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https://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/
Here is what is included on Celebration.
There are 16 previously released songs featured in their full-length, original album versions.
    BURNING UP
    HOLIDAY
    MATERIAL GIRL
    INTO THE GROOVE
    LIVE TO TELL
    PAPA DON’T PREACH
    LA ISLA BONITA
    WHO’S THAT GIRL
    LIKE A PRAYER
    JUSTIFY MY LOVE
    TAKE A BOW
    FROZEN
    BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
    MUSIC – MASTERING ERROR: multiple digital pops and clicks that are not part of the original recording can be heard throughout this song.
    DIE ANOTHER DAY – MASTERING ERROR: Track fades up late due to the incorrectly placed track index on the American Life album. This is ridiculous. The unaffected album version appears on both the US Promo CD single and the Die Another Day film soundtrack, all Warner Bros. releases.
    HOLLYWOOD – MASTERING ERROR: Track starts abruptly and end of “American Life”‘s fade out is audible.
Of these, ten were released as singles in versions that differ from these LP mixes. I would have much preferred the inclusion of the difficult to obtain single mixes, but I’m in therapy and have mostly moved on. Mostly.
Fortunately, five tracks do appear in their official single versions.
    SECRET (Edit)
    RAY OF LIGHT (Edit)
    SORRY (Single Edit)
    4 MINUTES (Edit)
    MILES AWAY (Radio Edit)
…and one more is a rarity from a US promo CD:
    HUNG UP ([Unblended] Album Version)
Next up, there are five remixes lifted directly from The Immaculate Collection.
    BORDERLINE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    LIKE A VIRGIN (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    CRAZY FOR YOU (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    OPEN YOUR HEART (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    VOGUE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
And now we pause to ask ourselves why.
The remaining nine tracks are unique to the collection. The first two are new recordings.
    CELEBRATION
    REVOLVER
One appears to be a from-the-vault rarity, likely included by mistake.
    LUCKY STAR – ALTERNATIVE Q SOUND MIX
    Virtually identical to the version heard on The Immaculate Collection, though there is noticeably more reverb on the “ee-yeah“‘s at the foot of each chorus. The music leading into the first verse is different (on TIC is was edited to match the original 7” version, on here it is not.) The most obvious difference is right at the fade, instead of the chorus it edits to a set of adlibs heard on longer versions of the song, but not heard on the Q Sound version. Odd, but inoffensive as it seems to be a genuine unreleased variation.
As for the rest, quality control has reached an all time low:
    EVERYBODY – FAKE EDIT
    This uses the full length, original 12″ version as its starting point (as did the official 7″ single version), but is structured differently. While the overall idea for this edit wasn’t horrendous, whoever was placed in charge of actually executing the edits needs to be tortured. Slowly… painfully.
    DRESS YOU UP – FUCKED UP INTRO
    What the hell happened here? This isn’t a mix variation so much as a mastering error… the album version started late with severe tape pinch/phasing issues right at the top. Of the four beats on the intro, all but the fourth are missing.
    EXPRESS YOURSELF – FAKE FUCKING FUCK.
    The most offensive. In a failed attempt to kindofsortof recreate the video version, they have taken the complete intro straight off of the Local Mix, “zipper” included. The actual, official video version starts at the percussion and is specially mixed to have echo on the line “Do you believe in love…” which is dry on the Local Mix and therefore not present here. This new monstrosity then incorrectly cuts to the 7″ Remix/Edit version and then again where they have BUTCHERED the song right at the bridge. A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.
CHERISH – FAKE EDIT
    The original album version cut to the length of the super-short Immaculate Collection version. AMATEUR doesn’t begin to describe how bad these edits have been executed. Poor edits result in creating entirely new lyrics! How about this chestnut… “Can’t get away, I won’t let to” ?! They render all prior complaints about bad edits on Madonna’s releases void. Again, unlistenable. In the cases of “Express Yourself” and “Cherish,” why not just use the fucking Q Sound remixes?! They’re the exact same length as the fake edits and it’s not like there aren’t 6 others from that release present here.
EROTICA – FAKE Radio Edit
    The edit points are around the same places as the OFFICIAL radio edit, but are poorly executed. The worst is around 3:30… they cut a beat late making for one of the sloppiest moments on this royalfuckupofacompilation. I don’t understand why this needed to be recreated as the official edit appears on countless singles and 2001’s GHV2 compilation. Oh. And the “surface noise” on the end of “Erotica” overlaps the beginning of “Justify My Love”.
DON’T TELL ME – FAKE Radio Edit
    The least offensive/noticeable fake edit, but incorrect nonetheless. The true radio edit was a unique mix for the very last second that does not feature the “whimsical strings” tag. For Celebration, they have chopped off the end, but the first millisecond of this tag is audible.
Regarding the mastering: It sounds as though noise reduction was used to remove “tape hiss” which is unnecessary on most recordings post 1980. This process kills part of the high end of recordings. In addition, the entire album has a smear of bass over it. I really wanted to like it, but it sounds like a cheap “bass boost” EQ effect was applied to the songs, not proper remastering.
I had accepted the slightly shoddy sequencing, several major omissions and overall lack of consistency and attention to detail with the mixes chosen for this release. I love the look of the entire project, but I cannot understand the use of newly created, butchered versions of songs.

