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Old 22-07-2011, 17:29
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New Blog, Are you a "True Blue" ?

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Old 22-07-2011, 17:46
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Fantastic, Facebook had such a fun time having ans post videos of their fave songs!

It was/is a mighty album. Like A Virgin and True Blue were her absolute blockbuster albums! Set her apart, established her as a Pop Queen and Pop Icon rivalling MJ and Prince and often surpassing also! it is a reason why she is legend!

As for fave song very difficult to tell! Papa and La Isla are the most favorited! Open Your Heart is often overlooked and True Blue itself put back a lot, and Live To Tell was brought to life again on the Confessions World Tour.

Wheres The Party i will vote for however, should have been released and a very special song! I do love White Heat with the movie sample also!
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Old 22-07-2011, 17:49
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Love True Blue. Live To Tell is Madonna at her best. Shame she doesn't focus so much on the ballads anymore. Love every track though. I used to hate White Heat, but these past few years it finally clicked.

It's a shame she doesn't do more to celebrate her back catalogue. Even crap Sony put in a bit of effort when Thriller reached 25.
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Old 22-07-2011, 17:50
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A great album. "Jimmy,Jimmy" was always my favourite.
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Old 22-07-2011, 17:53
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Love True Blue. Live To Tell is Madonna at her best. Shame she doesn't focus so much on the ballads anymore. Love every track though. I used to hate White Heat, but these past few years it finally clicked.

It's a shame she doesn't do more to celebrate her back catalogue. Even crap Sony put in a bit of effort when Thriller reached 25.
Why re-release when she is growing strong still? I would love her to re-release her bak catalogue at some point! In 3 years LAP will be 25 and a few years after that Erotica etc.

I would love her to but tbh MJ hadnt released anything for YEARS! so it was a cash in. But because she isnt with Warner anymore will be a bit different.

But her Facebook celebrated it for the month!

Also I would love her to do another ballad, the thing is they are always overlooked...see American Life and on Hard Candy. But i reckon she will again
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Old 22-07-2011, 18:07
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I love Open Your Heart, True Blue, La Isla Bonita all the same.
Then I really like Live to tell and Where's the Party.
The rest of the album I don't mind but some of it fizzles weak for me like Jimmy Jimmy...I hate that song.

I have only one critique of the thing (which can't be fixed unless she re-recorded it) is that the production quality is trapped in the 80's and no digital remastering can fix that for me...I'm an audiophile and I need my stuff either a clean cut raw/low production mixing thingy take (which is why say, why The Beatles recordings can feel timeless while depeche mode sound like the 80's and can't escape it)

or produced at some point from the 90's onwards as the technology was better. Pop production in the 80's is just so niche and not for me.

I genuinely feel like if Madonna re-recorded some of those songs with technology now, I'd love it even more. (which is why I adore the confessions Live to tell rendition)

But that's down to me being a bit picky with sounds and styles of 80's pop.
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Old 22-07-2011, 18:14
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True Blue is her bes pop album. imho. Its one of the best of all time too.

I loved that whole era and the look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6AAkijfL6I

True love, my baby, true love, my baby, true love, my baby, true love true blue... lala lala
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Old 22-07-2011, 18:46
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La Isla Bonita a definite fave of all time , just look stunning, summery lush sounds, fab video. Love Love Love it
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Old 22-07-2011, 18:48
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Fantastic, Facebook had such a fun time having ans post videos of their fave songs!
Yep loved all the Facebook month celebrations, great
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Old 22-07-2011, 18:52
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Fantastic, Facebook had such a fun time having ans post videos of their fave songs!
Agree here, fab month on Facebook
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Old 22-07-2011, 22:41
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I love Open Your Heart, True Blue, La Isla Bonita all the same.
Then I really like Live to tell and Where's the Party.
The rest of the album I don't mind but some of it fizzles weak for me like Jimmy Jimmy...I hate that song.

I have only one critique of the thing (which can't be fixed unless she re-recorded it) is that the production quality is trapped in the 80's and no digital remastering can fix that for me...I'm an audiophile and I need my stuff either a clean cut raw/low production mixing thingy take (which is why say, why The Beatles recordings can feel timeless while depeche mode sound like the 80's and can't escape it)

or produced at some point from the 90's onwards as the technology was better. Pop production in the 80's is just so niche and not for me.

I genuinely feel like if Madonna re-recorded some of those songs with technology now, I'd love it even more. (which is why I adore the confessions Live to tell rendition)

But that's down to me being a bit picky with sounds and styles of 80's pop.
Thats the thing though as an album, it is her only one that SOUNDS 80s!

Like A Prayer (although was recorded in 1988 - 89) doesnt SOUND 80s that is a timeless album! And The First Album while it was post-disco, it has this natrual organic production that reasonates a LOT today!

