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who else loves Stay '81??


Genevieve Vavance

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ive been getting into 80s stuff again.

palying all of madonnas old stuff.....just picked up Cyndi lauper and culture club cds this week.

im in a retro mood lately. :mohawk::madonna2::phoneslut::fag:

love love love the 80s. Culture Club is so great. Wish I was in my 20s during the 80's in NYC that's my "midnight in Paris" time frame for sure LOL

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Yes it was. Steve Bray wrote a bit about the songs and what state of quality they were in when he was collecting them for the release, I'll have to check the liner notes again, but I believe

he said Stay ('81) was not the best quality so he had to recreate most of the music. Its pretty true to the original though.

I think this song (of all the early recordings) is my favorite simply because its got all the elements of a classic Madonna song: it's danceable, emotional vocal delivery, simple yet effective lyrics, and a wee bit of sadness. I love the good ol' Desperadonna songs.

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I scanned the liner notes, i was almost right LOL.

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You actually got it the other way around ;) Since the vocals were premixed with the music they couldn't really reconstruct this one. So it's presented pretty much as it was.

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I think everyone loves it!

This is one of the highlights from Pre-Madonna, along with "Laughing..." and "Don't You Know."

Madonna did 80's music so well. Looking back, the first album is such a stellar mix of what the 80's represent. I'm so glad Bray managed to get this little collection out in the open. It's fantastic! An item every fan should have!

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You actually got it the other way around ;) Since the vocals were premixed with the music they couldn't really reconstruct this one. So it's presented pretty much as it was.

Yeah, that kinda what i meant by 'almost'. Since Stay '81 and Dont You Know became Stay from LAV, after 15 or so years,my memory switched it. Glad I read through the liner notes, though. The descriptions are brief, but detailed. Hearing the 4 song demo that had become almost legendary in the Madonna Myth, its a lovely companion to the Madonna album.

on a side note Burning Up is on Pre-Madonna, too… but it wasn't on the 4 track demo tape for Sire Records.

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It's interesting that Paul Pesco is credited for guitar on these tracks..., was he brought back in 1997 to play the guitar in the remastering/re-recording, or did he play guitar on the original 1981 demos? If so, I had no idea that M's working relationship with Paul started that early on.

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Yeah, that kinda what i meant by 'almost'. Since Stay '81 and Dont You Know became Stay from LAV, after 15 or so years,my memory switched it. Glad I read through the liner notes, though. The descriptions are brief, but detailed. Hearing the 4 song demo that had become almost legendary in the Madonna Myth, its a lovely companion to the Madonna album.

on a side note Burning Up is on Pre-Madonna, too… but it wasn't on the 4 track demo tape for Sire Records.

Who cares that you were wrong? You're beautiful which trumps everything.

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