"I'll Remember," the theme from the motion picture With Honors, bridged the gap between Madonna's notorious Erotica period and her softer, urban-tinged Bedtime Stories...
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Perhaps Madonna correctly guessed that the public overdosed on the raw carnality of her book Sex. Perhaps she wanted to offer a more optimistic take on sex than the distant...
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"Secret" was the first single from Madonna's Bedtime Stories album, which was a much warmer set than its cold and carnal predecessor Erotica. The song was a hit, peaking at...
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"Bedtime Story," the third single from Madonna's Bedtime Stories album, holds the distinction of being her first U.S. single since her debut, "Everybody," to fail to crack...
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"Human Nature," the fourth and final single from Bedtime Stories, continued a trend set by its predecessor, "Bedtime Story" -- both songs failed to crack the U.S. Top 40....
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Something to Remember is Madonna's second greatest-hits collection, compiling a selection of the singer's ballads. Several of her biggest hits are included, including the...
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Ray Of Light 3/3/1998, Yahoo! Music, Bill Holdship
Now that she's let the world know she's keeping her baby via another phenomenal media blitz, it's time for Ms. Ciccone to put her money where her mouth's been (no pun...
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Returning to pop after a four-year hiatus, Madonna enlisted respected techno producer William Orbit as her collaborator for Ray of Light, a self-conscious effort to stay...
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The chilly arctic epic "Frozen" was the first single from Madonna's Ray of Light, the album which finally made her a critic's darling. The maxi-single was issued with four...
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If anyone was going to make a Top 10 hit out of this song, it had to be Madonna. The original version, from the soundtrack to the film Evita (which starred, of course,...
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"You'll See," co-written with adult contemporary maestro David Foster, was the lead single from Madonna's ballads collection Something to Remember, and became an enduring...
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When Madonna's Ray Of Light came out a couple years ago, it was hyped as her "electronica" album--which seemed strange, almost akin to calling Bridges To Babylon the Rolling...
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Filled with vocoders, stylish neo-electro beats, dalliances with trip-hop, and, occasionally, eerie synthesized atmospherics, Music blows by in a kaleidoscopic rush of...
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Although she never left it behind, it's been easy to overlook that Madonna began her career as a disco diva in an era that didn't have disco divas. It was an era where disco...
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This was where Madonna became Madonna--the scandalous one who soon ruled the world--though the best tracks here can all be found on the Immaculate Collection...
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Madonna had hits with her first album, even reaching the Top Ten twice with "Borderline" and "Lucky Star," but she didn't become a superstar, an icon, until her second...
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Alas, Immaculate Collection doesn't include this LP's great title track--Madonna's wonderful tribute to the late '50s/early '60s "girl groups"--so if you want it (and you...
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True Blue is the album where Madonna truly became Madonna the Superstar -- the endlessly ambitious, fearlessly provocative entertainer that knew how to outrage, spark...
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Released in 1987 as a stopgap, the remix album You Can Dance reworks material from Madonna's first three albums. Actually, it keeps the spotlight on her first record, adding...
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Probably her most personal and autobiographical effort, it found Madonna exploring her failed marriage (to Penn), Catholicism, her family (particularly her father), and, of...
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A "greatest hits" compilation, this is the best way to own all of her hit singles from the '80s (as well as two new hits) without buying the hit-and-miss LPs that featured...
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"Bad Girl," the third single from Erotica, holds the dubious distinction of being Madonna's first single since "Holiday," way back in 1983, to not crack the U.S. Top Ten. As...
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"Keep It Together" was the fifth single released in the U.S. from Madonna's critically acclaimed 1989 album Like a Prayer, and the first to be released as a domestic CD...
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Madonna's "Erotica" single was one of the fastest rising songs in U.S. chart history, zooming to number three in just a couple of weeks, and then zooming back down almost as...
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With the release of the electric "Justify My Love," Madonna (or her record label) had perfected the art of the CD maxi-single, issuing a record with four distinct mixes,...
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"Rain" was the fourth and final U.S. single from Erotica. It never made the Top Ten, but had a relatively long chart life, was a more "friendly" song than the other singles...
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"Rescue Me" was Madonna's second single (and one of two new recordings) from her 1990 retrospective Immaculate Collection. It lacked an accompanying music video, yet, as the...
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"Deeper and Deeper" was the second single released from Madonna's Erotica album. The song, in its regular album form, is a dance epic. The single includes seven versions,...
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The title is a pun on the character she played in Dick Tracy. The tracks from the soundtrack are torch tunes (she even performed one of them--not all that well--at that...
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A collection of songs featured or inspired by the comic-book-turned-movie Dick Tracy, I'm Breathless is essentially Madonna's take on popular music from the '40s,...
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"Music" returned Madonna to where she hadn't been since her pre-Ray of Light days -- the top of the charts. The song spent four weeks at number one, making it the third...
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Madonna's fourth and final single from Ray of Light, "Nothing Really Matters" holds the distinction of being her lowest-charting single on the U.S. Hot 100, largely due to...
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"Ray of Light" returned Madonna's music to where it sounds best -- on the dancefloors. Madonna, with William Orbits's assistance, fashioned electronica into pop music with...
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When Britney Spears's mom makes a record people pay attention. OK, Madonna would prefer to be known as her older, wiser sister. Madonna would also like to be considered...
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Performed by a vocalist who had recently abandoned the U.S. for the U.K., American Life is an album co-produced by a French techno mastermind, recorded during a time of...
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Why isn't this as good as it should be? Why does it seem to have songs missing when it really doesn't? Why is it slightly disappointing? You could blame it on the...
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Has Madonna hit the wall, if not physically, at least artistically? Even the faithful may have been asking that question after her last album, American Life, managed to...
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Madonna had hits with her first album, even reaching the Top 10 twice with "Borderline" and "Lucky Star," but she didn't become a superstar, an icon until her second album,...
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Madonna, better seen or heard? That is the question. No need to ponder it for too long because thanks to the fine folk at Warner Bros. Records, you can have her both ways on...
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