She doesn’t look anything like Madonna lol
Where's the sex appeal? The charisma??
 
Shes cutesy, but she’s not hot.

I don't think they were intentional in the first place?
Keep in mind we're talking about mid 00s (2005 exactly) when the iTunes store was rising and Warner quickly had to put together a whole digital catalogue for the store (and later Amazon Music and the rest), when Madonna and Apple reached an agreement to add her music to the platform before the "Confessions" release (the infamous video chat announcement with Steve Jobs).
The easiest thing to do would have been ripping all the original CDs as they were, right?
Well, Warner don't work like that (other labels do). They always used (use?) original digitalized master files for the digital stores and now streaming, never CD rips. For some internal reason NO CD rips.
So the team in charge for Madonna's iTunes/digital catalogue just put together the albums tracklists with whatever they had available. The shorter Q-Sound Mix of "Holiday" wasn't created for the "Madonna" digital album, it existed already from a random 2001 Warner compilation. The original Q-Sound mixes masters of "Lucky Star" and "Borderline" must be lost or damaged, cause they have never been used on digital and they even found alternate ones for "Celebration". So the "New" mix and the album version were used for digital "TIC".
Also remember for years the extended remix of "Dress You Up" was part of the "Like A Virgin" album on Spotify, the extended of "Papa" on "True Blue", a remix of "Express Yourself" instead of the album version on Amazon...
It wasn't intentional. It was messy.

My balls are available as well 

Soooo should we should get this thread back on its track or what? I'll start  
Any news on DYU?
Why is the Like a Prayer album so quiet?
Is Borderline 7'' Edit the same as Borderline It's That Girl?
Do you think we're getting OYH 7'' Edit?
Is MDNA as bad as everyone says?
Who's Emily?

I agree. And the spanish version is beautiful. But my favorite is the Full Vocal Version (It's the album version without fade out).

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Updated with a minor fix. It's almost imperceptible, but I like things to be as perfect as possible.

