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Free Music Review: Get hooked !
Hit: 5 Stars
I have listened to this album for 10 days before I was ready to post my review. Each day I've been wondering which is my favourite song. I've seen every promotional performance for this album at Madonnalicious.com. I can tell you something, "M" has never stopped maturing both in musical and physicall ways. She's today as great as she was in 1989. It was 1984, back when I was a child, when I bought a 12" vynil LP by a new artist called Madonna. I tought she was a black singer when I first heard "Borderline " and inmediately fell in love with her, as many of us did. Those days you can hear "Lucky Star" in every US radio station every 30 minutes. A star was born ! She has given us lots of joy over the years. The 80's are perfect and we all agree about that fact. The 90s reviews have varied a lot. I enjoyed American Life, but dislike the Erotica period, the Sex book and the raunchy image....No need for that (in my own subjective and conservative opinion ). I tought: "The Queen of Pop is making every effort to cave her own grave ". There was no need for that, specially after so many consecutive anthems such as Like a Prayer, Express Yourself, Cherrish, Keep it Together and Vogue. I must had seen it coming after hearing "Justify my Love" from the Inmaculate Collection and buying the MTV banned video. I enjoyed because they were very hipped, but I must confess that they didn't move me as her previous material. I bough 1992's "Erotica" along with all the Maxi Singles taken from that album, but I hated "Deeper and Deeper", both the song and the video. She looked awful in that video . In fact, she looks 10 times better in the "Hung Up" video 13 years later. The "Rain" video and song saved the Erotica album and redimmed her to my eyes... Gorgeous as we loved to see her. I enjoyed "Bedtime Stories" the album as any avid fan, but where is the glitter of our star. I wanted to get into the groove, I wanted to dance for inspiration. Where is my Madonna? "Take a Bow" was such a big hit and a great song, but it was a ballad and I can't dance to it! "Bedtime Stories" is one of the best "M" videos I've seen, but sadly it failed at the charts. It was not pop, but a Bjork song ( I loved it anyway....but I can't dance). Then they came "Something to Remember", the "Evita" period ( best vocals ever) , "Ray of Light" ( great, but not my favourite ), "Music" ( too much of a great song and video), but the rest of the album failed to impressed me. I liked "American Life" beacuse of its lyrics and I loved the autobanned video, but I can't dance. I couldn't believe how she lost the chance to shoot a sublime & glamorous video for the "Hollywood" song and I will never forgive "M" for not having shoot a video for "Nothing Fails", the best song from that album. The "Reinvention Tour" was magical. Back to our review: Confessions on a dance Floor is magical. Hung Up is not my favourite song, but it is OK. However, the rest of the album is wonderful. Every time I hear it, I liked it more and more. "Get Together" is a great song. Have you seen "M" performing it in the promo shows. She dances in circles and the crowd gets crazy...Just like the good old days ! "Sorry" is a catchy song and the multilingual opening is great. I was missing that sexy voice that rapped along the "Vogue" beats. "I love New York" is Ok, but neither my favourite. "Future Lovers" is a wonderful song and reminds of Donna Summer's I Feel Love. "Let it will be" is also great. "Forbidden Love" is amazing and I love the way it blends with the most danceable song of the album "JUMP". Other of my favourites are "How High" and "Like it or Not", a great way to end this album. This album can easily produce 5 or 6 commercial singles. My favourites 'today' are "Get Together", " Jump ". I might think differently tomorrow. It's just that most of the songs are so great....So easy to sing along with...and so groovy, but deep at the same time ( as deep as pop is allowed to be ). Pump up the volume and enjoy Madonna's Tour de Force... Best of all: I can dance for inspiration !Free Music Review: kylie minogue's older sister
Hit: 5 Stars
Before I begin, these is a link to Kylie in the album. Two lines are "Do you believe in LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?" and "BETTER THE DEVIL that YOU KNOW", which are the names of two Kylie songs. Coincidence?
Honestly, I haven't enjoyed a Madonna album this much since Bedtime Stories. Yes, Ray of Light is a high point, but for some reason it didn't really get my adrenaline going the first time I heard it.
Those who have slagged Confessions are A: Jocks or Neocons who hate disco, B: Purists who think all lyrics must rise to the level of John Lennon or Joni Mitchell, or C: Haters who can't accept that it's not the eighties anymore.
Those who pinned the "bad lyrics" button on the album hold up I Love New York as a prime example. If you regarded the lyrics alone, you would be missing out on one of the most bit#%ing, brutal songs out there. Trust me, what looks like awful lyrics on paper PERFECTLY match the vibe of the song. Listen before you judge.
