or something), Thursday, 7 March 2013 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
"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.
― So: The Answers (or something), Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
No first-place votes 'til no.37? Going to be quite a condensed poll indeed.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― etc, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Just catching up. Very distinctive images. My favourite song so far is "Who's That Girl," a bit of a surprise I would think.
― clemenza, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
agree w/ this with the caveat that the album version is so much better than the video (and i guess single?) mix.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
I love both, tbh
There is plenty of room in my life for both pensive guitar elegies and face-stomping monster trance
― "Bellini." (DJP), Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really pay attention to the song mix at all when i watch the "what it feels like for a girl" video, i'm too in awe of the visuals
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
don't get what's any good about the video tbh. vocal is just so much more well matched to the original track. i'm assuming it's still to come, though, we can debate it later i guess.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
don't get what's any good about the video tbh.
If you don't by simply watching it, no amount of ILM convincing is going to get you there. But really... o_O
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Hey everyone! Just got here. So sad to be missing all the fun. Thread looks great so far. Love the pictures. Only two from my ballot for now, "Bedtime Story" my #8 and "Get Together" my #5.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno maybe the video has a point or an idea that went over my head? on the surface it just seems like the kind of barely coherent, needlessly 'provocative' thing that i'd expect as the worst case scenario of a Madonna/Guy Ritchie collaboration.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
Re. "Bedtime Story":
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), jeudi 7 mars 2013 20:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), jeudi 7 mars 2013 20:29 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought she could too! If anybody could have it was her. She had done it with "Justify My Love" and "Erotica". I think it would've worked had it been the first single off the album.But radio play was never a garanty after Erotica and Sex.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
It's really all in the details. She does most of the acting with her face. Plus the plates on the car, the water pistol, the french fries, the motel door, the tazer, the zippo, all that stuff. It was like the first video designed with animated gifs in mind.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
did animated gifs even exist yet in 2001?
― some dude, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
Not the way we think of them today.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
haha. Didn't you have to play them in a media player, iirc?
― how's life, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
they played in browsers they were just usually burning flames or a rotating logo or a death knight from warcraft 2 spinning around on his horse
― the white queen and her caustic judgments (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.animatedlighting.com/images/SpinningStar.gif
Animated gifs have been around since the earliest days of the internet. Video capture and compression made them what they are now.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
more madonna wink <3
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzre74yeHb1qdpp3so1_250.gif
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
tho this gets me more
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1hfah9djz1r9rem3o1_500.gif
― prolego, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's my favorite one.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
this will probably come up when we do the video results but i really don't get how she could be so brilliant and enigmatic in her videos but then prove so hopeless on the big screen
i guess because in the latter she wasn't controlling her vision or something?
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
I said it on the True Blue poll thread: how can she project so much avidity in the "Open Your Heart" video yet onscreen look the sort of vamp that Carol Burnett would parody?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
I'd like to think she was just not very good at choosing material, movie wise? Like she knows her way around her own music choices but I just think she could have been steered in a better direction
don't ask me what
though I still think Desperately Seeking Susan is great, i wouldn't fuck with that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Madonna films I've seen:
Dick TracyTruth or DareA League of Their OwnFour RoomsGirl 6 (though I don't remember her)
Madonna films I've not seen:
All the others
Outside of Dick Tracy, which was cartoonish by design, I think she does okay-to-very well in movies. I guess I haven't seen the bad ones, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link