Prayer

One of the best Solo Spice singles ever. Shame the whole album, while nice and with good moments, wasn't on the same level really.

It's gonna be released on vinyl for Record Store Day this year, by the way:

Yep, it's originally on the vocal track (not included on the final version, except for the spoken bits we know) and was actually used in some of the official remixes.

Sadly it just the way it goes. The remasters usually become the new main ones and the originals are left behind. Which is a pity.

The 2001 Madonna remasters became the standard editions for those three first albums, and mastering is very different from the originals.

"True Blue" is even worse cause with the 35th digital edition it got an even louder worse mastering and every digital edition of the album was updated with that one.

I'm not against remasters per se, but always keeping the originals, especially on streaming. I don't like the rewriting history part of that when the just upload the new files and delete the originals.

As fas as I know, only Qobuz now has the first 4 albums in their original form/mastering:

https://www.qobuz.com/es-es/album/madonna-madonna/0093624951131

https://www.qobuz.com/es-es/album/like-a-virgin-hi-res-version-madonna/0093624951117

https://www.qobuz.com/es-es/album/true-blue-hi-res-version-madonna/0093624951124

https://www.qobuz.com/es-es/album/whos-that-girl-hi-res-version-madonna/0093624951148

But wow at those prices.

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It's not Bob The Drag Queen, it's Prince! It's the spoken intro from his 1984 song (and hit) "Let's Go Crazy", from the "Purple Rain" album.

:-)

No, really, good for Elton. Even if it comes after years of shady venom towards her.

What? The world is definitely ending soon. All signs are there already.

Nope @PlayPause, that's all greyed out, at least in Europe. Where do you live? Maybe you have the local files and that's why you can play it?

The whole album was available officially on every digital platform for years until it was removed around 2016-2017, no one knows why.

Since it was M's first live album and rare for her at the time, maybe its release was some kind of one-off deal with Warner with that and the rights expired or something. But they had together after that the "Confessions" and "Sticky" live albums too, and those are still available, so I don't know.

@tscott I was checking Discogs and it was on every edition of the album, even on the cassette:

@tscottThe black bar is part of the original design. It's not that someone forgot to crop it out, the designer decided to do it that way - hence the inclusion on the inner sleeve too.

It's not a "stupid black bar", it was always part of the design, inner too.

Where is that from?

"Borderline" 5:18 is just the album version.

You mean which ones are different from the original CD/vinyl/cassette editions?

Two: "Lucky Star" is the Extended/US/New Mix and "Borderline" is the album version. The rest are the same.

This change is present in every digital edition of the album, not only iTunes and Apple Music, also Spotify, TIDAL, etc.

They all want her blessing for their own careers, a feat with her and a pic with her, but they won't post a single message about her when she needs them.

She's always been on her own in the end and it's really sad.

Of course all of them would be the first to post something if the thing that we must not mention happened.

The star system sucks.

It does! Literally it was the first album I listened on my first iPod. 

The 1st deluxe/expanded reissue announcement and pre-orders, right? 

No way...

According to Wiki, she started working on the soundtrack in December 1986:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_That_Girl_(soundtrack)

I think Warner simply wanted to keep it a surprise for the moment, as that's why they used a fake artist name and title. But they forgot to put a fake cover too.

Or maybe they just wanted us to discover it and talk about it, to create some hype.

But is he, really? The way he talks about most of the remixes shows he has absolutely NO idea about dance music and he's only doing it for the dragging. Is more a random collection of views and personal prejudices than a proper music review.

The Sasha Ultra Violet Mix of ‘Ray of Light’ sounds like the kind of music that hostile military forces play when they are trying to break the spirit of the captured enemy. ‘Nothing Really Matters’ starts well but turns into an exercise in ‘boom-tish’ tedium. The Calderone Radio Mix of ‘Beautiful Stranger’ was surely never played on any radio and the Richard ‘Humpty’ Vission Radio Mix of ‘American Pie’ is something that all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t save. The Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit of ‘Music’ has a name that had my finger hovering over the ‘skip’ button, but it’s actually rather good and offers some respite mid-CD, but Thunderpuss Video Remix of ‘Don’t Tell Me’ is truly awful. The Above And Beyond Club Radio Mix of ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ is supposed to be a remix classic; it probably sounded good in Ibiza. And so it continues. The ‘Die Another Die‘ remix is unlistenable and suddenly, I am no longer familiar with the original songs anymore. ‘Me Against The Music’? Nope. ’Nothing Fails’? No memory at all.

"It probably sounded good in Ibiza". Is that supposed to be shade? Of course it did, it's a club mix, b***h. What kind of review is "this song? Nope, I don't know it. Was this released here?", I mean.

He's basically a fan, not a music critic. His website started because of his love for physical deluxe editions, so...

What a messy "review".

It's definitely the PAL version. When I first bough the PAL VHS (!!) in 1999 or 2000 it was like that. I got so used to it that it's weird to watch the normal version even today, I find it "slow". 

And with potato quality! Imagine when they finally upgrade this one to HD!