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Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 11, 2012, 5:06 pm
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 11, 2012, 5:07 pm
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[center]What Is The Best Madonna Album of All Time?
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 12, 2012, 12:57 am
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[center]Madonna (Self Titled) 1983
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Even though I knew about Madonna from day 1, it took a long,
long time for me to become a fan of hers. I'm talking about half
way through her career before she really did something that I
could sink my teeth into. But from the beginning all the way up
to Ray Of Light, I knew her primarily from videos and radio
airplay. She had a few songs here and there that I liked, but as
a whole, her music just didn't do anything for me. But once I
became a fan, I went back and bought a chunk of her CD's for
about 2 bucks a piece at a Second-hand store. It was cheap
enough that I could check out her earlier stuff as a whole and
not consider it a huge investment with my wallet.
Listening to this today, I realize why I've only listened to her
debut a couple of times. It's just not that good. It's
disposable dreck. There is only one really good song and that of
course is Borderline, which has a great melody and the
arrangement really suits Madonna here. And the tempo is more
akin to what I would have liked for the entire album to be. This
is definitely a dance record, but not one that I could ever
listen to all that much. The only other songs of note are
Holiday and Lucky Star. That's it.
Fave Songs: Borderline
The Album Cover is killer for sure. Vintage Madonna. Yummy.
[center]Madonna Music Videos
Madonna - Lucky Star
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Madonna - Borderline
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Madonna - Burning Up
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Madonna - Everybody
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 12, 2012, 8:52 pm
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[center]Madonna (Like A Virgin) 1984
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For a decent album Like A Virgin is, it opens up with one of the
worst songs in her career. Sure, it's a big hit for her and a
lot of die hard fans love Material Girl. But I can't stand it. I
hated it when it was all over MTV and it's just as bad as now.
Another dance song that just gets annoying in its repetitiveness
is Over and Over. The irony of the songs title isn't lost on me.
It's a carry over from her first album in trying to keep dance
tracks out there for clubs.
As much as the song Like A Virgin has been played to death, the
song still holds up rather well. From it's catchy melody and the
syth-heavy beat, the song is hard to turn off. But I can't help
but think of two things when I listen to this one. A) Weird Al
Yankovich and B) Reservoir Dogs
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break
away from 'Dance pop" drivel, it would have to be You Don't Live
Here Anymore. I dig the arrangement and Madonna actually shows
that she was trying to find an identity that would really come
to the forefront with Ray Of Light.
Get Into The Groove and Dress You Up still are good, catchy
songs that I can't ever turn off when it comes across the radio
or TV. I really like Nile Rodgers guitar solo in Dress You Up
for sure. It's short and sweet, but you end up humming the solo
long after. Shoo-Bee-Doo is a great change up from what has been
typical songs from her on her first two albums. With this one
its got a great tempo change and a sing-along song that actually
doesn't suck. Great keys and sax.
It's kind of bizarre to be watching Keith Carradine in Dexter
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practically unrecognizable. Doesn't look anything like he use
to. Crazy.
Album Cover gets an A+
[center]Like A Virgin Music Videos
Madonna - Like A Virgin
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Madonna - Get Into The Groove
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Madonna - Dress You Up
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Madonna - Material Girl
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Mac
Date: March 13, 2012, 12:01 pm
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There is less than a handful of songs that I like by Madonna,
and then they were because I heard them in spillover from
massive airplay. I've never went to seek out her work.
I know I could not stand the early years with her chipmunk
voice. Her deeper voiced songs have some appeal.
So I'm highly biased off the bat. It's not that here music is
bad or good, just does nothing for me.
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 13, 2012, 12:04 pm
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I totally get what you saying and it's kind of where I was then
and to some extent still am now with regards to her earlier
stuff. But I absolutely know for a fact that if you checked out
Ray Of Light, you would become a fan of that album specifically.
Review of that album coming soon. I still gotta knock out the
early stuff. I should get a medal for this!!
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Mac
Date: March 13, 2012, 12:12 pm
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Wasn't Ray Of Light one of her more dance floor projects?
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 13, 2012, 12:18 pm
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> Wasn't Ray Of Light one of her more dance floor projects?
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No. It's deeper stufff that f u c k i n g kicks ass. There are
a few songs that can be viewed as dance tracks. But you may have
seen the videos that were remixed. You gotta remember, she is a
dance-pop artist and her record company will remix stuff
specifically for Dance Clubs. These are usually put out as 12
inch Singles. This one leans more heavily on electronica for
sure.
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Mac
Date: March 13, 2012, 1:04 pm
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Well, I'm hesitant with electronica too. It was sometime back
one of the members of a music forum like this absolutely loved
electronica. He even sent me Joe Walsh's Lifes Been Good
electronica-zed. Awful, just plain WTF.
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Re: Madonna - Discography
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 13, 2012, 1:10 pm
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--- Quote from: Mac link ---
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> Well, I'm hesitant with electronica too. It was sometime back
one of the members of a music forum like this absolutely loved
electronica. He even sent me Joe Walsh's Lifes Been Good
electronica-zed. Awful, just plain WTF.
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That's the thing, when it's electronica at its purest form and
what I would call mind-numbing absurdity, it will be awful. But
when it's done right, using the basics of it and transforming it
into an art form, it can be a thing of beauty. Taking an
existing classic like Life's Been Good and mixing it with
electronica is doomed to fail. I don't even have to listen to it
to know it's not going to be good. That's the problem with
electronica as a whole. DJ's take old classics and remixed with
with the new genre style and butcher it. They are just trying to
repackage an old song and make it club accessible which is the
wrong way to go about it.
I should have been more clear in describing Ray Of Light's tone.
It takes elements of electronica and uses it to work off of
rather than being a slave to it.
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