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Old 17-05-2011, 12:09
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People often label Madonna as a "singles artist," which I've always thought is really unjust. Of course she's got an impeccable singles record and can always pull a major hit out of the bag and make it look so easy.

It got me thinking what hidden gems are on Madonna albums that were never released, but if they had have been, they undoubtedly would have been huge hits and would sit comfortably alongside her greatest hits.

Off the top of my head, a couple of 'why the hell did you never realise these,' songs....

She's Not Me,
Time Stood Still,
Now I'm Following You (Parts 1&2),
Impressive Instant,
Skin,
Mother & Father.

Any others??
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Old 17-05-2011, 13:52
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White Heat was one of the best songs on True Blue. I hated most of the singles on that album other than Live to Tell
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Old 17-05-2011, 13:54
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Old 17-05-2011, 14:45
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there are so many! i mean she is very much ALBUMS as well as SINGLES.

Impressive Instant
Where's The Party
Let It Will Be
Sky Fits Heaven
Skin
Beat Goes On
Keep It Together (mainstream release with video)
Promise To Try
Physical Attraction
Words
Why's It So Hard

just to name a few that would have been massive! but to tell the truth i am glad that they weren't also because they make them more special too but these are the ones that i can envisage a video and mainstream success!
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Old 17-05-2011, 14:46
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didn't we just do this topic?
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Old 17-05-2011, 14:49
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didn't we just do this topic?
what's one more?
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Old 17-05-2011, 14:51
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Where's The Party
Intervention
Mother And Father
I Love New York
Let It Will Be
Words
She's Not Me
Devil Wouldn't Recognize You
Till Death Do Us Part
Impressive Instant
Sky Fits Heaven
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Old 17-05-2011, 14:53
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Where's The Party
InterventionMother And Father
I Love New York
Let It Will Be
Words
She's Not Me
Devil Wouldn't Recognize YouTill Death Do Us Part
Impressive Instant
Sky Fits Heaven
embarrassed to have forgotten these they would have been fantastic releases too!
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Old 17-05-2011, 14:57
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Old 17-05-2011, 15:00
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Spanish eyes and Till Death Do Us Part......damn reading more people posts makes me think so much more.....lets face it she could release an entire album really! or close to it
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Old 17-05-2011, 15:09
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I was amazed that Impressive Instant didn't get a full release & video - amazing song and the performance of it on the Drowned World tour was brilliant.

Edited to add - if we take into account unreleased tracks/demos etc then Like A Flower & Like An Angel Passing Through My Room are my favourites.
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Old 17-05-2011, 15:11
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I was amazed that Impressive Instant didn't get a full release & video - amazing song and the performance of it on the Drowned World tour was brilliant.
that performance is phenomenal isn't it?

Dornwed World/Substitute was a phenomenal opener and then WHAM!

wish it was, and the vieo would have been immense! i think she wanted it to be and WB said Amazing should have been released and then neither were and WIFLFAG was the final single from the era and album.
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Old 17-05-2011, 15:21
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Madonna is very much an albums artist, more so perhaps now she has gotten older than during the 80s but she defintley always has broad concepts for each album in some way. Take for instance, Erotica was meant to be a social commentary about sex and AIDS whilst Ray of Light is a kind of ode to motherhood.

She just gets labelled as a singles artist because there are a lot of good potenial singles on most of her albums (maybe not American Life though lol).

Tracks she should have released as a single:
Beat Goes On (with Kanye West - a no-brainer this one - an awesome tune);
Queen of Hearts (uber-camp dance anthem);
Swim (just a beautiful ambient-rock song);
Keep It Together (which was a single in the US but never here in the UK - we got Dear Jessie instead);
Like It Or Not (really underrated track from Confessions)
Impressive Instant (would have been a more natural follow-up to Music than Don't Tell Me which I love btw)
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Old 17-05-2011, 15:30
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Talking of unreleased Madonna tracks, I hope that "Miss You" gets some sort of official release at some point, hopefully in a similar acoustic style to what's floating around online at the moment.

I'd be gutted if this track got jazzed up to become an uptempo track, which is what they did with "It's So Cool." This track started life as a simple, pretty guitar based ballad from the American Life sessions but got its official release as a pretty generic, souless bonus track during the Celebration period.
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Old 17-05-2011, 17:51
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Madonna is very much an albums artist, more so perhaps now she has gotten older than during the 80s but she defintley always has broad concepts for each album in some way. Take for instance, Erotica was meant to be a social commentary about sex and AIDS whilst Ray of Light is a kind of ode to motherhood.

