Madonna : ‘Rebel Heart/MDNA SKIN’ Era

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http://instagram.com/p/BOm-uhfBkOJ

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Dec 30, 2016 9:01:26 GMT -5 August said:

Dec 29, 2016 17:19:46 GMT -5 @cosmiccandy said:

That reminds me of the Erotica ad that said "Aural Sex" and "Don't stay home without it." Cute!

and this...

[Tea-why]

Dec 30, 2016 10:19:39 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

The Billboard ad for the Erotica album used the same image as the one posted, but it was spread across two pages (and just the upper portion of her)- forget what it said though.

That image has always been one of my favorites- so hot. I have a poster. :)

I know it's been said time and again but that era is grossly underrated. Her look, the videos, that album. It was all so good and ahead of it's time in my opinion.

[HolidayGuy]

Probably so- I've always said that while the album isn't my favorite, I admire the kind of album it was and her intent with that whole era.

"Waiting" is such a jam (thank you, M, for working with Andre Betts for that one)- and how can you not love the final line of the track?

[Safado]

Happy New Year....there can be no other like Madonna. Many have tried, people diss her all the time, but she stands up and keeps going on. <3

[areyoureadytojump]

^Yes. Even when she falls down on stage. With a live microphone. Singing a new song. She gets back up. Starts singing live and finishes her performance.

[August]

Jan 2, 2017 10:02:53 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Yes. Even when she falls down on stage. With a live microphone. Singing a new song. She gets back up. Starts singing live and finishes her performance.

*meow* *cough*Mariah NYE*cough*

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Both MCs are bad-ass

Anyway... Madonna: Ray of Light

www.theaustralian.com.au/life/madonnas-ray-of-light-track-reborn-as-a-dance-hit/news-story/25364e7ac8fa3e638f0fae0e2204ece0

We are excused for never having heard of an English band from the early 1970s called Curtiss Maldoon. Dave Curtiss and Clive Maldoon mixed among some of music’s elite — the band’s two albums were issued on Deep Purple’s private record label — but they were B-teamers and mostly in danger of relegation even from that lowly rating.

Reviews didn’t help. Melody Maker, then the bible for the British music industry, was particularly cruel. “One of the worst things about bad albums,” one correspondent suggested, after hearing Curtiss Maldoon, “is that your standards are lowered by repeated exposure.” Curtiss Maldoon’s songs were second-rate and undistinguished: “At times (they) made me want to fall asleep,” the reviewer said.

Maldoon liked falling asleep and took serious medications, including Nembutal, to help him do so. One night in 1978 he apparently mixed these with some Guinness and died. Barely anyone noticed.

The band had long since faded away and unhappy Maldoon lived alone but quite near Curtiss, and they would catch up irregularly.

“He was a bit depressed, we both were,” Curtiss told Neil Priddey, who, two years ago, compiled Purple Records’ discography. “We’d been through all this music business stuff with an end result of zero.”

Curtiss — whose real name is David Atkins — and Maldoon had played in a short-lived early psychedelic rock band called Bodast, which is remembered only for its brilliant guitar player, Steve Howe. (Howe’s next band, Yes, would go on, with the likes of Genesis, to sell millions of records while defining 1970s progressive rock.)

Bodast worked on an album that remained unreleased for many years. No one was that bothered. It was produced by singer Keith West, on whom pop fame landed a glancing blow with the cute 1967 single Excerpt From a Teenage Opera.

West and Curtiss stayed in infrequent contact, West in London and always involved in music, but Curtiss was now a painter and decorator in California, music having been abandoned.

One day in 1998, West called his old mate: “I’ve just heard your song on the radio.” Curtiss didn’t know what West was talking about. “Your Sepheryn song is being sung by Madonna. It’s in the charts!”

How an unknown song from a lost 1971 folk-pop album found life as Ray of Light and ended up the title track on a landmark album by the most successful female artist of the rock era is quite a tale.

The unlikely chain of events took almost 30 years to unfold.