Somehow it reminds me of the extended remix of Into the groove

https://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/
Here is what is included on Celebration.
There are 16 previously released songs featured in their full-length, original album versions.
    BURNING UP
    HOLIDAY
    MATERIAL GIRL
    INTO THE GROOVE
    LIVE TO TELL
    PAPA DON’T PREACH
    LA ISLA BONITA
    WHO’S THAT GIRL
    LIKE A PRAYER
    JUSTIFY MY LOVE
    TAKE A BOW
    FROZEN
    BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
    MUSIC – MASTERING ERROR: multiple digital pops and clicks that are not part of the original recording can be heard throughout this song.
    DIE ANOTHER DAY – MASTERING ERROR: Track fades up late due to the incorrectly placed track index on the American Life album. This is ridiculous. The unaffected album version appears on both the US Promo CD single and the Die Another Day film soundtrack, all Warner Bros. releases.
    HOLLYWOOD – MASTERING ERROR: Track starts abruptly and end of “American Life”‘s fade out is audible.
Of these, ten were released as singles in versions that differ from these LP mixes. I would have much preferred the inclusion of the difficult to obtain single mixes, but I’m in therapy and have mostly moved on. Mostly.
Fortunately, five tracks do appear in their official single versions.
    SECRET (Edit)
    RAY OF LIGHT (Edit)
    SORRY (Single Edit)
    4 MINUTES (Edit)
    MILES AWAY (Radio Edit)
…and one more is a rarity from a US promo CD:
    HUNG UP ([Unblended] Album Version)
Next up, there are five remixes lifted directly from The Immaculate Collection.
    BORDERLINE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    LIKE A VIRGIN (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    CRAZY FOR YOU (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    OPEN YOUR HEART (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    VOGUE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
And now we pause to ask ourselves why.
The remaining nine tracks are unique to the collection. The first two are new recordings.
    CELEBRATION
    REVOLVER
One appears to be a from-the-vault rarity, likely included by mistake.
    LUCKY STAR – ALTERNATIVE Q SOUND MIX
    Virtually identical to the version heard on The Immaculate Collection, though there is noticeably more reverb on the “ee-yeah“‘s at the foot of each chorus. The music leading into the first verse is different (on TIC is was edited to match the original 7” version, on here it is not.) The most obvious difference is right at the fade, instead of the chorus it edits to a set of adlibs heard on longer versions of the song, but not heard on the Q Sound version. Odd, but inoffensive as it seems to be a genuine unreleased variation.
As for the rest, quality control has reached an all time low:
    EVERYBODY – FAKE EDIT
    This uses the full length, original 12″ version as its starting point (as did the official 7″ single version), but is structured differently. While the overall idea for this edit wasn’t horrendous, whoever was placed in charge of actually executing the edits needs to be tortured. Slowly… painfully.
    DRESS YOU UP – FUCKED UP INTRO
    What the hell happened here? This isn’t a mix variation so much as a mastering error… the album version started late with severe tape pinch/phasing issues right at the top. Of the four beats on the intro, all but the fourth are missing.
    EXPRESS YOURSELF – FAKE FUCKING FUCK.
    The most offensive. In a failed attempt to kindofsortof recreate the video version, they have taken the complete intro straight off of the Local Mix, “zipper” included. The actual, official video version starts at the percussion and is specially mixed to have echo on the line “Do you believe in love…” which is dry on the Local Mix and therefore not present here. This new monstrosity then incorrectly cuts to the 7″ Remix/Edit version and then again where they have BUTCHERED the song right at the bridge. A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.
CHERISH – FAKE EDIT
    The original album version cut to the length of the super-short Immaculate Collection version. AMATEUR doesn’t begin to describe how bad these edits have been executed. Poor edits result in creating entirely new lyrics! How about this chestnut… “Can’t get away, I won’t let to” ?! They render all prior complaints about bad edits on Madonna’s releases void. Again, unlistenable. In the cases of “Express Yourself” and “Cherish,” why not just use the fucking Q Sound remixes?! They’re the exact same length as the fake edits and it’s not like there aren’t 6 others from that release present here.
EROTICA – FAKE Radio Edit
    The edit points are around the same places as the OFFICIAL radio edit, but are poorly executed. The worst is around 3:30… they cut a beat late making for one of the sloppiest moments on this royalfuckupofacompilation. I don’t understand why this needed to be recreated as the official edit appears on countless singles and 2001’s GHV2 compilation. Oh. And the “surface noise” on the end of “Erotica” overlaps the beginning of “Justify My Love”.
DON’T TELL ME – FAKE Radio Edit
    The least offensive/noticeable fake edit, but incorrect nonetheless. The true radio edit was a unique mix for the very last second that does not feature the “whimsical strings” tag. For Celebration, they have chopped off the end, but the first millisecond of this tag is audible.
Regarding the mastering: It sounds as though noise reduction was used to remove “tape hiss” which is unnecessary on most recordings post 1980. This process kills part of the high end of recordings. In addition, the entire album has a smear of bass over it. I really wanted to like it, but it sounds like a cheap “bass boost” EQ effect was applied to the songs, not proper remastering.
I had accepted the slightly shoddy sequencing, several major omissions and overall lack of consistency and attention to detail with the mixes chosen for this release. I love the look of the entire project, but I cannot understand the use of newly created, butchered versions of songs.

