if Madonna would somehow have swapped "Shoo-Bee-Doo", "Pretender" and " "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" for "Into The Groove", "Crazy For You" and "Gambler" then the album would have been 1000 times better at least.
― nevermind312, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i would venture to guess that a lot of ppl would be far more familiar with Like A Virgin, Dress You Up or even Love Don't Live Here Anymore more readily than they would know Angel. but maybe that's just the ppl i happen to know.
― la senora (surm), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, I don't know too many (straight people) who regard Erotica as anything other than one of her worst. Geir is sadly not alone.
― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
And one of the reasons I think it's her best probably has something to do with the fact that I don't like most of her other albums much beyond the singles.
I'd guess her worst is Something To Remember, which ironically I can't remember a single song from.
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought that was just a collection of her ballads or something?
― la senora (surm), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yep, those songs all sounded like stuff she did before.
― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
xp :)
ha no wonder I don't remember anything from it; I was looking at the singles off of it on Wikipedia and going "wtf are these songs"
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Evita is clearly her worst, if that counts.
― nevermind312, Friday, 23 April 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
basically what i was trying to say is that i think Like A Virgin seems like it has more fillers than it actually does. when you actually look at the tracklist, most of the songs were either huge or very solid.
― la senora (surm), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
hard candy is her worst by...a fair distance
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 23 April 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
heard a smooth jazz cover of "fever" at work last week.
― kclu, Friday, 23 April 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
(followed by renditions of "songbird" and "please please please let me get what I want")
― kclu, Friday, 23 April 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
heard a smooth jazz cover of "fever"
That's why I love the Erotica version so much. It's just a 100 percent aggressive desecration of the original's musicality but inverts its sexual chemistry into a whole 'nother Kinsey pinpoint. Equal and opposite type thing.
― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Friday, 23 April 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Like A Virgin has the biggest gulf in quality between the singles and the album tracks.
otm.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not too crazy about True Blue's album tracks either. LAP has a couple of album tracks as good as its singles.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
there was a good long while where "White Heat" was my favorite song on True Blue
― HI DERE, Friday, 23 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Come on baby, MAKE MY DAY
― nevermind312, Friday, 23 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
My Top 3 Madonna are:Like a PrayerRay Of LightLike a Virgin
Honorary mentions also to "Music", "Madonna", "True Blue" and "Confessions On a Dancefloor", all of them great albums.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not too crazy about True Blue's album tracks either
They aren't all good "Scooby Doo" being quite horrible even), but "Surrender" is one of my favourite tracks on that album.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
No wonder the typical RYM poster is stuck in the early 90s btw. You have to be stuck there to think positive of "Erotica". It is extremely of its time. A time that is now luckily long gone and hopefully will never return. The early 90s were one of the worst ever eras for music. Absolutely horrible.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
What copy of TB do YOU own?
xpost
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Aren't they all alike? Except for the remaster (which is the one I own) sounding better and containing a couple 12 inch mixes in addition?
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
what are "Scooby Doo" and "Surrender"?
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm... Sorry. Read that as "Like a Virgin".
As for TB album tracks, I do like "Jimmy Jimmy". But the rest were a bit weaker, surely.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 2 May 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
why's it so hard to poll one another?
― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
deeper and deeper really is am amazing song
― la senora (surm), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Shoulda voted "Where Life Begins."
But then "Fever" wouldn't have gotten a vote.
Man, this album.
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
hehe i would have such a good time with the 2 of u with gin and tonics and this album
― la senora (surm), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
so basically the same results as last time.
― nevermind312, Monday, 3 May 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
WHY ISN'T BAD GIRL HIGHER THAN RAIN?
BC RAIN IS EPIC
― la senora (surm), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
What a fantastic scenario, surm!
― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Monday, 3 May 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
RAIN IS EPIC
If you're a photographer, it may be......
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like "Waiting" is definitely the most underrated track on this album. The post-"Justify My Love" production suits Madonna's (then) sultriness so well (plus the drums on this are beautiful) and for what seems like an understated, part-spoken-word track it's actually overloaded with so many different hooks. The way the generic lyrics fit together is just masterly as well, like the "don't go breaking my heart like you said you would / baby you're no good / but I love you like no other lover ever could" bridge - all the internal rhyming. And when the piano chords come in! And the ticking clock!
― Tim F, Sunday, 16 May 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
point taken. her voice! so husky
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
kind of an understatedly perfect representation of the album's sound
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Juzwiak for the defense:
http://gawker.com/5953385/madonnas-pussy-is-the-temple-of-learning-erotica-at-20
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 October 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
What sucks about it is I can't listen to the album now.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, as in you can't right this second or...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
"Bad Girl" 2
Wut!?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
I don't get people who love this album but don't like "Bad Girl."
― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
btw: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8006663/madonna-erotica-album-sex-book-oral-history
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
It's one of her finest tracks, IMO... sonically it sounds OTM, too. Great production.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
She was really trying to push people's buttons around this time... what other established pop star of the time would have dared to adorn the back sleeve of their latest record with a picture of themselves giving someone a "toe job"? What established pop star would dare do that now, even!?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
SHEP: I guess I’m always trying to out-top myself, I told her, the next thing should be bigger than the last. Madonna just turned and looked me straight in the eye. It had been a long time since I’d been star-struck by her, but she was glowing differently now. Shep, she began, no matter how fierce something is, you can’t ever do the same thing twice. She sat down to record the final vocals on Erotica and looked out onto the terrace and into the New York City night. Ever, she repeated.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 19:25 (six years ago) link
"deeper and deeper" is prob objectively the best song on this record but i would've voted for "words," love the gallop of the rhythm track and all those whirring sounds. second place "rain" which is an excellent cocteau twins song
lotta great weird bridges on this record
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 December 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link