You're right, nothing is really added to the song, but I just love the new arrangement with the house interlude included in the extended intro and part of the chorus being moved ahead of the first verse. The song in its original form has enough room to breathe anyway but extending that further in this version works too.

So I'm just minding my own business and listening to 'Confessions' on Spotify and I am SHOCKED to discover that the alarm clock sound has been erased from the beginning of 'Get Together'.

That's the unmixed edit for you! I agree it's strange hearing 'Get Together' without the alarm clock!

So I'm just minding my own business and listening to 'Confessions' on Spotify and I am SHOCKED to discover that the alarm clock sound has been erased from the beginning of 'Get Together'.

It's because of this: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=225488

 

In short ~ sort it out Spotify! :(

That's the unmixed edit for you! I agree it's strange hearing 'Get Together' without the alarm clock!

 

Oh ew the whole album is like this. Spotify really annoys me sometimes. So many albums missing, and then things like this.

I like the edited version for the sake of playlists and listening on shuffle, but there should really be two versions of the album uploaded. Or maybe on the edited version, there could be a way of adjusting those transitions so you still get the full song that you're listening to without the other song fading in?

I'm listening to Ray of Light this evening. I do love the album but I've always found the ordering of the tracks a little out in places, especially as the title track just sounds amazing after Drowned World as an intro. I've found myself listening to it quite a lot in this order now:

 

01 Drowned World

02 Ray of Light

03 Sky Fits Heaven

04 Candy Perfume Girl

05 Swim

06 Frozen

07 The Power of Good-bye

08 Skin

09 Shanti / Ashtangi

10 Nothing Really Matters

11 To Have and Not to Hold

12 Little Star

13 Mer Girl

 

Not too many changes but I just find myself enjoying it far more like that for some reason.

I like the way 'Swim' fades out into 'Ray of Light' but 'Drowned World' does the trick just as well. I've had no issue with the ordering of the tracks but I'll check out your altered version and see what I think!

 

Speaking of 'Ray of Light', I'm loving this extended version of the track:

 

 

I remember Madonna, or maybe it was Orbit, saying in an interview that the original version of the track was 10 minutes long but that they had to cut it down - I wonder if '10 minutes' was a slight exaggeration and that this was the version they're talking about? They described it as going completely bonkers towards the end so the description fits.

On the subject of extended mixes, I've been obsessed with an extended mix of 'Hung Up on YouTube. Now, just today, I've discovered that it's an official mix and is on Spotify!

 

 

Added to my Madonna playlist!

Stumbled across this mash-up of 'Ray of Light' with Gaga's 'Stupid Love' and it works really well! :o

 

 

Both are suitably bonkers and fun, fun, fun. Love the extended outro, are there some new vocals that aren't in the finished version? :o

Listening to Frozen right now :heart:

 

It’s now made me want to listen to Ray of Light the album in full

Frozen :wub: The entire RoL era is perfection. What a special era!

I have had 'I'm Breathless' on repeat this past week :drama: The survivor polls led me to it, and i've decided to properly give it time :lol: Some of the tracks are pure trash but there are a handful of nices ones (and 'Vogue' ofc), so it's not totally a lost cause!

Listening to a Stardust vs Madonna - Music Sounds Better on ‘Holiday’, absolutely great remix. There was a few videos completed love it!

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I have had 'I'm Breathless' on repeat this past week :drama: The survivor polls led me to it, and i've decided to properly give it time :lol: Some of the tracks are pure trash but there are a handful of nices ones (and 'Vogue' ofc), so it's not totally a lost cause!

Do you enjoy any of the showtune style ones? It’s all about side B for me as I have a soft spot for every track in the second half

Do you enjoy any of the showtune style ones? It’s all about side B for me as I have a soft spot for every track in the second half

From 'Something to Remember' onwards, it's starts to feel like a more cohesive and "proper" album.