https://requiem4adream.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/celebration-a-retardation/
Here is what is included on Celebration.
There are 16 previously released songs featured in their full-length, original album versions.
    BURNING UP
    HOLIDAY
    MATERIAL GIRL
    INTO THE GROOVE
    LIVE TO TELL
    PAPA DON’T PREACH
    LA ISLA BONITA
    WHO’S THAT GIRL
    LIKE A PRAYER
    JUSTIFY MY LOVE
    TAKE A BOW
    FROZEN
    BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
    MUSIC – MASTERING ERROR: multiple digital pops and clicks that are not part of the original recording can be heard throughout this song.
    DIE ANOTHER DAY – MASTERING ERROR: Track fades up late due to the incorrectly placed track index on the American Life album. This is ridiculous. The unaffected album version appears on both the US Promo CD single and the Die Another Day film soundtrack, all Warner Bros. releases.
    HOLLYWOOD – MASTERING ERROR: Track starts abruptly and end of “American Life”‘s fade out is audible.
Of these, ten were released as singles in versions that differ from these LP mixes. I would have much preferred the inclusion of the difficult to obtain single mixes, but I’m in therapy and have mostly moved on. Mostly.
Fortunately, five tracks do appear in their official single versions.
    SECRET (Edit)
    RAY OF LIGHT (Edit)
    SORRY (Single Edit)
    4 MINUTES (Edit)
    MILES AWAY (Radio Edit)
…and one more is a rarity from a US promo CD:
    HUNG UP ([Unblended] Album Version)
Next up, there are five remixes lifted directly from The Immaculate Collection.
    BORDERLINE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    LIKE A VIRGIN (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    CRAZY FOR YOU (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    OPEN YOUR HEART (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
    VOGUE (1990) (Q Sound Mix)
And now we pause to ask ourselves why.
The remaining nine tracks are unique to the collection. The first two are new recordings.
    CELEBRATION
    REVOLVER
One appears to be a from-the-vault rarity, likely included by mistake.
    LUCKY STAR – ALTERNATIVE Q SOUND MIX
    Virtually identical to the version heard on The Immaculate Collection, though there is noticeably more reverb on the “ee-yeah“‘s at the foot of each chorus. The music leading into the first verse is different (on TIC is was edited to match the original 7” version, on here it is not.) The most obvious difference is right at the fade, instead of the chorus it edits to a set of adlibs heard on longer versions of the song, but not heard on the Q Sound version. Odd, but inoffensive as it seems to be a genuine unreleased variation.
As for the rest, quality control has reached an all time low:
    EVERYBODY – FAKE EDIT
    This uses the full length, original 12″ version as its starting point (as did the official 7″ single version), but is structured differently. While the overall idea for this edit wasn’t horrendous, whoever was placed in charge of actually executing the edits needs to be tortured. Slowly… painfully.
    DRESS YOU UP – FUCKED UP INTRO
    What the hell happened here? This isn’t a mix variation so much as a mastering error… the album version started late with severe tape pinch/phasing issues right at the top. Of the four beats on the intro, all but the fourth are missing.
    EXPRESS YOURSELF – FAKE FUCKING FUCK.
    The most offensive. In a failed attempt to kindofsortof recreate the video version, they have taken the complete intro straight off of the Local Mix, “zipper” included. The actual, official video version starts at the percussion and is specially mixed to have echo on the line “Do you believe in love…” which is dry on the Local Mix and therefore not present here. This new monstrosity then incorrectly cuts to the 7″ Remix/Edit version and then again where they have BUTCHERED the song right at the bridge. A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.
CHERISH – FAKE EDIT
    The original album version cut to the length of the super-short Immaculate Collection version. AMATEUR doesn’t begin to describe how bad these edits have been executed. Poor edits result in creating entirely new lyrics! How about this chestnut… “Can’t get away, I won’t let to” ?! They render all prior complaints about bad edits on Madonna’s releases void. Again, unlistenable. In the cases of “Express Yourself” and “Cherish,” why not just use the fucking Q Sound remixes?! They’re the exact same length as the fake edits and it’s not like there aren’t 6 others from that release present here.
EROTICA – FAKE Radio Edit
    The edit points are around the same places as the OFFICIAL radio edit, but are poorly executed. The worst is around 3:30… they cut a beat late making for one of the sloppiest moments on this royalfuckupofacompilation. I don’t understand why this needed to be recreated as the official edit appears on countless singles and 2001’s GHV2 compilation. Oh. And the “surface noise” on the end of “Erotica” overlaps the beginning of “Justify My Love”.
DON’T TELL ME – FAKE Radio Edit
    The least offensive/noticeable fake edit, but incorrect nonetheless. The true radio edit was a unique mix for the very last second that does not feature the “whimsical strings” tag. For Celebration, they have chopped off the end, but the first millisecond of this tag is audible.
Regarding the mastering: It sounds as though noise reduction was used to remove “tape hiss” which is unnecessary on most recordings post 1980. This process kills part of the high end of recordings. In addition, the entire album has a smear of bass over it. I really wanted to like it, but it sounds like a cheap “bass boost” EQ effect was applied to the songs, not proper remastering.
I had accepted the slightly shoddy sequencing, several major omissions and overall lack of consistency and attention to detail with the mixes chosen for this release. I love the look of the entire project, but I cannot understand the use of newly created, butchered versions of songs.

