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

ILMadonna

respect for voting for "American Life," wish i had done so in solidarity with you (i went for "Die Another Day" instead)

True Blue
Open Your Heart
Dress You Up
Borderline
La Isla Bonita
Live to Tell
Crazy for You
Papa Don't Preach
Into the Groove
Die Another Day
Ray of Light
Take A Bow
Cherish
Material Girl
Who's That Girl
Music
Burning Up
Holiday
Where Life Begins
Deeper and Deeper

I think I had the most fun exploring remixes, no wonder there were so many single votes. There's so much to choose from!

yeah there are a ton i haven't heard, looking forward to diving in

really hate that her label seem to have been the most efficient at scouring the internet free of rarities - i'd be happy to buy most of the old remixes on itunes but you can't even do that!

1 vote for "Act of Contrition"?

guilty! i'm actually surprised it didn't get more votes.

That's what I meant. I thought for sure 2 or 3 more votes on that one.

I was thinking it's surprising that there's never been a big 'deluxe edition' reissue campaign or anything for Madonna's back catalogue, plenty of scope for making the remixes available there.

it's really remarkable that she's managed to fuck up every one of her compilations

What is the deal with Celebration? The mixes seem vaguely unfamiliar to me but it might just be punched up remastering etc?

I can't remember exactly what the glitches were with Celebration (other than having songs from Hard Candy lol), but I believe some of the edits were weird? Still better than Immaculate Collection, where endings are faded out to conserve time.

Celebration could've been salvaged by dumping the 2 new songs, everything from Hard Candy, and not NOT including "Deeper and Deeper."

Best poll since the 2012 horror movie poll, btw, so much good writing itt, indecent amt of superfun, playlist so good i marked it for offline cache. Biggest lightning bolt is motherfucking 'Til Death Do Us Part', which I KNOW I've heard since I've listened to all of LAP at least a few times, so I guess I just was deaf to it somehow but damn when it came on the playlist I totally froze. That fast clucking synth line makes me feel CRAZAY!!!

and not NOT including "Deeper and Deeper."

see also "Causing a Commotion"

For goodness' sake, why not just petition her to cover 4'33" while you're at it?

but I believe some of the edits were weird?

the edit of "4 minutes" that cuts the intro improves the song immeasurably even though it makes it, uh, 3 minutes.

Immaculate Collection is a crime against humanity. Those cut fades make me SO MAD. imo.

And what's with that piece-o'-shit mix of Into The Groove on IC? The whole point of the "You can dance..." intro is that it's spoken over the groove, DJ-style.

I fully admit that maybe I don't know any better, but that version sounds fine to me. Good, even! I am not a Madonna Scholar.

the first actual madonna thing i owned was the immaculate collection so i am intimately familiar with some of those mixes and edits even though i now realize they are abominations

that was me for a while -- I think I had a dubbed cassette of IC through college that I just used for parties or whatever, but once I got super into the albums, to the point where I had the fadeouts memorized, and then going back to the Immaculate Collection later on, I had full-on outrage that I hadn't noticed before, lol

Me too, only there was a long enough gap between me relying on it and rediscovering her that I don't notice the join. I could only point to the 'woo! yeah's on Like A Prayer as abominations.

I've always been obsessed with fadeouts, ever since I was a little kid and I would always strain to hear every part of the song even as it was getting quieter...and some of those madonna fadeouts I had memorized (I can't think of any off the top of my head ragh).

the immaculate collection was my entry point to pretty much everything pre-erotica and i fell in love with it all HARD

i now realise those versions are disasters and this whole experience proves, if anything, that those songs can withstand nuclear attacks

that's a good way of looking at it, lex

I've always been obsessed with fadeouts, ever since I was a little kid and I would always strain to hear every part of the song even as it was getting quieter...and some of those madonna fadeouts I had memorized (I can't think of any off the top of my head ragh).

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:46 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha do we have a thread about turning up the volume dial and listening closely on fadeouts? we really should

otm!

some of the Otis Redding fadeouts made me yell, like WAIT WAIT WAIT THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER PART OF THE SONG YOU'RE GONNA MISS noooooooooooooooooooo

people who grew up with immaculate collection are like people who grew up with the famous new order comp that i can't listen to cuz everything sounds so weird to me.

but Substance is awesome in its own right!

i can't listen to it. but that's just me. and my own nostalgia.

I grew up with both The Immaculate Collection and Substance. I love both to death

exactly. and i totally understand that.

has to be said the Substance 'Sub Culture' is a wretched thing compared to t Low Life one.

Assume Scott also prefers the original Temptation as well. Substance is great but does have flaws.

has to be said the Substance 'Sub Culture' is a wretched thing compared to t Low Life one.

I disagree with this so much. The original "Sub Culture" is one of the reasons why I can't listen to Low-Life

some of the Otis Redding fadeouts made me yell, like WAIT WAIT WAIT THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER PART OF THE SONG YOU'RE GONNA MISS noooooooooooooooooooo

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha OTM.

Always gotten the sense that once Dan decides he dislikes something he then goes into a cave somewhere and cuts up the bodies of small children with the song on loop for five hours just so he can preserve that negative reaction forever.

loool

"gambler" was my huge (re)discovery of this poll. i had probably heard it at some point but not so much that i was familiar with it, if i was doing a ballot now it'd prob make it.

(i could only find the extended dance mix, i assume the original is not hugely different?)

I can't help killing these kids,
I go deeper and deeper the more kids I kill.

My knife sinks deeper and deeper the harder I stab

Daddy couldn't be more wrong

I don't completely hate "Deeper and Deeper" as a song, I just really dislike the production choices aside from the one element Madonna insisted be there.

Shep Pettibone is a menace.

Not gonna let Shep get away.

what's "shep" even short for?

Sheptacular

otm

apparently "Robert"

I don't completely hate "Deeper and Deeper" as a song, I just really dislike the production choices aside from the one element Madonna insisted be there.

Shep Pettibone is a menace.

― Darth Icky (DJP), Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have to agree with Dan here. It's a great song! But it's not sheet music. It comes to my ears as sound and the sound of it is a wan hell of the wateriest, weakest aspects of digital synthesis. It sounds like its been copied on a mid-90s color photocopier ten times.

And I think a lot of Erotica sounds great.