I woke up this morning and chose 'Bedtime Stories.'

[funky]

Seriously, whatever you think about her (or don't actually realise about her), she is regarded as one of the greatest video artistEs of all time.

Yet more evidence of your somewhat...LOCAL tastes.

I don't even know who you're talking about I'm just rewatching Arrested Development at the moment and I love that meme.

 

[RS]

They aren't THAT valuable and by that point it wouldn't be the record company that made the money anyway...

Oh that’s right

 

[funky]

Also I know it's not the better version, because the original is quite special, but to my tastes I massively prefer the Junior Vasquez mix of Bedtime Story, it just HITS ME THERE.

 

[Sheena]

09 Survival
10 Secret
07 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
04 Don't Stop
08 Inside Of Me
10 Human Nature
09 Forbidden Love
10 Love Tried to Welcome Me
10 Sanctuary
11 Bedtime Story
10 Take A Bow

 

[Sheena]

Also I know it's not the better version, because the original is quite special, but to my tastes I massively prefer the Junior Vasquez mix of Bedtime Story, it just HITS ME THERE.

It's a great mix. So is his Secret.

 

[lolly]

06 Survival
10 Secret
06 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
04 Don't Stop
09 Inside Of Me
11 Human Nature
10 Forbidden Love
09 Love Tried To Welcome Me
10 Sanctuary
09 Bedtime Story
09 Take A Bow

 

[Suedehead]

09 Survival
11 Secret
07 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
05 Don't Stop
08 Inside Of Me
10 Human Nature
10 Forbidden Love
10 Love Tried To Welcome Me
10 Sanctuary
10 Bedtime Story
10 Take A Bow

Much stronger second half.

 

[Suedehead]

I love how different our 11s are. We stan a diversity queen!

 

[Suedehead]

And let's not even get started on the mostly wonderful JAPANESE artwork. Including the Japan only 1985 release of Love Don't Live Here Anymore:

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*gazes lovingly at my 'Madonna' Japanese vinyl with extra inset and OBE STRIP *

 

[Suedehead]

Or is it OBI strip

Anyway

 

[Sheena]

Or is it OBI strip

Anyway

It's an OBI strip.

An OBE strip is what's happening to that lovely Post Office woman right now

 

[Suedehead]

It's an OBI strip.

An OBE strip is what's happening to that lovely Post Office woman right now

Oops FREUDIAN SLIP!

 

[Suedehead]

"I'm not your bitch, don't hang your shit on me."

The Suedehead epitaph has been sorted.

 

[BoysForSeles]

I appreciate it more now than then. I did like it when released but felt she was hopping on to the rnb/urban bandwagon with a touch of added Bjork for credibility and it felt like the first time she’d full out done that.

If this had been released in an era when vinyl & cassettes were still kings then ‘Take A Bow’ would’ve been the perfect closer to side 1.

 

[BoysForSeles]

07 Survival
10 Secret
08 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
02 Don't Stop
09 Inside Of Me
08 Human Nature
07 Forbidden Love
06 Love Tried to Welcome Me
08 Sanctuary
11 Bedtime Story
08 Take A Bow

 

[RS]

Human Nature has always been a 10 of course, but I’ve grown tired of it (I think since its awful revival with that version with Britney) and if I were at home now and was listening to the album and was allowed to only skip one song then it would be it.

#imnotsorry

 

[Sheena]

Human Nature has always been a 10 of course, but I’ve grown tired of it (I think since its awful revival with that version with Britney) and if I were at home now and was listening to the album and was allowed to only skip one song then it would be it.

#imnotsorry

I grew tired of it but it's come back for me.

I think she needs to retire it tour-wise, though. It just shows you've not had anything else interesting enough to say on the subject for 30 years, love...

 

[RS]

I grew tired of it but it's come back for me.

I think she needs to retire it tour-wise, though. It just shows you've not had anything else interesting enough to say on the subject for 30 years, love...

Exactly, it worked back then and was the perfect fuck you song, but nowadays with her current awful persona, no thanks.