I’ve checked my files and can see that the vinyl rip from E=VC2 actually clocks in at 10:19. The rip is here:

This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up There is a different Calderone Remix that has leaked digitally and is the longer version of the commercially released Remix/Edit referred to as the “Calderone Roxy Anthem Mix” (10:28)

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Just reconstructed this using Radio Edit, Instrumental, and Widescreen Remix. Wondering if the file that currently exists was mixed with other track by William as it has a different ending.
 
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me too. Its a great version.
I made my own standalone 'mixshow edit' of it using a rip from the mixed E=VC2 CD:
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It's an alternate Q-Sound mix as shown on Qobuz (official label info):
https://www.qobuz.com/es-es/album/celebration-madonna/0093624972730
They used alternate "Immaculate" Q-Sound versions of "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" for "Celebration".

“Borderline” is NOT the Q-Sound mix. It’s a new edit that retains some echo-y effects from the New Mix. It’s similar to the It’s That Girl mix and what’s erroneously labeled the 7” version on streaming. 

"Dress You Up" was released in July in the US so I guess we won't get it this year unless they do a digital singles campaign or something for "Like A Virgin" 40th with all the digital singles around October/November like they did for "Erotica" 30th.

What are the other two songs they fixed besides Cherish and Erotica?

No, we can now restart to complain about the missing digital singles as Dress you up, OYH, DAD, ecc. and praying about the inclusion of some vinyl only available remix edits ecc. ecc.
Really, I'm praying for OYH and DYU remix edits but I'm not so confident...

Burning up
Open your heart
Oh Father
Vogue
Bad girl
Bedtime story
Frozen
Don't tell me
Hung up
Girl gone wild

Somehow it reminds me of the extended remix of Into the groove

If we’re not here to discuss the minutiae then what are we here for?

Thank you very much! Very well done!