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Post by Az Paynter on Apr 13, 2020 10:23:05 GMT -5
The thread's been really easy to follow since it's so short, but I feel like 'Music' is going to be the winner here. IDK which song is gonna be the runner-up though.
I say this not knowing how the Madonna singles rankdown(s) played out for these songs (no spoilers plz).
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Post by Mirago on Apr 13, 2020 12:24:37 GMT -5
Impressive Instant is one of her best non-singles imo, right up there with Sky Fits Heaven.
Rauhofer’s universal club mix is also worthy of note.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 13, 2020 18:41:36 GMT -5
Three of my top fives finish in the top five. WIFLAG was 6 on mine, so that was close.
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Post by Juanca on Apr 13, 2020 22:00:13 GMT -5
7. Amazing (6): I remember this song making the World Chart Show for a few weeks, and being briefly played by a pop radio station back home. It reached my top 15. I liked the retro / Beautiful Stranger-ish production back then, but now that I heard it again after quite some time it sounded a bit reductive, albeit fun and energetic.
6. Gone (4): My favorite ballad off Music. I really like her vocals (background included), melody, and the electro-acoustic combo. I hadn't heard it in a while, and it sounded as dreamy and heartfelt as ever.
5. Runaway Lover (9): Surprised this is in the top half. This has always been an skippable track for me. The beat is ok, but the melody is lacking. It was a clear bottom 2 in this RD, but at least this was more interesting than I Deserve.
4. Impressive Instant (3): On the contrary, this has always been a highlight off Music. It made the top 3 in my personal chart, and is one of my top 5 M album tracks for me. The production, beat, instrumentation are ACE. The melody is good, too. And it's one of M's most musically interesting songs. I don't mind the swingy wingy lyrics or the vocoder. It all works very well for me. Happy to see it in the top 4!
I have left my 1, 2, and 5. Good!
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Post by Juanca on Apr 13, 2020 22:07:21 GMT -5
Impressive Instant is one of her best non-singles imo, right up there with Sky Fits Heaven. Rauhofer’s universal club mix is also worthy of note. Wow! Yes! SFH and II are in my top 5 album tracks :)
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 14, 2020 0:48:21 GMT -5
Now we get to the 3 singles. No #1's for this. But we did have 5 perfect rankings. #3Planned to be the album's 2nd single, it was eventually released as the album's 3rd single. 2 new versions of the song were released to further promote the track. The first was a Spanish version of the song titled "Lo Que Siente la Mujer", especially recorded for inclusion on the single as its B-side and eventually released as a promo-only single in Europe. Later it was added to the two-disc Tour Edition of Music and the Bonus Track edition of the album in some territories. The second was a Trance version created by Above & Beyond which had just the chorus and some other selected vocal samples, which was also dubbed as the single version as well as being featured in its music video and the song's CD single. The beginning of the song opens with a dialogue from the 1993 British film, The Cement Garden, directed by Andrew Birkin and starring his niece, Charlotte Gainsbourg. In the dialogue, Gainsbourg says: "Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots. 'Cause it's OK to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. 'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading. But secretly you'd love to know what it's like... Wouldn't you? What it feels like for a girl." An accompanying music video for the song was directed by Madonna's then-husband Guy Ritchie and premiered on March 22, 2001. It features the singer as a reckless woman on a crime spree. The video was criticized for its depiction of graphic violence and abuse, which caused MTV to ban it before 9:00 pm. Madonna performed the track on the promotional concerts for Music in November 2000 and on her 2001 Drowned World Tour, where a remixed version was used as a video interlude with violent and pornographic anime footage from Perfect Blue and also performed in Spanish. The music video NSFWThe Drowned World Interlude with images from the anime Perfect Blue. NSFW. Lo Que Siente Que La Mujer Points: 103 Standard Deviation: 1.41 Average Ranking: 4.48 Rankings: George 2 someguy 2 singingrulebritannia 3alexcuse 3mamooshka 3ClevelandRox 3bat1990 3SHOOTER 4 Ginger Spice 4 .indulgecountry 4 Troublemaker 4 ry4n 5 weaver 5 born 5 Juanca 5 Chelsea Press 2 6 God 6 HolidayGuy 6 Albie 6 fearlessarrow 6 Ling-Ling 6 Mirago 6 newpower 6 Az Paynter
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Apr 14, 2020 1:08:15 GMT -5
go DTM
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 14, 2020 1:40:21 GMT -5
