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Old 01-07-2011, 18:35
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Anyone else wish she had made this the fifth single from Confession On The Dancefloor?

This should have been the official video as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9o12iMBSnE

Such an overlooked, yet brilliant track. Though I suppose all the songs on Confessions could have been singles.
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Old 01-07-2011, 18:43
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Great song but don't think it would have worked as a single, I would have liked Future Lovers or Push as the 5th single. Amazing album though.
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Old 01-07-2011, 18:45
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Great song but don't think it would have worked as a single, I would have liked Future Lovers or Push as the 5th single. Amazing album though.
See Push is my least fave song on the album!! love Future Lovers though. 'At the Fairground'

I might have to spin this album laters. I'm in the mood now.
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Old 01-07-2011, 18:47
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Do you have the Confessions Tour soundtrack, thats so much better, love her intro with Future Lovers/I Feel Love, I wish I had been into Madonna back then and gone to the tour.
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Old 01-07-2011, 18:47
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I love Issac. I never really considered it as a single though. The singles were so clear from the onset then I didn't really think about it at the time.

I would have loved Let It Will Be over Jump. The album version mind, not that remix that she always performed.

Future Lovers was always the albums weak point for me, up until I heard the live version with I Feel Love. Something clicked and I just love that track now! The lyrics at the start make me laugh... 'administration, bills and loans'
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Old 01-07-2011, 18:51
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Do you have the Confessions Tour soundtrack, thats so much better, love her intro with Future Lovers/I Feel Love, I wish I had been into Madonna back then and gone to the tour.
Yeah I have all the live albums. I was pissed she didn't add the 2006 version of Live To Tell onto the Confessions one despite adding the intro for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07DBz9ZUGcA

Like A Virgin 2006 is my favourite remix of that song.
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Old 01-07-2011, 18:53
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I love her version of Music on the Confessions Tour and also love La Isla Bonita 2006 version, Candy Shop was a great opener on Sticky & Sweet and also the live version of Human Nature made me like the studio version, as wasn't very keen on it at first.
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Old 01-07-2011, 20:10
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Issac is my fav tune on Confessions. Madonna went through one of her many great periods with that album and tour. My choice for another single would of been Let It Will Be.

Future Lovers became stale after awhile with me but after the opening to the Confessions Tour the song found it's way back into my good books.

James_B mentioned Candy Shop never liked that song but it worked so well live, i'm back to skipping that song when i listen to Hard Candy, that and 4 others. Lets hope for a better album next year.
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Old 01-07-2011, 21:16
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it's a horrid song, it's a bit like a Eurovision entry from Turkey circa 2001. Doesn't fit on the album at all. Best unreleased track from Confessions was Forbidden Love.
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Old 01-07-2011, 23:54
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I would have liked Future Lovers or Push as the 5th single.
Future Lovers was a bit too obviously derivative of "I Feel Love" (with a bit of "State of Independence" thrown in) for it to really get away with being a single though.
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Old 01-07-2011, 23:54
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it's a horrid song, it's a bit like a Eurovision entry from Turkey circa 2001. Doesn't fit on the album at all. Best unreleased track from Confessions was Forbidden Love.
what were you listening to??

Isaac was definitely the most experimental out of the album! absolute genius album!

As a single unsure HOW it would work. I swear The Apprentice had some of the riffs for backing for a few series....i remember saying....Sir Alan (at the time now Lord Sugz) must love Isaac!

Also for a single would have loved I Love New York for promo as it has a cult following for its inane but fun lyrics. AND Let It Will Be, reminded me of Papa Dont Preach with the opening orchestra-like power! Liked the live version but the album version ROCKED!
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Old 01-07-2011, 23:56
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I'd have had Let It Will Be as a single.

Isaac was a bit too out there for a single, as an album track it was fine, but I doubt it would have sold well as a single.
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Old 02-07-2011, 00:01
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I'd have had Let It Will Be as a single.

Isaac was a bit too out there for a single, as an album track it was fine, but I doubt it would have sold well as a single.
I love that as a song and as a conceptualised Dance album she managed to really make people go what the heck!??!?! but in a fantastic way It is absurd but phenomenal!

I always envisave a massive battle (LOTR style) taking place
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Old 02-07-2011, 02:11
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I've loved Isaac straight away! It's very cryptic but it's so uplifting at the same time. Never thought it'd be single material though. Was happy to see Get Together being given a release - it's one of my favorites of the album - and I'd have preferred to see Push and/or Let It Will Be released instead of Jump. I like the song but I think it's quite weak as a single compared to LIWB or Push which I hope would be a single after hearing it first on Sara Cox's programme when Radio 1 did a special on COADF.
More than having Isaac released as a single, I'd have loved to have Fighting Spirit added as a hidden track at the end of the album. It's a great tune and even if I can see why it couldn't be included, it'd have been just a great encore to cool you down after an hour non-stop of pure dance music
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Old 02-07-2011, 07:57
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Isaac is great but radio would never have played it.

Let It Will Be should have been a single. I don't understand why it wasn't. Unless she felt people would think she was bigging up her ego and legacy too much and didn't want a self indulgent backlash happening.

