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| Artist: Madonna
Label: Warner
Category: Music
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 579
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 26440
UPC: 075992644020
EAN: 0075992644020
ASIN: B000002LND
Release Date: November 1, 1990
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 The Best Collection of All Time... April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
...But QSound makes it sound unfinished.
1. Holiday. 10/10
2. Lucky Star. 10/10
3. Borderline. 10/10
4. Like a Virgin. 10/10
5. Material Girl. 10/10
6. Crazy For You. 8/10
7. Into the Groove. 10/10
8. Live To Tell. 10/10
9. Papa Don't Preach. 10/10
10. Open Your Heart. 10/10
11. La Isla Bonita. 10/10
12. Like a Prayer. 10/10
13. Express Yourself. 10/10
14. Cherish. 8/10
15. Vogue. 10/10
16. Justify My Love. 10/10
17. Rescue Me. 8/10
OVERALL GRADE: 10/10
A very good collection of Madonna hits 82/90 but why they mixed it with QSound I don't know because it leaves it sounding unfinished.
 An excellent 'guilty pleasures' compilation of Madge's best April 25, 2008
This is still the best compilation of Madonna's earlier work covering her first set of studio albums between 1983 and 1990. The running order is perfectly chronological, always good for a compilation as we can see how she developed and expanded her sound over the years.
No doubt lack of space (this is a 1CD set only) meant that the sublime no.1 single Who's That Girl, the excellent power-pop of Gambler, the quirky Causing A Commotion (albeit taken from a terrible movie) and Hanky Panky (a no.2 hit from 1990) don't even get a look in. Nor do the Top 5 hits Angel and Dear Jessie, or the lesser-known Top 10 hit The Look of Love. Thus seven big hits are missing and a 24 track double-CD would have done Madonna proper justice, and would probably have sold just as well.
Even though Madonna had a long purple patch in the early to mid-1990's (only redeemed by 1997's Ray of Light album), this is still probably the best way to remember her earlier output. It's an incredible string of 17 consecutive UK Top 10 hits, all of which are instantly recognisable as 'MadgeMusic'. Hopefully Sire will consider a more comprehensive 2-disc set one day covering this period ?
Great Album Compilation!!! September 30, 2007
Could anybody define pop without MADONNA? Holiday, Like A Virgin, Material Girl, Into The Groove, Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart, La Isla Bonita, Like A Prayer, Express Yourself, Cherish, Vogue...all her classics from 2 decades ago are here. Although some her tracks are shorter than their album version, they're still enjoyable because they tracks have been remixed. I love this album. It's MADONNA! The Queen of Pop!
P.D. Who's this guy who's written these negative things about MADONNA? Shouldn't he have written about the album?
 Conveyor belt McPop by the girl who missed her vocation. July 14, 2007
3 out of 23 found this review helpful
Madonna is to music what another omnipresent and insidious American icon, the hamburger, is to cuisine. Cheap, tasteless, unwholesome swill for the masses. And you know what happened to the beardy man in `Supersize Me', don't you?
Her biography is very telling, her dream was always to become a ballet dancer, but somehow along the way she sold that dream out, followed the money and ended up dancing in a revue for a fading disco star. Whatever her reason was, I think the reason she abandoned her dream is probably the reason why her music leaves me cold.
Madonna is demonstrably an effective business-woman, with pretensions to being an `artist', who pays talented collaborators to cover for her considerable shortcomings.
Though I hope she's a good person and a good mother (obviously I can't comment because I'll never know her) her output as an `entertainer' (`artist' or `musician' doesn't apply here) is comprehensively vacuous and disposable, and her status within the music `industry' the epitome of everything that is wrong with music as an `industry'.
Having made enough money by now to not have to release anymore rubbish and still live happily ever after, I kind of wish she had the dignity and grace to turn her back on trash entertainment and celebrity for the sake of celebrity and go back to ballet. I'd like her more.
Good, but not without flaws May 10, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
While I'm reluctant to speak at all negatively about an otherwise great compilation, I do have to concede to being a bit dismayed by the extent to which some of the songs on it have been changed - the opening track of Holiday in particular. If the original versions of this and Lucky Star were felt to be too long for such a collection, why couldn't their 7" Edits have been used instead?
Having said that, I certainly think its remix of Material Girl is an improvement; but in addition to my criticisms of Holiday and Lucky Star (and I'm not as keen on the Papa Don't Preach that's on here either), I must also regretfully concur with the reviewer who remarked that Like a Prayer had had its gospel parts toned down too much, since it has given it what I'd describe as a less haunting feel. Not that that means I consider this mix of Like a Prayer to be a poor one though - on the contrary, I think it's pretty fine as far as radical remixes go. But I do still question whether it's appropriate for a hits album in view of how different it is from the version that was actually released as a single and which made this song so famous.
It would've been nice too if a few of Madonna's other pre-1991 hits (e.g. Who's That Girl and Gambler - which was admittedly not released in the US but is a song I like a lot and one whose presence may have helped to boost sales a little bit more, being that it hadn't and still hasn't appeared on any Madonna album) had been included, but I can understand why they weren't given the time constraint presumably in place. Nevertheless, if at some point another collection stretching back more or less to the beginning of her chart singles is produced (a two- or three-part one no doubt), I do hope that the needless shortcomings of this one will not be replicated and that the 7" versions of Holiday, Lucky Star and Papa Don't Preach (or at least versions very similar to them) will be the ones it contains (though I do as I said prefer the Immaculate version of Material Girl and would be quite happy therefore for that one to appear again).
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