The Best Greatest Hits Package

[WokeUpInMedellin 1,557]

I don't know what you gays stay on about regarding the "errors" of Celebration. Do you listen to it on something other than Spotify? I've listened on Spotify a million times and never noticed anything off. Sounds great.

[Velvet Rope 5,942]

47 minutes ago, WokeUpInMedellin said:

I don't know what you gays stay on about regarding the "errors" of Celebration. Do you listen to it on something other than Spotify? I've listened on Spotify a million times and never noticed anything off. Sounds great.

Pretty sure that's in regards to the physical releases that were originally released in 2009, not the current streaming versions. They've probably have since fixed said errors for the streaming version, but of course everybody is still "hung up" (pun intended) about the past. 

[SweetMadonna 1,637]

Immaculate  Collection is amazing.  I just love it a lot.  

[WokeUpInMedellin 1,557]

1 hour ago, SweetMadonna said:

Double post by mistake. Sorry 

You say other words?!?!

[animalinstinct 2,048]

🩵 THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION 🩵

 

[Prayer 14,361]

3 hours ago, Velvet Rope said:

Pretty sure that's in regards to the physical releases that were originally released in 2009, not the current streaming versions. They've probably have since fixed said errors for the streaming version, but of course everybody is still "hung up" (pun intended) about the past. 

The streaming version has issues too, cause some of them were never fixed. But of course some people are better at not noticing than others, plus equipment, earphones, etc.

In the end some people just don't care about audio, just the songs, and that's fine. Which is not an excuse for the record company to do things right and release a quality product.

About the compilations, "The Immaculate Collection" will never not be ICONIC.

[MerBoy13 577]

Hopefully in the future a final compilation will be released from beginning to end with all 80's, 90's, 00's etc remastered carefully without the interference of a high on weed producer.

[WokeUpInMedellin 1,557]

I feel like if you answer The Immaculate Collection, you're kind of old. It only covers her second-worst decade, and Celebration and FEL are so much better.

[deathproof 10,608]

1 hour ago, WokeUpInMedellin said:

I feel like if you answer The Immaculate Collection, you're kind of old. It only covers her second-worst decade, and Celebration and FEL are so much better.

Shut. The. Frig. Up.

[adirondak 1,588]

1 hour ago, WokeUpInMedellin said:

I feel like if you answer The Immaculate Collection, you're kind of old. It only covers her second-worst decade, and Celebration and FEL are so much better.

I voted Immaculate Collection, not because they’re my favorite songs, but because it’s the most cohesive package and shows the most effort. Sheep’s touch on all the songs made them all fit together and make sense. It’s a high energy album and the new songs are just as good as everything else. Can’t say that about any of the others, even if I like the songs on some of the others better. 

[gst6662000 293]

14 hours ago, steady75 said:

Correct answer: She is yet to release a definitive package and there isn't even a single disc for the casuals to even cover the titan signature songs in her catalogue. I think streaming has been around long enough now to give us a good metric of which songs from her catalogue have stood the test of time

Single Disc - Streaming dominance

1. Holiday
2. Like A Virgin
3. Material Girl
4. Crazy For You
5. Into The Groove
6. Live To Tell
7. Papa Don't Preach
8. La Isla Bonita
9. Like A Prayer
10. Vogue
11. Take A Bow
12. Frozen
13. American Pie
14. Music
15. Hung Up
16. Sorry
17. 4 Minutes
18. Bitch Im Madonna
19. Popular

Double Disc - Streaming dominance

1. Holiday
2. Borderline
3. Like A Virgin
4. Material Girl
5. Crazy For You
6. Into The Groove
7. Live To Tell
8. Papa Don't Preach
9. True Blue
10. La Isla Bonita
11. Who's That Girl
12. Like A Prayer
13. Express Yourself
14. Vogue
15. Justify My Love
16. Take A Bow
17. Don't Cry For Me Argentina
18. Frozen

 

1. Ray Of Light
2. The Power Of Goodbye
3. American Pie
4. Music
5. Die Another Day
6. Hung Up
7. Sorry
8. Jump
9. 4 Minutes
10. Give It 2 Me
11. Celebration
12. Give Me All Your Luvin
13. Girl Gone Wild
14. Living For Love
15. Ghosttown
16. Bitch Im Madonna
17. Medellin
18. Popular

In the streaming age songs that fail to make the cut (in order)

