ehuffnsd said:

Next week?? On another thread,someone was saying that they saw the maxi-single at a reocrd store in Cincinatti on Saturday


I need those remixes NOW!

Visit my new website!!!



http://www.madonna247.tk

ehuffnsd said:

CHIC0 said:

hehe, I'm just bitching. I'm outing myself now as a closet madonna fan from day one.. somewhat ever since I heard the Basssline to "Borderline" for the first time I was hooked... yep, I bought all albums up until "I'm Breathleass" (one of my faves), but after that well things changed.. nothing really grabbed me strong enough to purchase another full album since then... but I'll give the new one a chance and a listen the next time I'm at the record store

and let me also add that despite her ripe age (she's even older than I am, hehe) ...well.. I'd still hit it

Tuesday Top 40 Airplay chart...7 songs from Confessions getting spins


http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...0&cutoff=1




18 MADONNA Hung Up 3471
146 MADONNA Get Together 32
147 MADONNA Sorry 32
155 MADONNA Future Lovers 29
355 MADONNA Push 4
403 MADONNA Jump 3
467 MADONNA Isaac 2

Justin1972UK said:

I just opened an account over there! I think I may have started the first thread!

JediMaster said:

It's practically a party over there! Just kidding. Thanks for the post. I'm going to email some old friends and ask them if they want to join me.

Tonight

http://music.aol.com/netw...nna/tunein

variety1317 said:

Her live concert from London is also playing on XM radio channels 20 and 81 today at 5pm eastern.

if someone records the broadcast for the those of us on the left coast who have to work that would be great!

damn...this is really the cd that you either love or hate. The reviews on Amazon.com have either been 1 star or 5 star reviews.

I personally love this cd. I feel she went back to the sound she had even before Like A Virgin, which I like. There's also potential singles

Overall, better than American Life, better than 40% of Music

I hardly ever post in Madonna threads but I am sooo loving this album I had to tell someone. I can't wait to jam this outloud. Thank you, Madge for coming back with something that I can't resist.
[Edited 11/15/05 9:04am]

JackieBlue said:

Same here. Couldn't feel her since ROL, but this one is solid work. Even "I Love New York" Eff the lyrics! Exclusive spinning for five days now.

BlueNote

There are four versions of the album on ITunes and here's how they're charting.

#1
#2
#4
#10

I brought it an hour ago. This CD sounds sooooo good. Nothing like having a CD. My headphones were rockin y'all. Great stuff!

anyone here an ICON member? what's the bonus track?

Tessa said:

It's called Superpop and I'm in the process of getting a link. Once i do i'll pm you.

jayaredee said:

you saved me the trouble of asking.



so then why am i bothering to post if i don't have to?

Can someone give a brief overview of the four different versions? Are they only available on iTunes and is the CD version the same as any they're offering?

who cares about a remix when Jacques Lu Cont does the album version?

I am kicking myself really really hard right now. I won a huge COAD poster last night and in the excitement of having the new album and single, I left it at the bar. I am hoping that the people I was talking to picked it up and see my Craigslist cry for it's return.

I'm such an idiot sometimes.

JackieBlue said:

there is the itunes version that isn't tracked.

the itunes version that is tracked

the cd

and a deluxe cd that comes out in december.

How Madonna Got Her Groove Back
Madonna is returning to her dance-floor roots for her latest triumph
By NEIL STRAUSS

Have you ever witnessed a Madonna moment?

Allow me to share one with you.

It begins with the words "nice boots." Those are the first words Madonna says to me when we meet. The next words are "I approve," letting me know that we are now in her world, where a strict code of standards and practices applies.

But this is not the Madonna moment. She is just, in her own way, being fun and friendly.

The Madonna moment comes two hours later, when she changes into knee-high silver boots for a television performance.

As she walks past, she looks down her nose at me and says, "Who's got the better boots now?"

This is a Madonna moment.

One can't help but wonder sometimes how this boy-crazy outcast from Michigan ended up selling some 250 million records worldwide. But watch her closely for a while, and that answer will come in a Madonna moment, when, despite the ego-shedding lessons of Kabbalah, her competitive nature emerges.

