madonna: the immaculate collection vs GHV2

Therefore, as attempts to sum up halves of Madonna's career they both fail miserably.

Both still great though, TIC wins because it's possible to come up with pairs of tracks from each, make them FITE and have TIC win 15-0 (the former has two extra songs).

That's no accident, though. If those albums did have those "missing" tracks, they'd render the rest of her back catalog moot, and no one would buy her first album, etc. It'd been marketing suicide.

Totally unnecessary. They should just append the Oakenfold remix of "What it Feels Like For a Girl" to Ray of Light and be done with it.

Not exactly true - except for the first album, "Everybody" is nothing more than a historical curiosity really, but True Blue, Like A Virgin and Erotica have a lot of strong non-singles on them.

And it's REALLY easy to get a mostly-full CDR of 1998 to present.

immaculate cherrypicks a bunch of great singles from a string of albums that are all absolutely worth owning.

therefore, GHV2 wins.

something to remember is pretty nice, too.

Paradise (Spin Funk Punk Remix)
Die Another Day (Felix Da Houscat Thee Lectroretro Remix)

there should be a really great compilation of all the best remixes/ extended versions and such. YOU CAN DANCE aint it thats fer darn sure.

Getting back to the matter at hand, I never hear "Rescue Me" on the radio even though it was a sizable top 10 hit and it's rarely on a short list of her best singles.

Heard "Sorry" on the radio yesterday. I kinda like it, but thought (in relation to Geir's comments) "this sounds even less like a 'song' than "Erotica" or "Justify My Love" do." It really is just basic vocal hooks over a dance groove, there's very little effort put into er constructing them into something bigger than that (i.e. if a song needs to be minimally architectural, "Sorry" and "Hung Up" are like a flat foundation, whereas "Erotica" and "Justify My Love" are houses with paper walls).

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CD 1:
01) Hung Up
02) Music
03) Vogue
04) 4 Minutes
05) Holiday
06) Everybody
07) Like A Virgin
08) Into The Groove
09) Like A Prayer
10) Ray Of Light
11) Sorry
12) Express Yourself
13) Open Your Heart
14) Borderline
15) Secret
16) Erotica
17) Justify My Love
18) Revolver

CD 2:
01) Dress You Up
02) Material Girl
03) La Isla Bonita
04) Papa Don't Preach
05) Lucky Star
06) Burning Up
07) Crazy For You
08) Who's That Girl
09) Frozen
10) Miles Away
11) Take A Bow
12) Live To Tell
13) Beautiful Stranger
14) Hollywood
15) Die Another Day
16) Dont Tell Me
17) Cherish
18) Celebration

Madonna Celebration DVD track listing:

01) Burning Up
02) Lucky Star
03) Borderline
04) Like A Virgin
05) Material Girl
06) Crazy For You
07) Into The Groove
08) Live To Tell
09) Papa Dont Preach
10) True Blue
11) Open Your Heart
12) La Isla Bonita
13) Whos That Girl
14) Like A Prayer
15) Express Yourself
16) Cherish
17) Vogue
18) Justify My Love
19) Erotica
20) Deeper and Deeper
21) Rain
22) Ill Remember
23) Secret
24) Take A Bow
25) Bedtime Story
26) Human Nature
27) I Want You
28) Youll See
29) Frozen
30) Ray Of Light
31) The Power Of Good-Bye
32) Beautiful Stranger
33) American Pie
34) Music
35) Dont Tell Me
36) What It Feels Like For A Girl
37) Die Another Day
38) Hollywood
39) Love Profusion
40) Hung Up
41) Sorry
42) Get Together
43) Jump
44) 4 Minutes
45) Give It 2 Me
46) Miles Away
47) Celebration

I'm way more interested in picking this up for the dvd than for the cds.

gerontophile

First appearance of "Who's That Girl" on a Madonna comp.

On other hand, she should die a thousand deaths for excluding "Angel" and "Causing a Commotion" from her catalogue.

On other hand, she should die a thousand deaths for exincluding "Angel" and "Causing a Commotion" from her catalogue anything from her last two albums.

If you hate Confessions on a Dancefloor, you may as well just get off ILM now.

i guess this'll be the best madonna comp of them all if it includes the original versions of her 80s hits

That's what I'm hoping. I want radio edits/album versions. NOT wonky commissioned remixes.

classic remixes, 12" versions and so on, and oddities like that terrifying beast within version of "justify my love", would've been a great idea for a bonus disc - i'd've been interested, as someone who wasn't around for a good part of her career i don't really have many of them. (as it is i pretty much have all the material here, so bleh to acquiring it.)

If you hate Confessions on a Dancefloor, you may as well just get off ILM now.

Oops, for some reason I skipped Confessions in my mind. I meant Hard Candy and American Life.

hate it when they don't order these things chronologically

wow "american life" isn't on the cd OR the dvd, damn

no "oh father" either

really disappointed at the exclusion of these crappy songs

the immaculate collection 'into the groove' is the best 'into the groove'

it's science

is there that much difference between the versions? i mean i'm sure you're right.

anyroad here's a good version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgjkBtDoYaQ