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Time to rank the Queen of Life's *studio* albums all over again


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Sorry for this stupid query...Are the bonus tracks or the deluxe ed considered in ranking MDNA? Cause I really love I F*cked up...The track alone will place MDNA higher on my list. How I wish they included it on the standard ed instead of masterpiece. :(

Think of the deluxe version as the complete artistic version of the album.

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It's always tricky to do this when an album is just released, because sometimes you need weeks or months to finally have a clear head, but right now it would be like this

In terms of my taste and my feelings and how much i like them (like MDNA a lot, but this woman has so many great albums...)

1. Like a Prayer

2. True Blue

3. Erotica

4. Like a Virgin

5. Madonna

6. I'm Breathless

7. Ray Of Light

8. Bedtime Stories

9. Confessions on a Dancefloor

10. MDNA

11. American Life

12. Music

13. Hard Candy

In terms or "quality", it would be like this

1. Like a Prayer

2. Ray of Light

3. Erotica

4. True Blue

5. MDNA

6. Music

7. Madonna

8. Like a Virgin

9. American Life

10. Confessions on a Dancefloor

11. Bedtime Stories

12. I'm Breathless.

13. Hard Candy

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Guest Lovesong

I include I'm Breathless in my list. :thumbsup:

1. Ray of Light

2. Erotica

3. Confessions on a Dancefloor

4. Like a Prayer

5. Madonna

6. MDNA

7. Music

8. American Life

9. True Blue

10. Bedtime Stories

11. Like a Virgin

12. I'm Breathless

13. Hard Candy

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  • 2 weeks later...

1. Ray of Light Frozen, The Power Of Goodbye

2. Confessions on a Dance Floor The Whole Thing!

3. MDNA Love Spent, Some Girls, I Don't Give A, Beautiful Killer

4. Music Don't Tell Me, Music

5. Like A Virgin Dress You Up, Over And Over

6. True Blue Live To Tell, La Isla Bonita

7. Like A Prayer Till Death Do Us Part

8. Bedtime Stories Secret

9. Erotica Thief of Hearts, Rain

10. Madonna Holiday

11. American Life Hollywood, Nothing Fails

12. Hard Candy Devil Wouldn't Recognize

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Madonna

Like a Virgin

True Blue

Like a Prayer

Erotica

Bedtime Stories

Ray of Light

Music

American Life

Confessions on a Dance Floor

Hard Candy

MDNA

Ray of light (Skin, Mer girl, Ray of light)

Like a prayer (promise to try, spanish eyes, like a prayer)

MDNA (Gang Bang, I´m addicted, Love spent)

Confessions on a dance floor (Get together, future lovers, forbidden love)

Erotica (secret garden, deeper and deeper, bad girl )

American Life (intervention, Nobody knows me, Easy ride )

Music (Impressive Instant, Paradise, I deserve it)

True Blue ( Open your heart, Live to tell, la isla bonita )

Bedtime Stories ( love tried to welcome me, sanctuary, bedtime story)

Hard Candy ( give it to me, she`s not me, voices )

Madonna ( Borderline, physical attraction, burning up )

Like a Virgin ( love don`t live here anymore, into the groove, over and over )

:fag:

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1. Like A Prayer

2. American Life

3. Madonna

4. MDNA

5. Ray Of Light

6. Erotica

7. Confessions On A Dance Floor

8. Music

9. True Blue

10. Hard Candy

11. Bedtime Stories

12. Like A Virgin

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Guest Love Profusion

1. Like A Prayer

2. Music

3. True Blue

4. Ray of Light

5. American Life

6. MDNA

7. Confessions On A Dance Floor

8. Erotica

9. Like A Virgin

10. Bedtime Stories

11. Madonna

12. Hard Candy

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Guest sasca1971

I bundled them in groups where they're really pretty equal in my opinion.

1. Like A Prayer - I even like the songs that most don't like Dear Jessie and Love Song

2. ROL

3. American Life - I don't care what the people say, this album rocks my world. I really don't skip over any of the songs. Even LAP, I skip over PTT and KIT and on ROL I skip THANTH and LS.

4. Confessions

5. MDNA prob like more songs than on Confessions but Confessions has some outrageously good productions

6. Music

7. Madonna - as old as it is I still enjoy listening to many songs

Rarely listen to other than a song or two - though I do like the albums.

8. Hard Candy

9. Erotica - like Words and Secret Garden best

10. Bedtime Stories

I really just don't listen to these anymore and haven't since the 80s.

11. True Blue

12. Like A Virgin

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Guest gloriesbarcelona

A bit early for me still but MDNA will probably end up somewhere in my top 5/6 along with ROL, American Life, Music, Bedtime Stories and Like a Prayer/Confessions.

Hard Candy is definitively left at the bottom of that list.

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I bundled them in groups where they're really pretty equal in my opinion.