She is probably a good person at heart. And if not, she's at least struggling to be good. But there's a tripwire in her head, and when it's crossed, you understand that it's no accident she became one of the most famous women in the world and has retained that title for more than twenty years.

There are Madonna moments in her tour documentaries, when she refers to herself as "the boss" and "the queen" when talking with her crew and dancers. And there was a golden Madonna moment on Late Night With David Letterman in October, when Letterman offered her the smaller of two horses to ride. Mistake.

"I don't want a tiny one," she snapped. "I want a big one. I want the prettiest one. Well, I want the best horse."

Madonna moments are not bad things. They are the telltale signs of a woman who believes she deserves the best the world has to offer -- the best boots, the best horse, the best career, the best stage show, the best seat on the plane. For the most part, thanks to her confidence, intelligence and single-minded work ethic, she's gotten it.

That is, until she had her first experience with mortality a few months ago. In a well-reported incident, Madonna attempted to ride an unfamiliar horse at Ashcombe, the eighteenth-century estate in western England that she shares with her husband, director Guy Ritchie. She fell from the horse, breaking eight of her bones. It was the first time she'd ever broken a bone and a wake-up call to her own vulnerability.

"It was the most painful thing that ever happened to me in my life, but it was a great learning experience," she says. She is sitting on a private plane that is taking off from a Royal Air Force base south of London. Its destination is Germany, where the members of Green Day will soon experience a Madonna moment of their own.

Madonna version 2005 is a woman in flux. She is part spiritualist, part narcissist; part provocative sex symbol, part children's-book author; part artist, part mother; and, thanks to her new aerobi-disco look, she is part retro, part futuristic. She doesn't even live in one place; she spends most of her time in London and has homes in New York and Los Angeles. She is a contradiction. And she will always be one. This is because her true genius is a facility for learning. She is a quick study. One of the only things consistent about her career is her ability to absorb and incorporate knowledge at an alarming rate, allowing her to stay one step ahead of critics, competitors, fans and trends. Some accuse her of being pretentious since she started speaking in a British-tinged accent, but rather than being an affectation, it is simply further evidence of her adaptability and spongelike nature. Before I leave her presence, she will actually count on her fingers the things she's learned from me. I've served my purpose.

Her new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, integrates the lessons she learned from her previous album, American Life. Perhaps her most poorly received album (unjustly so), this was Madonna restyled as a pop-culture Che Guevara and anti-materialist girl, brooding about her life and the culture she's part of. It is her folk album. Confessions on a Dance Floor is the antithesis.

If American Life was for the head, Confessions is for the feet. It is pure groove. It is her equivalent of a mash-up album. It takes snippets from forty years of dance music (Giorgio Moroder, Tom Tom Club, Abba, Pet Shop Boys, Stardust, the Jacksons), mixes in snatches from her own back catalog ("Like a Prayer," "Papa Don't Preach," "Die Another Day") and filters it all through club-cool electronics in a nonstop mix. At the helm is Stuart Price, who in addition to being the musical director on Madonna's last two tours is an English DJ, remixer and recording artist (known as Les Rhythmes Digitales) who is equal parts Beck and Daft Punk.

Even in a form-concealing black sweat shirt, Madonna looks thin and fragile. At forty-seven, she cuts a more spartan and elegant figure than the navel-bearing, crucifix-dangling, hair-moussing Madonna who burst into the national pop consciousness in 1983. She is now Esther, Madge, Lady Madonna with children at her feet, or, as her staff calls her, simply M.

"Do you want to see where the bone broke?" Madonna asks as we talk about her horse tumble.

She pulls her sweat shirt aside and proudly displays the battle scar: a collarbone that, at its midsection, disconnects and juts up into the skin.

"She's broken hers, too," Madonna says, gesturing to Shavawn, her former nanny and current stylist. Shavawn is helping her massage the bone with some sort of vibrating machine that Madonna says has helped it heal faster. "She's the person who made me get on the polo horse."

"I didn't make her," Shavawn protests.

"She did," Madonna insists. "It's her fault."

"I didn't," Shavawn repeats.

"Because she was the person who instigated it, she had to be my caretaker," Madonna continues. "She slept in the room next to me the whole time."

