agclef
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Her music has been the soundtrack to our lives!
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It's one of my favorites for many reasons and I love the art deco CD.
Love the ART DECO TOO!!!! Again, I thought this was a GREAT move for her musically back then, and I listen to this all the time and it makes me smile. -
Wonderful, WONDERFUL soundtrack. Everytime I listen to it it reminds me of summer...great imagery also related to this, a really good, creative time in her career also, I think she surprised a lot of folks back then when she did this stuff, not to mention she was ultra-hot in the movie too!
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This is GREAT NEWS!!! Frozen is, and always will be, an epic song, would love it is she performed the Victor Calderone mix, being she has already done the album version live and the Stereo Mc's version.
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One of M's SLICKEST videos EVER!!! Love all-of-it, yes even the gross cat-food scene. As I've said in the past, I really enjoy her live-version on SNL, so great and she was in really-good voice this night too (way before EVITA voice).
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(To quote Whitney Houston) Hell-to-the-NO!
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Really good album IMO, I remember when it was released I almost didn't know about it [flop fan], she was very subdued with this release, in the beginning, but then she went ALL OUT and she was EVERYWHERE!!!! There she goes again giving everyone little surprises, she's like a gift that keeps giving. Even today a lot of these songs have held up very well.
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I love the Candy Shop-Vogue costumes and hair. Its so severe but I like Madonna like that. I've never been a fan of "smooth and safe" Madonna. I like her to look a little intimidating and scary, it fits what she's all about. She had a good balance of scary/beautiful on the Confessions Tour.
The 4 Minutes costume is shittastic of course. But I love everything else.
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I love FROZEN but find myself listening to the Victor Calderone mix only--the album version never gets going, sometimes I'm just not in the mood, whereas the Calderone mix totally pumps it up and gets things going. She can use more of Calderone to pump up her stuff!
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other artists go through it, i read this great interview with francis ford coppola and it reminded me of this very subject:
http://www.laweekly.com/2009-06-04/film-tv...e-conversation/
Interesting read---exactly, yes I have heard this before from him, yes once again it's the fickle public.
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Thank u..... x.
Okay I had not seen this '95 DIVA comparison b4..
Whitney : 'Before Madonna there was Babyface & I, need I say more?'
The Bedtime Story party fan i mentioned earlier is there as well...
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oh, and to answer your question, im not over madonna, in the LEAST bit. i was there for the beginning and i plan on sticking around until she doesnt give anymore. and ill still have the love.Pud you can relate to this, this has been going on with her historically from the beginning. I remember people saying they were over her after her first album came out---the public/fans are so fickle and that's fine everyone is entitled to their opinion - but - if you are of the mind-set that we have where we are fans of her and her music no matter what shape it takes a lot of people can't or won't understand why..? Too bad, it is what it is---do Springsteen fans go through this, Billy Joel fans, Elton John's or Frank Sinatras----it's not a bandwagon that I'd like to jump on any time soon, I'm a fan-for-life and NOT just of Madonna but most of the music that I truly enjoy and feel passionate about!!!!
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Oh, how I love "Miles Away"... one of her best songs ever. I agree, I've said this from the beginning, there is just "something" about it sonically. Her voice, the layers of the background vocals and the cool instrumentation, plus the bridge---what's not to love!?!
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Agclef and his "highly trained" ears.
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Yeah, it's making me laugh too!
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I'll "bullshit" anyone who makes up things based on their prejudice for a release and doesn't bother to (and is seemingly unwilling to) check themselves. People do this all of the time whenever compilations, remasters, etc. come out. It's irresponsible.
You are aware that the single version of "Deeper And Deeper" on GHV2 is remixed and edited, right? If you're comparing to the Erotica album version, it's going to sound different. I can't help but think you're referring to the bad edit in the middle break which was poorly done making it go slightly off-beat...but this is exactly what was on the original single release.
Barring that you have the rarest of rare mispressed copies with faulty mastering (which you really should eBay), this is really simple to disprove. Here's what you do:
- Rip "Deeper And Deeper" as a wave (.wav) format file from both GHV2 and the original CD single. Any pressing of the CD single will do, so long as it's the "Edit"' version.
- Open them in a program with multi-track capability. I currently use Cool Edit.
- Find an identical point on each file, highlight them and put them into the multi-track.
- Go back to the original files for a moment and select either of the files (but only one) and select the "Invert" pre-set. You'll see that this makes each file peak in opposite points, cancelling each out.
- Mix down to one file and you will see.
The two will only cancel out if they are from an identical master. Any differences will be isolated in the mixdown. In the case of "Deeper And Deeper" the only difference between the original CD single release and GHV2 is 1db of volume. Repeating this process, but turning the CD single rip up by 1db leaves you with total silence meaning this is an idential master with the volume subtly bumped up.
It is impossible for two recordings with even the slightest variation to cancel each other out. Due to the mechanism of tape, it is impossible to recreate a master that will run at the exact same speed twice. The two tracks would veer off track from one another and phase (even if in the slightest amount.)
If you're unable to do this, rip a wave file of "Deeper And Deeper" from your GHV2, shoot it off to me and I'll check it against each and every disc I have containing the mix.
First of all MATTRESS I'm not making crap up based on my "prejudice" or whatever other crap you're trying to sell me, second of all I don't have the time or the inclination to sit there and compare note for note (maybe you do), I am however going by my HIGHLY TRAINED ears and my meticulous attention to audio detail, I don't need to run it through some silly software, that's what kids of today would do, I have too much experience dealing with sounds to do that, you go ahead and have a ball spending your time running stuff through softward, I know what I know and I hear what I hear and my CD version sounds like CRAP, period the END!
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Bullshit. The masters used were those on the original singles... you can line them up one on top of the other in an audio editor and neither strays. EQ reads the same as well, with the only real difference being the volume level increase of a few pre-1998 tracks, and "Beautiful Stranger" was turned down.
Never understood why fans so loathe GHV2. It's a little pointless if you happen to have all of her stuff, but it's as though once the lack of new material was confirmed, one queen yelled foul and the rest ran with it for 8 fucking years. No one should so easily dismiss a collection culled from Erotica, Ray Of Light, etc...
Don't tell me BULLSHIT Mattress, I'm telling you that's how mine sounds...you can line them up all-day and night if you want, my version sounds like CRAP and that's a fact. Absolutely muffled in some spots, ad a matter of fact, Deeper and Deeper sounds slower and not as crystal clear as the original album version, that's just one problem----this collection is sub-par, uninspired and NO ONE had to tell me that or convince me of that, that was my feeling out of the gate with this CD.
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I have this digi-pak too. Worst audio quality ever. Songs sound slower in spots, just terrible collection (production-wise).
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Alright so WHO pre-ordered this bad-boy?
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LOVED IT! She worked her a** off during this tour, I also really enjoyed the song-selection as well.
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so gorgeous:
Oh yeah Pud - by the way, ULTRA-GORGE!
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She's like Sampson, cut the eyebrows off, and she loses her power -hence the Erotica backlash. And everyone thought it was because she wouldn't stop getting her tits out.. Funny LG!
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DO YOU EVEN HAVE TO POINT THIS OUT!!?? The eyebrows are the best! Any "true-blue" fan knows this, they shaped her face like no other, so Scavullo, so fashion-forward 80's at the time.
Madonna releases statement about MJ's death
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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Loved this, it was the BEST.