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Post by raliverpool on Jun 28, 2015 20:22:25 GMT 1
The all time "Queen Of Pop" magnus opus from the year the current Queen of Pop was born: The fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on March 21, 1989 by Sire Records, nearly three years after her previous studio album True Blue, and after she took the year of 1988 off. Like A Prayer
#. Title Writer & Producer(s) Length 1. "Like a Prayer" Madonna, Patrick Leonard 5:39 2. "Express Yourself" Madonna, Stephen Bray 4:39 3. "Love Song" (with Prince) Madonna, Prince 4:52 4. "Till Death Do Us Part" Madonna, Leonard 5:16 5. "Promise to Try" Madonna, Leonard 3:36 6. "Cherish" Madonna, Leonard 5:03 7. "Dear Jessie" Madonna, Leonard 4:20 8. "Oh Father" Madonna, Leonard 4:57 9. "Keep It Together" Madonna, Bray 5:03 10. "Spanish Eyes" Madonna, Leonard 5:15 11. "Act of Contrition" Madonna, Leonard 2:19 Total length: 51:16
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 28, 2015 21:31:33 GMT 1
Hm. Interesting. It's got 3 of Madonna's 4 decent singles on it. Never noticed that at the time.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 27, 2015 21:55:31 GMT 1
OK. Bit of a surprising buzzsaw start before a door slams and the familiar introduction of “Like A Prayer” comes in. One of only four Madonna singles I really, really like. Upbeat, bouncy, with the surprising dead halt into an angelic link sections and a funky bridge. I recall the controversy and did what everyone else did - tuned into Channel 4 to see the advert, and then sought out the video. And perhaps like everyone else I thought “what controversy?” Talk about media manufacturing outrage. Rather a charming video, which told a proper story. Spoilt slightly by Ms Ciccione’s over-emoting, sometimes less is more.
Although, on listening back, perhaps the bit about taking someone “down on my knees” is perhaps un petit risqué. Album version goes on for over 5 minutes, it’s too long without another verse or something.
And then into “Express Yourself”. The second of Madonna’s four decent singles - in fact, in chronology, it’s the third, as the first was “True Blue”. This is a vasfact. Sounds a bit dated now, a bit by numbers production, the backing a bit plasticky, the labels went overboard with synthetic sounds rather than pukka orchestras. But Madonna’s voice comes across to very good effect here. Not technically all there, obvs, but enervated and ecstatic by turns.
Hang on. Something in French. This is a bit weird, in fact. All sort of minors and warped sounds and staccato. “Love Song”. It’s rather experimental. Shame the bass line sounds like a synth rather than a bona fide bass. You know what it calls to mind? “Peek A Boo”. Some strings added to the chorus, and some falsetto, which detract from it. Leave it sparse. That was an unexpected pleasure.
And now it’s a trip to a 1984 film about computers. “Till Death Do Us Part”? Johnny Speight had a better one. This is rather meh. Can’t work out the lyrics either. God, that went on a bit.
OK. We’re going all ballad-y now. Is this an attempt to be meaningful? Madonna can’t do it justice. It needs an Alison Moyet. There just isn’t the emotional depth in this one. And then “Cherish”, familiar enough, the dolphin video was all over MTV for, seemingly, ever. Basic sunshine pop of no great involvement. Debbie Gibson-lite. The one thing I will give this album though is that at these low moments I am not having to restrain myself from defenestrating the vasputer, unlike with Radiohead or Damien Rice. Was “Cherish” always this long? Seems never ending.
But it finally fades off into the absolute best Madonna single ever; her take on ELO doing a Christmas fairytale. “Dear Jessie”. It is so unlike everything else Madonna has ever done. Why didn’t she do more of this sort of experimentation? Instead of trying to surf the zeitgeist, create it. She’s obviously got something there. It’s perfect from start to finish, the madrigal Jethro Tull breakdown to take the child to dreamland is a stroke of genius, and then the siren trumpets to herald the second half, and the Vivaldi coda into a faded radio. Love it love it love it.
The radio idea continues into “Oh Father”. It’s another one that’s a bit different, again it has a psychedelic start, and a rather warped approach to the instrumentation of the main theme. Rather interesting. Not sure what’s going on with the voice though; sounds like she’s slightly drunk, it’s an odd register. But it works. My God, it works. It has a grandeur about it, I wonder what Kate Bush would have done with it. Or whether there should have been kettledrums to simulate thunder; the whole thing sounds like a storm is a-brewing. This is a Very Good One.
