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Includes rare 12" dance remixes previously unavailable on CD. Punk and disco were the major musical innovations of the '70s. No one utilized these sources as shrewdly as Madonna, whose 1983 self-titled debut still sounds sharp 15 years ... Full Descriptionlater. A CBGB-era band waif who also loved the N.Y. dance club scene, Madonna Ciccone brought the brash, self-determining ethos of punk rock to the ecstastic melodic lift of Chic-style dance music.
That other N.Y. sex symbol, Debbie Harry of Blondie, also had her biggest hits ("Heart Of Glass," "Rapture") when she flirted with disco and rap, but a winking flirtation is all it remained. Her reputation as a master of imagemaking notwithstanding, Madonna never had much use for irony. Songs like the soulful "Borderline" and the celebratory "Holiday" were heartfelt stabs at commercial pop success in which the singer never condescends to the listener. Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers produced her next album, and the rest is history.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
W/ 2 Bonus Remixes
Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios, New York, New York.
Personnel: Madonna (vocals, cowbell); Reggie Lucas (guitar, programming); Ira Siegel, Curtis Hudson, Paul Pesco (guitar); Bobby Malach (tenor saxophone); Fred Zarr (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Moog synthesizer, drums); Dean Gant (piano, electric piano, synthesizer); Ed Walsh (synthesizer); Raymond Hudson (bass); Anthony Jackson (electric bass); Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Leslie Ming (programming); Gwen Guthrie, Norma Jean Wright, Brenda White, Chrissy Faith, Tina B. (background vocals).
Producers include: Reggie Lucas, John "Jellybean" Benitez, Mark Kamins.
Engineers include: Jim Dougherty, Michael Hutchinson, Jay Mark.Rolling Stone (11/89) - Ranked #50 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The 80's" survey.
Spin (p.112) - "[The] album mashed-up street sounds and reinvigorated disco for a generation..."
Q (7/01, p.131) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A curate's egg....'Borderline' is sweet and 'Holiday' still fizzes with invention and joie de vivre....this quintessentially '80s dance hit also features a barrelhouse piano solo..." Hide Description Madonna Music | List Price | $13.98 (You save $3.79) | | Category | Rock Albums, R&B CDs, Pop, Rock/Pop, Dance | | Label | Warner Bros. (Record Label) | | Orig Year | 1983 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5979  | | CD Universe Part number | 1099783 | | Catalog number | 47903 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 22, 2001 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Recording Time | 41 minutes | | Personnel | Madonna - vocals, cowbell
Bashiri Johnson - percussion
Anthony Jackson - electric bass
Ira Siegel
Madonna - vocals, cowbell
Ed Walsh - synthesizer
Fred Zarr - piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Moog synthesizer, drums
Reggie Lucas - guitar, programming
Bobby Malach - tenor saxophone
Leslie Ming - programming
Brenda White
Dean Gant - piano, electric piano, synthesizer
Chrissy Faith
Tina B. - background vocals
Also: Paul Pesco, Gwen Guthrie, Norma Jean Wright | | Additional Info | Remastered |
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Includes rare 12" dance remixes previously unavailable on CD.
Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
Madonna had already made serious waves with her 1983 self-titled debut, springing her irresistibly exuberant, sexy dance-pop onto an unsuspecting public. But it was 1984's LIKE A VIRGIN that exhibited the calculated pop mastery that would define the singer's career. Everything from the cover art (which features Madonna splayed out provocatively in a wedding dress) to the sleek production from Chic's Nile Rogers announced Madonna's arrival as the queen of pop.
If only for the album's two gargantuan smash singles, the bouncy, coy, gold-digging ode "Material Girl" and the racy title cut, LIKE A VIRGIN would go down in pop history. The dominating force of both songs, their videos, and their subject matter helped make Madonna a household name. The rest of the album delivers too. The energetic shimmy of "Dress You Up" and "Angel" are infectious dance floor workouts, and her cover of Rose Royce's "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" is sharp and compelling. LIKE A VIRGIN still shines as an indispensable `80s dance-pop classic.
