http://fasterlouder.junkee.com/inside-madonnas-intimate-tears-of-a-clown-show-in-melbourne/858982
this sounds like a fascinating show, i hope someone filmed it
― ODD FUTURE WOLFGANG VAN HALEN ON BASS (some dude), Friday, 11 March 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
My favorite album tracks.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:41 (eight years ago) link
Vogue her greatest or close - greatest video, certainly - with Open Your Heart its closest/only rival. So great it subsumed the album that even if (or because) not entirely hers rivals its successor as her second-best after the not-quite-immaculate one that has so many hits on it who cares. So great it spun off a sequel in the very good but at least a little overrated Deeper and Deeper, which is probably not the best on that deep-benched album, which should have stolen Justify My Love from the collection as its capstone, and well behind Lucky Star and Express Yourself, to name some of the better ones that in turn probably place behind Holiday and Material Girl highest among the runner-ups that I insist also include Mandy's More, Sooner or Later, and Where's the Party, all of which I'll take most days over the well-named Borderline (Bipolar might be more like it), too-faux Like a Virgin (which shares a very particular room with other pre-adolescent sonic annoyances like Beat It), or even the somewhat-rut-bound Into the Groove, to say nothing of the Christian (Catholic, whatever) one I have no use for (not the anti-abortion one; I kinda like that one) or nearly all of the power "ballad" dreck early and late. I like a lot of the second-career EDM stuff well enough or better, but, except for the more interpretive and therefore auteurist stuff like Don't Tell Me, much of it doesn't register in the same fashion (maybe because less New York?). I'm fairly immune, for instance, to the purported glories of Beautiful Stranger, which feels a lot more disposable than, say, Independent Women, Pt. 2.
Many if not most of the above preferences vary at least marginally by mixing I couldn't identify offhand.
― normcore strengthening exercises (benbbag), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 05:19 (eight years ago) link
oh wow "Jimmy Jimmy" is actually p great? and so is "True Blue"??
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:13 (seven years ago) link
fuck "La Isla Bonita" and "Live to Tell" forever tho
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
[oh wow "Jimmy Jimmy" is actually p great? and so is "True Blue"??
um, yes. and yes.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link
I TOLD U
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
fuck..."Live to Tell" forever tho
you mad
― Wimmels, Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Get the fuck out, Stevie.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
I'm ecstatic enough about Stevie (or anyone) acknowledging the greatness of "Jimmy Jimmy" to overlook the "Live To Tell" diss.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 February 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah stevie u still need srs help tho
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
"Live To Tell" is the greatest
― Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
My favorite ILM poll: the level of commitment, the writing.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
it was the best of times
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 February 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
I like to think Patrick Leonard said "OK, we're done" and Madonna saying, "No, wait -- I have an idea. 'If I ran away...'" and Leonard losing his shit.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 11, 2013 3:43 PM (three years ago
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 01:27 (seven years ago) link
can we do this again
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 February 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
YES
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 February 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
Fuck me, my favorite thing she's ever done, her cover of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" (off the Something to Remember comp) wasn't even nominated?!?!?!
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 5 February 2017 02:33 (seven years ago) link
There are no nominations in artist polls.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 5 February 2017 05:36 (seven years ago) link
Oh.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 5 February 2017 10:19 (seven years ago) link
Flamenco drop.
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Sunday, 16 July 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
The best kind of drop
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 July 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
My least favorite major single.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
It sucks, but "American Life" still exists.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:42 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, Madonna put out music after 2001... I keep forgetting! Now I shall forget again.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
Found the second greatest-hits CD at a garage sale last week, been playing it in the car. A kind of sameness creeps into the first few tracks because of the remixing. "Ray of Light" and "Beautiful Stranger" (which took some abuse in this poll) sound as amazing as ever; I think her career peaks were very early ("Holiday," "Borderline," "Into the Groove") and then later with those two songs--lot of greatness between, with some silliness, but they're the best. The one song that jumped out at me that I didn't vote for above was "Drowned World"/"Substitute for Love." I should have.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
If she ever writes her memoirs--particularly of the early '80s--I'd read them.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
"Beautiful Stranger" (which took some abuse in this poll)
Not enough, iirc.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
At least six terrific albums, many good songs. American Life deserves reappraisal.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
Ranking with CCR, Marvin Gaye, the Beatles for number of awesome singles in such a concentrated period.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
CCR?
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
For sure.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 02:23 (five years ago) link
And here's the last twenty-nine years.. Whoa.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 April 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
About time!
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/madonna-physical-deluxe-reissues-confirmed-for-2022-and-beyond/
― piscesx, Monday, 16 August 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
Happy birthday, girl.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:25 (nine months ago) link
What ever happened to those deluxe editions promised?
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:32 (nine months ago) link