#41

Express Yourself is the best song on it by the way, because it has the best HEY HEY HEY HEYs ever recorded, and HEY is the best noise that can be made in a song.

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#42
  • HEY
  • WOO

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#43

Listened to this albums loads on tape when I was a kid. Revisited it just a couple of months ago for some reason after not having heard it for a decade or more and still really enjoyed it, having not been sure if I would. So remains a very strong album in my mind, and Iā€™m scoring it an 8.

Had no idea that the version of Like a Prayer is different on TIC as it is here - will have to refresh my memory of bothā€¦

#44

Phoebe Bridgersā€™ tiny woo in Kyoto

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#45

Great song Cherish, but thereā€™s this bit in it that sounds exactly like a cat. Never got why she did that.

#46

Quite a lot (if not all) of the tracks on The Immaculate Collection were remixed.

#47

Express Yourself has such a good groove. Like a Prayer is a great song but itā€™s all over the place stopping and starting and for me Madonna is at her best when the song is really driving an idea all the way through.

#48

Not as good as True Blue but its still a stone cold classic.

#49

Man I skimmed the track listing and completely missed Oh Father is on here. :heart:

#50

Had this on tape. One of the first albums I bought with my own money. Absolutely rinsed it. In particular on my headphones on our first family holiday abroad to Menorca. Formative.

Non-music tidbit - one of the dozen or so panels of the inlay card was about HIV/AIDS awareness. I was to young to fully digest what it was about, but clocked that it was a sex thing so was always a bit self-conscious about it and cautious about what my folks might think about it. They wouldnā€™t have given it a second thought, of course - my mum had Immaculate Collection on rotation in the car very shortly after - but it was an exciting self-discovered (albeit slightly bewildering at the time) peek into the world of grown up issues beyond just the music itself.

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#51

People with AIDS ā€“ regardless of their sexual orientation ā€“ deserve compassion and support, not violence and bigotry.

Fair play. That was a bold move in 1989.

And in digging that out, on a more frivolous level, I came across various mentions that the album came scented with patchouli oil. :grinning:

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#52

I hadnā€™t realised that every track on the Immaculate Collection has been remastered in some way. I feel like the ā€˜stop-startā€™ of the early half of the album version of the song might well have not been as good in place on the collection since itā€™s got a certain powering ā€˜partyā€™ atmosphere to it but itā€™s definitely a bit of a dead remix. There surely must have been tonnes of good club ones.

#53

A very very good move. Not sure how bold it was and given Reaganā€™s administration being a fucking evil nightmare itā€™s possibly what youā€™d expect from anyone on the progressive side of politics at the time.

But hard to know from a UK perspective: I recall all of us knowing about AIDS, seeing a lot of TV programmes and there being big billboards talking about using condoms etc.

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#54

Incredible album, a mainstay of my childhood listening. What a bunch of songs, capped off with that title track, which is easily in my top three songs (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Purple Rain are the other two). Couldnā€™t not put a 10 on it.

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#55

My record sleeve still smells of it.
If I catch the same scent out and about and I always think.of this album.

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#56

The 4th best of Madonnaā€™s 4 studio albums up to that point

I think it suffers massively from having too many people involved and while I admire the ambition I just think itā€™s TOO MUCH at almost all times

I gave it a 6, Madonna and Like a Virgin are both 9s & True Blue is an 8

#57

thanks to my Papa I grew up on the Immaculate Collection (like, on repeat every weekend for about 8 years of my upbringing) so I struggle to listen to a full album without just wanting to hear the bangers. This album is an 8 just for the title track alone. I still get shivers during the bridge/chorus with the backup singers absolutely belting

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#58

Well I tried, a little bit, and got a few songs into the album, but it turns out Iā€™m not quite as open-minded as I had thought, and am struggling to leave my snobbish cynicism aside.

Title track is pretty good once it gets into gear though, but couldnā€™t get on at all with the next couple of songs.

Just not my kind of thing. Another abstain for me I think.

#59

Next weekā€™s selection isnā€™t filling me with much hope either. Ended up voting for Robyn. Iā€™m pretty sure my other half will absolutely love her, so I guess I should find out if I can tolerate it. (To be fair the one Robyn song they tend to play on 6 music is actually pretty good.)

#60

Picked up a vinyl copy from a charity shop a couple of years back and along with Private Eyes by Hall & Oates and Canā€™t Slow Down by Lionel Richie, itā€™s just one of those go to albums for when you want to have a bit of a sing along and dance around the living room to. Wailing along trying to hit the right notes. Outside of the title track, Iā€™m a big fan of Cherish and Express Yourself.