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

In trying to figure out why I always align Everybody with Genius of Love

maybe for the same reason i've always thought "lucky star" could be a talking heads song. she and they were working strikingy similar territory for awhile.

always thought LIB was a bit lame at the time but now the older balearicised me loves it, especially the revenge rework. voted it somewhere mid teens iirc.

Pedro a bit peeved at playing guitar on a beach when he would be perfect for Jesus in Like A Prayer

first album now playing in the background, and "burning up" shoulda coulda been a t heads song too.

T-Heads never this aggressive. Closer to mutant disco.

picking up on the spotify list -- god Rain is so beautiful. I'm glad it placed.

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

26. "WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL" from Music (2000) [19 votes, 378 points]

wau @ WIFLFAG beating both "music" and "don't tell me"

that's a disapproving wau btw

Another vote for album over single version.

wau @ WIFLFAG beating both "music" and "don't tell me"

It's better than either, so I'm not terribly surprised.

great image

lol'ing at the acronym

"La Isla Bonita" was my #5, in part reactively against the haters

i love the WIFLFAG video but find both video and album versions of the song a snooze, it was a real disappointment after the two great singles off that album

as I said upthread, I think WIFLFAG is her best single of the 00s

(and it still scraped onto my ballot at #20)

"La Isla Bonita" is on the same level as "Hanky Panky" and "Masterpiece"

Like a Virgin is really low. Not to diss Everybody but the fact that it placed higher than LAV is kinda perverse

http://i.imgur.com/LV2lbNV.jpg

25. "FROZEN" from Ray of Light (1998) [18 votes, 381 points]

J admire Frozen without er warming to it

I guess no one has much to say about Frozen. I like it, but I think most of its impact was being the first single from Ray of Light in 1998 and being so different audio-visually than anything she'd attempted in the past, especially among her singles (and ESPECIALLY among her lead-off singles). Daring.

"Frozen" is still one of the prettiest Madonna singles. I would have voted it in my top 10, except that I forgot to vote.

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

24. "TAKE A BOW" from Bedtime Stories (1994) [20 votes, 403 points]

yessssss

but also tooo lowww

I voted for Frozen. Still my favorite from Ray of Light, although I remember when I first heard it, preferring a remix. Not sure which one it is at this point. Trying to sort through the mess of youtubes.

I love Frozen but I can't remember if I voted for it. Loooooove the video

Damn, so sad to see I forgot to vote and seeing all these great songs show up way too low. One of the greatest pop ballads of all time, and still her longest reigning #1 in the US.

i think 'power of goodbye' is my fave single from rol but i think that's the one album where actually i do prefer the album tracks to all the singles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWtLE1HxaB4

Babyface harmonies *swoon*

"take a bow" is a beautiful, stately, classic pop tune. but as her goodbye songs go, "the power of good-bye" crushes it.

Otm balls. I head straight for "Swim."

Aww, Rachel. :(

haha jf

"Swim" rules so hard

Take a Bow is really nice, and too easy to take for granted. It's so unspectacular that its easy to overlook its craft. Tellingly, it didn't Mae my ballot.

Babyface harmonies *swoon*

yep yep yeppppp

make

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Listening to 'Music' on the spotify list --- didn't like then, still don't. It's not terrible but it feels more facepalm than anything

"Swim" is amazing!! I actually was wondering if "Frozen" would place at #1; I am stunned it is this low (not bcz it's my fave but bcz it seems like total ILM bait)

i was gonna say lex otm about "what it feels like for a girl" but you know it always surprises me whenever i listen to it, there are so many small things going on at once

"Don't Tell Me" really suffers the horrible unison on the doubled vocals

and I'm SOOOOO glad that Til Death Do We Part placed so well -- it's such a gorgeous song

god "frozen" is gorgeous. did i vote for it? i didn't!

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

23. "ANGEL" from Like a Virgin (1984) [18 votes, 409 points]

TOO LOW

okay not really but this song rules

Best track on LAV.

TOO LOW

but yay

IN THE SKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
I CAN SEE IT IN YOUR EEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES

so many things wonderful about this -- the laughing is such a good touch

yeah i'm happy it's at least this high. massive hit but no video so it's a deep single now. boy as double a-sides go (deliberate or eventual) i'd put this up there w/ 'hello goodbye'/'i am the walrus' if not 'penny lane'/'strawberry fields forever'.