Everything posted by Cyrax
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Most well-known songs that have never been #1
I don't think most of them are that remembered by the masses, just stuff like Changes, Life On Mars? or Rebel Rebel...
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Most well-known songs that have never been #1
Like A Virgin peaked at #3. From Madonna's canon, Express Yourself might qualify here as well, peaked at #5.
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Rebel Heart ● 13th Studio Album
On Sticky & Sweet Tour almost nothing sounded like album version, then on MDNA Tour we had Papa Don't Preach, Express Yourself, Vogue, Human Nature & Like A Prayer that sound like album/The Immaculate Collection versions and on Rebel Heart Tour nothing really strayed off its familiar arrangement except Dress You Up and the acoustic songs. Music starts out as a torch song but then it's literally the album version playing, such a disappointment... :(
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Forbidden Love vs Forbidden Love
Two of her very best album tracks, love them both but I'm giving a slight edge to 1994 with that smooth melody and amazing vocals.
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Rebel Heart ● 13th Studio Album
That's little to do with it as in the 1990s she jumped on the R&B/Adult Contemporary bandwagon and she scored several hits. Then the electronica transition was also convenient for her but then people stopped loving her with American Life when she was no longer doing relatable pop music. She rectified that with COADF and HC was pretty successful considering the circumstances but to me after she left Warner she's been mostly repeating herself (Going back to William Orbit? Another single featuring Nicki Minaj?) and she stopped working with just a handful people and it became A&R'ing songs from other songwriters which is so not what she used to be for 25 years... Then again she is pushing 60 so nothing she does is likely to get much attention, only a select few fans would be pleased if she "went indie", like how she went back to William Orbit and how she stopped reinventing her hits and is only doing album versions on tour. I guess that's how business works now, can be compared to never-ending franchise films, safe and predictable.
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Devil Wouldn't Recognise You vs Devil Pray
Devil Wouldn't Recognize You is a highlight in the later part of her career, a perfectly written and produced song that was immortalized by the stunning live rendition. Devil Pray has always been just ideas thrown together that does not stick, some parts are good, mostly the lyrics but others are ruined by the simple Avicii-like melody and especially the iffy vocals, like during "The ground beneath..." bit. I also fail to see the point of those weird auto-tuned vocals added in the album version, she seems to have really obsessed to change *something* after the songs leaked. The song was interesting for 15 minutes when she put the first 6 songs for sale in December 2014...
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What Bowie albums did you already own?
Wonder why Under Pressure is sequenced wrong on Best of Bowie and 3-disc version of Nothing Has Changed, while it's correctly put on The Singles Collection & 2-disc version of Nothing Has Changed as it came out a year later than Scary Monsters...
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Madonna's WORST song ● VOTING
+10 Bitch I'm Madonna +9 Autotune Baby +8 Shoo-Bee-Doo +7 Hey You +6 Girl Gone Wild +5 S.E.X. +4 B-Day Song +3 Did You Do It? +2 Spanish Lesson +1 Candy Shop Can't believe none of the last two tracks of True Blue are in...
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What Bowie albums did you already own?
Nothing Has Changed. The best compilation of his although I miss TVC 15, Look Back In Anger, Cat People (Putting Out Fire), Underground & Day-In Day-Out from it.
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Prince
Definitely, not only it's the best introduction to Prince but one of greatest compilation albums ever!