Basically, this album is every gay man's nightlife soundtrack. If you have never been on the dancefloor of a gay discotheque, then perhaps you couldn't handle this album.
The first half of the album is bloody brilliant. Hung Up benefits from a killer ABBA hook. The true test comes with Get Together, an upbeat number that sets the standard high for the rest of the album. Again, the lyrics don't really matter; this kind of music is about creating a vibe, and giving you a high.
Sorry puts me off a little, with Madonna repenting in different languages. It all seems a little forced. Still, the beat is excellent. Future Lovers is Madonna's best collaboration with Mirwais, who produced her Music album. This song throbs with intensity, as Madonna sings "give me evidence of its brilliance" over and over.
I Love New York, as I said, is a killer. This will be an anthem on Fire Island, for sure. I love the line about "little p@ssies who scream." Madonna's attitude here is FIERCE. Also, as a Texan, I did laugh at that "golf" line. Kinda reminds me of the Tom Delay types I see around here who think that golf wear can be worn on formal occasions. Don't forget the toothpick in the mouth!
Let It Will Live is a bit preachy, but again the soundscape is incredible. At this point, the album settles into a slightly more relaxed groove. Forbidden Love unfortunately breaks the rule for an artist not naming two songs the same in their catalogue. It's good, but not really one of my favorites.
Jump sets the bar high again. I'm sure the twinks out there will be all over this one. It's a spectacular song, easily one of Madonna's best. I dare you to get the chorus out of your head.
How High is another song that is a little heavy-handed, but again it doesn't SOUND bad. Isaac is fine by me- certainly, other dance artists have integrated "world beat" into their music.
The last two songs, coincidentally, are my least favorites. Push sounds like an unreleased song from the Bedtime Stories recording sessions, souped up and tacked onto Confessions. It sounds rather out of place. I asked myself, "Who let Missy Elliot in the room?" And Like It or Not is TOO preachy. Madonna does give us healthy doses of her "older and wiser" mentality throughout, but here it overpowers you. This is the song where her vocals are pushed the most to the forefront, which doesn't help. There is an interesting, slinky beat which sounds cold and wet to me.
Confessions pretty much blows a lot of other diva's albums out of the water. Artists like Deborah Cox and Toni Braxton have released remix albums. Madonna trumps them by having a "homegrown" dance album, instead of remixes, and not succumbing to the "my-man-done-me-wrong" lyrics, which divas like Whitney, Deborah, and Toni always seem to turn to. Madonna's efforts are vastly superior.
Please, disregard the haters out there, buy this album.
Free Music Review: STYLUSMAGAZINE.COM'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Hit: 5 Stars
That's what it boils down to, really: it's about damned time she decided to burn the world's discos out again. American Life wasn't just a commercial failure, it out-and-out sucked, was Madonna's worst full-length in-well, ever. She'd gotten too self-important, was doing what we thought she'd never do, seemingly believing her own press. The fun was missing, replaced by what-wack rapping, rhyming "lattes" and "pilates"? There was a slight stench of inevitability to it, like we knew it couldn't last forever but we couldn't help hoping against hope anyway.
Just like that, though, she's back, and not just back, but reminding us that we can still dance, for inspiration. Thank God, by whom (in this case) I mean Stuart Price, a/k/a the Thin White Duke, a/k/a Les Rhythmes Digitales, a/k/a our savior of our lady Madonna in the year 2005. Apparently, Mrs. Ritchie's recently been reminded of how much she loves dance music, reportedly thanks to the remixes she commissions with each single release. Word is that she thus wanted her new album to be one giant throb, no let up, no ballads, just pure uncut dance music. As it was before, so shall it be again.
Confessions on a Dance Floor is Madonna's most purely beat-driven album since her self-titled 1983 debut. (Erotica may have been a down-and-dirty club record, but it still included the likes of "Rain.") Price fills the Reggie Lucas role here, and like Lucas did so long ago, he helps Madonna make pop that pops like yeast bubbles in fresh bread dough, spiced with peppermint extract. "Physical Attraction" and "Burning Up" were perfectly of their moment and transcended it too, sleazy pop records designed for sweaty up-all-night dancing. "Sorry" and "Hung Up" may not be as sleazy (or sleazy at all) but have the same basic modus operandi, and do it just as well as her now-over-20-years-old singles did.
