Alexei

Noooo waaaaay

Okay.... Totally wrong, but..... 3.....Papa Don't Preach 2.....Live To Tell 1.....Open Your Heart

Bring on the top 3!!!!

I voted Live To Tell, but just got a feeling that Open Your Heart might surprise steal the number one crown.

Boooooooo! ? Shoulda been higher.

Agreed. Lost amid many classics in this era.

You're not alone in your support of Jimmy Jimmy ?

Predictions..... Bottom of the pile.....Santa Baby (cos it's bloody awful and deserves to be there) Top 5 prediction..... 5.....Where's The Party 4.....La Isla Bonita 3.....Papa Don't Preach 2.....Live To Tell 1.....Open Your Heart I predict the highest scoring Who's That Girl track will be The Look Of Love at number 6, and that it will be a close one between The Look Of Love and Who's That Girl (the single).

No I thought so as well. My own personal top 5 was (1) Crazy For You, (2) Into The Groove, (3) Shoo Bee Doo, (4) Like A Virgin, (5) Dress You Up. Found it really difficult to choose between Crazy For You and Into The Groove for highest placing. They are both superb tracks in two separate genres. Also a bit of an eye-opener that if we were strictly voting for just the Like A Virgin album as it was released and not the era itself, then Dress You Up would be the winning track.

Hear hear

Well deserved win for Into The Groove! An absolute bona fide classic track from the mid 80s. Quite an eye-opener to see people's votes for the other tracks from this era.

Third place???? Third??? Did people forget to vote for it or something???

Well I'm clearly crap at this, so I'll remain quiet ?

The amount of times I've refreshed this page ?

Top 3 prediction.... 3. Like A Virgin 2. Crazy For You 1. Into The Groove (I voted Crazy For You highest and Into The Groove second, but got a feeling the votes will twist it the other way round. But hey, what do I know ?)

I do agree with you about the title.....but I do think it's one of the album's real highlights. It deserved to be included on the Something To Remember compilation.

Had a feeling that Gambler would be the lowest of the 7 singles.

There's no justice. This song just melts me, and that saxophone in the middle is simply amazing. In absolutely no way did this deserve last place.....

Agreed, Pretender for last place surely. But not Shoo-Bee-Doo. That's one of the album's highlights! Think it might be Into The Groove and Crazy For You fighting it out for pole position. Could be a pretty close one between those two brilliant tracks.

Voted ?

It was the first album I ever bought. My older brother had got it on cassette as a present in 1986, and I borrowed it from him and played it over and over. I didn't want to give it back so he charged me for it and 12-year-old-Me handed over all my pocket money. I understand other posters in this thread who are saying that you had to be there to understand just what this album meant. I guess at just 9 tracks it does feel thin, especially when 5 of them are already such hugely well-known singles. By that I mean if anyone's approaching the album as a newcomer they're really only gonna find 4 tracks that they don't know already. The year before, Crazy For You and Into The Groove had both made me prick up my ears and turned me into an intrigued and avid young listener. But it was the True Blue album that made me a lifelong fan. For me, Live To Tell stands as one of the best tracks she has ever produced, it sends a shiver when I hear it, always has. The amount of times I would forward to the end of side one after Live To Tell had finished and then flip the cassette over to hear Where's The Party on side two. And then end of side two back over to side one....I literally wore that tape out. What I would give to go back and relive that time again.

And yet Rain does? Don't get me wrong, I think Rain does fit perfectly. I'm just saying that the general consensus is that Playground doesn't fit, purely because it wasn't included on there. If it had been included, everyone would be quite used to the track order and it wouldn't even occur to people that it shouldnt be on there.

This Used To Be My Playground would've fitted if it had been included when the album was released. It's only because it wasn't included that people have since come to that conclusion. Presumably it's because of the sexual overtones running through almost every song that people think this, which holds no place on Playground. In which case, does a pure and simple love song like Rain really fit? Of course it does. But if things were different and Rain had just been released as a non-album single in 1993 between Fever and I'll Remember would we now be saying "Well, Rain wasn't included because it clearly doesn't fit with everything else around it." So I honestly believe that Playground should have been added. I'm biased, because my love for the song is clear on other threads. And it is on my version of Erotica. I added the track as track 3 between Fever and Bye Bye Baby. Fits seamlessly, like it was always meant to be there.

Voted. Nice one, Curtains ?

I'm really not a fan of the versions of the tracks put on The Immaculate Collection. I'd much rather it had been the original versions (or edits where necessary). But you're right, it's all in the name, the line-up is just that...immaculate. I still find it incredible that somebody who hadn't even been high profile for a full decade could compile a greatest hits collection of such magnitude but could still afford to leave so many genuine hits and number 1 singles off of the line-up, and manage to turn that album into a global smash. Surely no other artist could have done it.