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Post by Glove Slap on Sept 30, 2017 18:36:49 GMT -5
From the non-singles submissions, we ended up with 67 different songs from Madonna's various projects. I'll be revealing them as we go through. Starting right now.
"Each Time You Break My Heart" Demo (1986)
| Points: 1 |Written by Madonna and her then frequent collaborator Stephen Bray for True Blue, it was recorded but left off the album. It was ultimately recorded by Nick Kamen, who was also on Sire, with Madonna providing the background vocals. Released as a single at the end of the year, it didn't go anywhere stateside, but went on to be a top 10 hit throughout Europe, and reached #5 in the UK. I'm going to tag everyone in the singles and albums rankdowns, but not the non-singles given the number. If you'd like to be tagged for them too though, let me know.
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Post by Glove Slap on Sept 30, 2017 18:59:06 GMT -5
And while we're at it, let's reveal #85 as well. 85. "Hey You" Non-album single (2007)
| Points: 325 | | Average: 73.96 | | Median: 79 | |Std. dev: 12.60 (4th lowest) |Written by Madonna and co-produced with Pharrell Williams, it was written for the Live Earth campaign in 2007. It was a free download for the first week, and didn't chart after it was put on sale after. She sang it at the Live Earth concert that year as well. -This one got bottom rankings throughout. Only one person put it in the top 50, the lowest for any of the entries. (Range: 48)
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Post by Juanca on Sept 30, 2017 19:06:01 GMT -5
1. What do you think will be #85? Gosh, I have no idea... maybe "Revolver." That one just plain sucks. IIRC it couldn't even hit #1 on the Dance chart, and she hits #1 there with everything, lmao.It was surprising but the majority of the released/promoted remixes for that were just not that good. The label inexplicably released a version of one of the better mixes with less vocals than another version that existed that had more on the basis that it would go over better. As much as I liked it at the time, I think it was really bad choice of song to put on as a new track on the Celebration hits collection and it's poor chart performance also reflects that. I forgot about that song in my mention of bottom 5 ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) yeah, this one sticks like a sore thumb in a GH collection. Her voice also sounds bad. At least Celebration is a bop ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0244.gif)
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Post by Juanca on Sept 30, 2017 19:21:18 GMT -5
Cool! Demos! I didn't know about that demo or Nick Kamen's version. Good to know! It sounds more like a LAV track (ala Pretender)... nice :)
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Post by Choco on Sept 30, 2017 20:39:11 GMT -5
Can you tag me on the results please?
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Post by Football on Sept 30, 2017 20:40:02 GMT -5
Oh. I mean, it's not even close to one of my favorite singles of hers, so I'm not complaining too much about "Hey You" being last...but there's definitely worse.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Sept 30, 2017 21:02:23 GMT -5
Cool! Demos! I didn't know about that demo or Nick Kamen's version. Good to know! It sounds more like a LAV track (ala Pretender)... nice :) I love the Shep Pettibone remixes of Nick Kamen's version. They are just basically the original with Shep's usual 80s remix fabulousness.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2017 21:15:34 GMT -5
I would've done this, except for the CRAP load of the songs of hers.
All I have to say is, TAB better better be in the top 4.