 

The first half has all the real stinkers :/

Fresh from the AF Idol thread I listened to the first half of Celebration because I had NO IDEA Holiday was by Madonna :lol: It turns out I'm actually a secret Madonna fan... so secret in fact I didn't even know it. So there's a rough rate of the first disc

 

CD 1:

01) 06 Hung Up - I knew this song but I've never been a big fan, it's okay but I'd rather just listen to ABBA

02) 08 Music - I've heard this in passing before, not the most memorable though tbh but I'm a fan

03) 08 Vogue - I KNEW THIS WAS MADONNA! I actually quite like it as a song, if it's not something I listen to very often.

04) 09 4 Minutes - Great song, I've always liked this as a Justin Timberlake song

05) 10 Holiday - Banger that I ONLY JUST FOUND OUT WAS MADONNA

06) 08 Like A Virgin - Another one of the few songs I knew was from Madonna although ngl I knew it from Pitch Perfect first :unsure:

07) 06 Into The Groove

08) 09 Everybody - I really like it on first listen :lol:

09) 09 Like A Prayer - I knew she had a song called this but never knew it was this song!!

10) 10 Ray Of Light - I love this song, but again did not know this was Madonna... Such a banger I can't believe I just didn't know :lol: I feel the same way I felt when I found out Believe was by Cher

11) 08 Sorry - This reminds me of the Scooby Doo theme song

12) 08 Express Yourself - Once again had no clue this was a Madonna song

13) 06 Open Your Heart - See the above, except I like this much less

14) 06 Borderline - Never heard this before

15) 05 Secret - Or this, I feel her voice gets lost in the song here a bit it sounds like a demo that got lost

16) 06 Erotica

17) 05 Justify My Love - Similar to Secret imo

18) 07 Celebration

Welcome Dexton !

 

Always pleased to welcome a new fan .

 

During lockdown I have taken the time to listen to Kylie whom I have never given the time of day to before.

 

Is it due to your age that you didn’t know these songs were from Madonna ?

Moved these posts here, hope you don't mind ^_^

 

DEXTON :heart: Is this your first Madonna forum post? WELCOME xo Good to see you discovering new music today. Celebration as a collection is a good place to start because it has some of her more recent hits, but avoids the very recent ones which are extremely divisive, oop~

 

I am most shocked that you didn't really know much of 'Like A Prayer' as a song before this! It's one of (if not the) most impactful pop songs of all time!!

 

There's the super deluxe double disc version of Celebration too btw, just mentioning :whistle:

 

Stick around in the forum - we don't bite!

Welcome Dexton !

 

Always pleased to welcome a new fan .

 

During lockdown I have taken the time to listen to Kylie whom I have never given the time of day to before.

 

Is it due to your age that you didn’t know these songs were from Madonna ?

Hey! :D

 

I'm the same with regards to Kylie tbh, the odd song of hers I've enjoyed but I can't say I know any more about her music than I did Madonnas!

 

I think so primarily yeah, I know a lot of the songs from hearing them out and about but that's about it for the most part. I'm not generally someone who only listens to newer music though in fact most of the time I listen to older stuff (older being mostly 90s - mid 00s :lol:). Although saying that Madonna had plenty of material in that time period so who knows why she slipped through the cracks for me plus I look at her latest releases now and there's collabs with Swae Lee and Maluma of all people so shes obviously at least trying to keep up with the times!

Moved these posts here, hope you don't mind ^_^

 

DEXTON :heart: Is this your first Madonna forum post? WELCOME xo Good to see you discovering new music today. Celebration as a collection is a good place to start because it has some of her more recent hits, but avoids the very recent ones which are extremely divisive, oop~

 

I am most shocked that you didn't really know much of 'Like A Prayer' as a song before this! It's one of (if not the) most impactful pop songs of all time!!

 

There's the super deluxe double disc version of Celebration too btw, just mentioning :whistle:

 

Stick around in the forum - we don't bite!

I think it probably is my first post here! :o Well this is my second now. I've doubled my post count in the forum already in one day the posters chart won't know what hits it :lol:

 

I actually quite liked Living For Love when it came out but never thought to listen to anything else from her at the time, whether that'll change now or not I don't know - I do plan on listening to more from Celebration though I had quite the enlightening experience :o I do know Like A Prayer but aside from hearing it in passing I never thought much of it tbh, and even now listening it is a good song but why is/was it so huge?