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Highlighting the best Madonna remixes and megamixes I made over the years, this collection includes: "RCB’s Remix Revolution Megamix” — the "Finally Enough Love" megamix, updated versions of “Live To Tell (RCB Dance Mix)” and “Bitch I’m Madonna (RCB Radio Mix)” plus the iconic “RCB’s Immaculate Megamix” — the definitive Madonna 80’s megamix (previously released as “The Royal Megamix”).

The standard 15-track edition of this compilation (shared a year ago) can be downloaded here.

This 30-track Deluxe Edition brings new and unpromoted material, highliting three never published before megamixes:
"RCB's Ray Of Light Megamix",  "RCB's Confessions On A Dancefloor Club Megamix" and "RCB's Madame X Club Megamix". 





Due to several reasons, there is no lossless version of this material, but everything is in High Quality 320kbps MP3.


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I have it on very good authority that the scrapped set which included Back That Up, Candy Shop, 4 Minutes and Music was intended to follow DCFMA and was designed to be a dance off battle between M and the dancers.
The whole act was scrapped after M got sick, she didn't have enough strength to perform this set as it was very dance-heavy.
Frozen was scrapped right before Manchester, M apparently thought it felt too dark and depressive so she switched it to Rain which has more of an uplifting vibe. Apparently, you can still here a note of Frozen right after Ray of Light ends and before Rain begins.

Never heard of Express Yourself or Physical Attraction, neither Causing a Commotion. I definitely didn't say that those 3 were on the setlist, sorry!
In other news, Back That Up, Candy Shop, 4 Minutes were indeed rehearsed on the same set of 'Music' and also Ghosttown and Hold Tight were rehearsed for the 'country' section, HT falling in the DCFMA place.
Then there's also The Power of Goodbye which was the planned ending and rehearsed as such but scrapped because of Madonna *apparently* thinking it's too bittersweet.

And I'm SO guilty for thinking it would't work well as a show opener. When it was rumoured I was 100% about it just not being a strong opener. Boy was I wrong. It ended up being one of my absolute fav numbers from the show. The message was just so fitting for this moment our life with her, and I bawled my eyes out.

Yes, sometimes she seems really surprised that fans know the lyrics to some of the lesser known hits. She doesn't know how much we love even the unreleased ones lol. 
I think she really feels loved and after all the problems in the recent years, she must have really needed it. And I hope this inspires her also.

TAB in America was huge for her so I get the idea just under rehearsed. Plus probably the hardest song to sing after 2 hours. Rain was mine and was beautiful not seen the others so I dont know how it is live. Certainly dont think peoples phones are like the real experience so I cant judge. Lets face it...The shows mind blowing overall, not every song is perfect in any tour from anyone. 

I have to agree; Rain worked just fine.  I do understand how people see Frozen working in that spot as well and it does, but I personally love she pulled Rain out and performed it on a regular basis here up until recently.  It deserved from love in a "live" sense.  I'm doubting it will ever make an another appearance in future tours.  Meanwhile Frozen would most likely be performed again in the future beyond this tour. 
I will say I am enjoying the light hearted debate many of us are having over this.  It just shows you that we have a diverse fan base here and it's definitely the reason this woman still is able to rattle many people's chains and/or gain and keep so many fans in her corner. She may not always perform or release music in the way some of us want, but she always will have a large of enough base that will always find something they enjoy even from what some deem as her worst.  For instance, I agree she doesn't sound her best singing TAKE A BOW, but I don't take it too seriously either. It's also a hard song to sing. I'm sure in the right moment and setting she could nail this song even if she has to adjust the key to fit her voice better! 

"I'll Remember" is scheduled between the time of March 8 and March 15

Thank you. Also why are there 6 songs missing? 
This is the original tracklist
Holiday
Like A Virgin
Material Girl
Into The Groove
Angel
Dress You Up
Borderline
Live To Tell
Papa Don't Preach
True Blue
Open Your Heart
La Isla Bonita
Who's That Girl
Causing A Commotion
Like A Prayer
Express Yourself
Cherish
Dear Jessie
Vogue
Hanky Panky
but you added Crazy for You which wasn't on the tracklist.

My Bedtime Stories Tour setlist:
ACT I
1.HUMAN NATURE
2.SURVIVAL
3.PAPA DON'T PREACH
ACT II 
(INSIDE OF ME INTRELUDE)
4.DEEPER & DEEPER
5.DON'T STOP
6.I'D RATHER BE YOUR LOVER
7.RESCUE ME
8.LA ISLA BONITA
ACT III
9.LIVE TO TELL
10.SECRET 
11.LIKE A PRAYER
12.BAD GIRL
13.FORBIDDEN LOVE
14.RAIN
ACT IV
15.LOVE TRIED TO WELCOME ME
16.SANCTUARY
17.BEDTIME STORY
ENCORE
18.TAKE A BOW
 

"Nothing takes the past away, like the future”

Making pretend setlists for Madonna has always been fun, so I made this one for the current Celebration Tour a few weeks ago. I have to say, thought the actual setlist is fine, I wish she had been more adventurous, like that phenomenal segue from Erotica into Papa Don't Preach's strings before Justify My Love. That deserved to go on for much longer!
 