 

[VV]

07 Survival
10 Secret
07 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
06 Don't Stop
06 Inside Of Me
10 Human Nature
09 Forbidden Love
06 Love Tried to Welcome Me
09 Sanctuary
05 Bedtime Story
11 Take A Bow

 

[Suedehead]

Oops
I didn't know
I couldn't talk
about
---

 

[SvalaWuzRobbed]

I did like the CASSETTE single cover but it still could have been better...

This is the same font as on Wipeout with Bob Monkhouse back in the day

 

[straightorbroken]

10 Survival
10 Secret
06 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
09 Don't Stop
07 Inside Of Me
09 Human Nature
08 Forbidden Love
05 Love Tried to Welcome Me
10 Sanctuary
09 Bedtime Story
10 Take A Bow

 

[Jark]

I've developed a new enjoyment of this album recently during an ongoing/daily Madonna binge () and I just really love how much of it is so soulful.

I just love M's 92-01 run the most, but I think bedtime stories had kind of eluded me sandwiched between two of her very best.

Forbidden Love fucks. it's THE Forbidden Love. I love the kind of Erotica callbacks in the production flourishes dotted around a couple of songs. Human Nature is so camp and goofy but also sharp and incisive. Bedtime Story itself is such a strange song (by design) and kind of previews Ray of Light, almost like a jump off point for the post Evita sound she'd find with William Orbit and techno. it really goes hard in that experimental 90s ambient/trancey sound and feels like a sister song to Sky Fits Heaven in a way.

and Take a Bow is just a daydream and until 94 (and probably overall) her best album closing track? and I will always have LOVE for Don't Stop, and I don't give a fuck

thank god for Madonna basically

 

[Jark]

07 Survival
10 Secret
07 I'd Rather Be Your Lover
10 Don't Stop
08 Inside of Me
08 Human Nature
10 Forbidden Love
09 Love Tried to Welcome Me
07 Sanctuary
09 Bedtime Story
11 Take A Bow

 

[Jark]

instead of spring, it's always winter...
and my heart has always been a lonely hunter...

the Spanish guitar underrated.

according to somebody on reddit (no source cited) "she wrote this about a pole dancer she saw at a strip club" if true, surely among the sultriest gems ever written about a pole dancer at a strip club?

 

[Sardonicus]

Forbidden Love fucks. it's THE Forbidden Love.

YES! An unfairly forgotten song these days after she re-used the title. I always thought this song would have an incredible (SAUCY & SULTRY OBVS ) video if she'd released it as a single.

 

[straightorbroken]

08 Inside of Me - I was too harsh on it, it's luscious.

Forbidden Love '05 is a stream of electro unconscious, honeeey. Recycling the title may have benefited from some parenthesis (brackets ), but are we supposed to pit them against each other when they have nothing else in common? I think not. The velvety unfolding of FL '94 is deluxe in texture if not in actual feels. Edit: that middle 8 moment of drama though!

I feel that the album really could have benefited from the 2 unequivocal filler tracks ((un)Welcome and Rather(not)) being swapped out for hopefully what was cut of the Shep tracks that we could be about to hear soon (high hopes indeed).

Regardless, the execution overall is supreme.

 

[Sheena]

LOVE SHOULD ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THIS

 

[Suedehead]

REJECTION

is the greatest

APHRODISIAC

 

[Iguana]

I've developed a new enjoyment of this album recently during an ongoing/daily Madonna binge () and I just really love how much of it is so soulful.

I just love M's 92-01 run the most, but I think bedtime stories had kind of eluded me sandwiched between two of her very best.

Forbidden Love fucks. it's THE Forbidden Love. I love the kind of Erotica callbacks in the production flourishes dotted around a couple of songs. Human Nature is so camp and goofy but also sharp and incisive. Bedtime Story itself is such a strange song (by design) and kind of previews Ray of Light, almost like a jump off point for the post Evita sound she'd find with William Orbit and techno. it really goes hard in that experimental 90s ambient/trancey sound and feels like a sister song to Sky Fits Heaven in a way.

and Take a Bow is just a daydream and until 94 (and probably overall) her best album closing track? and I will always have LOVE for Don't Stop, and I don't give a fuck

thank god for Madonna basically

I love this, but for goodness sake give the immaculate Sanctuary another try

 

[funky]

I love this, but for goodness sake give the immaculate Sanctuary another try

The best song on the album