And now we are picking a guitar for “Spanish Eyes”. Back to the bonita. No, not quite, it turns into a regular ballad. But a cut above many; I quite like this one. And then it is proper startling. Like a hip-hop scratch breakdown to interrupt her praying. Well, that came out of nowhere. Only works really in the context of ending the album; it does not work as a separate track.
Well. I think that has to go down as a pleasant surprise. Far better than I was expecting; one absolutely outstanding, world-class track, one very close to it, two other excellent tracks, one bold experiment. The album definitely has a different feel throughout it, it is never dull as a collection as what comes next is often different to what has gone before. Give credit to the production and wish they were bolder with it, as Madonna’s voice is a bit same-y, other than on “Oh Father”. And there is only one outright rubbish track. So I am going to have to give it a very healthy 7.5 out of 10.
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 27, 2015 23:00:11 GMT 1
So to recap: Dance diva Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone first became successful at the age of 25 with her self titled debut album became a sleeper hit late in 1983 and well into 1984; and followed it up with two more albums each more successful than the one before (the Nile Rodgers produced, Chic Organisation "Like A Virgin"; and "True Blue", which was inspired by and dedicated to husband actor Sean Penn). During this time Madonna was selling hit records and albums for fun, and pushing the visual barriers; and cultural barriers for female artists. However, music critics, and her peers remained less impressed. For example she was notably not invited to the USA For Africa recording of "We Are The World" as Michael Jackson disliked her (at the time for her lewd overtly sexual image), and his producer Quincy Jones labelled her "a flash in the pan!" Elton John, and Billy Joel dismissed her seemingly lack of musical talent; And her musical and artistic hero (pun intended) David Bowie had a thing against her (after one MTV related event in 1985 which they were both attending where "Madge" had a drink accidentally spilled on her dress by an assistant, and had a meltdown behaving like a complete diva insisting she would not perform unless that assistant was sacked, and Bowie* was there trying to mediate, behaving like a total gentlemen geezer which he has a well earned reputation for) like Tommy Lee Jones character in "The Fugitive" had with Harrison Ford's character pointing out to the media on a number of occasions where she was lifting her ideas from (which in the age before the internet you could do far more easily than you can do now as Lady Gaga has found out). Whilst her singing career was going stratospheric, Madonna aspired to be an actress (and just like her hero she was relatively less impressive at that than David Bowie) as after the initial success of playing a version of herself in the screwball comedy Desperately Seeking Susan, she starred in the critically panned film Shanghai Surprise for which she was awarded the Golden Raspberry Award for "worst actress", and helped bankrupt George Harrison's Handmade Film Company. She also made her theatrical debut in a production of David Rabe's Goose and Tom-Tom, again co-starring Penn which had a poor reception. Then Madonna was featured in the poorly received film Who's That Girl where for some reason she sounded like she was doing an impression of Cyndi Lauper's speaking voice (who was a much better actress and singer even if she was nowhere as good as Madonna at being a popstar), for which she contributed four songs to its soundtrack, collecting more hit singles. At the beginning of 1988 she announced that she was taking the year off to record a new album, amid rumours her marriage was going badly Pete Tong. (She and Penn divorced in 1989, after Penn was charged with felony domestic assault in 1988). During 1988 "Madonnabes" Kylie Minogue; Debbie Gibson; Tiffany; Belinda Carlisle; Gloria Estefan; etc were taking over the radio airwaves, whilst titbits such as from session bassist Guy Pratt who revealed that "this was going to be her classic pop rock album"; and "her first proper album, as a concept with deeper lyrical meanings, rather than a collection of songs with some hits and some filler tracks"..... Hence we come to this album (#. "Track" length - Rating out of 10): No. Title Length
1. "Like a Prayer" 5:39 - 10.0 drawing from her Catholic upbringing (not least with the controversial "Black Jesus"; Burning Crosses (a deliberate Klu Klux Klan reference); and stigmata themed video which caused Pepsi to get their knickers in a twist, and a sizeable backlash of criticism from the likes of Barbra Streisand; Sir Richard Attenborough; Liza Minnelli; and several Conservative closet racist religious nut types) this dance, funk, gospel, and soul pop track is arguably the greatest #1 of the 1980s (WTF at it not making the Top 20 on ITV's recent countdown) thanks to a great Hendrix like intro/outro guitar solo from Prince. (Whilst promoting his Tin Machine album, David Bowie claimed this track was inspired by his 1986 minor hit "Underground", something which Madonna's team denied at the time. In a 2001 interview producer Patrick Leonard confirmed that Madonna wanted this great sound to use the 1986 "Labyrinth" soundtrack single www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwVqOs3Aess as a template!)
