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Jeremy Riggs


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Spill it.

Love it?

Hate it?



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I don't know the title, but the first one this am was good!

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Well, so far, I would say that taken individually the songs have been alright, but I don't think I could sit through the whole album non-stop.

The lead single is still my favorite cut at this point.

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I liked it well enough.

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All I've heard is the single "Hung Up" so far, but I like it.  It's really retro.  Some of the background music sounds like Abba or something to me.

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Good call Marky.

She actually samples some ABBA in the song 'Hung Up"

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Good call Marky. She actually samples some ABBA in the song 'Hung Up"
Okay.  That explains it.  I thought it sounded familiar!

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Madge also samples Pink Floyd's "Time" at the beginning of "Get Together" and Pet Shop Boys' "West End Girls" at the beginning of "Jump", which is kinda fitting as the track sounds like a PSB production.

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Can we do the new tito jackson album next week?

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Well, so far, I would say that taken individually the songs have been alright, but I don't think I could sit through the whole album non-stop. The lead single is still my favorite cut at this point.

I think the album works better listening to it on shuffle, because the way the album is mixed, it's like listening to one really long dance track,  on shuffle the songs really have their own seperate identities.


My faves so far are Jump, Push, Sorry and Let It Will Be.  I like pretty much all the cuts except for Issac.    The best thing is that at least this album is fun from start to finish,  we really needed "fun Madonna" after American Life, an album that I personally liked, but was probably too dark and depressing for the average fan, and without a bonafide radio-hit like Music, Frozen, Don't Tell Me or Ray Of Light as well as the fact that the album was perceived as political because of the video and cover (outside of the original video for American Life, the rest of the album had nothing to do with the war or politics or anything), it really hurt the album from actually being checked out from more people.


This is definately a return to Madonna's club roots and was the album she really needed to do at this stage of her career.



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"Sorry"- I like this one! It's almost got a rythmic creepiness to it. I like it!!

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Sorry is going to be the second single.   I think Push will be a good single choice as well, I think it could be a huge hit.



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"Let It Will Be"...uh Dick, I give it an 89 because it has a good beat & you can dance to it.

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"Like It or Not" reminded me of "Fever" all the way through. 

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Love it so far!

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I don't know.....she's no Tito Jackson, I'll tell ya..

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  I didn't know that Friday A.M. qualified as the ' weekend'


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Hey Dave,

We actually always run the NMW over the course of the 3 days. Although a lot of times I won't start it until 10 or 11 AM on Friday.

We even have it on the main page as a three day thing. The thinking being that the majority of our listeners aren't around on Sat & Sun, so Friday is the only day they get to hear it.

I'm thinking you first noticed this now because Madonna to you is similar to the sound of nails scraping across a black board. Am I on to something?

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Don't like her Dave? I am shocked!


 


I have always been a Madonna fan. When I was young I did the bracelet and ripped up clothes thing! This album had been really good so far!



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Don't like her Dave? I am shocked!   I have always been a Madonna fan. When I was young I did the bracelet and ripped up clothes thing! This album had been really good so far!

well, with Madonna there is generally two things that cause people to dislike her.   1. the Like A Virgin era where she was basically a 1980's Britney Spears, and 2. the Erotica/Sex book era, Madonna had always been sexual from her debut album, but she famously way overdid the sex thing to the extent a lot of people were sick of her.


However, IMO, I think Madonna has definately become one of the best businesswomen in music history, as well as the fact that she started out as a little dance-pop artist and actually has risen like a phoenix become a true icon.  Unlike many of her peers, she's actually one of the few in her genre that actually became an albums artist, starting with Like A Prayer, each of her albums actually successfully worked as concept albums while most of her rivals would record a few single-oriented tracks and a number of awful filler tracks.   I liked her in the 80's casually but it was the Like A Prayer album that really turned me into a huge fan, and I have loved every album she's recorded since.   I still love the 80's pop songs she did too though, but I think there is so much more to her than her string of dance-pop hits in the mid-80's.



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I've always hated her and loved her at the same time.

I think she's a disgusting person in many regards. I think she's full of herself and talks down to everyone (every interview I've ever seen her give she just seems to have this aire of phoniness about her that drives me mad).

She's hypocritcal, putting trash out there for everyone elses kids to consume but then insisting her own children not be subjected to TV or current music.

I guess when I think about it, I really don't like HER at all.

BUT, I'm very good at putting my personal feelings aside, and I give her full credit for being a brilliant business woman with amazing drive. I think she has more drive than talent to be honest.

And I've enjoyed almost every single thing she's done musically since she broke on the scene. As an musical artist I think she's great.

So as long as I don't have to watch her flap her gums on Oprah, I like her!

