[Ranking the Tracks: Ray of Light]

1. Frozen
2. Ray Of Light
3. Power Of Goodbye
4. Sky Fits Heaven
5. Skin
6. Nothing Really Matters
7. Shanti/Ashtangi
8. Swim
9. Has To Be
10. Drowned World
11. Little Star
12. To Have & Not To Hold
13. Mer Girl

[Ranking the Tracks: Like a Virgin]

1. Like A Virgin
2. Material Girl
3. Dress You Up
4. Angel
5. Over & Over
6. Love Don't Live Here Anymore
7. Stay
8. Pretender
9. Shoo-Bee-Doo

Single choice on this album was perfect!

[Ranking the Tracks: Madonna]

1. Borderline
2. Lucky Star
3. Holiday
4. Everybody
5. Physical Attraction
6. Burning Up
7. Think Of Me
8. I Know It

[Ranking the Tracks: Bedtime Stories]

1. Secret
2. Take A Bow
3. Human Nature
4. Bedtime Story
5. Survival
6. Inside Of Me
7. Forbidden Love
8. I'd Rather Be Your Lover
9. Don't Stop
10. Sanctuary
11. Love Tried To Welcome Me

[Ranking the Tracks: Hard Candy]

1. Give It 2 Me
2. Candy Shop (I wish the production was punchier like the live version)
3. She's Not Me (a classic deep cut)
4. Beat Goes On (aborted single)
5. 4 Minutes
6. Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
7. Dance 2Night
8. Voices
9. Heartbeat
10. Incredible
11. Spanish Lesson
12. Miles Away (Should've been Across The Sky)
13. Ring My Bell

[You Can Dance- What songs would you have picked?]

A new remix of White Heat, Gambler or Causing a Commotion would've been nice.

 

I think the Think Of Me rejected YCD version is fake if I'm not mistaken. 

[Ranking the Tracks: Music]

I've always thought Music was overrated. 

1. Music
2. Don't Tell Me
3. Impressive Instant
4. Paradise Not For Me
5. Runaway Lover
6. I Deserve It
7. What It Feels Like For a Girl
8. Amazing
9. Gone
10. Nobody's Perfect
11. Cyber-raga (the orbit version is sooooooo much better)

[Ranking the Tracks: Erotica]

1. Erotica
2. Deeper & Deeper
3. Secret Garden
4. Bye Bye Baby
5. Where Life Begins
6. Fever
7. Thief Of Hearts
8. Why's It So Hard
9. Waiting
10. Rain
11. Bad Girl
12. Words
13. In This Life
14. Did You Do It

In This Life is probably one of my least fav Madonna songs ever.  I appreciate the subject & whatnot, just ALWAYS skip it.  DYDI is fun but def a skipper.

[Ranking the Tracks: Like a Prayer]

1. Like A Prayer
2. Express Yourself
3. Oh Father
4. Promise To Try
5. Pray For Spanish Eyes
6. Keep It Together
7. Love Song
8. Dear Jessie
9. Cherish
10. Till Death Do Us Part
11. Act Of Contrition

This may be her most solid album IMHO. 

[Questions about Hold Tight credits]

Madonna can absolutely produce a track on her own.  All she needs to do is order engineers around.  She co-produces everything already.

That being said, Hold Tight sounds very much like a Ryan Tedder production.

I doubt he wanted to be disassociated with it because he had a similar song with Gwen months or a year before he did HT. Why would he produce it in the first place?

I think it was more along the lines of the album being such a mess with the leaks & her switching which versions etc etc for the final tracklist.  The initial credits for the album took forever to come out and haven't they even been revised since?  I don't trust those credits, this song being the glaring example.  