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Madonna's WORST song ● Nominations
Shoo-Bee-Doo Jimmy Jimmy Love Makes The World Go Round Words Inside Of Me To Have And Not To Hold Little Star Nobody's Perfect Superstar Bitch I'm Madonna
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Fave Track from Madonna (album)
Borderline
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Fave Track from Like A Virgin
Into The Groove
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Whitney Houston Singles Rate
Whitney Houston 1.5 Hold Me (Ft Teddy Pendergrass 3.0 All At Once 7.0 You Give Good Love 9.0 Saving All My Love For You 8.5 How Will I Know 8.5 Greatest Love Of All Whitney 9.0 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 6.0 Didn't We Almost Have It All 6.5 So Emotional 9.5 Where Do Broken Hearts Go 6.5 Love Will Save The Day I'm Your Baby Tonight 9.5 I'm Your Baby Tonight 9.0 All The Man That I Need 9.0 Miracle 9.0 My Name Is Not Susan 10.0 I Belong To You The Bodyguard Soundtrack 9.0 I Will Always Love You 8.0 I'm Every Woman 8.0 I Have Nothing 8.0 Run To You 7.5 Queen Of The Night Waiting To Exhale & The Preacher's Wife Soundtracks 9.0 Exhale (Shoop, Shoop) 5.0 Count On Me (Ft CeCe Winans) 6.0 Why Does It Hurt So Bad 8.0 I Believe In You And Me 8.0 Step By Step My Love Is Your Love 9.0 When You Believe (Ft Mariah Carey) 8.0 Heartbreak Hotel 7.5 It's Not Right But It's Okay 8.0 My Love Is Your Love 8.0 I Learned From The Best Whitney: The Greatest Hits 8.0 Could I Have This Kiss Forever (Ft Enrique Iglesias) 6.5 If I Told You That (Ft George Michael) Just Whitney 5.0 Whatulookinat' 5.0 One Of Those Days 5.0 Try It On My Own I Look To You 4.5 I Look To You 7.00 Million Dollar Bill Other Releases 7.0 One Moment In Time 6.5 It Isn't, It Wasn't It Ain't Never Gonna Be (Ft Aretha Franklin) 5.0 Somthing In Common (Ft Bobby Brown) 5.0 Celebrate (Ft Jordin Sparks)
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Céline Dion - Loved Me Back To Life
Won't do much for her at this point, the single has been largely ignored. But I'm still waiting to hear the album!
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One album wonders
But none of these arguments have anything to do with NOT being a "one album wonder". :wacko: Cyndi is an icon exactly because of that one big album!
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MDNA Tour DVD News
More on the US chart performance: http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news...ur-debuts-earth -- Madonna, "MDNA World Tour" (No. 90): The album version of Madonna's "MDNA World Tour" concert video release debuts at No. 90 with 4,000 sold. It was issued only as a digital album and a CD-R on demand from Amazon.com. It is her 26th chart entry on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, on the Music Video Sales chart, the blu-ray and DVD version of the "MDNA World Tour" release combine to sell 11,000 for a No. 1 debut. It's her 10th No. 1 and sixth chart-topper in a row. Her last live album and video release, 2010's "Sticky & Sweet Tour," was released on blu-ray, CD/DVD and as a digital album. The former configuration enabled its No. 1 debut on Music Video Sales with 5,000, while the latter two combined for a No. 10 arrival on the Billboard 200 (28,000). Had "MDNA World Tour" been issued on traditional CD and CD/DVD (and/or CD/blu-ray combo), then the album would have naturally charted much higher than No. 90 on the Billboard 200.
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One album wonders
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie sold twice than that yet it is widely regarded as a flop because it faded into oblivion very quickly. Cyndi had two major hits after She's So Unusual ("True Colors" & "I Drove All Night") but none of her albums got any attention and I believe her debut sold 6 million in the US alone so True Colors selling 3 million WW still makes her eligible to this list in my opinion.
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One album wonders
Are Cyndi Lauper & Alanis Morissette eligible for this list? I know they most likely charted high for at least one week with subsequent releases but generally they are viewed as only having one successful album...
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MDNA Tour DVD News
Her previous 3 live albums were NOT released separately, they were bonuses for the DVDs (and also available as digital tracks). However, I distinctly recall that the sales of the Celebration CD and DVD were combined, so are we sure it's not the case for MDNA World Tour?
