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Post by Glove Slap on Jul 26, 2017 23:05:11 GMT -5
Instrumental snippet of "Angels With Dirty Faces": Unreleased track from the LAP recording sessions NOT a 20 second snippet without any vocals or lyrics demolishing the entire MDNA album! Right? I mean, I get why it wasn't included on the album from that snippet alone, but still...
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 27, 2017 6:01:58 GMT -5
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Post by @DjKingBee on Jul 27, 2017 11:46:57 GMT -5
Finally Got around to posting it
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Jul 27, 2017 12:15:01 GMT -5
^ thank you for sharing 👍
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jul 27, 2017 15:07:48 GMT -5
She looks fantastic... But it's gotta be hard for her. To be honest, I don't even really listen to the clips as much as I look at what she looks like at 58. Which is mostly good, if not great, but still. I think Madonna is changing what it's like to be 30/40/50...and beyond. I just noticed what a good time she was having performing. Smiling the whole time. Putting some effort into it.
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Post by KeepDeanWeird on Jul 27, 2017 15:44:20 GMT -5
She looks fantastic... I think Madonna is changing what it's like to be 30/40/50...and beyond. Actually, I'd say Cher and Tina Turner led that way more than 30 years ago as women 40+ who kicked butt. Back in the 80's, that was 'over-the-hill' and marketed liked crazy for 40th birthdays (everything from t-shirts, banners, napkins, etc). Where M can break the mold for women is if she start having Pop hits again.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Jul 27, 2017 16:02:09 GMT -5
Madonna also performed "Ghosttown" and it was amazing!
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jul 31, 2017 9:25:14 GMT -5
denverd- that also was a time when women 40+ had more of a shot at radio airplay, and, in turn, notable commercial success. Times have a-changed. But, yeah, that would be a nice mold to be broken, as unlikely as it is.
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Post by August on Aug 7, 2017 12:40:14 GMT -5
We have talked in the past about songs Madonna has discarded that eventually went on to being hits for other artists. Here is an example. She wrote the song "Love Won't Wait" for her Bedtime Stories album. It eventually was scrapped and then was recorded by Take That lead singer, Gary Barlow and released it in 1997. It went to #1 on the UK charts. Here is M's version and then Gary Barlow's version. Gary Barlow version, video won't embed: vimeo.com/groups/185810/videos/75902986
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 8, 2017 17:10:37 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 17:19:28 GMT -5
I would love to see Madonna back to beginning with some 80's influenced songs or Confessions part II Just this afternoon I spent a great deal of time listening to her 80's hits - which are perfect for the summer Rabel Heart remains my least favorite album by her ( that I own ) - I do not have only Music and ALife albums So... I bought Music album/cd a few days ago Which leaves ALife as the only album/cd I do not own by Madonna I listened to it today and after 1st listen...I am not thrilled. What do you guys think about the album? Any advise when I should listen to it to really 'get it'?
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 8, 2017 18:22:49 GMT -5
That's a good pic of Madonna and Leo. Madonna has always supported the gays!
Btw, where has HolidayGuy been?!
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 8, 2017 20:45:48 GMT -5
I would love to see Madonna back to beginning with some 80's influenced songs or Confessions part II Just this afternoon I spent a great deal of time listening to her 80's hits - which are perfect for the summer Rabel Heart remains my least favorite album by her ( that I own ) - I do not have only Music and ALife albums So... I bought Music album/cd a few days ago Which leaves ALife as the only album/cd I do not own by Madonna I listened to it today and after 1st listen...I am not thrilled. What do you guys think about the album? Any advise when I should listen to it to really 'get it'? Music or American Life? Both are not my faves.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 5:47:05 GMT -5
I asked about Music
Yeah, generally I heard they are among her less good ones That is why I hesitated to buy them But Music was on discount, so I said: why not?
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Post by blahsi on Aug 9, 2017 6:21:23 GMT -5
I asked about Music Yeah, generally I heard they are among her less good ones That is why I hesitated to buy them But Music was on discount, so I said: why not? When I listen to Music, I generally skip I Deserve It and the last two on the disc so it is all the faster tracks. As for American Life, I am an outlier and like that one a lot so give it a listen.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Aug 9, 2017 7:09:04 GMT -5
Music is fairly fat free IMO, the only song I skip is "Nobody's Perfect." It unfortunately followed ROL, which at the time was viewed as a peak in her career, so it kind of gets short shrifted in the later half of her discography. I definitely prefer it to ROL, which remains just an okay album despite it's highlights. And it's much better than AL IMO.
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Post by josh on Aug 9, 2017 7:13:08 GMT -5
I would love to see Madonna back to beginning with some 80's influenced songs or Confessions part II Just this afternoon I spent a great deal of time listening to her 80's hits - which are perfect for the summer Rabel Heart remains my least favorite album by her ( that I own ) - I do not have only Music and ALife albums So... I bought Music album/cd a few days ago Which leaves ALife as the only album/cd I do not own by Madonna I listened to it today and after 1st listen...I am not thrilled. What do you guys think about the album? Any advise when I should listen to it to really 'get it'? I love the Music album-to me it's Madonna at her coolest and most creative. I think it's daring, unique, at times very fun, at times very introspective, and still sounds fresh nearly 20 years after it's release. Her vocals are gorgeous on the album, too. Also, at just under 45 minutes, I like that it says what it's got to say and moves on, rather than some of her other albums, which I feel go on a little too long. It's in my top 3 Madonna albums along with Erotica and Bedtime Stories. But, judging by the amount of copies I see at the used record store selling for $0.99, I think I may be in the minority with this one.