2. "Express Yourself" 4:39 - 5.5 This uptempo female empowerment anthem is ultimately let down by the fact Madonna & Stephen Bray lost 25% of the publishing in 1991 due to its similarities to the huge 1972 USA hit "Respect Yourself" by the Staple Singers (which was covered by Bruce Willis and the Kane Gang in the 1980s) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oab4ZCfTbOI (At this year's Glastonbury Festival Mavis Staples performed a solo set, and before performing that song she introduced it with "Here's a song Madonna seems to have amnesia with .... but I guess some people are just born this way..."); and the fact the music video, directed by David Fincher, was inspired by the Fritz Lang classic film Metropolis (1927) and used images a bit to close to the original resulting in Lang's estate winning $200K in an out of court settlement.
3. "Love Song" (with Prince) 4:52 - 5.0 There is a really interesting song trying to break out here, unfortunately it was written and recorded by the pair passing tapes to and from each other (between LA & Minneapolis) and it certainly shows.. more is the pity.
4. "Till Death Do Us Part" 5:16 - 9.5 Originally titled "State of Matrimony", the song talks about the violent dissolution of Madonna's marriage wracked with drinking, violent quarrels and a possessive, self-hating husband. Madonna's matter of fact vocals are brilliant. Although David Bowie claimed the track was musically inspired by his domestic violence Lodger album track "Repetition" www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2c73wQH73U
5. "Promise to Try" Madonna, Leonard 3:36 - 9.0 This sounds like the tearjerking showstopping yet down beat end of the first half of a Broadway musical, but in the best possible way. Lyrically this was about her mum who passed away whilst Madonna was just 5 years old. Vocally she has rarely sounded more vulnerable before or since.
6. "Cherish" 5:03 - 9.5 A delightful throwback to the 1960s US girl groups, with a great black and white relatively innocent video to match. Built around the themes of love and relationship, with William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet being one of the major inspirations. However, the song includes a line from the 1966 USA #1 "Cherish" by the 1960s band The Association for which a small loss of royalties occurred.
7. "Dear Jessie" 4:20 - 10.0 This Beatlesque psychedelic pop track was largely written by producer Patrick Leonard about his then 3 year old daughter Jessie, and Madonna changed some of the lyrics. At the year end of 1989 Paul McCartney named it as his favourite track of the year. A wonderful track hankering back to a childlike innocence released as the 4th single in Europe around December 1989, whilst North America had ......
8. "Oh Father" 4:57 - 10.0 A great country-lite orchestral torch ballad about overcoming grief, surviving child abuse at the hands of her father, and forgiveness. In my opinion Madonna greatest song musically and lyrically, and vocal performance, and amongst the greatest 50 tracks ever recorded in popular music. The song became Madonna's first single since "Holiday" in 1984 not to enter the top ten in the United States, peaking at number 20 on the week of December 30, 1989. This ended her streak of 16 consecutive top five singles and 17 consecutive top ten singles. It similarly underperformed in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Japan. Yet it gained Madonna her first Grammy nomination in the Best Female Pop Vocals category; as well as Best Song; and Best Short Video nominations (it missed out in all three). Whilst a 2013 syndicated USA TV show to find Madonna's greatest single, it placed 3rd behind runner up "Vogue" and "Like A Prayer"! Patrick Leonard regards it as the recording and composition he is the most proud of in his entire career where he has worked with a host of musical greats.
9. "Keep It Together" 5:03 - 6.5 A Sly & The Family Stone "A Family Affair" inspired track. Although it made sure its inspiration stayed clear enough of the original source. Sadly Bray's dance production has dated badly compared to Leonard's production work for this album.
10. "Spanish Eyes" 5:15 - 9.5 A ballad confronting the then still-taboo issue of AIDS. "How many lives will they have to take, how much heartache", and the Catholic opposition to condoms and contraception. To be treated as the ballad equivalent of "La Isla Bonita" but arguably better, and certainly far deeper. Madonna sounds stunning emotionally on this epic track.