Christine Leach is an ambitious English singer and Maldoon’s niece. She was aware of her uncle’s music and liked the song Sepheryn from the self-titled Curtiss Maldoon album. Over a melody on which experimental musician and producer William Orbit was working, she sang a gently rewritten version of the song.

In the meantime, Madonna’s life was changing. Her mother had died and she herself was a new mother, and was looking to change her musical direction.

It was suggested to Orbit, a little-known producer whose few records to that date had impressed music insiders, that he send Madonna some of his work, and the Leach interpretation of Sepheryn was one of 13 tracks on the tape he dispatched.

Madonna’s thoughts on the other dozen songs are unknown but Sepheryn caught her ear. She made changes to the lyrics as it morphed into Ray of Light.

Released as a single it leapt to No 5 on Billboard, Madonna’s highest debuting record. It was No 2 on release in Britain and No 6 in Australia. Madonna always has insisted the Ray of Light album and song were collaborations. Orbit produced the songs and played all guitars. “William is a complete madman genius,” Madonna said.

Orbit previously had been called on to help guide studio recordings by the likes of Sting, the Cure, U2 and Prince. But Ray of Light put him firmly on the map. It picked up four Grammys and sold 14 million copies, making a lot of money for all those who had been involved in its strange evolution.

“I frittered it all away — on first-class travel, property that never worked out, equipment I never used,” Orbit happily told a reporter last year, saying he “hadn’t enjoyed a penny of it”.

Curtiss welcomed the windfall. “Went around the world, saw the pyramids in Mexico and Guatemala, stuff like that — China, Tibet … those British Airways around-the-world tickets are bloody good value,” he said.

And he returned to music. Now going under his real name, he has re-recorded Sepheryn and it’s “a bit jazzy, you know”.

[stunnedout]

I saw the Rebel heart production and WOW. That was an amazing production. One of the best shows I've seen and I'm not a huge Madonna fan, but the production value was incredible. The set changes, costumes, just wow.

[Safado]

Jan 2, 2017 10:46:49 GMT -5 August said:

Jan 2, 2017 10:02:53 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Yes. Even when she falls down on stage. With a live microphone. Singing a new song. She gets back up. Starts singing live and finishes her performance.

*meow* *cough*Mariah NYE*cough*

I do not even want to go into that thread. She has some cute songs but that is all, never been a strong live performer on the same level as Madonna, Prince, Michael, Janet.

But shit happens and either you own it or make excuses.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Jan 2, 2017 13:26:21 GMT -5 @cosmiccandy said:

Both MCs are bad-ass

Anyway... Madonna: Ray of Light

Thank you for being factual and then staying on topic when it is so easy to veer off. I would think there are enough Madonna-related things in the news currently to talk about in her thread. If not, there will probably be soon enough.

[August]

On this day, in 1412, Joan of Arc was born. To commemorate.....

[bat1990]

Looking for fellow Madonna stan input:

I'm constructing a GHV3 playlist to cover Die Another Day through MDNA. I'm pretty solid on what to include but less so on how best to sequence it - GHV2 was not strictly chronological and I feel like this one shouldn't be either.

Songs to include:
Die Another Day
American Life
Hollywood
Love Profusion
Hung Up
Get Together
Sorry
Jump
Candy Shop
4 Minutes
Give It 2 Me
Miles Away
Celebration
Revolver
Give Me All Your Luvin'
Girl Gone Wild (maybe)

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Maybe MATM after Love Profusion and before HU? And nix Candy Shop.

Perhaps the Russia #1 and Golden Globe winner Masterpiece could fit nicely after Miles Away and keep things from getting too chronological as you mentioned.

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Jan 2, 2017 14:50:03 GMT -5 Safado said:

Jan 2, 2017 10:46:49 GMT -5 August said:

*meow* *cough*Mariah NYE*cough*

I do not even want to go into that thread. She has some cute songs but that is all, never been a strong live performer on the same level as Madonna, Prince, Michael, Janet.

But s**t happens and either you own it or make excuses.

