Madonna -- Madonna

HOLIDAY

amazing album.

Her most consistent album until Erotica. Voted for the "Burning Up" 12" (cheating, I know).

holiday was the 2nd madonna song i ever really loved. the 1st was material girl, of course.

Yeah, "Material Girl" was the first for me too. I will never forget listening to it in the backseat of my mom's car and then seeing that video on MTV.

"Holiday" was the song for me, hit radio like that and it was kinda all over. The troika of that, "Borderline" and "Lucky Star" really was a perfect mainstream career introduction and then we all know what happened with the album after that.

"Borderline", then "Lucky Star", then "Burnin' Up", "then "Holiday"

This is a fucking excellent album, I should get my copy of this back from my parents' house.

I found a tape of this in storage a few weeks back. It really is solid all the way through.

"Borderline" will always be #1 with me

from the very first note

"Borderline" > "Holiday" > "Lucky Star"

Between "Holiday" and "Lucky Star" here. Went for "Holiday" in the long run.

And, actually, how consistent it this? I think you will see most people going for one of the three hits here. Then, I will give some props to "Think Of Me" too. Those are all amazing, but it doesn't hold up one hundred per cent as an album. I will rank the next three all well behind this. Plus also several of her electro albums from "Ray Of Light" onwards.

I will rank the next three all well behind ahead of this, I mean.

I don't remember "I Know It" or "Think of Me" because my copy of this is on vinyl at my parents' house. I remember every other song and think they're all fantastic, and I remember buying this, Like A Virgin and True Blue all at the same time and loving this one and TB to death and really, really hating the non-singles on LAV.

SHOO-BE-DO-BE DO OOH MY LOVE

haha. i actually love the non-singles on LAV, just cuz they're so fluffy, dense and silly.

I Know It is pretty amazing

This is definitely an amazing album - I'll vote for "Holiday" but I'd like to give abig warm shout out to "Everybody"

I think the Lucky Star 12" version pretty much beats everything else on this album (is that the same as the "New Mix"? I honestly don't know...I tend to think if it's a long version of Lucky Star, we're going in the right direction) , but there are a couple of really good ones on this besides that and it's the only Madonna album I give a shit about. I'd give it a 7/10. "Burning Up" is probably even better than "Borderline", in the end.

Voted "Everybody."

you've stumped me, ramz

"lucky star" because i was a rock kid obliged to hate madonna on principle but i was also a 14-year-old boy and i actually remember the first time i saw the video:

it wasn't til "material girl" that i admitted to any friends that i liked a madonna song, but "lucky star" was the turning point.

i love that she wrote lucky star.

I'm telling you, every self-respecting vinyl DJ should own that fucking 12".

I refused to vote for the 12" versions here as I feel extra tracks don't belong on the actual album. That said, the extra tracks on this CD and the "Like a Virgin" remaster are all great extended versions. I am particularly fond of the "Like a Virgin" 12 incher.

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Is this worth a spin as a lover of 'Holiday' and an aspiring poptimist?

It's worth more than a spin.

much, much more.

Would have definitely said Borderline until really recently, and its still what I voted for, but this video sways me somewhat somehow

still no contest.

(you made the right decision)

Haha! Only madonna album I actually care about though

silly goose.

Borderline is really perfect

makes me shudder everytime!

You ever heard the Sonic Youth cover of Into the Groove? They have this bit where you hear blasts of Madonna during points and it sounds like this ghost transmission where she's taking over the song from inside.

lucky star

I just voted for "Borderline" but this is a really strong album, could have gone for any of these (probably "Burning Up" next)

Holy shit! I've never heard this chunky, vaguely motoriky demo of "Burning Up":

It's more Disco Not Disco than I've ever heard her.

this album gets better with every listen

HOLY SHIT this sounds awesome!

Shame on you Surmounter for pushing me into the world of Madonna demos (or for including those two remixes in the poll).

Her vocal attack was so awesome then.

yup

It was. And I'm waaay with you re: her good singing, Soto. You can hear her reach in this, supposedly her first performance ever (caught on tape):

Check out the fabulous "go on girl!" immediately before the music starts. We were there!

that's called mastery

Borderline.

my good friend questioned my relinquishment of vogue in favor of borderline the other night in light of watching the epic vogue vma's performance, but i'm glad i stuck to my guns.

