[Gilowero]

Album discussion thread!



Release date: 15 November 2005

Track List:

01. Hung Up
02. Get Together
03. Sorry
04. Future Lovers
05. I Love New York
06. Let It Will Be
07. Forbidden Love
08. Jump
09. How High
10. Isaac
11. Push
12. Like It or Not

[Gilowero]

The videos:

"Hung Up"


"Get Together"
(Two Versions)



"Sorry"


"Jump"

[laperuzdfhami]

Sorry is the last great Madonna video. I love how campy and over the top it is. How can you not love dance cage-fighting and Madonna abducting boys to go to the roller disco?

[AbraroLib]

such a solid album..the only song i don't care for is Push. i just find it really grating. i could live without How High too. i wish she'd included Fighting Spirit instead:

[Gilowero]

^ I agree, though I don't care for "Fighting Spirit" either. I'd just rather "Push" didn't exist. I could live without "I Love New York" as well.

[patrycjakolekk]

This is my 2nd favorite Madonna album. How High is actually my favorite track from the album. Forbidden Love from the Confessions Tour dvd is so beautiful and makes me really emotional. I love the Paper Faces remix of Let It Will Be; probably one of my all-time favorite remixes of Madonna. I Love New York is the weakest track on the album to me. Get Together was a late bloomer for me. I had to go back and listen and watch the music video for it before I finally appreciated it. I love Fighting Spirit and History - great b-sides!

[largonioulurI]

I always crack up at these "How High" lyrics:

"Nobody's perfect...I guess I deserve it."

I mean, did she mean to rattle off two song titles from "Music"?

[Gilowero]

I always crack up at these "How High" lyrics:

"Nobody's perfect...I guess I deserve it."

I mean, did she mean to rattle off two song titles from "Music"?

That's my main problem with COAD. It's essentially the same trite, recycled lyrical crap that she was spouting on American Life (and to a much lesser extent, Music) but with more marketable production.

[Lauramalina]

This is one of my least favorite Madonna records, but I still like it. It's like designer perfume ... scents we've experiences before combined VERY skillfully. Having been a fan of the much-maligned American Life album, I definitely (to quote the lady herself) felt like "I've heard it all before." The same spiritual hooey and complaints about fame ... but without that arty Mirwais at the helm! And with sparkles! And you can dance to it! I also felt like her vocals were polished to the point of lacking personality on this record. She doesn't sound as substantial as she has on previous records, especially considering how impressive her vocal performances on American Life were.

That said ... I said I like the record overall, and I do. I said "designer perfume" ... this IS a very well-made album. Only the Grinch would deny some of these hooks. For the most part, she also understands the power of suggestion ... some of the best tracks are the least in-your-face. I think "Get Together," for example, is pretty amazing. And "Forbidden Love," believe it or not, is one of my all-time favorite Madonna tracks. She's really great when she finds that sweet spot between dance songs and ballads ... "Forbidden Love" is a bit of both. It's sexy, it's insinuating, and there's some genuine longing there. I just wish there were more of that on the rest of the record.

I'll say this ... when I think of my favorite Madonna records, I NEVER think of this one. But when I play it, I'm kind of surprised by how easy it goes down and how good it is. It just somehow feels less "Madonna" to me than most of her other albums.

[patrycjakolekk]

I always crack up at these "How High" lyrics:

"Nobody's perfect...I guess I deserve it."

I mean, did she mean to rattle off two song titles from "Music"?

I took it as a nod to those songs.

[Gilowero]

I think my favorite thing to come out of this era was that exquisite Confessions Tour DVD. It's my favorite of the tour DVDs even though it's much more a "film" than a live concert on video.

[patrycjakolekk]

^I adore it....I have watched it many times, and have showed it to non-Madonna fans and they always really enjoy it too.

[Broker15015]

i was never a fan of push until very recently. i don't know, it just hit me hard one day and then i was quite obsessed for about a week. now, it's one of my favorite tracks from COADF. and it only took me a little over six years for that to happen.

and future lovers remains one of my all-time favorite madonna tracks, not just from COADF, but from her entire discography.

[HaroldMY]

I love the Paper Faces remix of Let It Will Be; probably one of my all-time favorite remixes of Madonna!

Best remix ever. I love this song, and it's the only Madonna song that I have on constant rotation. I'd love to see someone make a video of this to the segment of her dancing in the red sequin dress. I looooovvveee that video! It's one of my favorite things to emerge from that era. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Almolfuncomma]

Best remix ever. I love this song, and it's the only Madonna song that I have on constant rotation. I'd love to see someone make a video of this to the segment of her dancing in the red sequin dress. I looooovvveee that video! It's one of my favorite things to emerge from that era. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I know exactly what you are talking about! I believe it was used for the backdrop of Let It Will Be for the Confessions promo tour.

I've always preferred the Paper Faces mix over the album version. It's amazing and it's on a few of my Madonna playlists. One thing that pisses me off is that performance on the Confessions Tour DVD. I hate the editing. HATE IT! I prefer my homeade DVD of the Confessions Promo show (can't remember where it was filmed off hand, I believe it was London?) for that performance because there is no editing or effects.

Edit: it was London, because she clearly gives a shout out during Everybody which really shoulda been part of that tour.

[OWDavid]

This is my favorite Madonna album and, IMHO, her masterpiece. The lyrics are so strong and the music fits each song like a tight fitting glove. No missteps, no filler, every note and lyric has a purpose driving the album to its end and I love it, love it, love it!!!

[Gilowero]

It's heaven, ain't it?

[HaroldMY]

omg

[largonioulurI]

Does anyone know what the phrase "Let It Will Be" means? I don't understand the English on that one...

[Gilowero]

Does anyone know what the phrase "Let It Will Be" means? I don't understand the English on that one...

It's a Madonna lyric, so... She tries her best to make it make sense.