"Immaculate Collection": Which track would you have replaced?

[MikeyK 687]

3 hours ago, missberic said:

The edit of Cherish on TIC literally cuts out the best part of the song, how can you find it more enjoyable?  

You mean like “can’t get where I won’t let youuuuu”? That part’s cute but the thing is I despise the adult contemporary jangle pop vibe of the original. The IC mix kind of downplays that and enhances the synth elements of the arrangement, which is why I prefer it. 🤷‍♂️

[Sillynate 124]

I would swap Lucky Star with Burning Up, Crazy For You with Dress You Up, and Open Your Heart with True Blue.

[lap 1,495]

I wouldn't replace anything. Probally more edited versions of the songs and I would add Dress you up and Who's that Girl

[steady75 9,570]

I mean I low key always wish there had been a greatest hits after Who's That Girl in the summer of 88 where she was absent for a year instead of You Can Dance All the singles would fit on one disc with some clever edits. It's utterly perfect and an absolute romp.

Imagine Spotlight as a Greatest Hits lead!! This is really the end of the first chapter of Madonna Like A Prayer to Bedtime Story is Chapter 2. 

1. Everybody
2. Burning Up
3. Holiday
4. Lucky Star
5. Borderline
6. Like A Virgin
7. Material Girl
8. Crazy For You
9. Angel
10. Into The Groove
11. Dress You Up
12. Gambler
13. Live To Tell
14. Papa Don't Preach
15. True Blue
16. Open Your Heart
17. La Isla Bonita
18. Who's That Girl
19. Causing A Commotion
20. The Look Of Love 
21. Spotlight

But then we wouldn't have got You Can Dance the Shep Into The Groove and probably not Justify My Love & Rescue Me.

I do hope when they do an eras retrospective this kind of album will appear. 

 

 

[dude78 76]

Easy: Who's That Girl instead Rescue me

Rescue Me with Justify as a double A-Side single

Or Rescue Me on The Holiday Collection (since Justify was a big success already of its own)

[Honey Little 3,996]

Who’s that girl instead of Material Girl, if we are choosing based on personal taste in music.

[Honey Little 3,996]

On 6/26/2023 at 8:33 PM, MikeyK said:

You mean like “can’t get where I won’t let youuuuu”? That part’s cute but the thing is I despise the adult contemporary jangle pop vibe of the original. The IC mix kind of downplays that and enhances the synth elements of the arrangement, which is why I prefer it. 🤷‍♂️

Bye ✌️ 

[BoyToyMark 346]

I would never replace Cherish. It's such an important song in her discography in my opinion. She's quite smart to include it too because some casual fans like it more.

I think Dress You Up in the remix/edit form or Causing A Commotion single version would've been ideal to add; the latter considering she'd just performed it for a year

Personally I've always found Who's That Girl not as good as Causing A Commotion but it did sell well. A Q-sound mix incorporating the 12" mix would've been cool when I think about it.

But I would still keep all 17 tracks as they are, only add one.

Edited June 29, 2023 by BoyToyMark (see edit history)

[medonner 100]

I would not replace any tracks, but i think it was insane for warner not to ask madonna to agree to a release in the 2000's with an extra cd of some edits or single edits of missed off singles from the era such as keep it togther, oh father, dress you up, everybody, burning up, angel, who's that girls, causing a commotion.

 

a new version of the album in the early 2000s would have helped sales

[MaDöner Kebab 6,878]

1 hour ago, mikeyaj said:

I would not replace any tracks, but i think it was insane for warner not to ask madonna to agree to a release in the 2000's with an extra cd of some edits or single edits of missed off singles from the era such as keep it togther, oh father, dress you up, everybody, burning up, angel, who's that girls, causing a commotion.

 

a new version of the album in the early 2000s would have helped sales

With all those non-hits on the album, it couldn’t be called "The IMMACULATE Collection" any longer.

The entire campaign was focused around this compilation featuring EXCLUSIVELY the big and memorable hits from her discography up to that point. 

Madonna has always been a visual artist and it’s no surprise that the songs without proper music videos (except for the really big hits Holiday, CFY & ITG) have been left off. 

Dress You Up is probably the one song that may have deserved a spot on this compilation but was it as big as the other singles released at that time? No. True Blue is a similar case. The other singles from that era were much bigger and True Blue itself wasn’t originally planned as a single. We also don't need to talk about Angel which got entirely overshadowed by its b-side. 

Who's That Girl would have followed La Isla Bonita on the tracklist and they sound way too similar. Besides, the former is much more memorable than the latter. Causing a Commotion was a bit of a hit back then but looking back not all that memorable or iconic either. In fact, the entire WTG movie/soundtrack was a bit of a throwaway moment compared to the other 80s projects. 

All in all, I think the selection of song couldn’t have been any better.

[MaDöner Kebab 6,878]

“THE ROYAL BOX”

DISC 1: THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION

1. Holiday
2. Lucky Star
3. Borderline
4. Like a Virgin
5. Material Girl
6. Crazy for You
7. Into the Groove
8. Live to Tell
9. Papa Don’t Preach
10. Open Your Heart
11. La Isla Bonita
12. Like a Prayer
13. Express Yourself
14. Cherish
15. Vogue
16. Justify My Love
17. Rescue Me

DISC 2: THE GOSPEL OF MADDY (a play on words with "The Gospel of Mary" the alleged "lost" gospel about Mary Magdalene that wasn’t included in the New Testament)

1. Dress You Up
2. True Blue
3. Who’s That Girl
4. Causing a Commotion
5. Keep It Together

SINGLES:

Justify My Love (b/w Express Yourself)

Crazy for You (b/w Causing a Commotion & Keep It Together)

Rescue Me (b/w True Blue)

Holiday (b/w Who's That Girl & Dress You Up)

 

[Roland Barthes 5,850]

Well, she could have added some missing singles Pettibone/Hotoda/Shimkin edits as b-sides on JML, Rescue Me and Holiday

Has the Mike Dean remaster been removed from plateforms ? 