Lucky Star

Ha, "go on gawrl."

Borderline kicks the shit out of Vogue

Whoa, do gays of a certain age just hate "Vogue" as a rule now?

Between the three I guess I expect to run this poll, I think "Lucky Star" is the best, for that clunky, dubby, plunging, Larry Levan-baiting bassline.

LOL Alfred is going by the "Screaming Lobster of Challops" now, I mean wow. That's what I call moving up in the world! Welcome to the world of screen names, Al! :)

Playing the Burning Up video now. Fantastic.

wow look at that video performance from 1982~~~ <3 <3

Thanks Kevin! :)

They don't even fucking MAKE dance music like that anymore. They don't even fucking MAKE it. There's a Factory Records All-Stars video she's on, too. It's got New Order on stage and all these folks from Factory Records on it and Madonna is a backup singer, I'm serious. That's what my friend told me, anyway.

I swear, she's supposedly the girl in the middle of the three female backup singers:

That's not her Bimble. She *was* there at the Hacienda that night though and it was her first performance in the UK. Right here:

'everybody'

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Roz! My lastfm friend! Good to hear from you. I'm actually glad to hear it wasn't her, I don't really believe it was. I just don't believe it. I have a problem with believing that is really Madonna in that video, despite what my friend said. I love this video you posted, though. God, I told you they don't fucking make dance music like that anymore!

All the girls in my school had to dress like her, you know. All the girls had to dress like her. It was a Madonna epidemic.

man that Burning Up demo is incredible!

went with Holiday btw.

They don't even fucking MAKE dance music like that anymore.

True. In fact they haven't since a bunch of gay DJs in Chicago invented something called House Music a few years later ;)

the epic vogue vma's performance

One of my favorite moments from her. Down to the mini-binoculars at the end.

True. In fact they haven't since a bunch of gay DJs in Chicago invented something called House Music a few years later ;)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, February 9, 2009 3:06 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

oh geirpaws...

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Wow, justice severely done!

and the two worst songs got no votes.

Justice indeed!

awesomeness

Yeah, "Borderline" rules so hard. I bought the 12" single of that last month, w/ the extended mix of "Lucky Star" on the flip. Sometimes that seems like all the Madonna I'll ever need (but only sometimes).

No way that's I'd rank "Think Of Me" among the worst songs. For me, it is the best of the non-singles here.

Maybe I should've voted for "Lucky Star."

I think my elementary school gym teacher kinda ruined this album for me.

There's also that scene in Running on Empty.

at the 2:30 mark:

"Borderline" is good and all, but I'd take "Lucky Star," "Burning Up," "Physical Attraction" and "Holiday" (in that order) before I'd vote for "Borderline."

'physical attraction' deserves more love (tho admittedly i wouldn't have voted for it)

Physical Attraction.

this fucking album

After listening to this yesterday I would've voted for Physical Attraction.

right!?

Maybe we were meant to be together
Even though we never met before
We got to move before the sun is rising
And you'll be walking slowly out the door

This album is awesome and totally classic. Never gets old.

'holiday' is just so damn great

would have defo got my vote

Put this on for my daughter the other day and told her it was katy perry

i love her voice on this album so so much.

'burning up' 12" absolutely bangs at 33 (ie slowed down)!! as played by andy butler on beats in space a couple years back

'everybody'

― lex pretend, Monday, February 9, 2009 1:57 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kmt why did i vote for "everybody" when the answer is obviously "burning up", she sings it like she's scrawling lipstick on a club bathroom mirror. I'M NOT THE SAME I HAVE NO SHAME

The thought of her scrawling on a bathroom mirror made me think of Courtney covering "Burning Up." Even though I was just a kid when it came out, "Burning Up" made me tingle.

Courtney covering "Burning Up."

omg did this actually happen??? or is it just something that should obviously have happened

I wish it had happened - she could murder it. There's still time.

i love her voice on this album so so much.

Yeah I love her voice on this too. Her early voice just had a mid-western, earnest quality to it. She was a good belter for someone with a limited voice at the time. I could tell she was trying to capture some of that in Hard Candy.

I just realized I love this album so much because it sounds more like an underground dance record that happens to have great pop songs in tow than something engineered to be huge.

I agree totally, her best album by a country mile