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Post by Glove Slap on Sept 30, 2017 21:15:49 GMT -5
84. "Revolver (f/Lil Wayne)" Celebration (2009)
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Post by Football on Sept 30, 2017 21:18:56 GMT -5
Oh. I mean, it's not even close to one of my favorite singles of hers, so I'm not complaining too much about "Hey You" being last...but there's definitely worse. Like this, this is a good example, yes. This song is just...trash. There's worse here still, but...not much worse.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Sept 30, 2017 21:23:30 GMT -5
This is the only version of "Revolver" that I use now. The label inexplicably released the dub of this version which omitted the majority of the vocals. I am guessing that they didn't like the vocals/lyrics either. https%3A//soundcloud.com/tracyyoung/revolver-madonna-tracy-young
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Sept 30, 2017 21:50:55 GMT -5
out of curiosity, would you have accepted non-Madonna songs that featured her on vocals (Sidewalk Talk for example)? If so then I omitted my favorite song w/ Madonna in it...let's just say it involved Don Was
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Sept 30, 2017 22:20:48 GMT -5
out of curiosity, would you have accepted non-Madonna songs that featured her on vocals (Sidewalk Talk for example)? If so then I omitted my favorite song w/ Madonna in it...let's just say it involved Don Was I like that remix version which had her vocals. It was a nice early House song.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Sept 30, 2017 22:26:55 GMT -5
*"Each Time You Break My Heart" Demo (1986)
Wow Great song. I was always of fan of Nick Kamen's version, but this one sounded even better.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Sept 30, 2017 22:31:54 GMT -5
85. "Hey You" Non-album single (2007) Don't know why this came in at #85. It's a non offensive ballad and nothing more.
84. "Revolver (f/Lil Wayne)" - Celebration (2009) Nailed this one. Sounds like some Rihanna crap. 'nuff said.
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Post by Sambalada on Oct 1, 2017 0:04:52 GMT -5
Okay nice start! Fair warning though I might or might not tank 4 Minutes and Take A Bow
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Post by Az Paynter on Oct 1, 2017 0:12:14 GMT -5
This is the only version of "Revolver" that I use now. The label inexplicably released the dub of this version which omitted the majority of the vocals. I am guessing that they didn't like the vocals/lyrics either. https%3A//soundcloud.com/tracyyoung/revolver-madonna-tracy-youngDidn't the label object to Tracy quantizing the vocals to fit the 4/4 time signature? I thought I read somewhere that's why they only released the dub. I don't see what the objection is tbh, because the vocal treatment did actually work.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Oct 1, 2017 1:01:23 GMT -5
This is the only version of "Revolver" that I use now. The label inexplicably released the dub of this version which omitted the majority of the vocals. I am guessing that they didn't like the vocals/lyrics either. https%3A//soundcloud.com/tracyyoung/revolver-madonna-tracy-youngDidn't the label object to Tracy quantizing the vocals to fit the 4/4 time signature? I thought I read somewhere that's why they only released the dub. I don't see what the objection is tbh, because the vocal treatment did actually work. I think that might have been why, but the label released soooo many questionable and garbage mixes of other singles that had me wondering what they must have been smoking to release those (what were those "Get Together" and "Miles Away" remix packages?).
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Post by Ginger Spice on Oct 1, 2017 1:38:23 GMT -5
Hey You - No matter how many times I hear this, I cannot for the life of me remember what it sounds like. When I see the title, I hear No Doubt's "Hey You!" in my head. Revolver - I actually love this one. Funny enough, I initially only knew the remixes of this song. I got into Madonna right around the time Celebration came out, but at the time I could only find the one-disc edition, which didn't have this on it. I ended up getting the maxi single soon after, which was only remixes. So, to this day, the David Guetta remix feels like the main version to me. That's the best version, but the Tracy Young mixes are hot too.
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Post by Juanca on Oct 1, 2017 3:18:15 GMT -5
Cool! Demos! I didn't know about that demo or Nick Kamen's version. Good to know! It sounds more like a LAV track (ala Pretender)... nice :) I love the Shep Pettibone remixes of Nick Kamen's version. They are just basically the original with Shep's usual 80s remix fabulousness. Thanks! Just heard it, and yeah, much better than the original
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Post by Juanca on Oct 1, 2017 3:28:57 GMT -5
So far, two P-P-P-PERFECT RANKINGS!! (used this for the first time ever, lol) 85. Have never used either song, but HY is just far too blah for her. Her cover of Imagine could've been even better than this stuff. 84. Hate her voice, and Lil' Wayne, and the song was close to trash for her. I appreciated the effort of doing something different, and the pre-chorus and chorus have some melody I can dig, but the final result was just a misstep. The Guetta remix is ok, as well as the Tracy Young. I do agree with Disco that the remixes and edits in the Confessions-Hard Candy-Celebration eras were most of the cases ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) For someone whose remixes have been fire and brought new life to many of her hits, lots of the remixes were extremely blah!
