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    THE 2013 MADONNANATION TOP 40

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    Here's a top 50 from Atrl:

    1 Like a Prayer
    2 Vogue
    3 Ray of Light
    4 Frozen
    5 Get Together
    6 Hung Up
    7 Into the Groove
    8 Human Nature
    9 Borderline
    10 The Power of Good-Bye
    11 Justify My Love
    12 Papa Don't Preach
    13 Rain
    14 Live to Tell
    15 Drowned World/Substitute For Love
    16 Secret
    17 Open Your Heart
    18 Bedtime Story
    19 La Isla Bonita
    20 Impressive Instant
    21 Hollywood
    22 Erotica
    23 Don't Tell Me
    24 Paradise (Not For Me)
    25 Skin
    26 Forbidden Love (COADF)
    27 Nothing Fails
    28 Deeper and Deeper
    29 Express Yourself
    30 Like a Virgin
    31 I'll Remember
    32 Oh Father
    33 Where Life Begins
    34 Till Death Do Us Part
    35 Nothing Really Matters
    36 Die Another Day
    37 Sorry
    38 Lucky Star
    39 Waiting
    40 Holiday
    41 True Blue
    42 Dress You Up
    43 I Deserve It
    44 Physical Attraction
    45 American Life
    46 Music
    47 Love Spent
    48 White Heat
    49 I love New York
    50 DWRY
    As you know that place is full of kids and some casual Madonna fans. How different is it?

    THE 2013 MADONNANATION TOP 40

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

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    37) BAD GIRL

    PRPapi: True story: At a karaoke/talent event with my friends, I was asked to sing. Knowing I'm a true-blue M fan, many moaned and groaned once they knew I was singing an M song, but they figured I'd do that anyway. While everyone sang classic, cheesy, happy-go-lucky dance songs, I surprised everyone by singing Bad Girl (though I changed it to Bad Boy in the lyrics). (They all thought I'd sing something dance-y.) I sang BG a little slowed down, and a little more dramatically with my friend playing piano behind me. Did it change the mood of the event? P'Shaw! But, once I was done, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. I was "crowned" the winner of the event. But, the BEST part for me was that I turned many into either fans of the song or of M since they were impressed with the song itself. SCORE!

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    34) I WANT YOU

    johnnox: There are occasions when a Madonna video can creep into your psyche without fanfare or controversy. I Want You is such an example - a promo that neither sets out to break the rules nor grab the headlines. And without such an agenda, it has become an enduring, flawless, visual masterpiece.

    A cover of a 1976 Marvin Gaye song, I Want You was recorded with Massive Attack and planned as the lead-off single from ballads compilation Something To Remember. With the song ready, a video shot and remixes commissioned, all were all serviced to radio, television and clubs and then… nothing. Thanks to petty legal wranglings between Motown and Madonna’s label, it was shelved and replaced with You’ll See, one of three new recordings and itself a worldwide smash.

    After the peculiarity of Bedtime Story and the spiky Human Nature videos, I Want You displayed a softer, warmer Madonna. It was hard to believe the woman who could fuck a dog to death in the Sex book then sprout white doves from her breasts in Bedtime Story could re-invent herself so convincingly in just six minutes and twenty-two seconds. But watching the video for I Want You was no easy feat.

    Rewind back to 1996 and the World Wide Web was still an unproven concept. No YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or Madonnanation. No apparatus allowing you to click a mouse and find a link. All you had was a handful of TV music stations and potluck. So it took me a good week to catch the I Want You video in its entirety. Each time I tuned into MTV Europe, my fingers hovered on the play and record button of the VCR, but I’d frustratingly catch the last minute or so without enjoying it in its entirety.

    Eventually one Saturday morning, there it was, sandwiched between Toni Braxton and Mariah Carey. Madonna, a hotel room, a telephone, a glass of water and a false eyelash … if there’s any doubt that girl had acting chops, I Want You begged to differ. You felt her aching; her disappointment, her longing and her hand-wringing frustration as she waited for the object of her desire to call. We’ve all been there, but few of us could style it out so successfully.

    It’s rare to find Madonna in such a submissive position, dependent on someone else to ease her suffering. But there’s a twist in store for those doubting the power of the woman. Because in the closing scene when he finally does call, she hangs up on him. Poor is the woman who pleasure depends on the phone call of another. Even at her most vulnerable, Madonna still wears the trousers.

    If nothing else, the I Want You video simply exists to prove that using a director (God bless you, Earle Sebastian) who truly understands an artist, you can witness the most famous woman in the world in a completely new light.

    The song itself? Even without a video, it would stand head and shoulders up there with her best. This is exactly what a cover version should sound like – inspired by the original but not an inferior, hapless, carbon copy. Like Sinead’s Nothing Compares 2 U and Fugee’s Killing Me Softly, it uses the foundation of its predecessor to build a giant tower all of its own.

    Madonna mixes sparse, understated vocals with spoken lines, trip-hop drumbeats and Massive Attack’s trademark subtle orchestration that builds and builds and builds to a saddening climax where the instrumentation takes over from the yearning in her voice. One can only imagine the beauty an entire album of Madonna and Massive Attack collaborations could have been. Might we still be discussing it now with the same affection we do for Ray Of Light?

    I Want You remains in Madonna history as the first and only one of her songs to get the full video treatment without ever being released. While the masses may have forgotten about it, it’s their loss and the fans’ gain. And 18 years on, rarely has a video by any artist matched so symbiotically with its accompanying song.!

    These two were my favourite reviews. I knew Johnnox was going to make a long essay :lol: and I read every word of it.

    THE 2013 MADONNANATION TOP 40

    in ARCHIVE - Madonna

    Posted

    This is exactly why I didn't bother to vote. :lmao: It's a fruitless exercise (for me) as I don't have favourites. Have to say that Whoopie has organised it very well and as everyone has said the visuals are nice too.

    So to you Vogue is the same than Over and Over, you like them both the same?

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