This is a surprise. 8 have perfect rankings and 6 lost their #1. #2This was released as the lead single from the album of the same name. It was produced by Mirwais. This featured lots of effects and manipulations on the vocals. It was Madonna's last #1 in the Hot 100. It is also the longest running #1 on the Billboard Club Play chart--it spent 5 weeks at #1. The song had a number of remixes by Deep Dish, Groove Armada, Hex Hector & Mac Quayle, Tracy Young, and Victor Calderone that got a commercial release. Dave Aude, Richard "Humpty" Vission, and Robbie Rivera were also commissioned. Jonas Åkerlund directed the music video. It featured Sacha Baron Cohen's character Ali G as Madonna's limo driver. Longtime friend Debi Mazar and longtime backing vocalist Niki Haris appeared in the video. The video featured an animated sequence. The uncensored version of the video is on her YouTube channel now, but there was a clean version (the scenes in the strip club were altered for the clean one). The video was filmed nearly 4 months before it was released. This was also one of her most performed songs. It was performed at the Drowned World Tour with elements of Kraftwerk in it, at the ReInvention Tour with elements of the Deep Dish remix during the breakdown, as a mashup with "Disco Inferno" during Confessions, as mashup with "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" during Sticky & Sweet with a resung "Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" intro, and during Rebel Heart as a Jazz meets Dance number. She also performed it at the MTV EMAs and 2001 Grammys (with Richard "Humpty" Vission as her onstage DJ and then young Lil Bow Wow bringing her out of her car) and then in 2005 at Live 8 where she lead a sing along of the chorus. Points: 62 Standard Deviation: 1.72 Average Ranking: 2.70 Rankings: mamooshka 1 fearlessarrow 1 .indulgecountry 1 weaver 1 Mirago 1 Troublemaker 1 alexcuse 2God 2HolidayGuy 2Albie 2ry4n 2ClevelandRox 2Juanca 2newpower 2someguy 3 SHOOTER 3 born 3 singingrulebritannia 4 Ling-Ling 4 Chelsea Press 2 5 Ginger Spice 5 George 6 bat1990 7
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 14, 2020 1:43:26 GMT -5
With that last reveal, we know what our #1 is. 7 perfect rankings. #1This was the 2nd single. On Joe Henry's ninth album Scar, there is a song called "Stop". When he recorded it somewhere in 1999, his wife - Madonna's sister Melanie - advised him to send it to Madonna. And Melanie was right, because Madonna loved the song and re-arranged it with Mirwais into a beautiful track, called "Don't Tell Me". Most of the lyrics from "Stop" were used, but the song got a completely different rhythm and groove. However, he claimed, "If I was going to pitch something to her, I could probably dig something up, but it certainly wouldn't be this." Later, his wife sent Madonna a copy of the demo, but it was so musically different from the record she was making that she didn't know how she could make any use out of it. After some time, he was talking to Madonna on the phone and she asked to rearrange the track to fit in better with the album, recording the song months later. Henry claimed in an interview that he was surprised that, lyrically, it remained completely intact. It peaked at #4 in the U.S. on the Hot 100, and #1 on the Billboard Club Play chart. It had remixes by Richard "Humpty" Vission, Thunderpuss, Timo Maas, Tracy Young, and Victor Calderone. Jean-Baptiste Mondino, who had previously collaborated with Madonna in her videos for "Open Your Heart" (1986), "Justify My Love" (1990), "Human Nature" (1995) and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (1996), while Jamie King was in charge of the choreography. King described the filming process: "[Mondino] really doesn't write a treatment so much. He may have an idea and Madonna and I really have lots of ideas and then I usually come up with a treatment style thing that he ends up executing and Madonna agrees to it. It's just a really great collaboration". The wardrobe was created by DSquared2 and longtime Madonna collaborator Arianne Phillips. In a 2016 interview with Billboard, Phillips cited "Don't Tell Me" as one of her favorite Madonna style moments, saying that working with the singer is both rewarding and challenging. The video begins with Madonna—dressed in a blue plaid flannel shirt, dirty jeans, a large buckled belt and boots—walking on a desert highway faced towards the viewer. The camera zooms out to reveal that the highway is actually a projection on a drive-in style backdrop and that Madonna is walking on a treadmill. Her walking freezes simultaneously with the song's silent dropouts. The clip then alternates between scenes of Madonna dancing by herself on the treadmill, playing with sand in a desert, and cowboys line dancing in the video backdrop. Later, the cowboys join the singer in a choreographed dance routine, with Madonna wearing a black western-style jacket, cowboy hat and suede chaps. Towards the end Madonna is seen riding a mechanical bull, while the final scene depicts a cowboy riding a Skewbald horse in slow motion, getting thrown to the ground and getting up again. This was performed during the Drowned World Tour and then the ReInvention Tour with elements of "Bittersweet Symphony" and then she performed it with Miley Cyrus in 2014 as a mashup medley with her "We Can't Stop", and then during the Tears Of A Clown show. Points: 60 Standard Deviation: 1.44 Average Ranking: 2.61 Rankings: singingrulebritannia 1alexcuse 1someguy 1HolidayGuy 1ClevelandRox 1Juanca 1newpower 1Chelsea Press 2 2 mamooshka 2 weaver 2 Troublemaker 2 George 3 God 3 fearlessarrow 3 ry4n 3 .indulgecountry 3 Ling-Ling 3 Albie 4 bat1990 4 born 4 Mirago 4 SHOOTER 5 Ginger Spice 6 Az Paynter
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Apr 14, 2020 1:47:50 GMT -5
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Post by Az Paynter on Apr 14, 2020 1:48:21 GMT -5
This is a twist. That said, I would've been on the winning team - as had I not taken too long waffling over whether to participate or not, DTM would likely have been my #1
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Post by born on Apr 14, 2020 1:50:05 GMT -5
So excited for the next two! Thanks for hosting!
