Bedtime Stories 30th Anniversary Poll!

[Adonna 22,096]

We've had many discussions regarding this album over the years, including more recently with the 30th Anniversary coming up on Oct. 25th.  I thought it would be interesting and timely to Poll Infinity members, asking what is their favorite song and favorite video from BEDTIME STORIES?  Also, feel free to add your thoughts or memories surrounding this album's release and/or singles choices, etc.  Which song and video will reign as most popular among the Infinity members?  Will it be something you chose?  Let's begin....

 

And here is the 1994 IN HOUSE Promo video directed at Warner Bros.

 

[Voguerista 13,829]

Great post and Polls! LOVESS!!!  I chose "Secret" as my favorite song. I chose "Take A Bow" as my favorite video ....which is indeed one of her best videos of all. A true masterpiece. I remember when I first saw it. It just silenced me...and it does so to this day. BEAUTIFUL!!! 

 

[Burroughs 949]

I'm torn between Human Nature and Bedtime Story, in the end I've chosen the second one. The music video is a surreal visual masterpiece.

[PlayPause 2,937]

Weird that this poll made me vote for BS twice when it's definitely not the first song that pops when I think about the album.

[Voguerista 13,829]

The results are fascinating. Bedtime Stories is winning in both polls so far. 

[MPowered 7,871]

Favourite song: Sanctuary

Favourite video: Bedtime Story

If I were to rank the songs on the album:

1. Sanctuary
2. Forbidden Love
3. Human Nature
4. Take A Bow
5. Secret
6. Bedtime Story
7. I'd Rather Be Your Lover
8. Love Tried To Welcome Me
9. Survival
10. Inside Of Me
11. Don't Stop

[Redha DBL 8,000]

Both Bedtime Story. 

[Pootz333 2,978]

Bedtime Story: the song, music video, remixes, Brits performance, Reinvention video, and Celebration performance. Top tier M. 

I will die on the hill that it is one of her finest pieces ever. And personally rate it higher than some of her biggest chart toppers. 

Make Madonna Bjork Again.

[Boombox90 4,959]

[wtg1987 10,698]

Bedtime story song - i think its the only song that has stood the test of time from this era - the rest of it sounds very dated imo and i dont like that dull droning 90's r n b sound anyway (same goes for most of HC too) video was  tough choice as i love both BS and HN  - HN one as its more fun and i love the choreography in it too

[Boombox90 4,959]

2 minutes ago, wtg1987 said:

Bedtime story song - i think its the only song that has stood the test of time from this era - the rest of it sounds very dated imo and i dont like that dull droning 90's r n b sound anyway (same goes for most of HC too) video was  tough choice as i love both BS and HN  - HN one as its more fun and i love the choreography in it too

Bedtime Story is so overrated to me. It doesn’t even sound like a Madonna song. It’s pure Bjork.

 

Admittedly, I do love the remixes (not the Mark Picchiotti ones, though).

[Rosita The chihuahua 431]

1. Take A Bow

2 Secret

3 Don't Stop

4 Sanctuary

5 I'd Rather Be Your Lover

6 Human Nature

7 Bedtime Story

8 Survival

9 Forbidden Love

10 Inside Of Me

11 Love Tried To Welcome Me

[Veronica-Electronica 520]

Human Nature is one of my favourite Madonna songs and videos, not just from this album, so it was an easy pick for me. 

The Bedtime Stories era as a whole was something I didn’t “get” at the time, and for many years/decades later - but I have come to really appreciate the aesthetic and sonic sensibilities much more in recent years. 

the Bedtime Stories video is a work of art, but I chose Human Nature because it feels more “Madonna”. 

[Susan Thomas 7,840]

I went with Secret as my favourite track (the others are Inside of me and Love tried to welcome me: the thing I like the most from this album is the intimistic/melancholic tone combine with such a sensual sound, I'll die if she ever record a track with that lulluby-like whispered singing) and Human Nature favourite video (I think her irony, grit and elegance here are at the top).

I think it's one of her most underrated albums, the writing and the production are among her best, even if not experimental as in many other works (the only  experimentalish tracks are Inside of me, Sanctuary and Bedtime Story imo). I precisely remember when it came out, I was at my fourth high school year and I left two hours earlier to reach the records shop and buy it, so I could be home for lunch and close the world, the school, the phone (when doin' it was still possible) and my parents out of that door, put my earphones on and enjoy it. I remember it as the one I appreciated the most at my first listening with LAP and ROL (I still think these are actually all very easy listening and good quality albums). The only track I would have really thrown out of the window (and I still would) was Don't stop.