'Causing A Commotion' is a bit too high for my liking. Yeah it's fun and it's a good enough song but she's done jolly much better than this. I do like that hook though.

 

I actually find 'Miles Away' to be one of the more Madonna sounding moments on the album, or at least it feels more like a collaboration between Madonna's sound and Timbaland's/Timberlake's. The guitar probably helps a lot. My favourite part is when, on the album version, the music dies down then the vocals morph out and the production picks up again. Also, I actually like the live performance music video, okay it would have been nicer to have had an actual video but, when I listen to the song, I can picture her singing to an audience and having a moment with them.

 

That all said, I too can't believe it took the place of 'Give It 2 Me' on Celebration either.

Cherish being this low :cry:

 

Also really like the others, 'Take a Bow' especially, is glorious. The only one I'm not keen on is apart from American Pie, that's too high if you ask me.

 

Poor Bedtime Stories being the second album to lose all its singles already. In the next round of results (which I'll post tomorrow), another album loses its last single :o Any guesses?

I'll Remember is lovely, it deserves better as it's an understated ballad with lovely production, took a while to grow on me when it was released but it's stuck with me ever since.

 

Oh and as for Secret going out already, y'all should be ashamed.

Edited March 24, 20169 yr by dandy*

these results are f***ed

these results are f***ed

 

Well Madonna has decades of really popular singles, we're into the songs that have comfortably scored over 7 averages now, so nothing at this point is a huge failure.

'Cherish' is my favourite Madonna song, #41. :( Some of the scores I saw that getting are punishable by stoning!

Rain = This is such a beautiful and well crafted moment on 'Erotica' and glad that it finally got the release that it deserved and ended that era perfectly. Which in all was hit and miss with some of the choices such as 'Bad Girl', 'Fever' & 'Bye Bye Baby', the latter thankfully never got a UK release. But as for 'Rain' , it's such a beautiful tender moment on the album, which would have had less of a backlash, if some of the far better songs were singles, instead of the ones I mentioned. I'd rank 'Rain' as my 2nd fave single after 'Deeper And Deeper'.

 

Nothing Fails = I think this lands at just about right on here. While it is a great song and would have been a far better choice than 'Love Profusion'. But in the end I think she's had far better material overall with such a strong discography of greatness.

 

American Pie = I actually find this cover really great, and really loved it at the time, however I do kinda understand the backlash, but come on, it's harmless enough and people do overreact to such minor things. I'm glad it's got a relatively decent position on here. I remember hearing a quote of someone, that in order to cover a song, you have to reach inside it's soul and smash it to pieces, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In this case I do think it works, with William Orbit's production really packs a punch with this. However the way this song is used in her god awful movie 'The Next Best Thing' as a kind theme and reference is rather idiotic, especially after the movie itself has nothing to do with any aspects of the song's meaning.

 

Take A Bow = Never understand why this wasn't a big hit here in the UK, only reaching a mere #16 peak, while in America it was a #1 smash. Especially following on from 'Secret' which was a hit in the UK and why this was the one that broke her winning top 10 streak. This song is wonderful and beautiful in every way, I do admit I wasn't keen on this when I was younger, but now I see the beauty and sadness in it. This was the best thing to come out of the 'Bedtime Stories' era, and far superior to the 2 singles that followed this the title track and 'Human Nature', which got much better peaks, but both tanked in the USA. I find it kinda baffling.

 

Cherish = Now I really really love this, and it's far too low on here, should be top 30 at least. Personally found it quite a refreshing change of pace after the heavy themes of the lead singles (which are both incredible). Everything about this song just makes me smile and was a wonderful addition to the already amazing 'Like A Prayer' album. Plus I really loved the video to this, just so simple yet so mesmerizing.

Adore American Pie and Cherish, wish both made the top 40 :wub:

As if Rain didn't make the Top 40. :cry: Oh well, at the least the average shows that it's somewhat appreciated here. It's such a beautiful song. :wub: [Even if it does have some dirty connotations, I still think it's beautiful! :')]

 

I'll always find Take a Bow's UK underperformance rather curious. I certainly don't think it was deserving of being the song to end her run of Top 10s. A very understated and lovely track.

Take A Bow and American Pie should have made top 40 but its good to see them :(

'Rain' is BREATHTAKING and as Liam didn't post it, i'll share the video here:

 

 

Could be my favourite Madge video in all of its simplicity and beauty :snif: I'd say it's far too low in this rate too but then there's still SO MUCH goodness to come that it's already getting brutal.