[Ranking the Tracks: Confessions on a Dance Floor]

1. Hung Up
2. Sorry
3. Get Together
4. Jump
5. Future Lovers
6. Let it Will Be
7. Like it or Not
8. Forbidden Love
9. Isaac
10. How High
11. I Love New York
12. Fighting Spirit
13. Super Pop
14. Push

[Ranking the Tracks: MDNA]

1. Beautiful Killer
2. Girl Gone Wild
3. Love Spent
4. I Don’t Give A
5. Turn Up The Radio
6. I’m a Sinner
7. Masterpiece
8. I'm Addicted
9. Gang Bang
10. Give Me All Your Luvin’
11. Falling Free
12. Best Friend
13. Some Girls
14. I Fucked Up
15. Superstar
16. B-Day Song

One of her more flawed albums, but I agree its underrated.

[AL or COADF]

Without question Confessions

[Madonna’s ‘Ray of Light’: 6 Things You Didn’t Know]

I always thought Madonna's writing credit on Swim was fishy.  Great song though.

[Can anyone remember where this specific M quote comes from?]

Its from I'm Going To Tell You A Secret

[Madonna: Rare]

On 10/11/2018 at 1:35 PM, blondebombshell said:

2 of my favorites with madge

The one w/ Drew & Courtney is fake 

[Is she writing an autobiography]

Cher is only doing hers now

[Trying to get into Madonna more...]

Because you like a lot of the more recent stuff (post 2005), I'd say listen to Confessions On A Dancefloor.  Then try the Like a Prayer album cuz you'll feel closer to God .

My experience in getting into older music that I've just been causal about is to just find an album you can get into & soak it in for a few weeks/couple months/however long you need,  then find a track that grabs you from elsewhere in the discography--maybe its the next chronological album maybe its just another one of the more celebrated albums--but then delve into that album.  Her debut album is a fucking classic if you ask me but I didn't get into it until i was a fan for like 15 years. But take your time & enjoy the journey.

I've been getting into Fleetwood Mac & Queen myself lately after being a VERY casual listener for years & I'm turning 42 this month (and I've been a Madonna fan since I was 12 so OMFG I've been Madonna fan for 30 years this year!!!!).  There's ALWAYS music to get into no matter what age you are if you truly love music.

As for Madonna though, Erotica you should def give another shot at some point.  And from the songs you say you like, I'd say you'd might be inclined toward Bedtime Stories.

ALSO, when you listen to a Madonna album, WATCH THE VIDEOS from that album. That may help you "get it" more, but I'm a visual person & I'm sure plenty of fans may disagree.

 

Happy Listening!

[What happened with Madonna's lead singles?]

GMAYL was a horrible lead single. The song is a bop but more like 3/4th single.

LFL was perfect for RH.  IF she had kept the RH Aviici mix THAT should've been the lead.
 

[The #MadonnaBUTTChallenge]

This is the best thread in a bit. butt? 

[Post blonde ambition what do you think has been her best tour?]

Confessions 

[Madonna Collaborations]

I'd love Madonna & Kylie produced by Daft Punk.

[Madonna SHOCKING PR move]

Guy always gets blamed for everything, but maybe its not always Guy.  Maybe Madonna just makes a lot of her own choices & tells him no to a lot of his ideas that could be good. And maybe some of the reverse, or a bit of both. 

-Someone got her to do more 80's hits on the RHT.  

-Writing camps on RH were fruitful if not complicated & messy.  Got some great songs out of it.  But glad she's tried it and is moving on back to her typical way of making records.

-She promoted the HELL out of RH.

Its hard to figure out what she does that is her own choice vs what Guy tries getting her to do.

 

[Like a prayer - live]

My least fave is the RIT version, not that I dislike it. I remember were so excited to hear it live after 14 years it was so magical to experience at MSG that night.

I liked the MDNA version as it was closest to the original remix version/BAT version.

[Madame X Tour Songs Expectations]

Its time for Angel & an uptempo version of Open Your Heart.  

Also Express Yourself needs to come back and make up for the MDNA Tour number. 

ALSO, how about Rain?  

Then there Physical Attraction, Sorry, Give It 2 Me, Frozen, Causing A Commotion, Live To Tell, Oh Father, Don't Tell Me.......now I can't stop.

 

Edit: I love the EY/BTW mashup, just didn't like the actual number & costume.