Also, there are so many songs, especially album cuts, that could be mixed in or referenced within these songs (Survival, from BS, for example, as part of the Rescue Me interlude, or Nobody Knows Me within a performance of Drowned World/Substitute for Love) but that would take someone to sit through her catalog and do that work and I can't imagine Madonna giving a single fuck with how impatient she's proven to be (haha). Ah well...
 
Intro
Act I:
Nothing Really Matters
Celebration with Give It 2 Me [interpolations]
Hung Up with 4 Minutes [excerpt] and Lucky Star [excerpts and interpolations]
Impressive Instant with Burning Up [interpolations]
 
Act II:
Everybody (Interlude) with Spotlight [interpolations] and Where’s the Party? [excerpts]
Dress You Up
Into the Hollywood Groove with Causing a Commotion [excerpts and interpolations]
Holiday
Live to Tell with In This Life [excerpt]
 
Act III:
Rescue Me (Interlude) with I Don’t Search I Find [interpolations]
Vogue with Break My Soul (The Queens Remix) [excerpt]
Living for Love
Physical Attraction/Fever with Human Nature [excerpts and interpolations] and Up Down Suite [excerpt]
Erotica with Dance 2night [excerpt] and You Thrill Me [excerpts and interpolations]
Papa Don’t Preach/Justify My Love
Bad Girl with What It Feels Like for a Girl [excerpt] and Take a Bow [excerpt]
 
Act IV:
Like a Virgin (Interlude) with Angel [interpolations]
Borderline/Cherish
Open Your Heart/The Power of Good-Bye
Don’t Tell Me
La Isla Bonita with Who’s That Girl? [excerpts and interpolations]
Mother and Father with This Used to Be My Playground [excerpt with Intervention’s melody line] and Keep It Together [excerpts
and interpolations]
I’ll Remember
 
Act V:
Die Another Day with The Beast Within [excerpts and interpolations]
Bedtime Story with Sanctuary [excerpt]
Rain with Frozen [excerpt] and Wash All Over Me [interpolations]
Drowned World/Substitute for Love with Falling Free [excerpt and interpolations]
I Will Survive
 
Act VI:
Bitch, I’m Madonna (Interlude) with Material Girl [excerpt] and Unholy [excerpt]
Like a Prayer with Act of Contrition [interpolation] and Girl Gone Wild [excerpt] and Nothing Fails [excerpt]
Express Yourself with Give Me All Your Luvin’ (Just Blaze Remix) [excerpts and interpolations]
Ray of Light
Music with Deeper and Deeper [excerpt] I’m Addicted [excerpts and interpolations]
Outro

Hmm 
Rolling Stone just voted Like A Prayer as the second greatest song of the 80's.
Starting the Reissues early 2024 with Like A Prayer 35th would be amazing.
The Celebration Tour Live album in summer
rounding out the year in November  with 2024 with Like A Virgins 40th.
 
Sounds like a year to me.

Frozen doesn’t fit in with the narrative for that section, why on earth would people want to take rain out? It doesn’t make sense plus Ray of light is in that section, 2 songs from one album would be overkill as well 

Stuart said the following before the tour kicked off
"Well, Madonna's reputation is for being highly precise and highly rehearsed across all departments. When you look at a tour of this scale, it has so many moving parts, so many elements, that everything has to be highly fixed.
"But there's one thing that's always dynamic, and that's Madonna herself. Her personality is so strong, her interaction with the audience is so strong, that it creates opportunities for variation from night to night."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67075718
I think we'll just get snippets of popular songs, like Causing a Commotion rather than full changes

I just have a feeling Frozen is coming in.... but I'm stomped. because the setlist has a narrative.
If there's no story to her tour, its almost fitting after NRM. Also, Frozen has been performed back in Madame X, so its likely a nay, but that doesn't stop her from singing LAP and vogue..... again.

"Nothing takes the past away, like the future”

MDNA. Most of the songs sounds so dated (ex: I'm Addicted, Gang Bang, etc.)

MDNA. Most of the songs sounds so dated (ex: I'm Addicted, Gang Bang, etc.)

l love the optimism but were talking about an artist/ team that has not even posted a video of the current tour to YT (nothing for 6 months) or a 40th anniversary release. They have a history and talent for sabotaging good press in the name of art or rebellion.
 

