Single Reissues Campaign - This Used to Be My Playground - OUT NOW

[Cyberraga 792]

8 hours ago, Prayer said:

Well @deathproofwas right.

Confirmed on Pop Justice, "This Used To Be My Playground" digital single out at midnight.

01. This Used To Be My Playground

02. This Used To Be My Playground (Long Version)

03. This Used To Be My Playground (Instrumental)

They're giving us goods lately ❤️ I'm so pleased. 

[CYSMM 681]

When are they gonna continue with the upscale for music videos?

Love Profusion to close AL, if we consider DAD will be available later with the streaming…

And Celebration still in 240p 😬 

[CYSMM 681]

Also she’s crazy about Candy Shop and Human Nature and she can’t give us a proper HD for that video 😆

[Frankito 195]

1 hour ago, Rebel Hugo said:

And curiously it was her tenth number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 👀 

Hehe yes, that's a nice coincidence

 

It was her tenth anniversary in music

[Frankito 195]

1 hour ago, Rebel Hugo said:

And curiously it was her tenth number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 👀 

Hehe yes, that's a nice coincidence

 

It was her tenth anniversary in music

[animalinstinct 2,122]

Time for her team to sort out her Spotify again.

Move ‘Love Profusion’ & ‘Don’t Tell Me’ from the albums section into her singles.

Put ‘Lucky Star’, ‘Rain’, ‘Deeper & Deeper’ & ‘‘Everybody’ into their correct year of release. 

[roberMDNA 731]

Would be nice if they included Impressive Instant also in this, they released *promo only* remixes in some of the singles so she could just put this on streaming too WITH A SINGLE COVER after all this years. Not very possible and i don't think they will but still... Madonna loves the song apparently. 

[Anapausis 6,135]

8 hours ago, Frankito said:

I love the number 10 in her name

Oh gosh, I instantaneously thought about an "omega" (the last Greek letter) placing the O from her name since this letter is often related to endings (and this song's plenty of ending references). I mean, handwritten capital omegas, with the horizontal trace below the circles (you obviously need to read the MADONNA name as it's placed in the cover to get the actual reference).

Naturally also that the 40's pin-up cards had often O's written as omegas as the strokes to write the latter letter are more expressive than the omicrons that are written same as Roman alphabet O's.

And fun fact, as @Régine Filangeand other Greek Infiniters can testify, Madonna's name in Greek is MANTONA, with the digraph NT to do the /d/ sound, given the delta letter has the sound of English "th" as in "that," and an omicron instead of an omega, just like happens to every modern foreign name when adapted to the Greek alphabet.

[Donna 17,865]

Good to see TUTBMP being added to digital/streaming platforms.  If they were really wanting to give us an added bonus, they could have given us this version as well...

 

[juanandriu 5]

59 minutes ago, roberMDNA said:

Would be nice if they included Impressive Instant also in this, they released *promo only* remixes in some of the singles so she could just put this on streaming too WITH A SINGLE COVER after all this years. Not very possible and i don't think they will but still... Madonna loves the song apparently. 

Totally necessary in my opinion even if they just use the promo cover just like finally enough artwork. I hope for GHV2 Megamix and Broken singles as well. That would be an amazing gift!

[prunejuicehugo 9]

TUTBMP music video is in HD fyi

[Roy 7,682]

6 minutes ago, prunejuicehugo said:

TUTBMP music video is in HD fyi

It isn't. Just stretched out.

[Scottyx 9,049]

26 minutes ago, Roy said:

It isn't. Just stretched out.

Roy hello hugs ... havent seen you post in a long time

[Roy 7,682]

8 minutes ago, Scottyx said:

Roy hello hugs ... havent seen you post in a long time

Scotty! 

Yeah, it's been a long ass time... just more than enough time for Emily to start getting shit done. 

[lennyleonard 1,744]

About This Used To Be My Playground:

all 3 tracks identical to the ones on the CD single/Japanese boxset, 1:1 copies.

Good thing that they didn't just duplicate the one already on STR, as that one is a bit more compressed/louder - not like the current releases/remasters, thankfully, but still louder than the ones on the single.

[lennyleonard 1,744]

About the Papa Don't Preach single:

Track 1 (LP version) is the 2001 remaster/35th Anniversary Edition.
Trying out a few things, I discovered that it is the same track (matches/runs at the same speed) as the one from the original 1986 Japan pressing, but with loudness applied (possibly some EQ, as well? I don't know, I don't have an ear for that, tbh)

Track 2 (Ain't No Big Deal) doesn't match the one from the Dress You Up Japan CD, the 1995 yellow single, nor the 1996 Japanese boxset. No idea which version that is.