There hasn't been another Madonna album that references so much music by other people. The bassline of "Future Lovers" (the album's weakest track, due largely I think to the hand of old-and-in-the-way co-producer Mirwais-and did I mention that Madonna co-produced the entire album?) is clearly cribbed from "I Feel Love," while in an odd juxtaposition, the next track, "I Love New York" (good music, facile lyrics) takes its bassline from the Joy Division catalog. Of course, there's the brilliant ABBA sample leading the brilliant-or-something-close-to-it "Hung Up" (from "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!") as well, and nearly the whole of "Jump" sounds to these ears like a Pet Shop Boys homage. It's always been clear that Madonna's a music lover, but it's nice to see evidence that she's a fan, too, hearing her quote and crib and steal-like great art does.
Apart from the aforementioned Mirwais contribution, the only other tracks not produced with Price are a pair done with Swedish popmasters Bloodshy & Avant (they did Britney's "Toxic," need I go on?). Plucky closer "Like It Or Not" is good (its garden of Eden references are delightful), but it's "How High" that's the knockout, an electropop throb like an intense migraine-only, y'know, a good one-sweetened with symphonic stabs. It's followed by the Hasidic throwdown "Isaac," akin to "Don't Tell Me" if that hit hadn't been so wimpy-wimpy-wimpy, and had taken Jewish mysticism (um, I think) as its subject.
Lyrics have never really been Madonna's strong point, and her Confessions are [sic] no different. But with this album like no album of hers in quite some time, the point here is the groove; this album finds one, locks in, and works it relentlessly, like Madonna herself did Willem Dafoe in Body of Evidence. Easily her finest effort since Ray of Light, I guess this means that English country living's doing her a world of good. This is one Dance Floor whose pull is irresistible.
STYLUSMAGAZINE.COM'S ALBUM OF THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 21 - NOVEMBER 27, 2005
Reviewed by: Thomas Inskeep
Reviewed on: 2005-11-21
Free Music Review: Madonna:- Confessions On A Dance Floor
Hit: 5 Stars
In late 2005, Madonna returned with her seventeeth album, entitled Confessions On A Dance Floor. The album consisted of all-new twelve tracks, featuring the top ten hit, "Hung Up," which topped the U.K. charts for three consecutive weeks. When the album was released, it debuted at #1 on the U.K. and U.S. charts, with 350,607 sold in the U.S., and 217,610 in the U.K. which is Madonna's biggest opening sales for any of her albums in the U.K. "Hung Up," the first single from the album, debuted at #20 on the Hot 100 in America, but evetually climbed to #7. This gives Madonna her biggest hit since "Don't Tell Me" hit #4 in 2000. "Hung Up" has already achieved Platinum sales in the U.K. (over 500,000 copies sold), and the album has went 4x Platinum in the same place, with 1,200,000 shipments sold to date and over 1,100,000 sales. "Hung Up" has also achieved 700,000 downloads in the U.S. The second single, "Sorry", proved to be less successful, peaking at #58 in the U.S., but still stalling at #1 in the U.K. "Get Together", the third single, is already burning up airplay charts Worldwide, but only charted at #7 in the U.K. and #6 on the Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart in the U.S. There, the album has sold 1,522,061 copies to date, and has went Platinum. Confessions On A Dance Floor went #1 in 41 countries, and has sold 8 million copies worldwide so far.
1. "Hung Up" (10/10)
2. "Get Together" (10/10)
3. "Sorry" (10/10)
4. "Future Lovers" (10/10)
5. "I Love New York" (10/10)
6. "Let It Will Be" (10/10)
7. "Forbidden Love" (10/10)
8. "Jump" (10/10)
9. "How High" (10/10)
10. "Isaac" (10/10)
11. "Push" (10/10)
12. "Like It Or Not" (10/10)
"Confessions," dare I say, is Madonna's best studio set to date (better than "Bedtime Stories" by a bit). "Hung Up" is a great dance song, and definately gets your body moving. "Get Together" and "Sorry" are two of the albums best tracks, the latter being the second single, and the former being my favourite. "Future Lovers" and "I Love New York" are the next two tracks, the former being a better song. Some of the lyrics on NY are so bad, but you have to forgive Madonna!! "Let It Will Be" is brilliant, whereas "Forbidden Love" will be remembered for the same name on her "Bedtime Stories" (1994) album. This is a different song, and it's ten times better. "Jump" is rumoured to be the third and great single, and "How High" expresses Madonna's robotic/vocoder voice more. "Isaac" is fantastic. This seriously NEEDS TO BE HEARD! Madonna goes back to her Kallabah routes! "Push" and "Like It Or Not" end the album nicely. "Like It Or Not" is another in-your-face song, which I love about Madonna.