And even then i would say that her singles, White Heat and Wheres The Party do indeed surpass the album itself. And i lvoe the version of Live To Tell on the Confessions tour, i loved it when she eprformed it along with Oh Father on Blonde Ambition....but it was years since and it was re-invented and as controversial a performance as ever!
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Old 22-07-2011, 22:42
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I hope she has a celebration of Like A Prayer in March 2014 for its 25th anniversary!
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Old 23-07-2011, 02:10
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i love this album. it was definitely her best at this point. a lot of people at the time were surprised by the standard on this record. this album also signalled her first real drastic image change.

live to tell was a brilliant choice of lead single. it really made people sit up and take notice. i feel this was the point that madonna really started to take risks.

it is amazing to think record is now 25 years old! i think it has aged well.
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Old 23-07-2011, 02:41
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I think True Blue was the album where a lot of people realised that Madonna was here to stay as, up until then, I remember some people were (incredibly) still thinking she was just a 'flash in the pan' and wouldn't last much longer! How wrong they were, lol!

It's a great album. Sure, some of it sounds a little dated, perhaps, compared to most of her other albums, but it still has such classics on it - Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart, La Isla Bonita and Where's The Party being my favourites. Strangely Live To Tell is one of my least favourites these days, although I used to love it. I just find it really plodding and drony somehow, but that's just me! It was certainly a surprise for many people when it first came out, as it was so different to most of her stuff up until that point and she looked so different in the video too!

Plus, with this album it was the first time Madonna started to sing in her more natural, deeper voice than the higher, squeakier (but cute!) Minnie Mouse vocals she had on her first two albums! Lol.
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Old 23-07-2011, 03:12
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That was the defining album for me as becoming a die-hard fan - I discovered her with single Like A virgin and was just mesmerized but didn't know how much of fan I was until she released True Blue. Then that was it. I was totally sold!!!
I went through phases with it since then - I loved it for years then, was too much into as I thought it was too gentle, too stuck in the 80's and somehow too commercial compared to Like A Prayer, Erotica and Ray Of Light which are still to me timeless. And now I'm rediscovering it again and while it is definitely an album of its time, it sounds really fresh to the ear!?

My favorite(s) from the album will have to be jointly Where's The Party & La Isla Bonita. Love PDTP, OYH & LTT but these two for me stood out as soon as I heard them when listening to the album at first. Also the video for La Isla Bonita definitely made the song a classic. I think it's one of her best videos - simple but yet so evocative and powerful - As for Where's The Party, I really wished she had released it and made a video for it
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Old 23-07-2011, 06:36
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Superb album - oh for the days when Madonna was good.
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Old 23-07-2011, 08:32
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Agree it's a great album but I preferred, and still prefer, Like A Virgin.
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Old 23-07-2011, 08:52
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Love this album! One of Madonna's best record.

It has my favourite Madonna track and one of all my all time favourite song on the album - La Isla Bonita. Gorgeous song! It was no.1 in the charts the week I was born.

Other favourites from this album include Papa Don't Preach, Live To Tell, Open Your Heart, Jimmy Jimmy & True Blue.
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Old 23-07-2011, 09:20
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True Blue was an excellent album, and I liked La Isla Bonita well before it was released as a single. The title track is also my all-time fave Madonna single. It entered the top 40 on 30th September 1986, when it was one of no fewer than 4 of my 40 fave singles of the whole of the 80s to enter the chart the week!

(The other 3 were Status Quo with In the Army Now, the Bangles with Walk Like an Egyptian and A-ha with I've Been Losing You).

I am therefore pleased to report that I have already booked the 25th anniversary ie 30th September 2011 off work!
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Old 23-07-2011, 09:45
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True Blue wasnt her greatest album, but it did spawn great singles from it. The production on this album, & the Who's That Girl soundtrack sounds dated, but not in a good way, its all very tinny. By the time of WTG she'd oversaturated herself in the media.

IMO Like A Prayer is her meisterwerk. The tunes are stronger, she was (alittle) more grown up & felt more personal.
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Old 23-07-2011, 10:12
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True Blue is a classic! It's just an AMAZING album!

It's so iconic and one of the best albums of the 80's, only second to Like A Prayer IMO!!!

It's also one of my favourite albums of all time!

When you listen to the early Madonna albums it's so obvious why she is a music legend, she has always been and will always be the best ever!
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Old 23-07-2011, 10:25
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I don't think it's her best album (that would go to Like A Prayer) but it's definitely her best album cover. I loved the way she had the arrogance to release it in the US without her name on the front. Warners UK weren't so confident and it wasn't until the remastered version that we got the artwork as she intended it to be.
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Old 23-07-2011, 10:30
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I don't think it's her best album (that would go to Like A Prayer) but it's definitely her best album cover. I loved the way she had the arrogance to release it in the US without her name on the front. Warners UK weren't so confident and it wasn't until the remastered version that we got the artwork as she intended it to be.
I wouldn't say it was arrogance, she was just THAT famous that she didn't even need to put her name on the cover!!!

I agree that Like A Prayer was her best album though!


Edit:- Hang on, I thought you hated Madonna!!
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Old 23-07-2011, 10:38
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No, I love Madonna. I have every album and have been to all her tours. I just find she's lost it of late and news that she's rushing a new album for November release does not bode well for my opinion changing. .
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Old 23-07-2011, 10:42
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No, I love Madonna. I have every album and have been to all her tours. I just find she's lost it of late and news that she's rushing a new album for November release does not bode well for my opinion changing. .
I don't think she's rushing the album! I just think she works quicker than most people!

In the tweets about the album, it said that she's recorded 4 songs for the album already but the lead single had not been recorded yet! Which makes me think that Madonna has already wrote the single and probably most of the album!
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