After next year the interscope albums will become Warner's, so we'll probably see something happen with those

Apple Music seems to have Been updated as well, dates as 2023 tho 
 
Strangely 4 minutes is under compilations now. Not sure if this was like this before 

You may have heard that Madonna is back. If you haven’t heard it, you’ve probably seen it: her new live tour – her first in four years – is an elaborate theatrical experience packed with four decades worth of the best pop songs ever made, and it has been plastered all over social media feeds since it kicked off last week. Highlights include: Madonna in a metal box flying around the arena, Madonna in a spinning cage straddling half-naked dancers in lacy gimp masks, Madonna thrashing out on an electric guitar at the end of a catwalk.
Like Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, The Celebration Tour is a journey through Madonna’s banger-filled career with a narrative that follows her from her coming-of-age in New York City, to her embrace of Ballroom culture in the 1990s (RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen leads us through the night as the MC), and her iconic VMAs kiss with Britney Spears in the early 2000s.
“She had been planning to make a biopic and she was going to contextualise that through the lens of New York City,” Ric Lipson, Madonna’s stage designer of architecture firm Stufish (who also designed Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour set), says. But, with that movie scrapped, she poured all of the autobiographical inspiration into this show. The show kicks off in Lipson’s approximation New York City – with areas of the stage temporarily representing the likes of legendary music venue CBGBs (where Madonna kickstarted her career in the early '80s) and Danceteria, a club she frequented on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. From there it takes us on a wild journey through her biggest songs – many of which she hadn’t played in decades.
GQ spoke to Lipson about building the show with Madonna, and the pros and cons of the live music boom on TikTok.
GQ: What concept did Madonna bring to you for this tour?
Ric Lipson: I met with her back in August last year, and we talked about New York and wanting to do something more modern [than her previous tour, 2019’s Madame X], something more about staging, lighting and photography.
On her last tour, there were no phones allowed. So we discussed the idea of letting the fans get close to her, and showing her in ways with camerawork how people are used to seeing her on social media, which is portrait, 16:9. And that we could tell the story of this show, [her career] and these decades, through multiple catwalks and the blocks to emulate the Manhattan bridge. So when she first leaves the circular stage and comes down to [our approximation of the famous New York club] CBGBs, that’s the east side and then we have uptown, downtown and the west side.
The circular stage is a memory and echo of the VMAs performance in 1984, where she was on a large, oversized wedding cake in a wedding dress. Then she tripped and fell down the wedding cake, and everyone was like, her career is over. She turned that around and became the biggest musician in the world.
That movie was scrapped in January 2023. It sounds like she’s put her personal story into this tour instead?
For sure. I mean, I don’t know what the status of that movie is. But certainly some of the ideas that she had for that exist in this show.
Did the show change materially after Madonna’s health scare earlier this year?
A few tiny things but mainly to make the show more efficient. Madonna rehearses unlike most artists. She has been rehearsing the show every day since April. So her fitness has built up constantly from day one. Other artists, their dancers go and build the show somewhere and they come in a few weeks later. After the break, about two months, she was back to the same thing and we did another six weeks of rehearsals.
We met briefly at the show, and you mentioned that TikTok is always on your mind when you construct these shows, because you know much of the world will be seeing sections of it on there. How much of a practical impact does that have on your work?
We're used to designing shows that have to be seen by the audience all angles, without revealing something that they shouldn't reveal. Certainly, we now have to think about what fits well in portrait shots.
One of the weirdest things that has become a thing, which sounds crazy, is colour balance. Historically, you would colour balance the lighting, with a screen everything else for for the eye, or for professional cameras, or for the video cameras shooting the show. Now, if you do that, and you put your mobile phone up that wants to autocorrect white balance, you end up with very strange pictures on the phone. And because so many people take pictures with phones, [lighting designer Rob Sinclair and video director Bert Parre] are now altering the lighting and the video to look good on the phone.
So that’s the biggest thing the phone has added, the extra level of complication to make sure that she always looks good in the light, that her hair isn’t the wrong colour, that her skin doesn't end up looking green because it's self-corrected too much blue or whatever else.
How do you feel about audiences viewing the shows through their phone screens?
I think it takes away from the audience to not be engaged with actually watching the show, but I think that the audience is becoming the curator of the show. It’s interesting which ones they take, because they’re not always the ones we think they will. In any show, you want to create highs and lows, and you go, ‘What are the five key moments on Instagram or TikTok?’ We imagine it’ll be certain moments like when she’s in the frame, when she’s in the cage for “Like A Prayer”, or when she’s doing “Hung Up” with all the cast members with their tops off. We create these things, but actually, the public are the people that decide what memories they take home.
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/madonna-tour-explained

While queuing for the Celebration Tour in Antwerp we started brainstorming with other fans on a forward looking timeline:
- 2023/2024 Celebration Tour 
- 2025 Celebration Tour released on streaming 
- 2026/2027 New album produced by Max Martin 
- 2027-2028 Biopic goes into production 
- 2028 Biopic released / Madonna turns 70

Wdyt?