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    MEGARATE: True Blue era [Results Show - Recap on first page]

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    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).

    MEGARATE: Like a Virgin era [Results Show - Recap on first page]

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    5 minutes ago, Ziggy Stardust said:

    Am I the only one who felt like Crazy For You should have taken the number 2 spot? I have always liked it better than Dress You Up.

    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.

     

     

    MEGARATE: Like a Virgin era [Results Show - Recap on first page]

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    4 minutes ago, Curtains said:

    Which means that the Top 5 includes...

    -Material Girl

    -Like a Virgin

    -Into the Groove

    -Dress You Up

    -Crazy for You

     

    Post your predictions! :)

    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 ?)

    MEGARATE: Like a Virgin era [Results Show - Recap on first page]

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    14 minutes ago, Curtains said:

    #12 – Shoo-Bee-Doo

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    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.....

    MEGARATE: Like a Virgin era [Results Show - Recap on first page]

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    1 hour ago, spinningaround said:

    Pretender or Shoo-bee-doo will be in last place i guess, and  ITG will probably win. Lets wait and see...

    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.

    Your Opinion on True Blue

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    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. 

    Your opinion on Erotica?

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    18 minutes ago, Drownedboy said:

    mmm I really don´t think This used to be my playground really would have fit on this, too much strings and heart for Erotica.

    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.

    Your opinion on Erotica?

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    On 12/22/2021 at 9:27 AM, LongIslandTea said:

    I dun really like it when it first came out and used to skip a few songs (WLB, ITL, WISH, DYDI, SG)

    But it gets better along the way and now I dun skip anything at all.

    PS: I can totally get why TUTBMP was excluded 'cos it doesn't fit.

    Couldn't say the same for AL & all-LN-era-albums. 

    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.

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    10 hours ago, steady75 said:

    It’s weird with Immaculate because despite me favouring a couple of different versions it sort of …. Urm… Immaculate as it is. I’d much rather have a second disc with the missing singles from the era

    1. Everybody

    2. Burning Up

    3. Physical Attraction 

    4. Dress You Up

    5. Angel

    6. Gambler

    7. Love Don’t Live Here Anymore 

    9. True Blue

    10. Who’s That Girl

    11. Causing A Commotion

    12. The Look Of Love

    13. Spotlight 

    14. Dear Jessie

    15. Oh Father

    16. Keep It Together

    17. Hanky Panky

    18. Get Over 

    Now that would be a serve. 

    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.

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