1. Like A Prayer - I even like the songs that most don't like Dear Jessie and Love Song

2. ROL

3. American Life - I don't care what the people say, this album rocks my world. I really don't skip over any of the songs. Even LAP, I skip over PTT and KIT and on ROL I skip THANTH and LS.

4. Confessions

5. MDNA prob like more songs than on Confessions but Confessions has some outrageously good productions

6. Music

7. Madonna - as old as it is I still enjoy listening to many songs

Rarely listen to other than a song or two - though I do like the albums.

8. Hard Candy

9. Erotica - like Words and Secret Garden best

10. Bedtime Stories

I really just don't listen to these anymore and haven't since the 80s.

11. True Blue

12. Like A Virgin

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Like a Prayer

True Blue

Confessions on a Dancefloor

Ray of Light

MDNA

Hard Candy

Erotica

Bedtime Stories

Music

Like a Virgin

Madonna

American Life

I'm Breathless

I love how consistently high COADF is ranking amongst all of us... :thumbsup:

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Guest Drowned Bedtime

Hmm.

Probably (from favourite to least)

Like A Prayer / Ray Of Light / Erotica

These three are perfect, all completely different, but practically flawless to me.

Confessions on a Dancefloor / Bedtime Stories

Music / American Life

Hard Candy

True Blue / Madonna

Like A Virgin / MDNA

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Like A Prayer

Ray Of Light

American Life

True Blue (tracklisting: WTG,CAC,TLOL,PDP,OYH,LTT,WTP,TB,LIB,LMTWGR)

Madonna

Erotica

MDNA

Music

Like A Virgin

Bedtime Stories

Confessions On A Dance Floor

Hard Candy

I find it so hard since I love them all so much. :inlove:

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Hi. First post on this lovely board I've been lurking for several months.

First, I'm a huge fan of MDNA (the album). Second, the first record I ever bought was Bedtime Stories and the first concert my mom went to without me was the Girlie Show. I waited outside that night with my dad at a nearby McDonalds cursing the fuck out of her. I had asked and asked and asked and all she said was, "Well, it's not a show for an 8-year-old... but I'll buy you the tour booklet!" I reminded her of that story as I walked into the arena to see the Confessions Tour. Which is where admiration turned into devotion.

Anyway, all that to provide some context to my choices below. I think it's more significant that way. How MDNA will rank in five years remains to be seen, obviously, but for now:

MDNA / Ray of Light / Erotica (cannot choose one over the other.)

Like a Prayer

Confessions on a Dance Floor

Bedtime Stories

American Life

Madonna

Music

True Blue

Like a Virgin

Hard Candy

The first batch is what I consider are essential Madonna albums. With the exception of Confessions, they all are I-don't-give-a-fuck in different ways. Which is when Madonna means the most to me. If Confessions had more of an edge, less Jesus-complex and more messy balls, it would def be #1.

The second batch has more tracks that I really, really never listen to, or where I feel her she compromised too much.

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And for the millionth time, no, I'm Breathless is not a studio album. Madonna does not consider it to be a studio album. And Warner Bros. did not either. Every press statement everytime she releases a new studio album for the past decade or so has not considered it.

>:(

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1. True Blue

2. Bedtime Stories

3. Madonna

4. Like a Prayer

5. Like a Virgin

6. Confessions on a Dance Floor

7. Ray of Light

8. Erotica

9. MDNA

10. Music

11. Hard Candy

12. American Life

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Madonna

MDNA

True Blue

Like a Prayer

Like a Virgin

Music

American Life

Hard Candy

Confessions on a Dance Floor

Erotica

Bedtime Stories

Ray of Light

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1. Madonna

2. Ray of Light

3. Like a Prayer

4. True Blue

5. MDNA

6. Confessions on a Dancefloor

7. Like a Virgin

8. Erotica

9. Bedtime Stories

10. Music

11. Hard Candy

12. American Life

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Madonna

MDNA

True Blue

Like a Prayer

Like a Virgin

Music

American Life

Hard Candy

Confessions on a Dance Floor

Erotica

Bedtime Stories

Ray of Light

i guess this means you're not ray of lighter. :doofus:

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1 True Blue

2 Confessions On A Dancefloor

3 Like A Virgin

4 Madonna

5 Ray Of Light

6 Like A Prayer

7 Music

8 MDNA

9 American Life

10 Hard Candy

11 I`m Breathless

12 Bedtime Stories

13 Erotica

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  • 1 month later...

Sorry, had to dig this one up.

I was thinking, If I were to rank M's albums from the top of my head, the top 5 would look something like this:

-Erotica

-Ray of Light

-MDNA

-Music

-Confessions

However, after listening to LAP this morning, I thought that if I had ranked each track from each album, then tally up the scores to create an accurate and overall percentage ranking for each album, LAP (which is solid album) could possibly move up to the top, along with other albums.