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Post by Albie on Apr 14, 2020 2:14:51 GMT -5
Great winner. thank you Disco!
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Post by SHOOTER on Apr 14, 2020 2:20:33 GMT -5
WIFLFAG remains one of her most underrated singles! Thanks for hosting and pulling the graphics together! 💅🏽 Chelsea Press 2
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Post by mamooshka on Apr 14, 2020 9:13:18 GMT -5
Thanks for hosting this and sharing the song trivia. :)
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Post by newpower on Apr 14, 2020 9:58:26 GMT -5
Great Top 3. Thanks for hosting Chelsea Press 2 Looking forward to the next two.
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Post by bat1990 on Apr 14, 2020 15:08:34 GMT -5
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!
I came into being a Madonna fan when Don't Tell Me was her current single and it holds a special place in my heart. So happy it won!
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Post by HolidayGuy on Apr 16, 2020 8:57:12 GMT -5
Thanks for the countdown and tidbits, Pastor D. :)
Nice seeing "Don't Tell Me" come out on top.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 16, 2020 20:35:18 GMT -5
Wow, I'm stunned that the title track lost to "Don't Tell Me." I love both, but I definitely prefer "Music" so I'm rather disappointed by this. :/
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Post by Juanca on Apr 16, 2020 22:49:07 GMT -5
3. What it feels like for a girl (5): I was not a big fan of the album version tbh. However, I did like the A&B remix. It was the remix that peaked at #4 in my personal chart. My #5 ranking in this RD is helped by my consideration of the remix. Although I admit I’ve grown to like the original version a bit more with time.
2. Music (2): wow! I thought this was a surefire #1! This was a big hit back home and a personal chart-topper -although not as big as other hits from her. I do like the production a lot. I’ve always wished the melody were a bit stronger, though. Overall it’s a good, fun, unique song in her catalogue, but it’s not that high in terms of overall personal plays. I rank it around #25 amongst all the songs she’s placed in my personal chart. (It’s my partner’s favorite M song, tho)
1. Don’t tell me (1): This is such a different, unique song for Madonna, that I appreciate more with time. It was a minor hit back home, and made it to #2 in my personal chart. I LOVED its video. Her looks, the choreography, the sexy male imagery. Watching it for the first time in that 30-minute MTV premiere thing was an experience :) the song itself was interesting, with an acoustic / countrified feel, and a melody that keeps going nonstop (ala Into the Groove) -fun! Her vocals are smooth, the lush instrumentation with those lovely strings in the last minute are ace, while the vocal effects make it modern effectively. In the Madonna singles rankdown I ranked it a couple spots below Music, but ever since I’ve found myself singing this tune several times to myself. And it was my surprising new favorite of this album.
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Post by Juanca on Apr 16, 2020 23:00:15 GMT -5
Bonus tracks: - Cyberraga: I had heard of it, but not listened to it. It sounds more like a Ray of light reject to me, in terms of sound, vibe and effects. Not a song I’d listen to again, and easily a candidate for the bottom of this rankdown. - American pie: this was her biggest hit back home since Vogue, being the most played of the week in several stations. I LOVED it. I even liked the couple of lyrical additions she made in the second verse :) She kept and strengthened the melody IMO, and made it much more modern without losing its nostalgic touch. Rupert’s background vocals were a great addition too. It made the top of my personal chart and it would’ve like been my #3 or 4 song in this RD. Thanks, Pastor D got a great rankdown!! Great info and art!!! Look forward to the next ones
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