The title track, which, combined with her overt sexuality, caused waves of controversy at the time, has now become part of movie folklore, with director Quentin Tarantino letting his brutish cast mull over the meaning of its lyrics for the opening sequence of the film Reservoir Dogs. It is somehow gratifying that the Madonna album that unleashed her on the world should have become a cultural icon and reference point for the 80s. A telling blend of lush pop songs and street suss--the dancing went on all through the night.
The British import CD (SIRE 925181-2) contains 1 extra track "Into The Groove" from the "Desperately Seeking Susan" soundtrack and has a running time of 43:22.
Personnel: Madonna (vocals); Nile Rodgers (guitar, Synclavier); Lenny Pickett (saxophone); Rob Sabino (synthesizer); Bernard Edwards (bass); T
| | Madonna You Can Dance CD (1987)
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This is not a true greatest hits, but a collection of newly remixed (1987) versions of her hits.
Madonna's meteoric rise to stardom had as its springboard the early '80s NY club scene; dance music has provided a home base for any of the musical journeys her widely varied career has seen her take. 1987's YOU CAN DANCE found the reigning queen of pop revisiting some of her more famous works, courtesy of the mixing skills of some of the friends she'd made along the way, notably NY DJ and mix artist Jellybean Benitez (a name which was inseparable from the dance music genre at the time). Producer of Madonna's breakthrough "Holiday," he returns here with two slick remixes of the track, highlighting some of its many catchy instrumental nuances. The quintessential Madonna dance track, "Into The Groove," which inspired the album's title, bears the mark of editor Shep Pettibone. Pettibone's reassembling of the track turns it into an all-new dance experience, with inspired breaks and gliding accompaniment. The romantic classic "Over And Over" reinvents the original, augmenting Nile Rodgers's tight production with extra percussion and keyboards.
Includes liner notes by Brian Chin.
Producers include: Stephen Bray, Jellybean, Mark Kamins, Madonna, Patrick Leonard.
| | Madonna Like A Prayer CD (1989)
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Madonna's exquisite sense of the pop song, and suitably stylish aesthetic to match, was pushed to the hilt for 1989's LIKE A PRAYER. Sporting a bare midriff and a stylishly dark bob, she immediately set the Moral Majority up in arms with the title track's video, depicting, among other things, a black Christ and a hillside of burning crosses. The song, however, was as strong and as dazzling as the images. Before deciding on utilizing a constant barrage of public sexuality over songs, Madonna made great records. Highlights here include the sexy bubble-gum of "Cherish" and the delightful "Express Yourself." Great pop to go.
Live Recording
Recorded at Johnny Yuma Recording, Burbank, California; Saturn Sound, Sherman Oaks, California; Ocean Way Recording, Los Angeles, California; Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Personnel: Madonna (vocals, keyboards); Chester Kamen, David Williams, Dann Huff, Bruce Gaitsch, Marcos Loya (guitar); Larry Corbett (cello); Patrick Leonard, Jai Winding, Stephen Bray, Geary Lanier (keyboards); Joseph Mayer, Richard Todd (French horn); Guy Pratt, Randy Jackson (bass); Jonathan Moffett, Jeff Porcaro, John Robinson (drums); Luis Conte, Paulinho da Costa, Sandra Crouch (percussion); Niki Harris, Marilyn Martin, Donna Delory, Ali Nadirah, Lynne Fiddmont, Rose Banks, Marcos Loya, Andrae Crouch Choir (background vocals).
Producers: Madonna, Pat Leonard, Stephen Bray, Prince.
| | Madonna Erotica CD (1992)
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Madonna released EROTICA around the same time she released her SEX book, and that's exactly what it sounds like. The title song has a sensuously static groove over which she commands, "Put your hands all over my body." "Where Life Begins" demands that you do something a whole lot more intimate (and quite unrepeatable here) to her. The CD booklet has a photo of Madonna in bondage. To get across the album's naughty feel, Madonna dispensed with the pop prettiness of LIKE A PRAYER and returned to her hard-core dance club roots.
She and co-producer Shep Pettibone, who had made his name as a club DJ and dance remixer, craft some alluring bad-girl grooves (catch the ocean-deep bass on "Waiting") while still managing to keep things catchy. "Deeper And Deeper " is celebratory dance-pop (with a brief Latin break that nods to the music's true roots) and "Rain" stands among Madonna's major ballads. There's a strange heaviness amidst the fun, games and bondage on EROTICA, which "In This Life" goes a long way toward explaining: it's about AIDS and homophobia. At her naughtiest and most R-rated, Madonna still carries a message, and it resonates well beyond the dance floor.
