If this reissue happens, I want unreleased tracks considered for the album. And I don't mean Supernatural. Furthermore, I've got every version of Like A Prayer, Cherish, Express Yourself and Keep It Together known to man. No need to tack on remixes like the other reissues have. There are simply too many versions of these songs for 1 or 2 to be satisfying.

MADONNA 'LIKE A PRAYER' DELUXE EDITION


DISC ONE---
"Like A Prayer"
"Express Yourself"
"Love Song"
"Til Death Do Us Part"
"Promise To Try"
"Cherish"
"Dear Jessie"
"Oh Father"
"Keep It Together"
"Spanish Eyes"
"Act Of Contrition"

DISC TWO---
"Possessive Love" (previously unreleased 1988 outtake,produced with Patrick Leonard)
"Love Attack" (previously unreleased outtake,produced with Stephen Bray)
"First Is A Kiss" (previously unreleased outtake,produced with Stephen Bray)
"Supernatural" (previously available as B-side to "Cherish")
"Like A Prayer" (12" Club Version)
"Express Yourself" (Non-Stop Express Mix)
"Cherish" (previously unreleased Hank Shocklee remix)
"Keep It Together" (Extended Remix)
"Like A Prayer" (Live Version from the Blond Ambition Tour,1990)




Madonna is stingy when it comes to remastering her albums and adding bonus tracks.How hard would it be for her to come up with something like this?? I don't think too many of her fans would complain about a remaster like this.

There is plenty of stuff to go on these remasters. The first 3 were poor, not because the sound quality wasn't remastered well, but because the extras were so shit. It would have been quite cool to have had the whole demo tape she produced with Stephen Bray on there, plus the Jellybean versions of songs such as Lucky Star and Everybody. And why Aint No Big Deal wasn't on there I dont understand. There's also Sidewalk Talk, a track Im sure there's a Madonna demo of.

On Like a Virgin, there are rumoured outtakes such as a Desperately Seeking Susan title track, and I desperately need a remastered original version of Into The Groove, perhaps even the demo as well. I understand it wasn't on the original album, but it forms part of that era. According to Nile Rodgers, Madonna had the whole album already recorded in demo form (bar Love Dont Live Here Anymore), and it sounded a lot more electronic, it would have been cool to hear some of these. In addition to that there's Crazy For You (the film version perhaps??) and Gambler.

For True Blue, there are a couple of tracks around. Firstly that Nick Kamen song she produced, im sure she'll have done a demo for that (although it is a shit song), and a couple of rumoured tracks around. It would be nice to hear some of the original demos of some of the stuff, and there's spotlight also. She could even have included remastered Who's That Girl tracks.

With Like A Prayer, I agree with all of what has been written above, although how you can include the 12" dance version and not the 12" extended version is beyond me, the 12" extended is quite simply brilliant.

I'm Breathless, there are plenty of rumoured tracks around, and considering she took 8 months to record this album, im sure there's plenty of stuff in the vaults. That and a few mixes of Vogue, the oscars performance of Sooner or Later too, there's enough even for this one to justify a re-release.

Erotica Im sure could fill a few cd's. There seem to be loads of rumoured tracks, be they working titles of stuff or complete songs. This is very much an album where i think they should tell the story of its making. By the sounds of Shep Pettibone's diaries, it sounds like quite a cool collaboration period between the two, and it would be nice to hear how some songs develop. There's also This Used To Be My Playground and Goodbye To Innocence.

Bedtime Stories, there's the B-Side Let Down Your Guard, the track Freedom, the unreleased track Love Wont Wait and also Your honesty. There are also several rumoured tracks, most of which are probably the original demos done with Shep Pettibone, Id love to hear these. That plus I'll Remember, & the orbit remix, and a live version of Why's It So Hard, this would be a wicked re-issue.


Re-issues seem to be principly to remaster the sound quality, however some acts take it as an opportunity to treat their fans and paint a greater picture of the album. I think REM are re-releasing all their Warners albums with enhanced CD's containing videos, unreleased tracks, b-sides, live performances. This is what we dream of as fans, but I know is something madonna will never do. Maybe she's stockpiling it all so that one day when she's dead a set can be released containing all her unreleased stuff, but i really doubt its of a good enough quality to do her any justice.

IMO WB have missed a great opportunity to increase the profile of these old albums. I think that Madonna's camp and the people at Warners have been really shoddy over the last few years. The single(s) choices for the last album, the fact that there's no DVD issue of the Blond Ambition and Virgin tours, that stupid random video collection they released a few years back, and making us wait for over a year to see a dvd release of the reinvention tour, all in all, its quite frustrating being a madonna fan. They should start listening to what we actually want more often.

I have no idea why she doesn't want to revisit her past for the sake of her fans.

VoicesCarry said:

Uh...Did U take a really long nap last Summer?....

Tessa said:

What was half-assed about the last 3? What did you expect for the Madonna debut remaster, for instance?

npgmaverick said:

I'm talking about REISSUES.

Madonna obviously couldn't have done an American Life tour - she had to distract attention from that record. That was a necessity, not a choice.

VoicesCarry said:

Her tour featured seven songs from 'American Life'.That tour had as much to do with that album as it did with her old hits.She wasn't exactly running away from 'American Life'.

VoicesCarry said:

Her tour featured seven songs from 'American Life'.That tour had as much to do with that album as it did with her old hits.She wasn't exactly running away from 'American Life'.

I'm just pointing out that Madonna was NOT trying to distance herself from 'American Life',or distract attention away from that album.I've seen the show three times,and in my view,it had about as much to do with the current album (and Kabbalah themes) as it did with her past hits.Thus,it was not a "greatest hits tour" per se.

DavidEye said:

No, but you must agree it was SOLD as such. She did it smartly, as usual.