09/28/09 Madonna - Celebration

Maybe there are too many bad memories of Sean Penn?

 

Any word on if the DVD will contain 5.1 surround sound mixes of the songs?

 

You know, they married in September 1985 (yes, I had to look it up) and True Blue came out in June of 1986 (and it was dedicated to Sean). So that really makes a whole lot of sense and I totally understand and forgive her.

And I'm glad the CDs are not chronological too. Looks like a nice line up (with a bit of tweeking). A shame about the oft-issued versions, though.

 

thank god for that. nothing worse than comps like that. i like them to create a good mix from great tunes. i do it all the time, its not hard.

 

Non-chronological sequence + Immaculate Collection mixes = no sale to this fan.

 

Seconded on both counts. This really needs to be in chronological order to track the evolution of her music. Otherwise; it's just going to be a jumbled mess.

 

Madonna's musical career especially lends itself to a chronological compilation, IMO.

 

I almost always make comps in chronological order just for the reason you stated, but I can see this one flowing pretty well the way it is. Resequencing things can provide a fresh perspective at times.

This release has me wanting to do a singles/12" remix comp (and it will be in, yes, chronological order - sorry DJ ). Just need to find a few more titles... And I think it will be much more interesting than these discs...

She still needs a box, though some might disagree (had to say that!).

 

I don't think she has anything against it - I think she just doesn't consider it one of the album's three biggest songs, so it gets the boot. No album is represented by more than three songs, so "Live to Tell", "La Isla Bonita" and "Papa Don't Preach" fill that album's quota...

 

The purported official tracklisting also includes "Open Your Heart," so that would make four songs from True Blue.

 

Whoops - you're right! I was thinking of the older tracklisting that omitted "Open Your Heart". If this more recent one's correct, it'll indeed have four "True Blue" songs...

 

Now was that really so hard?

 

You're so frequently wrong that I feel a little dirty for having to type that you were right for once!

 

You will doubtless feel really dirty when you concede that Madonna looked her best with short hair during the True Blue period.

 

Mmm... the Open Your Heart vidoe......

 

If they're really using the Immaculate Collection mixes, then I might not buy this. I don't like those mixes and I already have the other CD, I'm not going to buy those over again.

 

Sorry - I admitted one mistake on this thread, so my quota is full!

Besides, I thought Maddy looked pretty awful with her various short 1986-1987 haircuts. "Virgin"-era Maddy was much more attractive...

 

This is one of my favourite images of Madonna, and I think she looked amazing during that shoot and all videos from the True Blue album. I love the Ciao Italia concert etc. Im looking forward to this collection. Interesting to see if the presumed tracklisting is correct as it seems pretty well balanced. Im okay with the non-chronological track listing too. Cant wait to see whats on the DVD.

Steve

 

There is a rumored track listing on the Net, but they are random fan sites (all with the same track listing), so I don't know how credible they are. If the track listing they show is accurate, its missing a lot of hits.

It looks like in addition to the 2-CD set and the 2-DVD set there is a single CD set.

 

Official Promo Commercial

Despite what is heard in this ad and described previously, www.madonnatribe.com has revised the list of versions included on this release. "Like A Prayer," "Express Yourself" and others are no longer listed as being from The Immaculate Collection.

 

"Express Yourself" is being listed as the video edit. At least there's something new

But what's up with all the 'LP edits' This isn't going to be like a K-tel album with early fades is it

 

That's good news. I really don't like those mixes.

I love the video version of "Express Yourself" so I'll have to get this now.

 

This was the rumored track listing that I've seen a few (unofficial) places on the Net:

CD1
“Vogue”
“Express Yourself”
“Into the Groove”
“Papa Don’t Preach”
“La Isla Bonita”
“Everybody”
“Lucky Star”
“Holiday”
“Like a Virgin”
“Borderline”
“Material Girl”
“Crazy For You”
“Open Your Heart”
“Cherish”
“Like a Prayer”
“Justify My Love”
“Deeper and Deeper”
“Erotica”
“Rain”

CD2
“Celebration”
“Music”
“Get Together”
“Frozen”
“Hung Up”
“Ray of Light”
“Beautiful Stranger”
“Don’t Tell Me”
“Hollywood”
“Human Nature”
“Secret”
“Take a Bow”
“American Life”
“Die Another Day”
“Sorry”
“4 Minutes”
“Give It 2 Me”
“Revolver”

Where is: "Live to Tell", "Dress You Up", "Angel" "Burning Up", "True Blue", "Bedtime Story", "Who's That Girl", "Causing A Commotion", "Me Against The Music", "This Used To Be My Playground", "Oh Father", "The Power of Goodbye", "Something to Remember", "You Must Love Me", "Fever", etc.?

I hope this is not the actual track listing... not bad for two cds, but grossly incomplete (not that it could be complete with two CDs but I would take to or three off this reported track listing if I could and swap them out... "Hollywood"? Really?)

 

I think the Madonnatribe.com one is the official one from what Ive seen. The one you have posted has been around for quite a while but has been superseded by this more recent one at Madonnatribe.com that was posted upthread. They gave a list of sources as well. Some of these are Immaculate Collection mixes, but apparently Express Yourself is the video mix. This seems like a much more likely track list than the one you posted.

CD 1:
01) Hung Up
02) Music
03) Vogue
04) 4 Minutes
05) Holiday
06) Like A Virgin
07) Into The Groove
08) Everybody
09) Like A Prayer
10) Ray Of Light
11) Sorry
12) Express Yourself
13) Open Your Heart
14) Borderline
15) Secret
16) Erotica
17) Justify My Love
18) Celebration

CD 2:
01) Dress You Up
02) Material Girl
03) La Isla Bonita
04) Papa Don't Preach
05) Lucky Star
06) Burning Up
07) Crazy For You
08) Who's That Girl
09) Frozen
10) Miles Away
11) Take A Bow
12) Beautiful Stranger
13) Hollywood
14) Die Another Day
15) Don't Tell Me
16) Live To Tell
17) Cherish
18) Revolver

This one includes some of the tracks that were left out above. However, youre right, no 2CD compilation could ever be complete.

Steve