Madonna - Confessions II OUT NOW

We already bought these once lol
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Anybody still hammering this album almost on the daily? Because I am.
I am keeping everything crossed for Grammy nom-noms and a subsequent minor resurg + maybe some live dates in 2027 I want this era to go on and on (there's nothing I fear.)
 
I’m over it now, but I still appreciate what a career moment it was, and boy did she need it.

I think if I was to do a new Madonna Top 50 (probably 100 at this point), Sins would sneak into the Top 20, which is not nothing. One Step Away, Danceteria and School would also make an appearance… so all in all, a resounding success with me.
 
It's not broken her top 5 for me.

Absolutely her best and most cohesive work in the last 20 years. But ultimately the VOX stop it from truly rivalling her heyday. There are definitely some tracks that I respect creatively but do not actively enjoy listening to.
 
i feel the same - I listened heavily for a month or two. now when I'm in a Madonna mood lately I'm defaulting to Bedtime Stories but probably in spring I'll be back on the C II train. I don't wanna WEAR IT OUT just yet.
 
I don't think individual tracks would feature massively highly if I was to rank them (probably Danceteria and One Step Away both in the 21-30 region), but as an album it absolutely would sit within my top 5. It definitely is one of those 'greater than the sum of its parts' albums.
 
I listened to C II pretty much every day from July to early October, but this November weather has me craving Tori, so I'm taking a break from it.
 
1. Like A Prayer
2. Ray of Light
3. Erotica
4. Confessions II
5. Confessions on a Dance Floor
6. Music
7. Madonna/The First Album
8. Bedtime Stories
9. True Blue
10. American Life
11. Like A Virgin
12. Rebel Heart
13. Madame X
14. MDNA
15. Hard Candy
 
It's a great album. I'm not "over" it. But I am more focused on the back end.

My Sins, School, Fragile are my all-timers right now. All Top 50 candidates.

Album-wise, I think it's not Ray of Light, but it's comfortably alongside American Life, Like a Prayer, Madonna, and better than Hard Candy, Bedtime Stories, Like a Virgin. We don't even need to talk about MDNA, Rebel Heart or Madame X.
 
It's her most studio stoned album since Ray of Light. It dom tops Music and Confessions on a Dancefloor in terms of scope and it's sense of sheer relentlessness where it has that rare achievement of having its songs feel like they keep getting better or else just delivering everytime.

It's absolutely one of her very best for me. I wouldn't even entertain the notion that it wasn't were it not for the voice no longer having her vintage command. One Step Away is a minor triumph where she sounds comparatively spellbinding compared to the sharp and raspy resonance on Love Sensation, a song I happen to think is one of the most deluxe things she's ever done.

It absolutely recalibrated her creamy smooth pop icon goddess unwavering creative pursuit, and all she had to do was compete only with herself and also get back to working with people who aren't conveyor belt hit makers.
 
Exactly. The original Confessions, as well as Music may well have had higher highs and bigger HITS HITS HITS than Confessions II but as a stand-alone, start to finish cohesive piece of work Confessions II is by far her best album since Ray of Light.
In my opinion.
 
Music is incredible but much shorter and with a couple of filler tracks - albeit ones I still love. one of her best records overall. it's so hard to compare.

current top 5 I would say:

01 Erotica
= 02 Ray of Light
= 02 Bedtime Stories
04 Music
05 Confessions II
 
Suedehead said:
1. Like A Prayer
2. Ray of Light
3. Erotica
4. Confessions II
5. Confessions on a Dance Floor
6. Music
7. Madonna/The First Album
8. Bedtime Stories
9. True Blue
10. American Life
11. Like A Virgin
12. Rebel Heart
13. Madame X
14. MDNA
15. Hard Candy
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Fuck you for not putting I’m Breathless in there when you always USED TO.
 
1. Like a Prayer
2. Ray of Light
3. Erotica
4. Madonna
5. Confessions on a Dancefloor
6. Confessions II
7. Bedtime Stories
8. Music
9. American Life
10.Like a Virgin
11.True Blue
12.I’m Breathless
13.Rebel Heart
14.Madame X
15.Hard Candy
16.MDNA
 
Ray of Light
Like a Prayer
Confessions II
Erotica
True Blue
Like a Virgin
Music
Madonna
Confessions on a Dancefloor
MDNA
Rebel Heart
Bedtime Stories
American Life
Madame X
I'm Breathless
Hard Candy

The only album I actively dislike is Hard Candy. I do feel MDNA and Rebel Heart have standouts strong enough for me to focus on the highs, sadly all the whilst failing to latch onto a common groove, which is why something as cohesively sublime as Bedtime Stories finds itself bottoming for them as at times it is vibes over hooks. Camp thrush of I'm Breathless has pulsating peaks and a lot of fluff, but given what it is and the speed in which it was done is more a token of/stepping stone to an era wherein her career was an unparalleled ascent as documented by The Immaculate Collection.
 
Ray Of Light
Confessions I
Like A Prayer
Bedtime Stories
True Blue
Erotica

All better than Confessions II - sorry
 
  1. Ray of Light - probably the greatest album of all-time. S-tier.
  2. Music - my peak Madonna standom. Innovative, effortlessly cool. Her best "pop" album. A-tier.
  3. Erotica - maybe it was too ahead of its time for certain people. A-tier.
  4. Like a Prayer - the beginning of her most creative run. Some of the greatest pops songs of all time. A-tier.
  5. Confessions on a Dancefloor - just stacked with bangers. A-tier
  6. American Life - horribly underrated. Like Confessions II, it's greater than the sum of its parts. B-tier.
  7. Confessions II - I would be tempted to put this at #5 or #6 but I'm letting it bed in. B-tier.
  8. True Blue - the singles alone + White Heat are mindboggingly brilliant. B-tier.
  9. Madonna - objectively brilliant, but is not as deeply fused to the nostalgic part of my brain. B-tier.
  10. Hard Candy - I won't say underrated, but certainly over-hated. A lot of it stands up, if you divorce it from the context of the time. C+ tier.
  11. Bedtime Stories - the four singles are career-bests. The rest I can leave. C-tier.
  12. Like a Virgin - I think you had to be there. The best singles from this time were off-album, with the exception of Dress You Up. C-tier.
  13. I'm Breathless - not for me, but it has Vogue, the greatest pop song of all time. D+ tier.
  14. MDNA - I'll take Girl Gone Wild, Masterpiece and Falling Free and run. D-tier.
  15. Madame X - I think I have only kept God Control. F-tier
  16. Rebel Heart - I guess Ghosttown is nice enough, and the demos of Rebel Heart and Wash It All Over Me were passable, if achingly uncool. F-tier.
 
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