Madonna

[poseidon]

How come my mouth kinda puckers...like suckin' on a rather tart lemon when I read your posts Mat? Heh.

Yes, it'll be interesting to see how "COADF" plays out.

"More will be revealed."

[Adam]

Fincher directs a video every now and then. I think he directed "Only" by Nine Inch Nails recently and the one before that, that I can remember, is "Judith" by A Perfect Circle.
When is the last time he directed a video for her?

[poseidon]

I really think it will be a huge success. The album is really quite good.

[Matheus]

Hmmmm... maybe your mouth puckers cause I'm an asshole... could be.

The last video he directed for her was "Bad Girl"...

I think it'll be a huge success overseas, but we all know Europeans have better taste than Americans anyway.

[poseidon]

LOL.

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

Madonna's single just went in at #1 on the UK chart today - the one that samples Abba's Gimme Gimme Gimme. Just been admiring her 47-year-old arse (!) on TV.

One thing bugging me: the BBC said it was only the second time Abba had ever allowed a sample of one of their songs. But they didn't say what the first occasion was. Bastards. That's going to bug me all night long.

[Ampage]

The ones before Madge were none other than the rather marvelous Fugees who used The Name Of the Game in Rumble In The Jungle in 1996.

But the Fugees weren't the first. Oh no. Someone had been there before them. So who were the first people to sample Abba? Which brave pioneers took that first step?

Bill Drummond wasn't a newcomer to the British music scene when he formed KLF. He had been a member of the late-'70s Liverpool band Big In Japan (with later-to-be-frontman for Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Holly Johnson). Neither was Jimmy Cauty who along with June Montana and Killing Joke's bassist Youth was signed to WEA as Brilliant. But between them these two men created one of the greatest music duos to hit the music scene. They survived loads of name-changes (Justified Ancients of Mu Mu , Disco 2000, The Timelords, The KLF, K Foundation and 2K), a handful of number ones, a sampling controversy that led to the withdrawal of their first album, and an unfinished movie project that almost put them in the poorhouse.

Their debut LP, released under the name of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, was unassumingly dubbed 1987 - WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON. Recorded by Drummond and Cauty, under the aliases 'King Boy D' and 'Rockman Rock,' in Cauty's tiny apartment on a hip-hop inspired whim, the album was a complete homebrew in-your-face masterpiece, combining drum machines and loud Scots shouting with sound bites from everyone from The Monkees to Abba.

Unfortunately, Abba bit back. The JAMS, it seems, had lifted virtually every ounce of the Swedish disco band's hit Dancing Queen and dropped it unaltered into a track the JAMS has dubbed The Queen And I (predating the loop-and-sample antics of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice by three or so years). It wasn't so much a cover as it was an unauthorized remix, and the threat of an expensive lawsuit inspired The JAMS to 'Do The Right Thing' - burn all the unsold copies of the album. Shame.

[poseidon]

Thats "Hung Up" Jesus. Gosh I've always wanted to say that. Thanks Jesus...pun intended.

After listening to the album for the 7th time now I'll have to revise my list of fav's from the album. "Jump" remains my fav. Am surprised that "Sorry" is the next single to be released if Slark's info is correct. The song's cool and all, it's just that it's not in my opinion one of the top 5 from the album if Warner Bros. is planning on releasing 5 singles from the album.

Does that make sense?

"Jump" is on gotta run...

[poseidon]

I'd go with "Push" instead of "Sorry" as the 2nd single.
Of-course I'd go with "Jump" to follow up on the success of "Hung Up" as the 2nd release. The listening public may not like "Sorry."

[kool]

I've seen the 'Hung Up' video a couple of times. Have to say, I think it's terrible. Once again... Madonna's ass saves the day.

[Matheus]

Yeah, I don't really care about the video. The outfit looks stupid, as does the hairdo, and we all know I like Madonna best when she's pretentious anyway. I like this video about as much as the "Music" video... and that isn't very much. The only saving grace is Daniel "Cloud" Campos who appears in the video. He rocked during the tour, and at Live 8, and I like watching the kid dance.

Sorry, Pat, I hate "Push," it's the only song on the album I don't like, and that's the first time I can say that about any song from Madonna's last 3 albums. It's a dud, and I don't want to hear her sing about Guy Ritchie anymore. Make me vomit.

And I gotta reiterate... thank god the album isn't mindless bullshit. Yeah, there's more of that than usual, but the way people were talking, I was thinking I was gonna get a little "like a virgin, ooooo, grabbing my crotch for the 51st time" mixed with YMCA. God, I hate that shit. I know, I know, most people talk about Madonna and say how much they like her "old" music, but that shit really does bore me. Other than "Like A Prayer," "Burning Up," and "Into the Groove," I don't listen to her 80s music at all. Most of it is fucking gay and stupid. And other than a few tracks from "Bedtime Stories," nothing before Ray Of Light.

I can't talk about Madonna to anyone except hardcore Madonna fans cause I'm from a school of fans who doesn't give much of a shit about her work before "Ray Of Light." Can't really talk about "Die Another Day" to these people cause they'd be like "that's crap." Please. It's the most interesting pop song released in the past 5 years, and I don't give a fuck what anyone says. I guess if ya wanna hear the same old tired bullshit then yay, keep on creating Like A Virgin over and over again and see where that goes. We know what happens to nostalgic artists after a while who don't push themselves, rather than stumbling here and there, they just fade away.

Look at U2, they did that Pop disc, and everyone hated it. They come back with shit that people connected to, and it reminded them why they loved U2 in the first place. If you don't let people see that stumble, they won't have a chance to realize what they were missing.

So yeah, I say thank god for "American Life," which I still think is a great album, because it caused Madonna to make her comeback... and yes, prolly for the 51st time.

[limitdeditionlayla]

American Life sucked ass, its two good songs were unable to redeem the album let alone the faux-revolutionary cover art - but Confessions is sublimely disco-sugary perfection.

[paul]

I think her new album will be good

[paul]

Her ass look great in her last video

[poseidon]

limitdeditionlayla said:

American Life sucked ass, its two good songs were unable to redeem the album let alone the faux-revolutionary cover art - but Confessions is sublimely disco-sugary perfection.

What two songs from "American Life" do you refer to Layla?