11. "Act of Contrition" 2:19 - 6.5 An interesting throwaway track. This features Madonna reciting the Catholic prayer Act of Contrition, then, the vocals deteriorate into a monologue in which "Her Madgesty The Queen Of Pop" ((c) Smash Hits) grows increasingly annoyed over being denied a restaurant reservation. Somewhat an attempt to self mock her reputation that she had gained in the pop music industry at the time.
Overall 9 (91 / 11 = 82.73% (81%-86% category))
A similar album that I rate very highly ..... I can't think of one to come out of a similar context. Studio Album Rate:
Madonna (1983) 7 Like A Virgin (1984) 6 True Blue (1986) 7 Like A Prayer (1989) 9 Erotica (1992) 7 Bedtime Stories (1994) 6 Ray of Light (1998) 9 Music (2000) 6 American Life (2002) 8 Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) 6 Hard Candy (2008) 3 MDNA (2012) 3 Rebel Heart (2015) 4
A few months ago Radcliffe and Maconie on Radio 6 Music were discussing something or other where Paul McCartney was at the same event as Madonna who had just released her latest album. It was around the time of some revival of the Paul McCartney was not the real McCartney, but replaced by a doppelgänger after the first Macca had died in a motorbike accident in Scotland in 1966 (yeah right!). Which brought the attention onto Madonna, and remarking about her obvious commercial and especially creative decline where after 20 years of good to great records she has released three poor albums on the bounce. And Stuart Maconie come up with the amusing conspiracy theory that maybe the George Bush administration had bumped the Queen Of Pop off after her hard hitting American Life album, especially the anti Iraq War title track and its banned original video:
To keep the theory plausible the Confessions On A Dance Floor album had already been recorded so the Madonna doppelgänger could promote it with her mild plastic cosmetic surgery; and then left to her own devices it would explain the bankruptcy in quality, input and ideas of her last three studio albums (Which makes Noel Gallagher's recent Madonna is the Tiger Woods of Pop" analogy spot on). At which point Mark Radcliffe interjected that maybe the Bush administration had done a Face Off type job on Madonna and put her in in the body of a younger female, which would explain Lady Gaga's initial rise with great pop songs and visual imagery, and that the Born This Way single was actually a cry for help!!!
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Post by o on Jul 28, 2015 9:45:17 GMT 1
I shall try and give this a listen sometime, I expect I'll like it
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Post by Kingpin on Jul 28, 2015 12:32:49 GMT 1
During 1988 "Madonnabes" Kylie Minogue; Debbie Gibson; Tiffany; Belinda Carlisle; Gloria Estefan; etc were taking over the radio airwaves
Really enjoyed the review but I think you've been a bit hard there on poor Gloria! I never saw her as riding the crest of Madonna's wave and she was releasing material with the MSM long before Madonna achieved global success. I loved the pop princesses of the late 80s (and still do!) and agree that Madonna opened the floodgates for them, but you've done Glo a dis-service by lumping her in with them. Like A Prayer is one of my favourite albums of all time, although I think Madonna's best is Erotica. The only disappointing track on LAP is Love Song. A collaboration between Madonna and Prince had the potential to be amazing, but instead ending up being quite dull. I never understood how this song never made the cut - Supernatural only ever appeared as a B side to Cherish.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 12:42:07 GMT 1
I remember the cassette tape box and insert to Like A Prayer had a special smell - I'm not joking! My old copy still has it, and it takes me right back to my old bedroom in the 80s and singing along. Spanish Eyes and Promise To Try are my favourites, but love that she really experimented on this album, and was pretty confessional. The tour that followed this album was her best show, in my opinion.
Agree with Kingpin - don't dis Glo or you'll have us both to deal with LOL (plus the many members of the MSM)!
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Post by ManicKangaroo on Jul 28, 2015 17:34:01 GMT 1
I remember the cassette tape box and insert to Like A Prayer had a special smell - I'm not joking! My old copy still has it, and it takes me right back to my old bedroom in the 80s and singing along. Indeed, my vinyl album also had/has the stench of patchouli
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Post by Earl Purple on Jul 28, 2015 18:18:52 GMT 1
I bought that album. Keep It Together was for me the worst track on the album and got released in the USA as did Oh Father originally instead of Dear Jessie.
I didn't particularly like Express Yourself either though which failed to reach my chart but Dear Jessie stormed to Christmas #1 beating Queen's "The Miracle".
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Post by raliverpool on Jul 28, 2015 18:39:23 GMT 1
During 1988 "Madonnabes" Kylie Minogue; Debbie Gibson; Tiffany; Belinda Carlisle; Gloria Estefan; etc were taking over the radio airwaves
Really enjoyed the review but I think you've been a bit hard there on poor Gloria! I never saw her as riding the crest of Madonna's wave and she was releasing material with the MSM long before Madonna achieved global success. I loved the pop princesses of the late 80s (and still do!) and agree that Madonna opened the floodgates for them, but you've done Glo a dis-service by lumping her in with them. Like A Prayer is one of my favourite albums of all time, although I think Madonna's best is Erotica. The only disappointing track on LAP is Love Song. A collaboration between Madonna and Prince had the potential to be amazing, but instead ending up being quite dull. I never understood how this song never made the cut - Supernatural only ever appeared as a B side to Cherish. The phrase "Madonnabes" was invented by the media at the time. I certainly remember the late Radio 1 Breakfast DJ of the era Mike Smith using the phrase all the time. I also included Belinda Carlisle, whom of course was the lead singer of The Go Gos who had their first hit in 1981 (before splitting first time around in 1985); and amongst the etcetera could have included Jody Watley whom had some solo success in the late 1980s, who was the female vocalist of Shalamar from the first half of the 1980s (who left the R&B dance act in 1984). Those of us who are old enough can remember the BRIT Awards from the first half of the 1980s where the Best British Female category was a joke, as it seemed like at times Annie Lennox & Kate Bush got nominated some years just for breathing and being British and females. The point is in the slipstream of Madonna's initial mid 1980s success record companies noted female artists could really sell. Hence they were trying to find and market their own Madonnabe, much in the same way a few years ago after Amy Winehouse became hugely successful, record companies tried to produced and mould similar Retro soul acts such as Duffy; Adele; Gabrielle Cilmi; etc. Indeed Miami Sound Machine's leader (& Gloria's husband) Emilio realized this, hence he rebranded the band first as Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine for 1987's Let It Loose (titled as Anything For You in Europe) album; then from 1989 Cuts Both Ways album as solely to Estefan herself, even though Miami Sound Machine continued to be her backing band and perform with her live. Hence it certainly was not meant as a shade at Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine, as I really liked them at the time, and she was certainly a better live singer than Madonna (although no female matched Madonna's charisma and stage presence IMHO for a good 15-20 years reign); and of the "Madonnabes" only Janet Jackson & Paula Abdul were better dancers, but clearly much worse live vocally. As for "Supernatural" I believe it was first written for the "Who's That Girl" OST, but they never got the recording right, then they had a go at rerecording it for the "Like A Prayer" album sessions, but for whatever reason, they felt it did not fit the mood of the album, as it sounds like it is nearer to her "True Blue" era; than the "Like A Prayer" era.
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Post by Shireblogger on Jul 30, 2015 22:48:03 GMT 1
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Context I was the first person at my school to buy a Madonna record – “Holiday” the week it moved from #53 to #40. I was an early fan, and “Like A Prayer” became the fourth of her albums that I bought the week it was released. It was also the last, as I had moved on to other things by the time “Erotica” came round 3 years later. 9/10
General Overview Released while at her commercial peak, the lead single and title track, and especially its brilliant and mildly controversial video, promised much. The rest does well on first play, with some catchy songs and nothing offensive. But repeated listening reveals it to be a rather flimsy, unadventurous offering. A “shrinker” (i.e. the opposite of a “grower”). 4/10
Intro & Outro A 6 second burst of hard rock guitar beckons something quite different. And then some organ and echoing vocals starts to build atmosphere. But 40 seconds in, it becomes apparent that we are into conventional Madonna pop territory, albeit with a gospel-lite interlude. “Like A Prayer” is a finely crafted single, with every detail in perfect place, but it isn’t doing anything radically new. Track 2, and second single, “Express Yourself” is now terribly dated, with its tinny trumpets and clattering percussion. I don’t think I ever really liked this track, and now it is one I’ll happily skip. Final track, “Act Of Contrition” reintroduces the wailing guitar copied from “Purple Rain”. Madonna whispers and rambles over the top, whilst tape loops, some of which run backwards, are superimposed. It is momentarily interesting, and then just annoying. 5/10
Music There are dozens of American sitcoms which have teams of writers ensuring there is a funny line delivered every 30 seconds, with the resultant extraction of all originality and wit. “Like A Prayer” is similar. Listen to it closely, and it is hard to find fault. Listen to it as an album, and it is hard to find much that rises above the generally bland pop precision. 5/10
Lyrics Madonna’s lyrics have never been profound or poetic, but nor are they crass. “Express Yourself” is a solid girl power anthem; “Till Death Do Us Part” a pedestrian tale of a violent relationship; and several of the songs are quite ordinary childhood memories. “Like A Prayer” is the most interesting lyrically, and is open to interpretation, but no-one ever bought Madonna records to be intellectually stimulated. 3/10
Production & Sound Slick and dated. If I’d never heard these songs before, I’d have placed them in the late 80s without hesitation. Too many cooks, of the highest order, have stirred this into a morass of muzak. It is way too corporate, designed to appeal to the broadest, dullest demographic. I’d love to give Rick Rubin the mastertapes, and hear what emerges after the waist-deep slush has been filtered out. 4/10
High Points The Prince collaboration, “Love Song”, feels completely out of place here, and is the unconventional, unexpected high point. Had it appeared on Prince’s career-high “Sign Of The Times” album from two years earlier, it would have been located amongst friends. Here it is an attention grabbing, scenery munching, show stealer. 7/10
Low Points “Dear Jessie”. Sickly sweet in every respect. Makes me nauseous. 2/10
Packaging A slight tease, but one which could not possibly cause offence to the American moral crusaders that were rushing to Tipper Gore’s side at the time of the album’s release. It does the job, in a nicely adequate sort of way. 6/10
On balance I’ve played this album just 3 times in the last 18 years (i.e. since I started tracking album plays on a database). Over the same period, I’ve given “True Blue”, “Like A Virgin” and “Madonna” between 6 or 10 spins each. In hindsight it was the turning point, where she moved from being the lively pinnacle of 80s pop into a corporate money making machine, where every murmur was calculated either for mass appeal instead of adoration by a smaller audience, or for shock-based headline grabbing. 9 years later “Ray Of Light” rectified the situation. 2/10
TOTAL SCORE Candy kisses. 47/100.
For Haven: 4.5/10
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Post by orthon7 on Sept 3, 2015 19:15:48 GMT 1
I think that Like A Prayer is her best ever Studio Album. I find it rather sad that it sold no-where near as many as Like A Virgin or True Blue in the UK & USA. I think that it is far stronger & more consistently good than either of those previous Madonna Albums. (Like A Virgin sold 10 Million in the USA, True Blue sold 7 Million, & Like A Prayer 'only' sold 4 Million there).
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Post by LT on Sept 7, 2015 13:15:33 GMT 1
yeh definetly up there in my favourite madonna albums
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 23, 2015 17:40:48 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2015 21:08:16 GMT 1
Dear Jessie stormed to Christmas #1 beating Queen's "The Miracle". In my retrospective "Dear Jessie" was # 1 for 5 consecutive weeks. From all Madonna singles only "Material Girl" spent more weeks on the top.
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Post by Earl Purple on Sept 23, 2015 21:52:37 GMT 1
I'll see what happens when we reach 1989 in the "retro" charts as I do change them slightly sometimes. "Woman In Chains" was also #2 in my chart behind Dear Jessie.
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Post by TheThorne on Sept 23, 2015 22:12:39 GMT 1
I have reconstructed with a bit of revisionism my charts from 1987-1990 up to April 1990. 'Dear Jessie' reached #4 for me, Electronic at number one.
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Post by LT on Sept 25, 2015 12:35:26 GMT 1
I love the album cover! I seem to recall seeing a version that had a an actual zip! unless I just made that up....
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Post by Shireblogger on Sept 25, 2015 13:44:06 GMT 1
With vas' review submitted, I think we cycle round next to raliverpool. Then it is vastar iner. Then I'd vote for smokeyb making another suggestion, as he's recently submitted a couple of reviews. Then we start the roundabout again with o then Shireblogger. I think its your turn vastar iner.
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Post by vastar iner on Sept 30, 2015 22:26:32 GMT 1
Righty-ho, I'll put one up this weekend.
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