MOOPY ALBUM SYNC LISTENS - #1: MADONNA - RAY OF LIGHT - 8PM TUESDAY 14/04

[Cerro de Casa]

I must say her single releases were often good value for money.

Back when her remixes were good, yes, but she was quite stingy and not a prolific B-side artist even though there's plenty in the vaults (unlike Kylie whose B-sides are THE BEST...)

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Imagine releasing five excellent singles from the same album, and you still have Sky Fits Heaven as an album track.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Imagine releasing five excellent singles from the same album, and you still have Sky Fits Heaven as an album track.

And Skin!

 

[GinAg (39)]

Back when her remixes were good, yes, but she was quite stingy and not a prolific B-side artist even though there's plenty in the vaults (unlike Kylie whose B-sides are THE BEST...)

Yeah it was always remixes. But I'm a WHORE for a remix.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

SHANTI/ASHTANGI


Well this is very much a vibe rather than a song.. and yet I still know all the words

 

[GinAg (39)]

This is all a bit BELINDA CARLISLE for my liking.

 

[octophone]

That's a very well done segue...

 

[octophone]

She'd get hammered for "cultural appropriation" for this these days.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

That's a very well done segue...

Yeah I've always liked car-crash Sky Fits Heaven finale going into Shanti...

 

[GinAg (39)]

Besides Aaliyah was better than Ashanti.

 

[GinAg (39)]

She'd get hammered for "cultural appropriation" for this these days.

What of Hare Krishna?

 

[dmlaw]

Is this some sort of Kabbala nonsense then? I think I'd prefer the album just got on with Frozen frankly.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

This is the last one of the dance section, works so well as the final one before we get to hear the chilling intro to Frozen.

 

[octophone]

Besides Aaliyah was better than Ashanti.

Only you...

 

[Cerro de Casa]

She'd get hammered for "cultural appropriation" for this these days.

She did at the time to be fair. She performed this in full-on Indian garb at the MTV awards, only to take the cloaks off and writhe around to 'Ray of Light' with Lenny Kravitz on guitar. The press was harsher the next day about the cultural appropriation aspects of her performance than they should have been about her vocals..

 

[octophone]

What of Hare Krishna?

Probs. If she was banging a tambourine off her head in an orange robe, they;d sue. George Harrison would have paid for it.

 

[Beverley]

I never got Shanti/Ashtangi, but nowadays I find myself singing along and getting in touch with my Ancient Sanskrit roots

 

[Cerro de Casa]

(Or perhaps that was her plan all along..)

 

[octophone]

This is the kind of thing you can only get away with on a 13 track hour long 90's CD album.

 

[GinAg (39)]

Frozen just SWEEPS IN.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

FROZEN

I had an 'OMG I HAVE CRY' moment when I first heard this on the radio at the time.

And by that I mean I ACTUALLY cried... ( )

 

[octophone]

"Frozen" was a gutsy comeback single.

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Frozen is a masterpiece. I mean the whole thing is, but really.

This is how you make a comeback.

 

[dmlaw]

Love this string opening to Frozen. Magnificent.

 

[GinAg (39)]

This was such a moment. I went from being mildly interested in Madonna to OBSESSED. She turned quite a few REAL MUSIC folk with this.

 

[octophone]

She turned quite a few REAL MUSIC folk with this.

Hello.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Can I just say - yes she gets a lot of shit these days (sometimes quite rightly so) but she gave us 'Frozen' at the Madame X Tour in its full glory. No bullshit, no reinvention. With very sparse but emotive staging (she was singing it behind, and 'dwarfed' by, a massive video projection of Lourdes.)

It was by far the best moment of both shows I went to. And this was a setlist that included 'Like A Prayer'.

 

[Beverley]

Frozen is my dad's favourite. Sonic perfection

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

Off to bed now, but please be kind and sweet to the lovely eargasm that is To Have and Not to Hold. <3

Good night!

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Those icy strings... ugh.

 

[GinAg (39)]

The buzzy electo, the sweeping strings, the smashing synth drums and the delicate yet desperate vocals.

Stunning.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Frozen is my dad's favourite. Sonic perfection

My mum's favourite is on this album ... but we've not gotten to it yet

 

[octophone]

The strings in the middle 8 are quite something - lovely, sweeping, almost Indian feel.

 

[dmlaw]

My recollection is that her last two studio albums before this had been relatively unsuccessful and that coming back with this and making it work was a huge achievement.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

And the video was such a perfect visual accompaniment to the song. Ugh when she 'falls' and 'shatters' into a flock of birds

 

[octophone]

My recollection is that her last two studio albums before this had been relatively unsuccessful and that coming back with this and making it work was a huge achievement.

Same. It felt very much like a comeback.

 

[octophone]

The Power Of Good-Bye" was the one that sold the album to me...my sister played me it and I went "yes please and thank you".

 

[Cerro de Casa]

My recollection is that her last two studio albums before this had been relatively unsuccessful and that coming back with this and making it work was a huge achievement.

Yes, sort of. Erotica underperformed massively because of the SEX book, but she turned the tide around a bit with Bedtime Stories and then disappeared to do Evita. And then came back with this. It was just genius.

 

[GinAg (39)]

And then The Power Of Goodbye.

WE ARE SPOILT.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

THE POWER OF GOODBYE

My mother's favourite Madonna song.