Papa Don't Preach and The Power Of Good-bye are probably my two favourite Madonna tracks at the moment.

'Papa Don't Preach' has gone on to become a huge song for me personally. I absolutely adore it and the way she sings with that forlorn yet confident tone is beautiful. 'The Power of Goodbye' i love too, and it's one of her best music videos too.

 

Not too keen on 'Human Nature' - i have never really warmed to it for whatever reason (and Michael Jackson does the song title more justice in his~)

TWENTY SIX

 

 

La Isla Bonita

TWENTY FIVE

 

 

Human Nature

TWENTY FOUR

 

 

Live To Tell

TWENTY THREE

 

 

The Power of Good-bye

TWENTY TWO

 

 

Papa Don't Preach

These five NOT EVEN TOP TWENTY?! I hope you DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE! (I'M NOT SORRY)

CONTINUE PLEASE

 

I don't think I've commented once but this has been kinda essential reading for me and I could very much do with reading your commentary on everything that's left.

These five NOT EVEN TOP TWENTY?! I hope you DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE! (I'M NOT SORRY)

!!!!!

 

CONTINUE PLEASE

 

I don't think I've commented once but this has been kinda essential reading for me and I could very much do with reading your commentary on everything that's left.

Thanks Umi, it's nice to read a comment that doesn't end up with me suffering death by fire. Most kind.

 

I shall be continuing this evening at some point ^_^

TWENTY ONE

 

 

Paradise (Not For Me)

 

I've had to make a playlist of the top 21 and listen to it several times over before I've been able to rank them... and it's Paradise (Not For Me) that finds itself (Not For The Top 20). This has always been a stand out track on Music for me, after all the bleeps, beeps, squiggles and wiggles it acts as six minutes of calm tranquility contrasting everything that came before it. At the time this really felt like a new sound for Madonna to me, it didn't sound like anything else she'd made up until that point and while she's used similar tactics since (especially on American Life) I'd argue it remains a stand alone moment for her. The part where it all just stops to make way for the wonderfully cinematic strings is just beautiful... and the section where they return slowly to simultaneously both sooth and dominate Madonna's vocals later in the track is just stunning.

A song i do not get. It can be ok when i listen to the album sometimes, but it's too jarring and dare i say annoying for me to properly get behind. I appreciate her experimenting even more within the album, and so i'm sure she'd have known it would be a divisive track but it's a low point of an otherwise consistent album for me.

 

Can't love them all i guess :( but bring on the top 20 *.*

TWENTY

 

 

Impressive Instant

 

God how I love Daft Punk's first album, it was the soundtrack of 1997 for me. I'm guessing Mirwais was a big fan too as he recreated their sound for this, the other stand out album track on Music. As far as potential singles go for international icons, this would have made such a fabulously bonkers one that I'm unbelievably saddened that it never quite happened... it was always rumoured to be the 4th single (yes, even by the end of the album campaign they and us wanted to pretend American Pie never happened) and despite being a bit mad, I think it would have absolutely shone on radio and scored her a substantial hit. Shall we discuss the lyrics for a moment? Well, I can't pretend that I want to singy singy singy like a bird on the wingy wingy wingy would have earned her any Ivor Novello nominations (although I believe Des'Ree did eventually get one so you never know!) but it would have been distinctive enough and, tbpfqh, they actually compliment the bonkers electro noises unraveling behind Madge as it all just crashes and escalates into a masterclass of sonic layering.

YES, now this is the bat-shit crazy Madge i can get behind. :wub:

A song i do not get. It can be ok when i listen to the album sometimes, but it's too jarring and dare i say annoying for me to properly get behind. I appreciate her experimenting even more within the album, and so i'm sure she'd have known it would be a divisive track but it's a low point of an otherwise consistent album for me.

 

Can't love them all i guess :( but bring on the top 20 *.*

Awwwww, that's a shame... although as you say, it's definitely a divisive track and I can totally see why someone wouldn't appreciate it. It plays strongly to my love of all things experimental however so was in instant fave for me.

A ONE TWO PUNCH of the only truly great moments from 'Music'.

 

Paradise is ONE of the album tracks I was hoping for so YAY for that. I love that it's really different for one, but also behind the (amazing) production is something of substance.

 

Impressive Instant on the other hand is just plain brilliant.

Is it the ONE that you thought I'd include or the one you didn't?

'Impressive Instant' - my favourite Madge album track. For me, that and 'Runaway Lover' are the meat and bones of that album.

Is it the ONE that you thought I'd include or the one you didn't?