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MDNA Tour DVD News
Yeah that's what I linked a week ago. ;) But there is some confusion since it says "CD-R" so it might be Amazon burning the digital album onto CD. I guess we'll only know on the release day...
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MDNA Tour DVD News
It seemed that the USA wouldn't get the physical live album, just digital (as deciphered from the press release), but Amazon.com now has this listed and not under "import": http://www.amazon.com/MDNA-World-Tour-Madonna/dp/B00E3D7WGU/
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KING OF POP RATE - The Results
Loving the list so far, especially the latest entry. The Way You Make Me Feel is truly amazing!!! :D
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KING OF POP: Ultimate Rate
Songs -1 Ben 07 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 08 Rock With You 08 Off The Wall 05 She's Out Of My Life 08 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' -1 The Girl Is Mine (feat. Paul McCartney) 09 Thriller 10 Beat It 11 Billie Jean 11 Human Nature 06 P. Y. T. (Pretty Young Thing) 06 Bad 10 The Way You Make Me Feel 06 Liberian Girl 04 Another Part of Me 08 Man in the Mirror 07 I Just Can't Stop Loving You 05 Dirty Diana 10 Smooth Criminal 03 Leave Me Alone 09 Jam 09 In The Closet 06 Remember The Time 05 Heal The World 06 Black or White 11 Who Is It 10 Give in to Me 08 Will You Be There -1 Gone Too Soon 08 Scream (feat. Janet Jackson) 08 They Don't Care About Us 07 You Are Not Alone 09 Earth Song 09 Stranger in Moscow 08 Blood on the Dancefloor 08 You Rock My World 06 Butterflies 04 Cry 05 One More Chance 02 This is It Albums 10 Off The Wall 11 Thriller 07 Bad 08 Dangerous 07 HIStory: Past, Present and Future 06 Invincible
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Little Boots - Nocturnes
Slant Magazine review: http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/...boots-nocturnes Since she emerged on the scene four years ago with the aptly titled "New in Town," critics have been quick (and lazy) to compare the flaxen-haired Victoria Hesketh to Madonna. But she lacks the personality and blond ambition that catapulted Madge to superstardom in the '80s, and Hesketh's debut as Little Boots, Hands, recalled Kylie Minogue, Annie, and a host of other female pop singers indebted to the Queen of Pop rather than the icon herself. So it's surprising to discover that Little Boots' sophomore effort, Nocturnes, is peppered with songs like "Confusion," which—melodically, lyrically, and vocally—would fit perfectly on any latter-day Madonna album, and the rollicking dance track "Broken Record," which even employs one of Madge's favorite lyrical pastimes of quoting a past hit (in this case, Hesketh's "Stuck on Repeat"). Nocturnes also features collaborations with the kind of below-ground producers—DFA co-founder Tim Goldsworthy, Andy Butler of Hercules and Love Affair, and James Ford of Simian Mobile Disco—Madonna would be keen to shack up with at this stage in her career. If the strength of Hands was its variety, Nocturnes's is its consistency, with a more focused attention on electronic dance music. Opening track "Motorway" pairs the time-honored theme of escape from a small town with cool synth pads and a subtly propulsive undercurrent, reprised later in the album on the coolly futuristic "Strangers." The '80s is a decided touchstone, from the sliced-and-diced vocals of "Every Night I Say a Prayer" to the electro-Kate-Bush hook of "All for You," but the album stumbles slightly when it directly apes past dance subgenres rather than slyly nodding to them within the context of a more contemporary EDM sound: The elastic bassline of "Beat Beat" references disco too directly, while the generic house beats of "Shake" would quickly grow tired if the song weren't so irresistibly listenable. And Hesketh's shrewd choice of collaborators is often squandered on rather rudimentary song structures and lyrical ideas. That doesn't make Nocturnes any less enjoyable of a dance-pop album, but it's ultimately what will keep Little Boots from becoming the next Madonna, or the next Robyn for that matter. [3.5 out of 5 stars]