1. open Your Heart
2. Don't Tell Me
3. Justify My Love
4. Get Together 
5. Beautiful Stranger
6. Hollywood
7. Rain 
8. Secret
9. Dress You Up
10. I'll Remember
11. Cherish
12. You'll See
13. Miles Away
14. Burning Up
15. This Used To Be My Playground
16. Deeper & Deeper
17. Drowned World
18. What It Feels Like For A Girl
19. Angel
20. Lucky Star
21. Revolver
22. Human Nature
23. Erotica

 

I'd truly love it if there was a site that combined like for like unit sales / digital sales and stream equivalent so we could get a real picture but in the streaming age these are her biggest hits. Of course we have to adjust for streaming being the primary platform for anything released 2012 onwards really.

 

i always listen to EROTICA and the whole album religiously...... huhuhuhuhuuhhu erotic.....

[Blue Jean 15,254]

Something to Remember is a gorgeous album. I used to listen to that every night in bed. Along with Prince’s Emancipation.

Nothing can beat The Immaculate though. I don’t care that it contains remixes. Some of those remixes have become more iconic than the original versions. The artwork is also mega iconic. Rather than Celebration she could have done an expanded version with a variation of the same artwork. Kind of like both Queen and Abba have done with their compilations. Celebration is an awful compilation and tour name. Imagine ‘The Immaculate World Tour’ 

[Alibaba 1,519]

The Immaculate Collection was an event and corresponds to an era in Madonna’s career. To a lesser degree, Something To Remember shares this characteristic. There was a concept behind both of them, and the quality shows. No subsequent collection has had this type of impact. TIC may not be comprehensive, but it is a Madonna album through and through. The gorgeous art direction and design remain the very best in her illustrious career in my opinion. The mixes that appear on TIC became the definitive versions for the masses. 
 

You Can Dance gets an honorary mention for nostalgia, but it covers a very short period of time in M’s career. 
 

Finally Enough Love was a noble effort in design and concept, but it fell short with the poor selection of edited mixes, and the lack of insight that should have been included through journalistic writing about the history of Madonna, dance music, DJ’s and the evolution of club mixes. The artwork was below standard for the scope of the project, particularly considering it was her first major legacy release. I still fail to understand how people get excited to collect rainbow colored vinyl and such. That has no value to me compared to the input and conceptual wealth of TIC, STR or YCD. 
 

Celebration served as a decent selection of her greatest hits with a few unforgivable omissions and inclusions, but without a major upscaling of the tracks and the relative banality of both the packaging and the new songs in comparison to the regal powerhouses that were Justify My Love and Rescue Me - Mr. Brainwash was nothing more than another investment scam commercial artist lacking the cultural nuance and gravitas that Madonna’s career retrospective deserved, and while the song Celebration is a decent tip of the hat composite to all things Madonna, Revolver is frankly a travesty with hindsight - the entire project fell flat and sold poorly too, which seemed shocking even in the era of digital music considering it was a definitive greatest hits package from the top selling female artist of all time.

GHV2 is an abomination and has been erased from all memory. I don’t know anyone who has that album or refers to it in any way. 

[EgoRod 5,450]

I always forget about GHV2. I think I listened to it twice.

@WokeUpInMedellin You are talking about a following from the 80s until now. I guess if you are 20 something now it sounds kind of old for you.

For the fans that enjoyed the most interesting evolution and  strongest eras of Madonna, TIC is really relevant and representative. It came at a time when the aesthetics in music were really important. Videos, fashion, Record design. And Madonna (and her team) were great at it.

I don't listen to Celebration much only when I feel like playing  it on vinyl. It feels long and boring at some points. I can't stand Revolver and being the last of side D i can skip it. But the most part of the flow does'nt work for me and I skip songs. It's a good compilation? probably ..but I never feel any excitement about it.

 

[gst6662000 293]

8 hours ago, WokeUpInMedellin said:

I feel like if you answer The Immaculate Collection, you're kind of old. It only covers her second-worst decade, and Celebration and FEL are so much better.

so 90's is best  ?

[gst6662000 293]

3 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

Something to Remember is a gorgeous album. I used to listen to that every night in bed. Along with Prince’s Emancipation.

Nothing can beat The Immaculate though. I don’t care that it contains remixes. Some of those remixes have become more iconic than the original versions. The artwork is also mega iconic. Rather than Celebration she could have done an expanded version with a variation of the same artwork. Kind of like both Queen and Abba have done with their compilations. Celebration is an awful compilation and tour name. Imagine ‘The Immaculate World Tour’ 

eemanvipastioooooon... FREEE to do what i want.....