 

It's the one I thought you would include, pleasingly. Unless you have any other 6 minute plus song in the top 20.

NINETEEN

 

 

Secret

 

Next to fall is my highlight of Madge's mid stab at becoming an icon d'urbanique. I'm never sure what the general consensus is on this one but my gut says it's not overly favourable? Given this is typical of mid 90s rnb stylings, it's surprising just how well Secret has aged and I always think you'd never guess it's just over 20 years old. I love her image in this video, the hair and styling feels so timeless to me also, recalling classic Marilyn yet again. As for the song, I just find it really catchy I guess and at the time I thought it was like well cool and stuff. Actually there's not loads to say about it is there? Maybe that's why it doesn't get such a stellar press as some of her other lead singles... the next write up will be better. Promise.

EIGHTEEN

 

 

Into the Groove

 

And you can dance! For inspiration! Into the Groove is up next, clearly it's one of her most famous tracks and it's one that deserved to give her a first #1 here in the UK. I can't actually recall anything prior to the True Blue album at the time of it's release so the early eras tend to suffer (perhaps unfairly) in this thread, however this is one of just two tracks from the first couple of albums that have managed to feature. We could focus on stats like it being her best seller here etc but I'd rather focus on the girl at the beginning of the film (Susan presumably? I'm a flop Madge film fan, don't think I've ever seen any of them...) as I fear for her everytime I see the video, I always worry she will get her hair tangled in the film reel and have some sort of disastrous 80s fashion health and safety incident. I love the 80s style clubs too that feature in these sort of videos, bright neon Top of the Pops style lighting should be brought back again. To fit in with the club theme, they used to have 80s night at the Rig in Nottingham (a side club of Rock City) in the early 00s and they were pretty much exactly as they are in this video, Into the Groove was a weekly staple and I used to find myself making all sorts of angular shapes to this week in week out... on occasion I would go to that night dressed as Adam Ant and after a couple of times a fair few people used to know me as the dandyhighwayman...

SEVENTEEN

 

 

Hung Up

 

I-CON-IC. This is surely one of the most memorable comebacks of all time? Having crashed out of public affection with the kind of disastrous American Life era, Madonna decided to take stock and go back to her roots of disco... she did this by calling in Stuart Price of Les Rythmes Digitales fame (well, as much fame as you could have from one sort of hit single from a car changing into a robot advert) and went about crafting an album designed to be one complete disco masterpiece. And, surprisingly for the time, it actually worked! Hung Up represents one of those rare occasions where someone gets every single detail of every aspect of a project absolutely SPOT ON. The song is great, the accompanying video was iconic and she even somehow managed to wrap an ABBA sample up among it all... and on the subject of the sample, who on earth thought that anyone could ever take a recognisable sample of an ABBA single and somehow turn it into something where you actually forget it's a sample despite not changing it at all. That takes some skill and boy did she pull it off this time around.

hung up is the best song of all time for me so i honestly cannot fault its inclusion

SIXTEEN

 

 

Crazy For You

 

Now this is a proper love song. It's the sort of thing that gets played as the last track at a wedding, a simple message with a traditional style to it, a style that it's difficult not to love really. So aside from the end of weddings, it's also used quite heavily in the lives of young dandies in the early 90s! The primary reason this song is in the top 20 is that it holds very special memories from my childhood... back in 1991, a young dandy used to like girls. You know, those things that are a bit like boys but are significantly less fun to play with. The Immaculate Collection had just been released the christmas before and I had a new girlfriend (generally speaking I had one per school - the schools I went to that is, not literally one in every school as my dandiness was simply not that renowned throughout the land)... and my girlfriend and I used to listen to the album all the time together and generally act like loves young dream. One day she had the idea that we should both listen to Crazy For You at precisely 9pm every evening so that we both knew what the other was doing and that we were thinking of each other... so that's what we did! Well sort of, she was a girl so she listened to it routinely, I was a boy so I remembered a couple of times and generally forgot to do it quite quickly I guess. Still, whenever I hear it I am reminded of our teenage years and our dreams of a cottage in the country and a couple of kids etc. To think, if we'd had mobile phones, we'd never have this memory... oh and my then girlfriend is still one of my best friends now and I'm godfather to her children so this song really does remind me of where our relationship/friendship all began.

Edited March 28, 201510 yr by dandystar

SEVENTEEN

 

1

 

7

 

A ONE. FOLLOWED BY A SEVEN.

 

No. Whatever way I look at it, that does not work for my brain. Sorry.