Madonna’s Greatest Tours POLL #5 revealed Oct 7

[BuggedOut 3,519]

5 minutes ago, Honey Little said:

Number 8: I am guessing will be either Who's that Girl, Sticky and Sweet or Drowned World. 

Drowned World is going to be in the top 5.

Fans love that show 🤢

[Enrico 15,197]

7 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

I think it is not her best show in terms of creativity but it was consistently entertaining start to end. Unlike MDNA which had some incredible moments but a slump in the middle. One amazing thing about RHT was the audience interaction which is more than she ever did on other tours. She was very fun. Madame X failed there because the interaction was overly scripted.

I agree, it's the tour I enjoyed the most every time, with the surprise songs, the unapologetic bitch. Every night was different.

[Blue Jean 11,973]

17 minutes ago, Enrico said:

I agree, it's the tour I enjoyed the most every time, with the surprise songs, the unapologetic bitch. Every night was different.

Exactly.

Plus Madonna had barely engaged with audiences at all before that. So it was a nice change. And she was very funny.

[Blue Jean 11,973]

7 hours ago, BuggedOut said:

Drowned World is going to be in the top 5.

Fans love that show 🤢

I gave it 10/10

[BuggedOut 3,519]

15 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

I gave it 10/10

I’m not going to lie, I loved it in person (first M tour) the 3 times I went in Los Angeles, but it is just too dark and depressing for me to revisit it now. My opinion of the show itself would rank it higher on best tours, but I’m just going by the enjoyability factor.

[Blue Jean 11,973]

8 minutes ago, BuggedOut said:

I’m not going to lie, I loved it in person (first M tour) the 3 times I went in Los Angeles, but it is just too dark and depressing for me to revisit it now. My opinion of the show itself would rank it higher on best tours, but I’m just going by the enjoyability factor.

I love dark and depressing. It’s not something I’d watch everyday but the creativity is amazing.

[BuggedOut 3,519]

Just now, Blue Jean said:

I love dark and depressing. It’s not something I’d watch everyday but the creativity is amazing.

It’s probably the same reason I didn’t like the Velvet Rope album/tour.

I prefer my pop stars happy and uplifting lol

[Pedro Beltran 1,387]

Whaaaaaat?

VAT #10?

RHT #9???

RHT has been one of my most enjoyable concert experience with M, not that it’s my favorite tour but it was amazing, it didn’t have the technology of the previous tour, maybe that’s why it’s so low 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

[Blue Jean 11,973]

47 minutes ago, Pedro Beltran said:

Whaaaaaat?

VAT #10?

RHT #9???

RHT has been one of my most enjoyable concert experience with M, not that it’s my favorite tour but it was amazing, it didn’t have the technology of the previous tour, maybe that’s why it’s so low 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

It was amazing but I mean look at the caliber of the tours above it

[Michael_Py 84]

Blond Ambition it’s #1 for most of us. That’s undeniable. To me, my #2 Tour it’s the MDNA Tour, I know the album was kinda “low” besides her previous releases but the tour it’s perfection to me.

I think its the tour were she dances the most in her whole career and at 54 years old!!! The themes are so good, that trip from darkness to light, she looks so fierce in the first act, so beatiful in the second one, so introspective in the third, so sexy in the fourth and so energetic in the fifth. 
 

the screens, the videos, the updates like Justify my love, the moving stairs with screens,  to end a 2 hour concert with Celebration that was very demanding in choreo. WOW.

Maybe I’m too hyped because I saw this tour from the golden triangle but I just love it so much.

 

 

 

[Enrico 15,197]

I think WTGT will rank low, because it's less theatrical, but musically it deserves to be no 1. The band is incredible and it's the only Madonna tour that sounds like a live rock concert. It's powerful and some fans should listen again to rediscover what a live sound can be. Plus, her (positive) energy and audience interaction in Turin is unparalleled.