Speaking of Let It Will Be as well.

Listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlD4N8am0m8

As all of Confessions contained samples was the intro of Let It Will Be that of Papa Don't Preach reworked? I can never tell but always assumed it was.
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Old 02-07-2011, 08:44
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Confessions is my fave Madonna album.

I hope her new material is a follow up to that. Steve Price really connected with her. Though I suppose with the rise of Gaga, Madonna will have to pull something massive out of the hat.
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:14
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Isaac is great but radio would never have played it.

Let It Will Be should have been a single. I don't understand why it wasn't. Unless she felt people would think she was bigging up her ego and legacy too much and didn't want a self indulgent backlash happening.


Speaking of Let It Will Be as well.

Listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlD4N8am0m8

As all of Confessions contained samples was the intro of Let It Will Be that of Papa Don't Preach reworked? I can never tell but always assumed it was.
This might be it. While she likes to speak of her status she doesn't seem to like drawing attention to it either. Celebration was going to be called Queen Of Pop according to a Warner exec but Madonna wanted it called Celebration instead.
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Old 02-07-2011, 19:16
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This might be it. While she likes to speak of her status she doesn't seem to like drawing attention to it either. Celebration was going to be called Queen Of Pop according to a Warner exec but Madonna wanted it called Celebration instead.
Yeah i read that, it had a few working titles.

I think while Let It Will Be hints at her career i think so many can relate to it. hitting highs and hitting personal lows it would have been MASSIVE. And agreed on Push for a release too, very trippy beats and she said it was a follow up of sorts to Borderline and you can really hear it in some respects.

It is a phenomenal album. And would also have loved Fighting Spirit and Land Of The Free (i think that was what it was called) to have been on the album also.
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Old 02-07-2011, 22:11
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Isaac is one of my favourites from the album.
It's very experimental for her, so it probably wouldn't have done well as a single.

But that doesn't really matter anymore, as nothing past the second single have been hits for her for the last three albums.
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Old 02-07-2011, 22:16
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Push should've been a single!

I would also have liked Forbidden Love and Future Lovers to be singles!
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Old 02-07-2011, 23:28
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Isaac is one of my favourites from the album.
It's very experimental for her, so it probably wouldn't have done well as a single.

But that doesn't really matter anymore, as nothing past the second single have been hits for her for the last three albums.
apart from a load of new artists, not many actually have got past the initial single and the rest doesnt surpass the success!

And actually very few can. ROL, Music, AL, Confessions and Hard Candy (well maybe not HC) have had all singles in the top 10 (or Love Profusion close to it) so that is a success.

BUT for an artist three decades in that is still an impressive feat! Also Britney/gaga/Rihanna do have difficulty themselves with their releases (especially Britney even here in the UK) so yeah Madonna keeps kickin tha arse!

And yeah Forbidden Love would have been fantastic as a release too! To be honest the entire record coud have been really milked for hits! They all would have been top 10 at least! Also all her singles for the album were very far in between i felt (up to 4 months inbetween each release!) also would have loved (as several have also mentioned) for each video to segue together like the album itself and tell a bigger story of Madonna and her Dance Troupe, capture that Urban Dance side to New York in a broader aspect than JUST Hung Up and Sorry!
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:21
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Yeah i read that, it had a few working titles.

I think while Let It Will Be hints at her career i think so many can relate to it. hitting highs and hitting personal lows it would have been MASSIVE. And agreed on Push for a release too, very trippy beats and she said it was a follow up of sorts to Borderline and you can really hear it in some respects.

It is a phenomenal album. And would also have loved Fighting Spirit and Land Of The Free (i think that was what it was called) to have been on the album also.
I can see why Fighting Spirit didn't make the cut. It's too distinct from the whole album and you can tell she was really into this clubbing feel all the way through. Fighting Spriti is too laid back and trippy to have found its place on COADF as we got it but as a hidden track coming out nowhere a few minutes after LION ended would have certainly worked for me as a perfect ending musicwise. It's a pity in a way we didn't get a deluxe with loads of bonus track, it would have been the perfect fit to get Fighting Spirit, Superpop, Triggering Your Senses - which I absolutely adore!!! - History (Land of the free - the one you're talking about Josh)
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Old 03-07-2011, 02:27
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Isaac is one of my favourites from the album.
It's very experimental for her, so it probably wouldn't have done well as a single.

But that doesn't really matter anymore, as nothing past the second single have been hits for her for the last three albums.
Well she hardly made some promotion for them in most cases, did she? Miles Away had no promotion at all with no official video. In the case of GT & Jump where actually hits and for AL, none of the singles were real hits apart from Die Another Day despite the lukewarm reception it got from critics.
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Old 03-07-2011, 08:20
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Confessions came along just before deluxe's started becoming the norm but I agree a deluxe of Confessions would have been ace all the material that has leaked since.

Although Madonna often reworks many of her unused tracks and developes them into new. Keep The Trance is Hey You while It's So Cool was a guitar number she made it into a new trance version for the GH.
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Old 03-07-2011, 10:01
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How high was my fave song from the album.
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