"You're guilting her out," I protest in Shavawn's defense. Even though Shavawn is laughing, inside she must feel bad. Who wants to be responsible for breaking their boss's bones? That is, assuming they like their boss, which Shavawn clearly does.

"I don't have to," Madonna says. "She guilted herself out."

Suddenly, Madonna sounds a lot like my Jewish mother.

It is at this point that I notice the carry-on bags that both Madonna and her manager have brought on the airplane -- they are both filled with popcorn. I make a note to ask about it later, when we're not on the subject of medical emergencies.

Despite being taken to the hospital, Madonna says that the day after the accident, she decided to take a helicopter to Paris for her birthday. Hopped up on morphine, she felt little pain.

"I'm a lot of fun on morphine," Madonna says with a laugh. "At least I think I am." She pauses and looks at Shavawn for confirmation. "But I'm not fun on Vicodin."

Her manager, Angela Becker, who is also sitting on the plane along with Madonna's hair and makeup team, clarifies. "Do you know the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?" she asks. "I've never seen a transformation like that in my entire life."

"I only tried Vicodin once," Madonna says. "I was in a lot of pain, and everyone kept telling me to try Vicodin. But they kept saying, 'Be careful. It's so amazing. You're going to get addicted.' So I called five people to get advice before I took it, and they all told me I was going to love it."

"She went on a walk with me," Shavawn blurts, as she packs up the bone machine. "And it was really scary."

"Drugs have a weird effect on me," Madonna continues. "They do the opposite with me. I just chewed the entire inside of my mouth. I bitched at everybody. And I was in more pain. It was the worst experience of my life. So I'm happy to say that none of my pharmaceuticals -- and I had a plethora of them given to me -- influenced me."

Madonna's lack of interest in drugs is another reason for her success: The biggest career killer is the mixture of a person who's very confident in her judgments with drugs that impair those judgments.

"I just like the idea of pills," she says as she stretches her legs on the wall of the cabin. "I like to collect them but not actually take them. When I fell off my horse, I got tons of stuff: Demerol and Vicodin and Xanax and Valium and OxyContin, which is supposed to be like heroin. And I'm quite scared to take them. I'm a control freak."

Just the other day, Madonna was in Portugal, where she obsessively rehearsed the first live performance of her undeniably catchy electropop single "Hung Up" thirty times for the MTV Europe Music Awards. The result: She not only stole the show but, nearing fifty and wearing a leotard, still managed to be the best-looking woman on the stage that night.

For Madonna, whose stage productions have become as career-defining as her albums, the next project is to start planning a tour for the new year. "I want to make people feel like they're inside a disco ball," she says, beginning a show description that in part sounds like a non-ironic version of U2's Popmart. "I want to explore the idea of making the dancers more personalities in the show and having their stories come out. And we want to devise a sound system that's surround-sound, because the standard system in a sports arena is crap for people watching, and it's crap for people onstage."

ehuffnsd said:

Thanks! I'm getting one from iTunes tonight and the CD over the weekend. I know my local retailers are gonna be sold out or have it for a million dollars. Thank God for iTunes.

ehuffnsd said:

I got both versions and i think they're both great in their own traits.
I love the mix version, but if i wanted to listen to a select track it's good to have the non-mixed version to have a finished end and beginning.

I'll end up buying the special edition as well. Madonna knows just how to rob me.

jayaredee said:

I'm sure this has been covered already but...whats on the special Edition? I saw at amazon.com that there is an extra track , Fighting Spirit. Is there a DVD with it? its Pre-selling for $27.99

ok, so i bought the cd at best buy but its the tracked version!! ugh! i didn't want the tracked version, i wanted the constant mix. is the 1 track version available in stores or is it only on itunes?

SassyBritches said:

Wait, are all the songs completely seperated? I thought that one was going to be tracked and one was going to be like Lovesexy. Now I'm confused!

Now I'm wondering which version will be in the limited edition!

SassyBritches said:

Wait, my cd was the continuous mix.. was there any indicator on the cd you bought that said it was non tracked?

jayaredee said:

Really? So it's all one track on your disc?

jayaredee said:

I bought mine at Meijer last night at midnight and its tracked.