[EgoRod 5,450]

Hear me out,

I'm still Breathless : Madonna Greatest hits revisited with the sound of Jazz, rag and Swing!

[EgoRod 5,450]

13 hours ago, Prayer said:

The streaming version has issues too, cause some of them were never fixed. But of course some people are better at not noticing than others, plus equipment, earphones, etc.

In the end some people just don't care about audio, just the songs, and that's fine. Which is not an excuse for the record company to do things right and release a quality product.

About the compilations, "The Immaculate Collection" will never not be ICONIC.

It does. Music is a song that I skip or don't pay much attention but I purposely played it in Spotify from Celebration and from Music one after another. And it has a muddy echo or weird loudness about it. Sounds blotchy. I think some (younger) crowd are used the Celebration version by now or maybe the noise style of the sound hide it for some. But the album version is far much cleaner .

 

[Prayer 14,361]

14 minutes ago, EgoRod said:

It does. Music is a song that I skip or don't pay much attention but I purposely played it in Spotify from Celebration and from Music one after another. And it has a muddy echo or weird loudness about it. Sounds blotchy. I think some (younger) crowd are used the Celebration version by now or maybe the noise style of the sound hide it for some. But the album version is far much cleaner .

 

I'm always surprised to discover how forgotten "Music" is. Its streaming numbers, barely 78M on Spotify, for probably the #1 song of year 2000 and a monster hit worldwide, is incredibly low.

Of all her #1 hits, apart from "Playground" for obvious reasons, it seems to be the most forgotten one. "Take A Bow" is lower but that was a hit only in the US.

Sometimes I wonder if the "Celebration" version of "Music", full of glitches, is partially to blame for that. It's not really one you want to come back to, not a good listening experience.

[EgoRod 5,450]

1 minute ago, Prayer said:

I'm always surprised to discover how forgotten "Music" is. Its streaming numbers, barely 78M on Spotify, for probably the #1 song of year 2000 worldwide, is incredibly low.

Sometimes I wonder if the "Celebration" version, full of glitches, is partially to blame for that. It's not really one you want to come back to.

My experience with Spotify (that I started using more often in the last year) is that they always push the same songs. Even if I liked others.

I keep press to listen La Isla Bonita, Hung Up, Vogue, 4 Minutes, Frozen Mix and Like a Prayer. Recently they are playing D&D and NRM, I believe because the tour.

But my top picks like Rescue Me, Open Your Heart.. never show on playlist or recommendations even if I play them .

[deathproof 10,608]

18 hours ago, WokeUpInMedellin said:

I don't know what you gays stay on about regarding the "errors" of Celebration. Do you listen to it on something other than Spotify? I've listened on Spotify a million times and never noticed anything off. Sounds great.

CD babe. This was 2009. Spotify wasn’t what it was then.

[steady75 9,570]

I know I compiled a double disc of her biggest streaming singles but the truth is streaming is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Celebration is the go to album for the general public. Outside of that it’s This Is Madonna. 
 

There are no songs from Erotica on This Is Madonna apart from Rain. Which is no doubt why it’s her most streamed track from the album. 
Erotica the lead single doesn’t even appear on the list. People also don’t listen to entire playlists or albums so streams always fall to the front loaded tracks. 

This also probably accounts for Jumps great streams. 
True Blue and Confessions are the only albums where all the singles are featured. (Plus the only non single on the playlist Forbidden Love)

Artists literally have the ability to rewrite the history of their own singles in many ways and this can be done by streaming playlists. 
 

Do Deeper and Deeper suffers from not being on either This Is Madonna or Celebration when it’s 100% one of her best tracks and a clear fan favourite. 

[WokeUpInMedellin 1,557]

3 hours ago, gst6662000 said:

so 90's is best  ?

Correct. Then the 2000s is her second best. Followed by the 80s. And lastly, the 2010s. I don't even count the 2020s since she hasn't blessed us with an album yet.

[Blue Jean 15,254]

11 hours ago, WokeUpInMedellin said:

I feel like if you answer The Immaculate Collection, you're kind of old. It only covers her second-worst decade, and Celebration and FEL are so much better.

Ageist! Madonna wouldn’t like you

[WokeUpInMedellin 1,557]

Just now, Blue Jean said:

Ageist! Madonna wouldn’t like you

Madonna is ageless and timeless. Doesn't apply