Madonna: Erotica POLL

Yep, those songs all sounded like stuff she did before.

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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"

Evita is clearly her worst, if that counts.

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.

hard candy is her worst by...a fair distance

heard a smooth jazz cover of "fever" at work last week.

(followed by renditions of "songbird" and "please please please let me get what I want")

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.

I think Like A Virgin has the biggest gulf in quality between the singles and the album tracks.

otm.

I'm not too crazy about True Blue's album tracks either. LAP has a couple of album tracks as good as its singles.

there was a good long while where "White Heat" was my favorite song on True Blue

Come on baby, MAKE MY DAY

My Top 3 Madonna are:
Like a Prayer
Ray Of Light
Like a Virgin

Honorary mentions also to "Music", "Madonna", "True Blue" and "Confessions On a Dancefloor", all of them great albums.

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.

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.

What copy of TB do YOU own?

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What copy of TB do YOU own?

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?

what are "Scooby Doo" and "Surrender"?

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.

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why's it so hard to poll one another?

deeper and deeper really is am amazing song

Shoulda voted "Where Life Begins."

But then "Fever" wouldn't have gotten a vote.

Man, this album.

hehe i would have such a good time with the 2 of u with gin and tonics and this album

so basically the same results as last time.

WHY ISN'T BAD GIRL HIGHER THAN RAIN?

BC RAIN IS EPIC

What a fantastic scenario, surm!

RAIN IS EPIC

If you're a photographer, it may be......

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!

point taken. her voice! so husky

kind of an understatedly perfect representation of the album's sound

Juzwiak for the defense:

http://gawker.com/5953385/madonnas-pussy-is-the-temple-of-learning-erotica-at-20

What sucks about it is I can't listen to the album now.

Wait, as in you can't right this second or...

"Bad Girl" 2

Wut!?

I don't get people who love this album but don't like "Bad Girl."

btw: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8006663/madonna-erotica-album-sex-book-oral-history

It's one of her finest tracks, IMO... sonically it sounds OTM, too. Great production.

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!?

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.

"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

my god "Words"

the best album

BITCH

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Yes, best album, no discussion allowed

Fever
Erotica
Where Life Begins
Deeper and Deeper
Bad Girl
Words
Secret Garden
Rain
Thief of Hearts
Waiting
In This Life
Why's It So Hard
Bye Bye Baby

― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:20 PM (twelve years ago)

No.

Deeper and Deeper
Bad Girl
Thief of Hearts
Erotica
Words
Fever
Rain
Secret Garden
In This Life
Where Life Begins
Bye Bye Baby
Waiting
Why's It So Hard