[Honey Little 1,791]

15 hours ago, BuggedOut said:

I’m not going to lie, I loved it in person (first M tour) the 3 times I went in Los Angeles, but it is just too dark and depressing for me to revisit it now. My opinion of the show itself would rank it higher on best tours, but I’m just going by the enjoyability factor.

Paradise Not for Me was very enjoyable and Mer Girl too! It was really artistic. And I loved the song about enjoying a good meal, eating the flesh of your father. 

[Blue Jean 11,973]

8 hours ago, Enrico said:

I think WTGT will rank low, because it's less theatrical, but musically it deserves to be no 1. The band is incredible and it's the only Madonna tour that sounds like a live rock concert. It's powerful and some fans should listen again to rediscover what a live sound can be. Plus, her (positive) energy and audience interaction in Turin is unparalleled.

I feel it’s very hard to compare the tours overall because they are within different periods where the technology was different. The Virgin Tour ranking low feels wrong too. But we have to remember a lot of fans are younger and looking at it through a technical lens.

I do think Who’s That Girl though was extremely innovative for its time. She was incorporating backdrops/screens into her shows long before it was the norm.

I would however argue that technology can also hamper creativity too and cheapen the overall result. In many ways those earlier tours are stronger because they relied so heavily on the performance itself. Looking at other performers today you can see that they don’t have to be good performers to put on an amazing spectacle. They just need good stage designs.

[LHakaLH 36]

11 hours ago, Enrico said:

I think WTGT will rank low, because it's less theatrical, but musically it deserves to be no 1. The band is incredible and it's the only Madonna tour that sounds like a live rock concert. It's powerful and some fans should listen again to rediscover what a live sound can be. Plus, her (positive) energy and audience interaction in Turin is unparalleled.

The Girlie Show had a much better live band IMO  

[Pedro Beltran 1,387]

25 minutes ago, LHakaLH said:

The Girlie Show had a much better live band IMO  

I think so too 

[stefo 4,467]

51 minutes ago, LHakaLH said:

The Girlie Show had a much better live band IMO  

Yeah definitely. Girlie Show and Who's that girl are both the best live sound experiences, they both had a great band in my opinion and both were conceived to be very music oriented. The Girlie Show is much more fun, sophisticated and creative when it comes to the arrangements of the songs (and not just to that honestly, it remains her best one imo), but it's also performed in a much more mature point of her career. I really love them both anyway, the following one is ReInvention for me (and Confessions maybe).

[Enrico 15,197]

I agree, the GS band was the best! What they did to Everybody is magnificent.

Still I think they started to use more prerecorded sounds. WTG in that sense was very raw, very live.

[migsou 987]

the only problem i have with this kind of poll is that the large majority of us is judging the concert by the recorded version(s) of it, not the actual show

[Blue Jean 11,973]

16 hours ago, migsou said:

the only problem i have with this kind of poll is that the large majority of us is judging the concert by the recorded version(s) of it, not the actual show

Absolutely but how many fans attended every single tour and can judge them fairly? Especially since our standards and tastes change as we get older too…

[androiduser 1,761]

On 8/17/2023 at 10:37 AM, migsou said:

the only problem i have with this kind of poll is that the large majority of us is judging the concert by the recorded version(s) of it, not the actual show

but we could also say that's more "fair" because attending a show could cause a positive bias, someone could say a tour is their favorite because that's the one they attended. Either way, it's difficult to be objective.

[scion 2,508]

It's better to judge a show based on the actual video footage. Judging based on attendance is biased, distorted and generally involves no actual real memory of what occured.

[Pedro Beltran 1,387]

14 minutes ago, scion said:

It's better to judge a show based on the actual video footage. Judging based on attendance is biased, distorted

yes

and generally involves no actual real memory of what occured.

Actually no

 

[scion 2,508]

1 hour ago, Pedro Beltran said:

 

Actually yes.

[Pedro Beltran 1,387]

4 minutes ago, scion said:

Actually yes.

Oh God

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Do you want to go further in the way we experience and retrieve memories? 

[migsou 987]

i see what you all mean, but in that case we're judging the professional recording of a show, not the show itself - which involves a bunch of new different things