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would chartdatata lie? 

I'll go for Papa Don't Preach as it was the first real image shakeup and completely different sound for Madonna. The bangles, crucifix, big hair and Boy Toy look was traded in for a sleeker look, her voice was stronger and the production was quite a shift as well. Live To Tell gave a glimpse of the transition, but the Papa Don't Preach sound/look was really a surprise.
Rescue Me was really let down by the lack of a video :(

I changed it up again:
I found the idea of sorting Celebration into three discs with different themes, as considered at one point, really interesting, so I brainstormed about this a bit.
DISC 1 - DANCE (her dance classics)
Everybody - Edit of Vocal Holiday - 7" Edit Lucky Star - Edit Into The Groove - Video Edit Dress You Up - Remix/Edit Who's That Girl Causing A Commotion - Silver Screen Single Mix Vogue - Album Edit Deeper And Deeper - Edit Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Miami Mix Edit Ray Of Light - Edit Nothing Really Matters - Edit Beautiful Stranger - William Orbit Edit Music Hollywood - Album Edit Hung Up - Radio Version Get Together - Radio Edit Give It 2 Me - Edit Celebration DISC 2 - FIGHT (controversial - sexual and political songs)
Burning Up - Remix Edit Material Girl Papa Don't Preach - Edit/Fade Open Your Heart - Remix Like A Prayer - 7" Version/Fade Express Yourself - Video Version Justify My Love - Q-Sound Edit Erotica - Radio Edit Bedtime Story - Album Edit Human Nature - Video Version American Pie Don't Tell Me - Radio Edit Die Another Day - Radio Edit American Life - Radio Edit Sorry - Radio Edit Jump - Radio Edit 4 Minutes - Radio Edit Revolver It's So Cool DISC 3 - LOVE (ballads and cute love songs)
Borderline - Remix Like A Virgin Crazy For You - Edit/Fade Live To Tell - Edit True Blue - Remix/Edit La Isla Bonita - Remix Cherish - 7" Version This Used To Be My Playground - Short Version Rain - Album Edit I'll Remember - Orbit Remix Secret - Edit Take A Bow - Edit You'll See - Edit You Must Love Me - Single Version Frozen - Radio Edit The Power Of Good-Bye What It Feels Like For A Girl - Radio Edit Love Profusion Miles Away - Radio Edit Feel free to post your trackless and ideas as well!
OMITTED SINGLES:
Physical Attraction - Edit Angel - Dance Mix Edit Gambler The Look Of Love Spotlight - Single Edit Oh Father - Edit Dear Jessie - Fade Keep It Together - Single Mix Hanky Panky - Bare Bones Single Mix Rescue Me - Single Mix Bad Girl - Edit Fever - Edit One Bye Bye Baby One More Chance - Fade Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Soulpower Radio Remix Edit Another Suitcase In Another Hall Drowned World/Substitute For Love - Radio Edit Nothing Fails - Radio Edit Broken

Blame declining sales, war with Warner and 3 singles per album as standard for her 00’s albums where her 80’s & 90’s albums had 5-6. 
She also didn’t submit much to soundtracks in the 00’s
Die Another Day & American Pie. That’s it. 
Gags didn’t show up til the back end of Hard Candy really. 

I always thought calling a greatest hits EVERYBODY: 
and the discs should be called 
Dance - dance songs 
Sing - ballads
Get Up And Do Your Thing - Controversial songs and Madonna doing Madonna 
 
 

I found the idea of sorting Celebration into three discs with different themes, as considered at one point, really interesting, so I brainstormed about this a bit.
DISC 1 - DANCE (her dance classics)
Everybody - Edit of Vocal Holiday - 7" Edit Lucky Star - Edit Material Girl Into the Groove La Isla Bonita - Remix Who's That Girl Vogue - Album Edit Deeper and Deeper - Edit Fever - Edit One Ray of Light - Edit Beautiful Stranger - William Orbit Edit American Pie Music Hollywood - Album Edit Hung Up - Radio Version Give It 2 Me - Edit Celebration DISC 2 - LOVE (ballads and cute love songs)
Borderline - Remix Crazy for You - Edit/Fade Angel - Dance Mix Edit Dress You Up - Remix Live to Tell - Edit True Blue - Remix/Edit Open Your Heart Cherish - 7" Version This Used To Be My Playground - Short Version Rain - Radio Remix Edit I'll Remember - Orbit Remix Secret - Edit Take a Bow - Edit You'll See - Edit You Must Love Me Frozen - Radio Edit The Power of Good-Bye It’s So Cool DISC 3 - FIGHT (politically themed, her most controversial and moody songs)
Burning Up - Remix Edit Like a Virgin Gambler Papa Don't Preach - Edit/Fade Causing a Commotion - Silver Screen Single Edit Like a Prayer - 7" Version / Fade Express Yourself - Video Version Justify My Love - Q-Sound Edit Erotica - Radio Edit Bedtime Story - Edit Human Nature - Video Version Nothing Really Matters - Edit Don't Tell Me - Radio Edit Die Another Day - Radio Edit American Life - Radio Edit Sorry - Radio Edit 4 Minutes - Radio Edit Revolver Feel free to post your trackless and ideas as well!
OMITTED SINGLES:
The Look of Love Oh Father - Edit Dear Jessie - Fade Keep It Together - Single Mix Hanky Panky - Bare Bones Single Mix Rescue Me - Single Mix Bad Girl - Edit Bye Bye Baby One More Chance - Fade Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Soulpower Radio Remix Edit Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Miami Mix Edit Another Suitcase in Another Hall Drowned World/Substitute for Love - Radio Edit What It Feels Like for a Girl - Radio Edit Nothing Fails - Radio Edit Love Profusion Get Together - Radio Edit Jump - Radio Edit Miles Away - Radio Edit

