Alexei

Your post here really just resonated with me and took me back to 1992. Like you say, Madonna hadn't released anything since The Immaculate Collection in 1990, and information on artists and New releases was so much more difficult to find out. I was only 16 when The Immaculate Collection was released. As far as I was concerned, and was led to believe, a greatest hits package was an artist's way of grouping all their best work together and then signing off. I was under the impression that Madonna, my favourite artist, had called it a day. Seems crazy to have thought that now. The release of This Used To Be My Playground came out of nowhere and the track absolutely stunned me when I first heard it. She was back, and The Immaculate Collection had not been the end. The long version became the default listen as I found the single version too short. I found the music to it beautifully haunting, and on many occasions, then and since, there's been a lump in my throat by the end of the song. How utterly raw with emotion it sounded, about someone looking back at their childhood, just at the point when I was on the brink of turning 18 and leaving my childhood behind. Yeh, it unfortunately appears to be a forgotten and overlooked song, but not with me. Like the Erotica album which followed not too far behind, it arrived at a really huge time in my life. Pretty special.

If it means that both Crazy For You and Into The Groove get their original versions remastered and released then, in this instance, I hope they do become part of the Like A Virgin album, purely because I find The Immaculate Collection versions of both tracks to be weak imitations.

To be honest, I genuinely thought that might be what they were planning. It's not necessarily what I was wanting them to do. I was just remembering back to the ABBA remastered albums where non-album tracks like 'Summer Night City' and 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' got tagged on to the end of the Voulez Vous album as it was the closest album to the release of those particular singles. It kinda got me thinking that if 'Something To Remember' didn't fall into this remastered/reissued bracket, what would then happen to tracks like 'You'll See', 'I Want You' and 'One More Chance' that don't appear anywhere else? Could they continue as tracks on CD1 of 'Bedtime Stories' after 'Take A Bow' finishes, which in my eyes would totally alter the listenability of that album because an album is like a book. 'Survival' is chapter one, 'Take A Bow' is the closing chapter. Or would those 3 'STR' tracks and their remixes/instrumentals become part of disc 2, therefore not interrupting the flow of the original album.

Sorry yeh, you're spot on, it was a while ago that I last read the press release, and only remembered it saying about 'landmark albums'.

So is it looking likely that soundtrack tracks and individual singles will be placed on the nearest album? For example, the 4 tracks from Who's That Girl will become part of a True Blue reissue? You'll See and I Want You will become part of a Bedtime Stories reissue, and so on?

I remember being pretty miffed that This Used To Be My Playground wasn't part of the Erotica album when it was released. To me, Did You Do It was totally expendable so I culled that on my version and added This Used To Be My Playground (the long version of course) as track 3 in-between Fever and Bye Bye Baby. The way that Fever winds down at the end flows perfectly into Playground. And likewise, the close of Playground fits neatly into Bye Bye Baby. Works for me ?

I'm gonna take a wild stab at there being 2 releases to kick-start the reissues. I reckon The First Album and Like A Prayer.

Crazy For You Shoo Bee Doo To Have And Not To Hold

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