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Post by bat1990 on Aug 9, 2017 10:29:35 GMT -5
Music is polarizing to me. It was the first Madonna album I ever listened too, but there are definitely songs I don't use: "I Deserve It" and "Nobody's Perfect." I also have to be in the right mood to listen to "Paradise (Not For Me)." That said "Don't Tell Me," "Impressive Instant," and "Runaway Lover" are some of my favorite M songs ever!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 10:38:24 GMT -5
Yeah, that is why I asked also when should I listen to Music album as I also have to be in the right mood for 'something new' which is album I never listened to before.
i am too into Lana Del Rey these days, so even Tori Amos I am saving for later...I guess I should do that with Music too, though Madonna is one of my summer artists... I do like 3 singles from it.
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Aug 9, 2017 16:09:28 GMT -5
I think she could release Music today and it would do relatively OK, by her current standards. It hasn't really dated at all and some of the slower moments would fit right into the pop landscape right now.
Music (the single) is an incredible song.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 9, 2017 16:21:10 GMT -5
Part of an interview with Patrick Leonard: www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2017/08/patrick-leonard-part-2-dont-underestimate-their-point-of-view.htmlBC: Madonna is consistently attacked as a non-artist, someone who has somehow skated by for 35 years on sex and hype. How do you react when people scoff at her musicality, who don't see her as an artist? PL: It pisses me off, to be honest. The people that do get credited as being real artists oftentimes are just “cool” and that gets interpreted as art. And these days, there are way too many talent-show winners, and they get called artists because they have some crazy-good voice. I have issues with these things, but I won’t go into it because I’ll probably have my house burned down by the people that make Auto-Tune. I can assure the world listening and looking at Madonna that they don’t have any reason to ever defend her or feel insecure about it and all I can say is I’ve worked with a lot of people — I’ve worked with a lot of people — and ... hard to be any better or more artistic than her. There’s people with a more controlled voice — the word “better” is not fair, because how can you have a better voice than the voice that sang “Like a Prayer”? You just go through the list of singer-songwriters through the years — Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, none of these people were “singers” But these are the ones that the most art came from. I think her lyrics were taken for granted all those years ago; you look at the individual lines and this is what people need to think about now, those statements she made all those years ago. I’m certain she’s still doing it. My knee-jerk is to defend her always, but then I have the demos where she sang a song, having written it 15 minutes before, and it was a #1 record and remains valid 30 years later, who’s gonna tell me that’s not a real artist?
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Post by God on Aug 9, 2017 17:06:21 GMT -5
"Nobody's Perfect" and "I Deserve It" are two of my favorite Madonna songs, lol. "Runaway Lover" and "Amazing" are my least favorites but I often listen to Music without skipping any songs. It's probably about as essential as Bedtime Stories but without the... for lack of a more flattering term, desperation, factor. I've always thought it felt really effortless, perhaps (based on the general response) to its detriment. I'm in the minority but it's actually my favorite behind American Life.
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Post by August on Aug 11, 2017 19:22:28 GMT -5
I love the "Music" album. If there are ANY filler tracks for me, they would be "Gone" and "I Deserve It." They sort of stick out from the rest of the album in terms of style. However, it is a minor quibble, because I don't DISLIKE them, they just interrupt the flow a bit.
I still have a harder time getting into the "American Life" album. It is the album I have listened to the least out of all of her albums and there are some songs where I do not know all the lyrics, which is almost sacrilegious to a Madonna freak as much as I am.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 11, 2017 19:39:00 GMT -5
I love American Life and even paid like $25 USD for it because I bought it when it came out when I was in Ireland visiting a friend.
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Post by jumpb4uthink on Aug 12, 2017 6:25:27 GMT -5
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Post by HolidayGuy on Aug 13, 2017 14:11:59 GMT -5
^If she/they couldn't restore LDLHA back into the show (I would think the original edit would contain it, anyhow)... really, something so simple, not difficult... I dunno...
Pat Leonard is very spot-on about artists. Some of the best artists didn't/don't have the best technical voices. It's all about emotion, how you convey it in song, etc.'
Hi, Succulent. :)
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Post by chartfreak on Aug 13, 2017 16:40:13 GMT -5
I have the DVD but have not yet watched it.
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Post by August on Aug 16, 2017 7:56:04 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Madonna!!!!!!!!!!!
In honor of her birthday, I am sharing one of my favorite videos, "Bad Girl." The video is heavily inspired by the film, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." If you have never seen the film, you should. It is a pretty creepy / sad film and stars Diane Keaton. Based on a true story of a school teacher who was pretty innocent by day, but at night would cruise bars and pick up men and was ultimately murdered by one of them on the Upper West Side of NYC.
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Post by Resident_Evil on Aug 16, 2017 8:05:46 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Madonna!!!!!!!!!!! In honor of her birthday, I am sharing one of my favorite videos, "Bad Girl." The video is heavily inspired by the film, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar." If you have never seen the film, you should. It is a pretty creepy / sad film and stars Diane Keaton. Based on a true story of a school teacher who was pretty innocent by day, but at night would cruise bars and pick up men and was ultimately murdered by one of them on the Upper West Side of NYC. Co-sign bro. This is one of my fav videos ever.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 16, 2017 8:09:32 GMT -5
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