ok but I just remembered, when MDNA was announced, it had a completely different tracklist!
there was a mail sent to fans, with the attached picture, the announcement and the first tracklist. that was changed later, before release.
Girls Gone Wild Gang Bang I'm Addicted Some Girls I Don't Give A Turn Up the Radio Give Me All Your Luvin' B-day Song Superstar I'm a Sinner Masterpiece Falling Free Love Spent I Fucked Up Beautiful Killer

The best configuration for this album is not have released it all. Even the decent tracks on it suffer from bad production, mix and mastering. All the songs were bought giving the impression this was an album she was not in the mood to record. The visuals were good though. While promoting Madame X she said she wasn't into making her previous 3 albums...and it shows. But MDNA has that putrid sound of the cheap pop from the 10's and is a testimony to the stench of that musical era. 

Thanks for this info!!!! I’m sure there’s at least another demo of GTI then, closer to the released one but without Nikki’s vocals

Goodbye To Innocence morphed into Fever, true. However, they were both on the album at some point, so Goodbye To Innocence must have been the Just Say Roe version because it‘s the version that was developed after Fever was recorded. Madonna hated pretty much every earlier incarnation of Goodbye To Innocence. So, the released version (along with its dubs) must have been the one she actually liked.

They changed the entire song, so that it wouldn’t sound identical to Fever. In the end it was replaced with Did You Do It at the very last minute.

It's quite possible the final Erotica version of GTI was slightly different than the Just Say Roe version.
Only because Donna & Niki's vocals weren't added to Fever (and GTI) till after the albums release.

Most probably number 4

yall skipping over In This Life for a Something to Remember compilation is almost blasphemous tbh

You know what? Maybe the tracklist doesn't need adjusting, just add an EP like The Holiday Collection from The Immaculate Collection 🙂 just with updated versions like they did with Love Don't Live Here Anymore.
The Look of Love
Spanish Eyes
Sooner or Later 
Bad Girl
Indian Summer (new song)

I like the tracklist how it is ... Perfect ! 

i think STR is a near perfect collection - i would have swapped out forbidden love for the look of love, bad girl for the dreadful one more chance and spanish eyes as bonus track except i want you orchestral - i own the japan cd which has la isla as the bonus track - always thought that a strange choice and it maybe it should have been a main track seeing as its one of her favourite songs.

What do you think?!
 
Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Soulpower Radio Remix)
Crazy For You
Live To Tell
The Look Of Love
Oh Father
Something To Remember
This Used To Be My Playground
 
Rain
I'll Remember (Theme From The Motion Picture With Honors)
Forbidden Love
Take A Bow
You'll See
One More Chance
I Want You (With Massive Attack)
 

The lyrics of this song and the Erotica album in general are to die for!

The lyrics of this song and the Erotica album in general are to die for!

The lyrics of this song and the Erotica album in general are to die for!

This is the most memorable part, for me:
Some people have a snake at the base of their spine
That would suck out your life, that would take all your time

They mistaken 2022 with 2024... I got it. Guys the world premiere will be Xmas 2024. Coming soon in HD. 