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Oct 1, 2017 4:16:14 GMT -5
I do agree with Disco that the remixes and edits in the Confessions-Hard Candy-Celebration eras were most of the cases ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) For someone whose remixes have been fire and brought new life to many of her hits, lots of the remixes were extremely blah! For the Confessions era, the only ones I thought that they got completely right were "Hung Up" and "Sorry". The SDP and Tracy mixes of the former and the Pet Shop Boys mixes of the latter worked. And then for "Jump" we got a nice throwback extended version based on the album version which made sense given the 80s style of that one. If she really wanted to keep the whole throwback aspect of that album going, each of the songs should've had a proper extended version. For Hard Candy, I only liked the NY Rauhofer mix of "4 Minutes" as that was done right. But it was not even what Peter Rauhofer was doing at the the time in terms of sound. It was cut form the cloth of what Offer Nissim was doing and then he got to do some remixes on the MDNA and Rebel Heart albums.
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Oct 1, 2017 12:19:33 GMT -5
Some questions before we start. 1. What do you think will be #85? 2. What are you prepared to be disappointed by? 3. What will the top 5 be? Bottom 5? 4. What will have the highest standard deviation? The Lowest? 5. How do you expect the top 10 to be distributed among the decades? Late to the party (Kacey shoutout!) I haven't looked yet but will predict before I do. 1. probably one of her 90s ballads like One More Chance or I Want You, or random 80s barely-hits that even I didn't really use. 2. All the Bedtime Stories singles to be out way too early. 3. Top 5 will probably be Like A Prayer, Frozen, Ray Of Light, maybe something like Material Girl or Like a Virgin, and I expect Hung Up to be pretty high. 4. Lowest st-dev will be Like A Prayer. Highest might be something like Argentina or songs like Rain or Cherish. The nice pop songs that don't stand out against her stronger discography. 5. My fav Madonna eras are the 90s. I'm betting it'll lean more toward the 80s than the 00s but will probably still be half 90s. So maybe like 3/10 80s, 5/10 90s and 2/10 00s, 0/10 10s.
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on Oct 1, 2017 12:31:46 GMT -5
I remember when Hey You came out. It was quite dull and tame compared to the Confessions era but it wasn't awful - well, at the time it was among her worst that I'd heard but she would go on to sink lower. Revolver is a song I did enjoy, even though it's not what I'd want from her, again, she's since done worse. Not too shook by either loss though.
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Post by summers on Oct 2, 2017 23:04:58 GMT -5
85. Hey You - Like someone said, it is pretty much a non-offensive bland Madonna song. It doesn't do anything for me, but I don't hate it. Having said that, I'm surprised I ranked it that high, lol.
84. Revolver - Yeah this one is a mess, but not the worst for me. To be honest, I don't care much for those that I ranked 65 and lower.
Edit: My #85 better not be in the top 80
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Post by Glove Slap on Oct 3, 2017 19:06:25 GMT -5
"Promise To Try" Like a Prayer (1989)
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A recurring theme in Madonna's writing is the death of her mother, and this was the first. Like A Prayer was notable for being a much more personal work than the previous, this being one of the tracks on which it was most apparent. In the 1991 documentary Truth Or Dare, it was used during a scene where Madonna went to put flowers on her mother's grave during the tour stop in Michigan.