So I did this, I listened to each album today, and gave each song a rating out 10. Then added the songs together for each album, then divided that number by the total possible points

This is what I got:

MADONNA= 68/80 = 85%

Lucky star - 10/10

Borderline - 7/10

Burning Up - 10/10

I Know It - 5/10

Holiday - 8/10

Think of Me - 9/10

Physical Attraction - 9/10

Everybody - 10/10

LIKE A VIRGIN= 67/90 = 74%

Material Girl - 7/10

Angel - 9/10

Like a Virgin - 8/10

Over and Over - 7/10

Love Don't Live Here Anymore - 6/10

Dress You Up - 9/10

Shoo-Bee-Doo - 5/10

Pretender - 8/10

Stay - 8/10

TRUE BLUE= 71.5/90 = 79.4%

Papa Don't Preach 10/10

Open Your Heart 9/10

White Heat 8/10

Live to Tell 10/10

Where's The Party 7/10

True Blue 7.5/10

La Isla Bonita 8/10

Jimmy Jimmy 6/10

Love Makes The World Go Round 6/10

LIKE A PRAYER= 91/110 = 82.72%

Like a Prayer 10/10

Express Yourself 8/10

Love Song 5/10

Till Death Do Us Part 9/10

Promise To Try 8/10

Cherish 9/10

Dear Jessie 8/10

Oh Father 10/10

Keep It Together 8/10

Spanish Eyes 8/10

Act of Contrition 8/10

EROTICA= 120/140 = 8571%

Erotica 10/10

Fever 7/10

Bye Bye Baby 8/10

Deeper and Deeper 10/10

Where Life Begins 7/10

Bad Girl 10/10

Waiting 10/10

Thief of Hearts 9/10

Words 10/10

Rain 9/10

Whys it So Hard 8/10

In This Life 7/10

Did You Do it? 6/10

Secret Garden 9/10

BEDTIME STORIES= 91/110 = 82.72%

Survival 9/10

Secret 10/10

I'd Rather Be Your Lover 6/10

Don't Stop 7/10

Inside of Me 9/10

Human Nature 8/10

Forbidden Love 8/10

Love Tried to Welcome Me 8/10

Sanctuary 10/10

Bedtime Story 10/10

Take a Bow 6/10

RAY OF LIGHT= 117/130 = 90%

Drowned World 10/10

Swim 9/10

Ray of Light 10/10

Candy Perfume Girl 9/10

Skin 9/10

Nothing Really Matters 10/10

Sky Fits Heaven 8/10

Sahnti 8/10

Frozen 10/10

Power of Goodbye 10/10

To Have and Not to Hold 8/10

Little Star 7/10

Mer Girl 9/10

MUSIC= 89/100 = 89%

Music 9/10

Impressive Instant 9/10

Runaway Lover 8/10

I Deserve It 9/10

Amazing 9/10

Nobodys Perfect 9/10

Don't Tell Me 10/10

What It Feels Like 8/10

Paradise 8/10

Gone 10/10

AMERICAN LIFE= 94/110= 85.45%

American Life 8/10

Hollywood 9/10

I'm So Stupid 9/10

Love Profusion 10/10

Nobody Knows Me 8/10

Nothing Fails 8/10

Intervention 10/10

X-Static 7/10

Mother and Father 8/10

Die Another 9/10

Easy Ride 8/10

CONFESSIONS= 104.5/120 = 87.03%

Hung Up 8.5/10

Get Together 9/10

Sorry 7/10

Future Lovers 10/10

I Love New York 10/10

Let It Will Be 10/10

Forbidden Love 10/10

Jump 10/10

How High 8/10

Isaac 8/10

Push 6/10

Like It Or Not 8/10

HARD CANDY= 102/120 = 85%

Candy Shop 10/10

4 Minutes 7/10

Give It 2 Me 9/10

Heartbeat 8/10

Miles Away 8/10

She's Not Me 9/10

Incredible 7.5/10

Beat Goes One 10/10

Dance 2Night 8.5/10

Spanish Lesson 9/10

Devil 7/10

Voices 9/10

MDNA = 107/120 = 89.16%

Girl Gone Wild 10/10

Gang Bang 10/10

I'm Addicted 10/10

Turn Up The Radio 9/10

Give Me All Your Luvin 6.5/10

Some Girls 8.5/10

Superstar 8/10

I Don't Give A 8/10

I'm a Sinner 9/10

Love Spent 10/10

Masterpiece 8/10

Falling Free 10/10

Ray of Light 90

MDNA 89.16

Music 89

Confessions 87.03

Erotica 85.71

American Life 85.45

Hard Candy 85

Madonna 85

Bedtime Stories 82.72

Like a Prayer 82.72

True Blue 79.4

Like a Virgin 74

(Albums that were tied were decided by how many times the albums been played on iTunes)

I was shocked. Erotica, which was always my favorite album, moved down to #5. And LAP didn't even move at all, in fact, it moved down! It seems as though the 80's albums get no love from, which is not true! Oh well.

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