Crux Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 When I bought this album in Oct 92 I played the shit out of it. It's my favorite Madonna record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peter1984 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Two songs are absolutelly great: "Deeper And Deeper" and "Bad Gilr". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runa Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Imagine a reissue. 1. CD containing the album 2. 2 CD's containing remixes, non album tracks including unreleased tracks 3. 2 CD's containing The Girlie Show 4. DVD containing the Sex movie, all music videos and the SNL performance of Bad Girl 5. DVD of the Girlie Show 6. The Sex Book reissue I think you're asking too much... But it would be so great!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Bedtime Stories is the morning after the night (Erotica) before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I love how afew of the titles play on the whole sexual innuendo thing. If you just read the titles only you would expect a sluttier affair. Deeper and Deeper Bad Girl Why's It So Hard Apart from Erotica and Where Life Begins it's not really that raunchy of an album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 And she sort of did a similar thing with Bedtime Stories to a degree. The title itself hints at more sexual themes. I'm sure that's what people expected. And then on the track listing a song called 'Inside of Me' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Coffin Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 YOUR LOVE IS COMING DOWN LIKE RAIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt420 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 And she sort of did a similar thing with Bedtime Stories to a degree. The title itself hints at more sexual themes. I'm sure that's what people expected. And then on the track listing a song called 'Inside of Me' I've always thought the song titles were sluttier than the content itself. I always thought it was funny that she placed Don't Stop before Inside Of Me on the track listing. I'm certain it was intentional.......just like how on COADF she has Jump as track 8 and How High as track 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Oh I never noticed that. Jump to How High. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Coffin Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Nothing is wrong but I laughed at "Jump" followed by "How High" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Dream Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 And she sort of did a similar thing with Bedtime Stories to a degree. The title itself hints at more sexual themes. I'm sure that's what people expected. And then on the track listing a song called 'Inside of Me' I remember from the Kurt Loder interview for Take A Bow that she said 'Inside of Me' was actually about her relationship with her mother. I love that the song about her mother has the most suggestive title on the entire album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Nothing is wrong but I laughed at "Jump" followed by "How High" however, i don't agree that Erotica contains only 2 raunchy songs...in a way or another, not explicitly, there are more songs with eaunchy innuendo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnino Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 however, i don't agree that Erotica contains only 2 raunchy songs...in a way or another, not explicitly, there are more songs with eaunchy innuendo... You're right. Secret Garden is about her vadge. Bye Bye Baby suggests masochism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystal Coffin Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 You're right. Secret Garden is about her vadge. Bye Bye Baby suggests masochism. mnino, where is your comment about my modified track listings of Madonna's albums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 And she sort of did a similar thing with Bedtime Stories to a degree. The title itself hints at more sexual themes. I'm sure that's what people expected. And then on the track listing a song called 'Inside of Me' It's funny, before the pajama party, MTV went around NYC asking people on the street what the bs video would be like. Everyone said it would be raunchy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Rain despite its blatant extended cum metaphor could also be about her mother right? I mean: "When you looked into my eyes, and you said goodbye could you see my tears?" "By sheer voice of will (I feel like a magical child), I will raise you from the ground" Rain works just as well as a metaphor for the elemental force of love coming down from the heavens above (which she already referenced in D&D). It always sounded to me like it was a song about a deceased lover, but with M it wouldn't surprise me if it was another codified paean to her mother, like Inside of Me. I never feel like I can over-analyse Erotica, she's operating on so many levels on this album - from the song titles down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Dream Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Rain despite its blatant extended cum metaphor could also be about her mother right? I mean: "When you looked into my eyes, and you said goodbye could you see my tears?" "By sheer voice of will (I feel like a magical child), I will raise you from the ground" Rain works just as well as a metaphor for the elemental force of love coming down from the heavens above (which she already referenced in D&D). It always sounded to me like it was a song about a deceased lover, but with M it wouldn't surprise me if it was another codified paean to her mother, like Inside of Me. I never feel like I can over-analyse Erotica, she's operating on so many levels on this album - from the song titles down. Agreed. I've also always thought there's a really religious, spiritual quality to the song - similar to Like A Prayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mensch Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 "Grunge Dance", that's brilliant! I love Erotica, it's the sexiest album ever, I think. I wouldn't call it "unpolished", I feel its rawness is deliberate and very trip-hoppy. The composition is much more haunting and interesting than your average pop record, there's a lot of friction and desperation, even in the more danceable tracks. It's incredibly courageous to have made an album like this when she was at the top of her game. I don't see any of the pop acts of today having the balls to take such a risk. I don't even see her able to do something like this again these days, to be completely honest. So, while I don't think this is her best album, neither musically nor conceptually, I do think this is her ULTIMATE album. The most important and defining one in her carreer. And the fact that it became her first big commercial failure, is just an exquisite irony that adds all the more to it. Love this explanation. Totally agree. Def on her top 5 albums IMO though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beautiful Killer Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 The cold, unpolished 'Erotic' remix, available only as a promotional single with the Sex book: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bluejean Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I remember from the Kurt Loder interview for Take A Bow that she said 'Inside of Me' was actually about her relationship with her mother. In case it wasn't obvious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Agreed. I've also always thought there's a really religious, spiritual quality to the song - similar to Like A Prayer. It's interesting that she references rain in several of her most poetic songs - here obviously, but also in Secret Garden (if I wait for the rain to kiss me and undress me..), Sanctuary (who needs the sun when the rain's so full of life) and Mer Girl (I ran to the sky, out to the lake, into the rain that matted my hair, and soaked my shoes and skin... I tasted the rain, I tasted my tears). Two might be a coincidence, but four (there could even be more?) is a pattern. I think rain for M is absolutely a symbol of life and cum fertility and motherhood and by consequence her Mother. In Rain she's waiting on that mountain top endlessly for the storm to pass and in Mer Girl she's running to the lake and up to the hill and she's looking there still and she's always, forever haunted by her mother's spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The cold, unpolished 'Erotic' remix, available only as a promotional single with the Sex book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMpIf0pUpism I still have the book, but I lost the damn single. It was used on a WO remix as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrokenButterfly Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Nothing is wrong but I laughed at "Jump" followed by "How High" I thought it was funny too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rb19 Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I've always felt Rain is about loving someone who only loves you when they cum. Thunder only happens when it's raining and all that. That pain of knowing they don't really love you but loving that moment when they do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karbatal Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 ^ I love that Erotica is so incredible lirically, just when people were trying to blame her as superficial and vapid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shine Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 The cold, unpolished 'Erotic' remix, available only as a promotional single with the Sex book: I found out only recently there was an edit for this also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 I still have the book, but I lost the damn single. It was used on a WO remix as well. you're lucky....my father put both in the garbage can.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karbatal Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Oh, your father didn't put both in the garbage. He hid the book and enjoys himself regularly. The old excuse: "I threw it in the gargabe can". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollhouse Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 she's doing it again.. Gang Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 Oh, your father didn't put both in the garbage. He hid the book and enjoys himself regularly. The old excuse: "I threw it in the gargabe can". i can tell you....you're wrong...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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