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31 October 2011

Your Madonna Top Three: Back during the last Dr. Sketchy Con, we came up with the Top Madonna Three, your three favorite Madonna songs and how they reveal your personality.
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True Blue

Vogue

Open Your Heart

All of which betray a mind mildly occupied with surfaces and the desire for the simple pleasures of pop music and a need for stylish adherence to narrative rules.

A friend came up with

Like A Prayer

Express Yourself

Ray Of Light

which betrays a more action oriented, goal driven take on glamor and wish fulfillment.

What are Your Top Three Madonna Songs?

post by: The Whelk at: 01:03 | 19 comments

Live to Tell, def. #1.

and then probably
Crazy for You and Cherish.

Not sure what that says about me. But I remember skipping through Grand Central 10 minutes before closing time, belting out Madonna at the top of my lungs. The girl I was with said, "No way you're straight." That is my Madonna story. THE END.

posted by Eideteker 31 October | 01:38

Her only song that I can name is Like A Virgin, so I can only imagine what you all think of that.

posted by Ardiril 31 October | 02:01

What Ard said.

posted by arse_hat 31 October | 02:29

This is harder than I would have thought.

Live to Tell is by far her best song IMHO but after that there are a dozen or so I like pretty well.

I'll go with Live to Tell, Deeper and Deeper, Into the Groove.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 31 October | 05:10

Like a Prayer, Vogue, Music.

This says I like sexy music videos?

posted by rainbaby 31 October | 05:49

My wife has been a big Madonna for most of her life so I can name lots of her songs but I couldn't say that any are favorites.

posted by octothorpe 31 October | 06:09

True Blue and La Isla Bonita definitely. #3 is either Who's that Girl or Beautiful Stranger.

It seems to say I like old school Madonna. And romance. And I wonder who unknown people are?

posted by bluesapphires 31 October | 07:23

Ray of Light, Frozen and probably Don't Stop.

posted by crush-onastick 31 October | 08:37

Vogue, Material Girl and Like a Prayer.

posted by gaspode 31 October | 08:48

Hanky Panky, This Used to be Our Playground and Sooner or Later. This means that I like the songs she does for movies. :)

Corollary note: Is the last one still a Madonna song if Stephen Sondheim wrote it? I will never forget her performance at the Oscars (with a bonus of younger Billy Crystal).

posted by TrishaLynn 31 October | 09:32

Cherish -- it's pretty close to a perfect pop song in my opinion, and she manages to loosen up more than usual.
Dress You Up In My Love -- it's LIKE Material Girl, but just cool enough to be in a Gap commercial!
Like a Prayer -- man, did I love this song when it came out. Now I realize how simple it is, but hey, it works.

Gosh, that last one is hard. I thought of Ray of Light or Open Your Heart, too.

posted by Madamina 31 October | 09:56

This says I like sexy music videos?

IMHO, this is Madonna at her sexiest. (But maybe I'm just an old-fashioned guy.)

posted by Eideteker 31 October | 11:52

1. Material Girl - a perfect pop song

2. Ray of Light - one of her most successful reinventions

3. Beautiful Stranger - I love the Sixties vibe of this.

I admire Madonna immensely. She's the same age as me, and she's managed to stretch a very thin vocal talent a long, long way. Her voice sounds as if she's inhaled helium, but she has a great knack for seizing upon a trend and making it her own (cf. Vogue). I don't know how anyone can listen to a whole album of Madonna singing - I love her on the radio, just one song I can sing along to.

posted by Senyar 31 October | 13:54

Ooh, I love Beautiful Stranger! Good call.

posted by Madamina 31 October | 14:13

I liked stuff from the Ray of Light album. Power of Goodbye, To Have and not to hold. And I enjoyed Hung Up very much.

posted by jouke 31 October | 14:35

1. Live to Tell
2. Frozen
3. Love Don't Live Here Anymore

It's really hard to pick just a few favourites; the woman can really put out good pop songs. I know I picked all ballads, but I really like a lot of her dance numbers as well.

posted by deborah 31 October | 15:00

and she's managed to stretch a very thin vocal talent a long, long way.

Someone with a good jazz voice needs to cover Sooner Or Later like yesterday, it's a very good torch song built around Madonna's not-super-great voice. Someone with real chops could blast it out of the park.

posted by The Whelk 31 October | 18:45

(besides her draw was always Dancing/Costumes, the Marie Antoinette/VOuge thing from the VMAs was great)

posted by The Whelk 31 October | 18:47

Although Post-Ray Of Light ended her streak of having at least one super-catchy radio-perfect single per album. Hung Up is the only one that comes close and it cheats cause it uses an obvious Abba riff and Abba is CHEATING.

but it's an impressive run, pretty much a decade and change of pumping out legit dance hits.

posted by The Whelk 31 October | 18:55

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