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Jeremy Riggs wrote:

I've always hated her and loved her at the same time. I think she's a disgusting person in many regards. I think she's full of herself and talks down to everyone (every interview I've ever seen her give she just seems to have this aire of phoniness about her that drives me mad). She's hypocritcal, putting trash out there for everyone elses kids to consume but then insisting her own children not be subjected to TV or current music. I guess when I think about it, I really don't like HER at all. BUT, I'm very good at putting my personal feelings aside, and I give her full credit for being a brilliant business woman with amazing drive. I think she has more drive than talent to be honest. And I've enjoyed almost every single thing she's done musically since she broke on the scene. As an musical artist I think she's great. So as long as I don't have to watch her flap her gums on Oprah, I like her!

I agree with all that.  Personally, she has gotten so annoying to me since she had her baby.   I admittedly actually liked her bitchiness back in her heyday,  it was almost kinda fun watching her acting like a spoiled brat in Truth Or Dare, because she had no pretentions.   I think most of her interviews hurt her these days because she is so self-contradictory and annoying,  and the whole Kaballah thing that she talks about in every interview is annoying as hell.   I also find it funny that an artist who has used the television medium to her benefit more than any other artist gets on a soapbox about how TV rots your brain and why you shouldn't let your kids watch it.   I watched her most recent documentary film on MTV and it was so boring, the woman has totally lost her edge in interviews.


But at the same time, she is a fantastic music artist who never fails to stay on top of her game and is always the first to silence those who think she's gotten boring musically.   Several of my friends and myself all thought maybe Madonna was officially over because the excitement about her was gone,  until this album came out.



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Anf,

I thought the SAME thing. I've followed her career for years and always marveled at her ability to stay relevant. Heck, half the time SHE DECIDED what was relevent and other followed.

But I REALLY, REALLY thought that the American Life CD might have been the end of her. It sold so poorly, and was so negatively received, that I really thought music might have FINALLY passed her by.

Then she decides to do the thing I LEAST expected, a return to her early dance roots, and so far I'd say it's a big sucess.

I'll be watching Billboard VERY closely though to see when and if the disc goes gold, platinum and multi-platinum. I know I'm excited about this release, but I'm not sold on the fact that the rest of the country is just yet.

We shall see.

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Oh yeah, I also agree about liking her ORIGINAL attitude problem.

I thought she had a rebellious streak in her that was totally cool. I like it when people cause a little controversy. I think she started to lose me around the GREATEST HITS set and the Sex Book thing.



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I admit that most people probably felt the same way after Erotica, wondering it it really was the end of the line for her,  but even then, Erotica sold 2 million albums (American Life stalled at 650k) and spawned a few hit singles, it just wasn't the smash that people were used to from her,  it was less shocking to see her back on top within a year or two,  but American Life was such a colassal flop.


I think AL was doomed from the start, the video was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" idea,  she pulled the video before it's premiere after seeing what happened to The Dixie Chicks but yet a lot of people still boycotted her for the video.   And then she released "Hollywood" as the second single, while the album was still charting, and in my opinion that was the absolute worst track off the album, releasing "Love Profusion", "Nothing Fails" or "Nobody Knows Me" (all of which became singles) as the second single might've faired a little better.


At least like the Sex book fiasco, Madonna learned her lesson and picked back on her way without looking back.  At this route, she'll probably still be a big deal with each passing album the way Babs, McCartney and The Stones are 40-someodd years into their careers.



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  I'm not sure if this cd sucks or if it blows .  I'm sure of 1 thing thou , I won't be contributing to Madonna's retirement fund . 


 



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I think she'll scrape by just the same Dave.


She's invested well from what I hear.



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jstdve wrote:

    I'm not sure if this cd sucks or if it blows .  I'm sure of 1 thing thou , I won't be contributing to Madonna's retirement fund .   
out of curiosity, who are some of your favorite artists so I can go and trash them

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when it comes to hypocritical 40-something pop stars from the 80's, I think Prince is tied up there with Madonna.   I remember watching an interview of his around the time Musicology came out, and he was denouncing the likes of Janet and Britney Spears, and spoke about how today's music industry is too sexual.


One website I read sometimes made this the "quote of the week".   "Music has gotten too sexual" - Prince (coming from somebody who wrote Scarlett Pussy and Sexy MF), lol.    If there is anyone who cannot complain about sexuality in music today, it's Prince,  his tamer sex songs from the 80's made Madonna's Erotica and Justify My Love look like something on a KIDZ BOP record, lol.



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  my favorite artist is Rembrandt , my favotite musicians :


  The Boss


  Tina Turner


  Carly Simon


  Carole King


  Bob Seger


 Pat Traveres


 Stevie Nicks



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