[medonner 100]

On 7/1/2023 at 12:07 PM, MPowered said:

With all those non-hits on the album, it couldn’t be called "The IMMACULATE Collection" any longer.

The entire campaign was focused around this compilation featuring EXCLUSIVELY the big and memorable hits from her discography up to that point. 

Madonna has always been a visual artist and it’s no surprise that the songs without proper music videos (except for the really big hits Holiday, CFY & ITG) have been left off. 

Dress You Up is probably the one song that may have deserved a spot on this compilation but was it as big as the other singles released at that time? No. True Blue is a similar case. The other singles from that era were much bigger and True Blue itself wasn’t originally planned as a single. We also don't need to talk about Angel which got entirely overshadowed by its b-side. 

Who's That Girl would have followed La Isla Bonita on the tracklist and they sound way too similar. Besides, the former is much more memorable than the latter. Causing a Commotion was a bit of a hit back then but looking back not all that memorable or iconic either. In fact, the entire WTG movie/soundtrack was a bit of a throwaway moment compared to the other 80s projects. 

All in all, I think the selection of song couldn’t have been any better.

I agree, but nobody gives a fook about that. 

It's a collection for the the general public and all they see is a compilation, singles collection so it would have been an obvious move and any other act would have done it.

 

Madonna isn't like that which is great and i Like that. but commercially it would have made sense

[MaDöner Kebab 6,878]

21 minutes ago, mikeyaj said:

I agree, but nobody gives a fook about that. 

It's a collection for the the general public and all they see is a compilation, singles collection so it would have been an obvious move and any other act would have done it.

 

Madonna isn't like that which is great and i Like that. but commercially it would have made sense

Well you need to keep in mind that there was also a limited running time for most media formats at that time. 17 tracks was pretty much the most one could fit on one CD. A double disc would have been an overkill.

[Blue Jean 15,254]

All those people brainwashed by Madonna trying to get rid of Cherish

I am disgusted!

[Drownedboy 1,676]

Perfect as it is, its good that some good things were out so they are in other collections and so they don´t have the same tracklist.

[MikeyK 687]

On 7/1/2023 at 1:29 PM, Roland Barthes said:

Well, she could have added some missing singles Pettibone/Hotoda/Shimkin edits as b-sides on JML, Rescue Me and Holiday

Has the Mike Dean remaster been removed from plateforms ? 

I’ve wondered if they did any additional edits/mixes. Like if she had them do more than what we got and she decided which ones she wanted on it, or if she just handed them a list of the 15 and said mix/exit these.

The Mike Dean dolby atmos/spatial audio mix is still on apple music. 

[chaosmen1984mk 799]

I wouldn't remove any songs. The album is perfect as far as the selection of songs is concerned.

What I would like is for songs like Crazy for you, Open Your Heart and Cherish to keep that final part that was brutally cut and which for me was the best part of these songs.

Rescue Me, on the other hand, is a song that seems out of this world. What a shame that after this compilation Madonna drastically changed the sounds for her new album Erótica because personally I would have liked to hear more songs similar to Rescue Me, which is one of my favorite songs. I really hope that Madonna sings it live in the middle of some special effects and someone impersonating God as the one who will rescue her from that pit of depression that means heartbreak and lack of faith in humanity. 

[medonner 100]

22 hours ago, MPowered said:

Well you need to keep in mind that there was also a limited running time for most media formats at that time. 17 tracks was pretty much the most one could fit on one CD. A double disc would have been an overkill.

i'm not talking about the album release

 

i'm suggesting a business decision in the early 90's once stocks are running low of the cd to do a 2 disc edition to increase sales

[MaDöner Kebab 6,878]

19 minutes ago, mikeyaj said:

i'm not talking about the album release

 

i'm suggesting a business decision in the early 90's once stocks are running low of the cd to do a 2 disc edition to increase sales

Mhhh I think things like that weren’t really a thing in the early 90s.

[Blue Jean 15,254]

15 minutes ago, MPowered said:

Mhhh I think things like that weren’t really a thing in the early 90s.

I think a Part 2 was more likely. Like they did with Queen's Greatest Hits, Abba Gold etc. But then Pt. 2 was GHV2 so....

The whole point of The Immaculate Collection was that it was immaculate. No filler.

[MaDöner Kebab 6,878]

17 minutes ago, Blue Jean said:

I think a Part 2 was more likely. Like they did with Queen's Greatest Hits, Abba Gold etc. But then Pt. 2 was GHV2 so....

The whole point of The Immaculate Collection was that it was immaculate. No filler.

Exactly and to be fair, it was a much better compilation than HIStory or Design of a Decade which neglected far more hits.

[Blue Jean 15,254]

1 hour ago, MPowered said:

Exactly and to be fair, it was a much better compilation than HIStory or Design of a Decade which neglected far more hits.

GHV2??

[MaDöner Kebab 6,878]

4 hours ago, Blue Jean said:

GHV2??

God no…The Immaculate Collection of course. 😂

[Mden 2,252]

I prefer Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones to The Immaculate Collection.