LIES Please dont make me pull up countless live and amazing VOCAL performances from the first decade and some beyond. However i can excuse you if you dont consider or know what great live vocals are. Dont start with that b.s because she doesnt dance doesnt disqualify her amazing live vocals. You will not downplay her voice, when a singers job is to actually be able to sing not... (actually never mind i will stop my sentence there)

Every performer who has been in the industry long has had their awful moments, NYE was s**t, but so was Madonna's Prince tribute that got dragged all over social media . Dont play that game. if you want to sit in this thread and discuss Mariah, then i can easily get it back on topic and tell you all about Madonna's many issues. Oh and that's cute.

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Jan 2, 2017 10:02:53 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Yes. Even when she falls down on stage. With a live microphone. Singing a new song. She gets back up. Starts singing live and finishes her performance.

Lol still trolling I see. Give it up you have been at this since 1984.

U can sing, we can all sing but singing is a very loosely used term .

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M on the cover of spring Harpers Bazaar


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Wow she looks phenomenal! A goddess for sure...Let's at least compare M with another innovative bombshell, like Kylie, if we must at all. The other ladies are just not anything like M so why compare?

[Ivy Leegue™]

I agree with the Kylie comparisons. Not sure about performance wise, as I have never seen Kylie perform, but vocally, definitely. See also: Victoria Beckham, The Go-Gos, and other artists who are not known for vocals but entertainment aspects.

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Kylie is an amazing performer (you must watch her Fever tour!) and some of her videos are futuristic works of art. I think she really has a vision as far as artistic presentation of her work from concept & recording all the way to performance. Belinda Carlisle not artistic in that sense, but beauty-wise and vocally, yes she is in that same category. It's heartbreaking Belinda's label didn't let her release Falling Into You and eventually Celine recorded it. If the haunting, melancholy Circle in the Sand is anything to go by, my bet would be on Belinda.

Other artists I would enjoy discussing and comparing to M would be: Dragonette, Banks, Chvrches, Santigold...too many to name yet we end up rehashing the same, tired comparisons here. Creatures of habit, I suppose.

[SPRΞΞ]

i love me some Circle in the Sand! Yes, very haunting in the same way that "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" was.

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^Aaah yes, Paula Cole...voice like an angel...

Also for us M fans, there is an incredible artist called Queen of Hearts. Please check her out. Her music, like M's, is miraculously good. I think Stuart Price produced many of the songs.

[Night Senses]

Confessions is being released on pink vinyl on January 31!

www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6NT7HU

At this rate, I'm gonna have her entire catalog on vinyl before the year's end. Thank you, Madonna, for repressing these gems!

[HolidayGuy]

I love me some Kylie- I mean, she obviously is not the artistic level of M, but she's enjoyable and a good performer.

Rhino released reissues of ROL and AL on vinyl within the last few months? And TIC is coming this month. I may have to get some of these, dangit.

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Yeah, Kylie has slowly turned into a nostalgia act, whereas M keeps pushing into new directions especially so with the magnificent RH. God help us when M releases an xmas album. It's all over then kids....Remember when M threatened an album of Italian lullabies or some such nonsense? (shudders at the thought).

A creative soul sister to M would be Bjork. Another visionary forever forging new territory....

[jumpb4uthink]

^ I love me some Bjork. Her collaboration with M on Bedtime Story is amazing. The song and vid are ahead of its time.

[jumpb4uthink]

This vintage Hollywood glamour suits M just fine :) WOW

http://instagram.com/p/BO_YRZUAusw

http://instagram.com/p/BO_d-4oAYnr

[bat1990]

Finally got around to watching the Billboard Women in Music Speech.

....*blown away*....

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Jan 8, 2017 12:53:03 GMT -5 jumpb4uthink said:

This vintage Hollywood glamour suits M just fine :) WOW

http://instagr.am/p/BO_YRZUAusw

http://instagr.am/p/BO_d-4oAYnr

She is absolutely the most glamorous woman in showbiz since the 80s. Over the decades, the other gals (Pam Anderson...too lowbrow; Angie...too skinny and stressed out; Jennifer...much too bootylicious) just couldn't compare with M's unique blend of classic retro-Hollywood beauty and chiseled features paired with an haute couture edge.

[SPRΞΞ]

Looks a little puffy to me.