Billboard Chart History:
SDV: 1,051
1 349,556 (350,607)
4 210,065 -40% (560,672)
8 105,367 -50% (666,039)
13 96,759 -8% (762,798)
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21 57,991 -63% (1,102,802)
15 47,064 -19% (1,149,866)
20 28,367 -40% (1,178,233)
24 25,600 -10% (1,203,833)
40 19,938 -22% (1,223,771)
60 18,261 -8% (1,242,032)
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50 25,655 +8% (1,291,411)
56 20,320 -21% (1,311,731)
53 18,100 -11% (1,329,831)
60 16,824 -7% (1,346,655)
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73 12,778 -11% (1,389,279)
82 13,169 +3% (1,402,448)
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107 8,572 -12% (1,433,064)
115 7,865 -8% (1,440,929)
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120 8,112 +4% (1,466,417)
111 8,536 +5% (1,474,953)
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135 6,392 -3% (1,509,840)
138 6,439 +1% (1,516,279)
145 5,782 -10% (1,522,061) - 36 weeks
Free Music Review: THE IMMACULATE CONFESSIONS
Hit: 5 Stars
what can i say? i thought music was a good album. then came american life, the much-maligned but much better album than music. then to everybody's surprise, "confessions" seemed destined to become classic. the best collaboration of madonna, mirwais and stuart price - in the material form of a cd!
as madonna returns to her roots, the album may be dissected as a retrospect to her craft but at the same time looks forward to the future. for madonna, who's been ahead of our own time, the future is vast and there's no stopping her.
this album bears no clinker. believe when i say that. why i call this "the immaculate confessions" is for the simple reason that the tracks, while all new (future) looks back at the past (her classic albums). i placed in parentheses the albums in which the new track may actually belong to or sounds akin to. i hope you agree with me!
1. hung up: with a sample from abba's 1979 song "gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)" madonna takes the intro and makes it her own. the most popular and danceable of all tracks, madonna brings back the glorious days of disco - in definitive form. (madonna, 1983)
2. get together: this track is so 90's because it sounded like "music sound better with you" and yet, madonna gave this song her own trademark. simple yet beautiful (ray of light, 1998).
3. like it or not: a retro feel in the tradition of "fever" (1992) and bye bye baby (1993) both from erotica and those dick tracy-inspired tunes from i'm breathless (1990). this is not just a song. this is a statement: she will continue to make great music, like it or not. (i'm breathless, 1990)
4. sorry: this is my second favorite track. i know this would instantly become a big hit. the lyrics and music is very madonna-esque and 80's. thanks to the reworking of pet shop boys. the track became an even greater song with their remixing! (like a virgin, 1984).
5. let it will be: inspired by the violins of papa dont preach but with futuristic arrangements. ther emix version simply rocks. (true blue, 1986).
6. Isaac: with a chant worth remixing, this Jewish-inspired dance tune, despite the minor controversy is a good song. it also sounded like "secret" in some respects but totally different songs. (like a prayer, 1989)
7. how high: one of her best songs from COAD. another infectious dance tune. it sounds like a crossover between i'm breathless (1990) and bedtime stories (1994) with the futuristic sound of bedstime story.
8. fighting spirit: a bonus track running around 3 minutes, this track features retro drums and lyrics that reflect madonna's fighting stance. too bad this is not available in the regular album release. (madonna, 1983/immaculate collection, 1990)
9. jump: an introduction that easily grooves and moves you, jump is a dance song reflective of her 80's song with a millennial twist. it also carries a strong madonna point of view (about waiting and wasting time, typical restless madonna). (true blue, 1986)
10. push: easily a danceable r&b, "push" contains a repetitive refrain that keeps you wodnering why it was only repeated twice, but nonetheless, it kept the song intact. (like a prayer, 1989)
11. super pop: an exclusive track for icon subsribers, if this was included in the album, this would become a hit! why? it's a real-life retrospection of our icon, singing if she was an actor she would be marlon brando, if she was an animal, she'll be a lion, if she was a song, she would be super pop (which is true) and if she was president, she would be different. i hope madonna release this track as a single (with remixes). it's just that - a super pop song. (ghv2, 2001)
i entitled this the "immaculate confessions" since the songs do reflect her old songs/style while at the same time, giving them a breath of new life.
long live the queen!