She had totally scrapped everything from that whole shoot. We've got some pictures when M's pictures hard drives have been hacked back then and we've got tons of outtakes leaking (remember when that guy has been arrested by the police), otherwise we would not even know that shoot has happen. If she has ditched the pictures make sense she would have also ditched the video. I'm talking about this shoot :

Keep in mind that at that very time she has scrapped a whole chapter of visual works including several sets of shoots : 

If you look closely, the tread mill shoot is a total different shoot, curly hair, different set etc... It was made for the shooting of the "Give it 2 me" video which, at that time, was still the album title. For the people who were around at that time, remember the first low quality snippets that leaked from "Give it 2 me" ? I'm the person who has leaked them (hope the police won't arrest me now 😂), Here's the story ;
At that time i was moderating the DrownedMadonna forum (Madonna Fanzine forum). My nickname was Preston and i had that pic with the giant boombox for those who remember ahah. So, there was that israeli girl, Anna Hendstridge (i'm talking about the real one, not the fakes clones that appeared on other forums later). She was totally working inside M creative circle. She was giving exact and precise clues about music, videos, shooting several weeks before they would happen. I'm talking about real info, this could be the exact lyrics of a line of the "Celebration" track when no one knew she had recorded a new track for the best off, she would describe the exact jewellery M would wear on the cover of her new album etc etc... She also told us about the track "Latte" and that was YEARS before it leaked. That was some serious shit. To this day, she remains the best insider that has ever been on the Madonna community. She also told us early on the process that M had record early versions of Give it 2 me, like one called "Infinity" and describing the precise sound of the demo. When the "Infinity" demo leaked years later, she was, as usual excatly spot on. Anna is the one who told us about a first video for "Give it 2 me" being shot during a shoot where M was on a tread mill and wearing blue sweat pants. At that time the unreleased shoot hadn't leaked. A couple of years later, the unreleased pics leaked and indeed there was a shoot where M was on a tread mill wearing blue sweat pants. Now about the first Give it 2 me snippets, i had been given by Anna Hendstridge herself. She told me precise indications as to how to leak them, one by one etc... She told me they have been recorded on a phone during that video shoot. (I precise that was way before M shot the Give it 2 me video we all know dlrected by Tom Munro). I will never in my whole life doubt anything that girl told, everything she said was precisely spot on. Now for those who were not around at that time i can understand you can be doubtful and it's only natural, but those who were on Fanzine at that time know what i'm talking about. She wasn't posting much, but when she was, believe me, it was something. We would spy her every move on the forum, every single world she could post 😂 That was something...
You must keep in mind that the Hard Candy schedule, especially we M got close to the release, was not the classic process. Many changes of directions visually, change of title, changes on the face lol. All that at the end of the process ! The album was to be called Give it 2 me, she has made several photoshoots, then she scrapps everything, all the photoshoots ( supposedly cause she hates the way she looks, and it's true that the styling makes her look wash out and she made her new round of bigger cheeks just after that) she changed the title of the album, pick just a few pics for the promo (she didn't have enough time left to make new shoots, so she picked like two or three pics for "Dazed and confused" and "Interview" Magazines. Scrapps the Give it 2 me title (and the music video of the same title) and comes with the title (Hard Candy). Until the end, it was all last minutes changes. There was also the "Black Madonna" theme that was scrapped (shoots have been made too) but that was earlier in the process.
Ps : for those interested, that girl Anna Hendstridge also revealed back then, that three different versions of the track "Give it 2 me" do exist, one is the released one, another one called "Infinity" that have leaked since then, and another one called "Get pumped" (still unleaked to this day).
She has totally diseappeared after the Celebration best of release. At that time the forum also closed. By the end, a few people, probably jealous or angry started attacking her, trying to prove she wasn't a girl and that she lied on her personnal life (not being a girl, not living where she said she lived etc...). They couldn't attack her on her info cause everything was spot on so they've found something else. Later there have been fake 'Anna Hendstidge" accounts being made on various forums like PopJustice etc but they were fake and so posting fake info... Some people still confuse her with these fake accounts to this day. The one and only real was posting on DrownedMadonna/Madonnafanzine forum around 2007-2008.
 

Although no music video was officially confirmed or produced, media outlets reported that a music video for "Superstar" was to be shot in October 2012. Madonna wanted to dress as a "Terror Bride", which is a combination of an Iraqi bridal veil and a US soldier's uniform. The dress was to be portrayed as a statement for oppression against women and warfare. However, the singer's advisers talked her out of wearing the costume because they thought it would "put her life at risk". Sources then stated "[Madonna] had the outfit ready to go. She was really proud of it and said it was her 'Terror Bride' costume [...] At first, when people started telling her it was madness, she just brushed it off, but when they mentioned that her actions could put her life at risk, she decided to ditch it from her video and certainly won't be wearing it on stage." Madonna said she was "really disappointed" about not wearing the outfit, but had put aside the idea for a future use
 
 

The Celebration Tour dvd cover has leaked???