Recorded at Mastermix and Sound Works, New York, New York.
Personnel: Madonna (vocals); Paul Pesco, Jerome Dickens (guitar); Danny Wilensky (saxophone); James "Sleepy Keys" Preston (piano); Joe Moskowitz (keyboards, drums, programming); Shep Pettibone (keyboards, sequencing, programming); Tony Shimkin (keyboards, sequencing, programming, drum programming, background vocals); Andre Betts (keyboards, strings, synthesizer, piano, bass, drums); Doug Wimbish (bass); Anton Fig (drums); Sander Selover (programming); Donna Delory, Niki Harris (background vocals).
Producers: Madonna, Shep Pettibone, Andre Betts.
| | Madonna True Blue CD (1986) Remastered
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Includes rare 12" dance remixes previously unavailable on CD.
Digitally remastered by Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
Not to take away from the two fine party albums that preceded it, but TRUE BLUE is arguably the first great Madonna album, the one on which she discovered that great soul music isn't just a beat; it usually requires delving into one's own soul. As originally released on LP, the album's first side, featuring a dizzying single about teen pregnancy ("Papa Don't Preach"), a perfect Tin Pan Alley pop song ("Open Your Heart") and the amazing "Live To Tell," a ballad on which she discovers, for the first time, the low end of her vocal range, is almost undoubtedly the finest album side she ever cut.
TRUE BLUE also includes "Where's The Party," a catchy throwback to the forget-your-cares dance pop of her debut album, and "La Isla Bonita," which represented the beginning of Madonna's fruitful obsession with Latin beats and culture. Five songs from the album, including the girl-groupy title cut, made the top five of the pop chart; three of them hit #1.
W/ 2 Bonus Remixes
Personnel: Madonna, Richard Marx (vocals); David Williams (vocals, guitar); Johnathan Moffett (vocals, drums, percussion); Dann Huff, Paul Jackson, Jr., Bruce Gaitsch, John Putnam (guitar); Dave Boroff (saxophone); Stephen Bray (keyboards, drums, programming); Pat Leonard (keyboards, programming); Fred Zarr (keyboards); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); Kiethan Carter, Jackie Jackson, Siedah Garrett, Edie Lehmann (background vocals).
Producers: Pat Leonard, Madonna, Steve Bray.
| | Various Artists Monster '80S Vol. 2 CD (2002)
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Kim Carnes/Tears For Fears/Fix Culture Club/Dead Or Alive/Bil
Compilation producers: Craig Balsam, Cliff Chenfeld.
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Ex-Members Of Zao & Eyes Upon Separation.
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UK deluxe two disc reissue includes bonus tracks. Details TBA. Edsel. 2004.
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Track Listing of songs: Arya; Maverick; Supreme; You Won't Let Anybody Down; Cassiopeia; The Seven Doors; Tripura Sundari; Vessel;
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Personnel: Chris Theriault (guitar); Barry Phillips, Jennifer Langham (cello).
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On its second outing for the Equal Vision label, the Fall of Troy presents another set of intricate, prog-heavy screamo. With start-stop rhythms, dazzling riffs that would make Rush proud, and frightening vocals as intense as any of their metalcore contemporaries, the Pacific Northwest power trio remains boldly experimental (see the twists and turns of "Cut Down All the Trees and Name Streets After Them") and happily lost in its own strange yet compelling musical world.
Includes a bonus live CD.
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2007 collection from the British boy-band featuring Simon Webbe. When Blue burst onto the music scene in 2001, it was clear that they were going to be massive. They were a boy-band with a difference: an edgy, urban style, defiantly sexy lyrics, and four distinct voices that could both blend together and shine individually. In a few short years they succeeded in creating a legacy of high-calibre songs, the best of which can be heard on this collection. Features 12 tracks including 'All Rise', 'Too Close', 'Fly By II', 'This Temptation' and 'One Love'. EMI Gold.
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Track Listing of songs: House Of Piano; Nowhere; Drift; Dead P.C.; For Ease; New Asians; Foolish King; No Rail Trains; Far And Wide; Wedge; Mosquito Curtain;
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