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Madonna's Greatest Album? |
| View Poll Results: What is Madonna's greatest studio album? | |||
| Madonna (The First Album) [1983] |
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3 | 2.54% |
| Like A Virgin [1984] |
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1 | 0.85% |
| True Blue [1986] |
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10 | 8.47% |
| Like A Prayer [1989] |
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21 | 17.80% |
| Erotica [1992] |
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8 | 6.78% |
| Bedtime Stories [1994] |
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3 | 2.54% |
| Ray Of Light [1998] |
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41 | 34.75% |
| Music [2000] |
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0 | 0% |
| American Life [2003] |
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3 | 2.54% |
| Confessions On A Dance Floor [2005] |
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25 | 21.19% |
| Hard Candy [2008] |
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2 | 1.69% |
| MDNA [2012] |
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1 | 0.85% |
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Madonna's Greatest Album?
Was wizzing through my Madonna collection earlier, I've been a huge fan of hers since about 2000 and have her entire back catalogue. I was wondering what the musical minds of DS considered to be her greatest work, having been inspired to do this poll by another post asking to compare Madonna's "Like A Virgin" to BS's "Hit Me Baby, One More Time".
13 albums, 30 years of music. Pick and discuss!
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Ray of Light
I do love Bedtime Stories and Confessions on a Dance Floor as well though. But even people who aren't Madonna fans enjoy and appreciate Ray of Light. |
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Erotica, Ray of Light and Madonna are my personal favourites, everything post Confessions has been crap (Miles Away not included). Like a Prayer is her most overrated album if you ask me.
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I thought everyone knew that one - Erotica.
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Like A Prayer followed by True Blue and Confessions
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Greatest Hits, as most of her album tracks are dross - strictly a singles artist only
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'Ray of Light' wins by a landslide
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Greatest Hits, as most of her album tracks are dross - strictly a singles artist only
Agree that earlier stuff like "Love Makes The World Go Round" and "In This Life" didn't exactly set the world alight, but that's an unfair statement to simply state "album tracks are dross", totally not true. |
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Don't know how anyone can say that. Some of her album tracks on later albums have been superb. "I Love New York", "Let It Will Be" and "How High" from Confessions. "X-Static Process" and "Easy Ride" from American Life, they're two of my favourite M tracks too. "Impressive Instant" is probably in my top 10 M songs ever!
Agree that earlier stuff like "Love Makes The World Go Round" and "In This Life" didn't exactly set the world alight, but that's an unfair statement to simply state "album tracks are dross", totally not true. Are you kidding me? I loved Love Makes The World Go Round, Where's The Party and White Heat. |
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Are you kidding me? I loved Love Makes The World Go Round, Where's The Party and White Heat.
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I voted there for her first album from 1983. Like a Virgin and True Blue were great albums. I'm afraid other than Evita from 1996 I can't say that any of the rest appealed to me. I prefered the early days of Madonna. Her 80's stuff.
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Like A Prayer bold, brilliant,and beautiful then for me:
Ray Of Light Erotica Confessions On A Dancefloor |
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Greatest Hits, as most of her album tracks are dross - strictly a singles artist only
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Ray of Light
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I voted for ROL, IMO it's her best lyrically, vocally and musically.
It's second only to True Blue as my all time fave M album. Apart from ROL I much prefer her 80s music. |
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Always Like a Prayer
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Madonna holds some of the most influential albums of all time in both Pop and Music as a whole...which is why she has the status and title and power she has...
For me my favourite Madonna album, my favourite album EVER and IMO the best album in Pop history comes down to Like A Prayer in so many ways. It is an album that made her the "Queen Of Pop" and cemented her title as a worldwide icon in music and pop culture....every single continued to be an "event" every song on that album holds a powerful and personal moment for her an something everyone can connect to...the fact that it was one of the first Pop albums to have a very Baroque style of Darkness/light, death/life, family embracing/family feuds, new love/divorce polarising each other across the record....not to mention the blur of genres Dance/Rock/Dance Pop/gospel/Funk/Soul/Psychadelic Rock/House across 11 songs is something to behold....the lyrics....Madonna/Leonard/Bray were and are definitively a Holy Trinity...seriously goosebumps, tears, high energy, motivation, relation....it has it all...a truly dreamscape/absurd/hyperreality experience everyone must feel... So yeah Like A Prayer.....although Erotica, Ray Of Light, Confessions On A Dance FLoor, American Life, The First Album, Like A Virgin, True Blue, Music....they are SO very up there
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They are fantastic pop songs. Jimmy Jimmy is the only weak point on the True Blue album. I disagree that she's a singles artist, some of her best songs are album tracks
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I only own True Blue, Erotica and Confessions on a Dancefloor and out of those three I think Confessions is my personal favourite.
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Like a prayer.... Sounds as important today as it did back then!
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Like a Prayer is her most overrated album if you ask me.
My vote went to Ray Of Light. |
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I have her Immaculate Collection (80's greatest hits album), Ray of Light, GHV2 (90's greatest hits album) and Confessions on a Dance Floor CD's.
I'd ROL is her best along with COADF 2nd. |
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No place on the list for I'm Breathless
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It has to be the obvious Ray of Light as it gave her a more mature sound to her previous work. She had found a new direction in music.
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