Track 3 (Extended Version) is the same as the 35th Anniversay Edition.
Weirdly enough, it matches the one on the Super Club Mix EP, with loudness applied (and possibly some EQ, as well), like track 01.

[Roy 7,682]

4 minutes ago, lennyleonard said:

About the Papa Don't Preach single:

Track 1 (LP version) is the 2001 remaster/35th Anniversary Edition.
Trying out a few things, I discovered that it is the same track (matches/runs at the same speed) as the one from the original 1986 Japan pressing, but with loudness applied (possibly some EQ, as well? I don't know, I don't have an ear for that, tbh)

Track 2 (Ain't No Big Deal) doesn't match the one from the Dress You Up Japan CD, the 1995 yellow single, nor the 1996 Japanese boxset. No idea which version that is.

Track 3 (Extended Version) is the same as the 35th Anniversay Edition.
Weirdly enough, it matches the one on the Super Club Mix EP, with loudness applied (and possibly some EQ, as well), like track 01.

I was thinking that the 2001 remaster was sourced from the hi-res files made available years later.

The files are slightly slower than the original 1986 release.

[Cyberraga 792]

7 hours ago, roberMDNA said:

Would be nice if they included Impressive Instant also in this, they released *promo only* remixes in some of the singles so she could just put this on streaming too WITH A SINGLE COVER after all this years. Not very possible and i don't think they will but still... Madonna loves the song apparently. 

I totally agree. Madonna can personally request for Impressive Instant. Its apperance on Finally Enough Love favors a single release.

[Prayer 15,058]

3 hours ago, lennyleonard said:

About the Papa Don't Preach single:

Track 1 (LP version) is the 2001 remaster/35th Anniversary Edition.
Trying out a few things, I discovered that it is the same track (matches/runs at the same speed) as the one from the original 1986 Japan pressing, but with loudness applied (possibly some EQ, as well? I don't know, I don't have an ear for that, tbh)

Track 2 (Ain't No Big Deal) doesn't match the one from the Dress You Up Japan CD, the 1995 yellow single, nor the 1996 Japanese boxset. No idea which version that is.

Track 3 (Extended Version) is the same as the 35th Anniversay Edition.
Weirdly enough, it matches the one on the Super Club Mix EP, with loudness applied (and possibly some EQ, as well), like track 01.

But the "True Blue" 2001 remasters and the 35h Anniversary Edition are not the same, I think. They applied something (EQ and boosting probably) to the files they used for the 35th remaster but it wasn't on the 2001 masters, I think it was on the original 1986 ones.

"Ain't No Big Deal" is probably the original master with some automatic EQ and volume boost they have/use for some of this digital singles, especially the 80s ones.

[wtg1987 10,393]

Nice to have this beautiful song - I see people asking about her videos in HD - good luck - they clearly don’t have any true HD versions as it’s been so long since the last one which would have just been an upscale anyway - its is kind of sad if you ask me that her videography is treated so badly when you consider she was a pioneer in this format 🙄🥹

[Pedro Beltran 5,002]

I had totally forgotten about the additional lyrics in the extended version, nice surprise 

[MikeyK 763]

10 hours ago, Prayer said:

But the "True Blue" 2001 remasters and the 35h Anniversary Edition are not the same, I think. They applied something (EQ and boosting probably) to the files they used for the 35th remaster but it wasn't on the 2001 masters, I think it was on the original 1986 ones.

The songs on the 11-track non-anniversary edition have been replaced with the newer ones on streaming though, right? Sounds like they have.

[Prayer 15,058]

3 minutes ago, MikeyK said:

The songs on the 11-track non-anniversary edition have been replaced with the newer ones on streaming though, right? Sounds like they have.

Yes. All three digital editions of "True Blue" play the "35th" remasters.

[animalinstinct 2,122]

3 hours ago, Pedro Beltran said:

I had totally forgotten about the additional lyrics in the extended version, nice surprise 

I forgot about the additional parts, they seemed more cliche and glad she kept them off the single version. The instrumental is just under 7 minutes long too, I never realised that it is even longer than the extended version. 

[Cyberraga 792]

14 minutes ago, animalinstinct said:

I forgot about the additional parts, they seemed more cliche and glad she kept them off the single version. The instrumental is just under 7 minutes long too, I never realised that it is even longer than the extended version. 

I wouldn't say the second verse is that cliche.