 

Gosh everything about the song is so perfect :heart: :heart:

 

Shoutout to 'Nothing Fails' too <3

Wanting..needing...waiting

 

 

36. Hollywood //American Life // 7.672 (1: Griff, 4: Kylie Jackson // 10: ketalina , Jakewild , Chapman)

37. Erotica // Erotica // 7.53 (4: dandy* , 5: dj_tim_e, // 10: River lea, NickF1 , Chapman)

38. Justify My Love // The Immaculate Collection // 7.44 (0: Ultraviolence , 3: princess_lotti // 10: Joe., River lea , jakewild , Mango , Kylie Jackson)

39. American Life // American Life // 7.396 (2: Ultraviolence , 3: Joe. , Kylie Jackson, 4: SamJudd // 11: Alejandjob., 10: jakewild , dj_tim_e, Chapman)

40. Who's That Girl // Who's That Girl // 7.37 (1: jakewild, 4: ketalina // 10: Mango , Bjork )

 

 

Here we have 5 truly iconic Madonna songs and a batch which includes one of my favourites and two of my least favourites. First up making the top 40 is 'Who's That Girl', the third UK #1 to fall out of the rate after Liam revealed 'American Pie', in the previous batch. From the Madonna starring film of the same name, 'Who's That Girl' is probably one of Madonna's lesser remembered #1s, but it still remains quite the earworm and is well liked by Buzzjack, though ultimately feels like a slightly inferior 'La Isla Bonita,' with its similar styled production and Spanish lyrics.

 

It's typical that I'd get the two main singles from the American Life album, as while they're not her worst singles ever, when it comes to her more "remembered", this era, single-wise was a slight mess to me. It was all felt a bit directionless and confused, so I'm going to paste some stuff from Wikipedia, because I don't have much nice to say, and I know these songs do have fans... 'American Life' is the titular track that was released digitally as the lead single from the album on April 8, 2003 by Maverick Records. It was written and produced by Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï; the lyrics to "American Life" feature violent transitions and a political and religious view from Madonna. She questions the shallowness of modern life and the American dream under President George W. Bush's conservative watch. Towards the end of the song, Madonna raps naming the people who were working for her.

 

The song features a rap from Madonna herself and it is awful.'I do yoga and pilates, and the room is full of hotties'. Enough said. [Not from wiki]

 

Next we have one of my favourite Madonna songs, 'Justify My Love', which I'd call Madonna's first really experimental single. After the controversy of the Like A Prayer video in the late 80s, Madonna once again made headlines in 1992, with the wildly criticised and inevitably banned video, which for the time was too sexually explicit for MTV viewers because of its themes of sadomasochism, bisexuality and experimentation. When I think of the video, which I don't think of as offensive in the slightest, I think of sexual freedom, expression, art and

interview - where Madonna very elegantly and articulately defends the meaning behind the video on live TV. America (and the world, to many degrees), still have a very prudent relationship with sex and sexuality and in this interview Madonna keeps her calm whilst the interviewer basically calls her a bad role model and anti-feminist, both of which she defends very well, as the video is brilliantly feminist-driven like a lot of her work - and Madonna never promotes anything here with a harmful influence. Sure, I wouldn't put it on CBBC, but Madonna's point about there being no censorship on violence while sexuality always being looked down upon, is today, still very valid. The video was eventually released as a video-single, so that people could watch the video at home, and themes aside, it's a beautifully shot masterpiece and truly elevates the song, which I, of course, still love in its own right.

 

It's funny that, with 78 songs in the running, 'Erotica' ended up exactly right next to 'Justify My Love', they're both often compared, as they're thematically and musically quite similar, and Haus recently ran a very close poll on this recently, where 'Justify My Love' won, by only one vote. Erotica manages to chart higher on this rate by a small margin. Madonna clearly enjoyed toying with the provoking themes of sex, with the Greatest Hits single 'Justify My Love' and followed it up with an album of similarly themed songs, 'Erotica', being the title track. All this came with a photography book called Sex (which I found under my parents' bed as a child and was horrified) and made for one of, in my opinion, Madonna's more focused eras, even though it's avant-garde nature meant for lower sales overall. It's an enchanting, haunting and of course sexy song, where Madonna, as with 'Justify My Love', uses spoken work to captivate her listeners. So lessons learned from these results: Spoken word Madonna = Yes. Rapping Madonna = No.

 

And the highest song in this countdown is 'Hollywood', which means the American Life album is the next album to completely fall out of the running. This is, for me the best of the singles from the era, though I still think it's probably finished a little too high. 'Hollywood' discusses American culture and greed, focusing on, of course, Hollywood. The song is known well for that performance at the VMAs, where Madonna came out and snogged Britney Spears and someone else. This of course had Madonna making headlines once again. 'Music stations always play the same songs', I know babe, hearing American Life constantly around the time annoyed me, too.

 

 

 

The rap is ICONIC

So interesting that Erotica and Justify My Love are next to each other !!

I believe all American life singles have been eliminated ?

Your not a pop fan if you think that rap is nothing less than utter genius. These results are making me cry

Justify My Love is the highlight of that bunch, the others are all middling at best.

I have no idea why I was so harsh on Justify My Love oops :kink:

I have no idea why I was so harsh on Justify My Love oops :kink:

so was your lack of love for the song justified? :heehee:

I love that Madge turned the JML shitstorm into the best selling video single of all time. Queen of inventing.

The 0 from UV for JML hurts.