She just gets labelled as a singles artist because there are a lot of good potenial singles on most of her albums (maybe not American Life though lol).

Tracks she should have released as a single:
Beat Goes On (with Kanye West - a no-brainer this one - an awesome tune);
Queen of Hearts (uber-camp dance anthem);
Swim (just a beautiful ambient-rock song);
Keep It Together (which was a single in the US but never here in the UK - we got Dear Jessie instead);
Like It Or Not (really underrated track from Confessions)
Impressive Instant (would have been a more natural follow-up to Music than Don't Tell Me which I love btw)
fantastic points! Like A Prayer, Erotica, Ray Of Light, Music, American Life and Confessions followed broad concepts.

And in some ways her debut did too which is why it is so perfect and concise and you could say Hard Candy had a concept of a slighter scale too!

and yes those choices will e fantastic!

I would love ehr to maybe to a stripped down small concert in some venues to perform acoustics of hits and new songs.....will be fantastic sets!
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Old 17-05-2011, 18:51
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spanish eyes
promise to try
skin
impressive instant
sky fits heaven
paradise
mother and father
beat goes on
forbidden love (confessions)
sanctuary
words
theif of hearts

i could go on - i have loads of album tracks that i think are far superior to some of the singles releases.
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Old 17-05-2011, 19:30
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From each album

Madonna
Physical Attraction

Like A Virgin
Over and Over

True Blue
White Heat
Where's the Party?

Like A Prayer
Till Death Do Us Part
As a side note, I much prefer the album version of Express Yourself.

Erotica
None.

Bedtime Stories
Don't Stop
Love Tried to Welcome Me
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Old 17-05-2011, 20:20
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'Amazing' or ' Impressive Instant' instead i of 'What it feels like for a girl'.

American Life
She should have done some sort of a video for 'Nothing Fails' in 2003.
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Old 17-05-2011, 21:52
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Impressive Instant. A monster hit that should've been!
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Old 17-05-2011, 22:17
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Impressive Instant.

AMAZING SONG RIGHT THERE!
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Old 17-05-2011, 22:33
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Impressive Instant really is a popular choice, I do wish WB let Madonna release it rather than try and push Amazing out with a live video!

we could have had 5 singles from Music then :/

Music
Dont Tell Me
What It Feels Like...
Impressive Instant
&
Amazing
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Old 17-05-2011, 22:38
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Impressive Instant really is a popular choice, I do wish WB let Madonna release it rather than try and push Amazing out with a live video!

we could have had 5 singles from Music then :/

Music
Dont Tell Me
What It Feels Like...
Impressive Instant
&
Amazing
Have to disagree with regards to Amazing!!

Thank Kabbalah that was never released- I would not have been happy with that single choice as it sounds like a poor man's Beautiful Stranger, and I think the critics would have picked up on this and run with it, especially given what a huge radio hit Beautiful Stranger was in the UK.
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Old 17-05-2011, 22:44
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Have to disagree with regards to Amazing!!

Thank Kabbalah that was never released- I would not have been happy with that single choice as it sounds like a poor man's Beautiful Stranger, and I think the critics would have picked up on this and run with it, especially given what a huge radio hit Beautiful Stranger was in the UK.
that is why it was cancelled, but i absolutely love it! but the thinv was Warner wanted Amazing released as the 4th single with a live video from the tour.

Madonna wanted a new video for Impressive Instant released to coincide with the tour and then we ended up with neither

But i do love Beautiful Stranger too, it would have fit on the album too i reckon, but i feel I Deserve It or Runaway Lover would have been fantastic hits.....even Paradise would have been phenomenal on the charts! there still has been nothinv like it!
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Old 17-05-2011, 22:45
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Impressive Instant

That is the the one comes to mind first. I also wish that a bigger deal was made out of Nothing Really Matters. I love that song. Sky Fits Heaven, maybe, also.
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Old 17-05-2011, 22:46
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Impressive Instant

That is the the one comes to mind first. I also wish that a bigger deal was made out of Nothing Really Matters. I love that song.
NRM is hauntingly brilliant! i wish that had a lot more focus! and also Skin and Sky Fits Heaven to be released after would have been phenomenal!
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