It has a beautiful melody and it would have sounded less similar to "Justify My Love".
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jQnQW5c.jpg
33. "MATERIAL GIRL" from Like a Virgin (1984) [14 votes, 307 points, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
xp OTM. And it totally sums up the pained doomed queer romance angle of the album.
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol at "Material Girl" being so low
― "Bellini." (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
seems pretty high based on the comments in the voting thread. just missed my ballot.
― So: The Answers (or something), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's kinda where i expected it to be
"Don't Tell Me" too low imo
― some dude, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ya I didn't vote for it but at least expected it to be in the top 15
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
in my top 15. love the yelps, the pitch of her voice
― Euler, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
regardless of the shit-talking on the other thread, you would expect the song whose title is most-often used to refer to Madonna in the press to place higher that the 30s
― "Bellini." (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
fun karaoke number
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I guess "Where Life Begins" isn't going to place.
― Euler, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I have positive memories of the Material Girl video from my youth, but the song itself has aged pretty poorly. As was mentioned in the voting thread, it did more damage to her career in the short-term than was expected. What a horrible nickname to have to carry around..."material girl". But even the song itself is cornball, not in way that's just associated with it coming from 1984, but an ageless type of cornball. Given the opportunity to do things over, I imagine she'd have passed on this one.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
"Don't Tell Me" deserves to place in a thread about songs written that earned some other struggling songwriter a pile of money.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, not sure how I feel about Material Girl being so low. It too is touched by genius, but it's also hackwork (outstanding hackwork); it's iconic, but by reference more than originality; and while it's a Madonna, it's not the one she turned out to be. And it's a pop classic, but kinda squeaky.
I tied myself in knots over it, and finally I left it off.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno if she suffered in the short term. In fact, it's a shrewd move! What better way to prepare the audience for your Serious Work ahead than by having ditties like "Material Girl" to rebel against?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
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― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
I love Chic's performance on this and "Like a Virgin" tbh
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Good point. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
and while it's a Madonna, it's not the one she turned out to be
otm
twenty five years later she finally accepted the moniker with a macy's clothing line under the name, and a put her name on a ton of products to support its truth - shoes, vodka, perfume and most horrifically the hard candy gyms
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
*also put her name
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I'll ever be able to hear this song anymore without thinking about balls' story from the noms thread:
2) still fourth grade, talent show, i 'perform' 'material girl' by having a rabbit hand puppet lipsync the song while i stand in my suit, expressionless, lipsyncing the 'liv-ing in a material world' backing part.
― how's life, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
I missed that story. HA!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/V2XuseY.jpg
32. "MUSIC" from Music (2000) [16 votes, 309 points]
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
amazing
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
It's a pretty good, interesting track, less dated and vacant, and more tuneful, than I thought it might be; then I remembered the horrible Ali G video and never even considered voting for it.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
― some dude, Friday, March 8, 2013
sent my ballot in too late but this was my #1. based on totals so far it looks like the only difference that would have made would have been to place it ahead of Music at 32 so I'm afraid it wouldn't have changed much. hoping the same is true for my #2.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
oh i would've been happy if "Don't" had just placed above "Music," that's the real injustice here
― some dude, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
― prolego, Friday, March 8, 2013 1
^^ good album track
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Music" is only 32?! What the fuck, people, have you even heard this song??
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
This track is so BIG and MAXIMAL and EXPLOSIVE and multi-layered and fun!!
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
"amazing" is what "beautiful stranger" should have sounded like the first time round
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
"Runaway Lover" is another good'un.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
yup, that's how it got to #32
― "Bellini." (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
"Music" is the rare dumb song that succeeds as more than kitsch. It's weirdly cool despite all its not-cool stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
It's not heresy to suggest she might have 31 better songs, she's Madonna.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I guess but idk "Music" to me is her most well-executed OTT mega dance floor banger and manages to transcend tacky kitsch
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
when I was little I used to think that "music made the boys run free and the rebel"
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure its not rebel btw, isnt it "rabble," that makes way more sense right. i mean like "sense"
― plax (ico), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
I think "Music" is fine but if I was just ranking Madonna singles, ignoring album tracks, I don't know if I'd put it much higher that #32
― "Bellini." (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
wtf why can't I type today
It certainly made fans of Madonna the club goddess relieved in 2000, and rode a wave of ROL good will.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
tiarnan wouldn't it be such a clever and delightful use of syllepsis if it was actually "music makes the boys run free and rebel"?
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
It's actually "music makes the bass referee in the treble"
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Iwm9Ibz.jpg
31. "LIKE A VIRGIN" from Like a Virgin (1984) [17 votes, 334 points, 1 first place vote]
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
damn her signature song outside the top 30
― prolego, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
it's okay, she has like 14 other signature songs
― "Bellini." (DJP), Friday, 8 March 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
!!!
Maybe "Where LIfe Begins" will be top 5 after all.
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
It's one of those songs that's canonical and impactful bcz of its context and "classic" but I mean come on she has made many more better songs than this.
― ferreira rocher (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Third most, after "Hung Up" and "Ray of Light"...
― your fretless ways (Eazy), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link