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Post by Sambalada on Oct 3, 2017 19:10:59 GMT -5
"Promise To Try" is a beautiful song :'( Has to cut it off my extra list at last minute :'( :'( :'(
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Post by Glove Slap on Oct 3, 2017 19:13:19 GMT -5
83. "Hanky Panky" I'm Breathless (1990)| Points: 441 | | Average: 69.67 | | Median: 73 | |Std. dev: 14.05 (9th lowest) | Certainly one of the more unusual numbers to visit the top 10, Hanky Panky was the second of two singles from 1990's Dick Tracy-inspired I'm Breathless album, the other of which we won't be seeing for quite a while. Whenever the subject of people with multiple signature hits comes up, Madonna's usually one of the first mentioned. Within a period of just over a year, she got arguably three more with Like A Prayer, Express Yourself, and Vogue, making tracks such as this trivial in retrospect. Even with the faster turnaround on the charts then, this one had a very fast rise and fall, lasting only 11 weeks on the Hot 100 and 7 on R&R's chart, the shortest for any of her top 10s. Doc Indie Party Rock - 36 someguy - 36 God - 42 bat1990 - 57 Sambalada - 59 Glove Slap - 61 Rose "Payola" Nylund - 63 Troublemaker - 65 alexcuse - 65 .indulgecountry - 67 kmbgs - 68 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 - 71 Unhinged - 73 ry4n - 73 Butterflies & Hurricanes - 74 Albie - 75 mamooshka - 76 Mirago - 79 Juanca - 79 summers - 80 †ealsünset - 81 @mirza - 82 Football - 83 @antigonerising - 83 Ginger Spice - 84 Leo ✔ - 84 andrewantonio - 84 | jtd Thee Stallion | Caviar | Ky | One fun aspect of looking back at a career as long as Madonna's is that by having had so many hits over so many years, she found a way to exist in multiple snapshots over the years, and her hits have placed alongside classics from many others. {Hot 100 run and peak week} 40 - 34 - 25 - 17- 10 - 13 - 24 - 43 - 68 - 83 - 98
Peak: 07/28/1990
01 01 Glenn Medeiros & Bobby Brown - She Ain't Worth It 05 02 Mariah Carey - Vision Of Love 03 03 Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love 04 04 Johnny Gill - Rub You The Right Way 02 05 En Vogue Hold On 07 06 Snap! - The Power 08 07 Tyler Collins - Girls Nite Out 10 08 Michael Bolton - When I'm Back On My Feet Again 09 09 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence 17 10 Madonna - Hanky Panky {Mediabase run and peak week} 30 - 19 - 14 - 10 - 10 - 13 - 35
Peak: 7/13/1990
01 01 Glenn Medeiros & Bobby Brown - She Ain't Worth It 08 02 Mariah Carey - Vision Of Love 05 03 Tyler Collins - Girls Nite Out 04 04 Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence 06 05 Johnny Gill - Rub You The Right Way 07 06 Michael Bolton - When I'm Back On My Feet Again 02 07 New Kids On The Block - Step By Step 03 08 Taylor Dayne - I'll Be Your Shelter 11 09 Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love 14 10 Madonna - Hanky Panky {UK Chart run and peak week} 14 - 4 - 2 - 6 - 8 - 19 - 26 - 37 - 52
Peak: 08/04/1990
01 01 Partners In Kryme - Turtle Power 04 02 Madonna - Hanky Panky 13 03 DNA - Tom's Diner ft. Suzanne Vega 02 04 Elton John - Sacrifice/Healing Hands 05 05 MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This 08 06 Blue Pearl - Naked In The Rain 03 07 Craig MacLahan and Check 1-2 - Mona 10 08 Soup Dragons ft/ Junior Reid - I'm Free 09 09 Technotronic - Rockin' Over The Beat 07 10 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
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Post by Football on Oct 3, 2017 19:16:24 GMT -5
I like quite a few "dumb" Madonna songs...but this is a level of dumb that I cannot abide.
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Post by Leo ✔ on Oct 3, 2017 19:21:03 GMT -5
Lmao bye atrocity
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