No. 1 Everybody (1982) [classic, classic tune]
2. Lucky Star (1983)
3. Into The Groove (1986)
4. Who's That Girl (1987)
5. La Isla Bonita (1986)
6. Burning Up (1983)
7. Open Your Heart (1986)
8. Angel (1984)
9. Stay (1981)
10. Deeper And Deeper (1993)

Honourable mention: Dress You Up (1984), Sorry (2005) [great song, but it needs to be out longer than a year for me to justify putting it on the list, it would rank higher than "Angel" if it did]

what, no one else considers "Mer Girl" one of her top 3
best songs ever?

i remember when i first heard it. i was on my way to a
friend on my bicycle at 23:00 or something, it was dark
and chilly, i was driving through deserted countryside.

had the album on a tape (those being the last days of
the walkman) and had been listening to it on and off,
but had never reached the end of the tape yet cause i
kept rewinding songs lol.

so anyway, here i am, just cycling slowly, there's the
dark sky with the almost full moon, shining over trees
and outstretched undergrowth and on comes this song...

i had to stop

just sat there on the saddle of my bicycle and my eyes
staring at nothing, trying to focus as hard as i could
on every single sound in the song.

it floored me. it was just something i never would have
expected from her. it was so overwhelmingly different
from her other material and it felt so honest and real.

i listened to it about 3 times on that empty road there
and then went on to my friends, dead excited to make m
listen to the song.

fcuz, when they put the tape in the deck and listened
to it, the verdict was "What kinda lame crap is this?
is the song gonna start or what?".

In no particular order...

Angel
Burning Up
Till Death Do Us Part
Secret Garden
Impressive Instant
Everybody
Justify My Love
Candy Perfume Girl
Sky fits Heaven
Get Together

(10 is too damn difficult so honorable mentions go to Music, Dear Jessie, Dress You Up, La Isla Bonita, Waiting, Jump, Drowned World, Deeper and Deeper, Beautiful Stranger...ugh this is too hard!

Survival
I Deserve It
Who's That Girl
Into The Groove
Like A Prayer
Oh Father
This Used To Be My Playground
Nothing Fails
Secret
Sorry

Drowned World/Substitute For Love
I Want You (Ok, it's not a proper Madonna's song but I really love her version of this classic)
Open Your Heart
Angel
Ray of Light
Rain
Don't Tell Me
Jump
Rain
Paradise (Not For Me)

in chronological order;

like a prayer
oh father
act of contrition
human nature
bedtime story
ray of light
drowned world/substitute for love
don't tell me
nothing fails
isaac

honorable mention to
live to tell
mer girl
justify my love (beast within)
[Edited 4/15/06 10:43am]

Not necessarily in this order...

Everybody
Borderline
Like A Prayer
Vogue
Justify My Love
Crazy For You
Music
Sorry
Ray of Light
Like A Virgin
[Edited 4/15/06 11:04am]

i could be wrong, but it seems like a prayer is the most common song amongst all the lists

Take A Bow(Song used to make me Cry)
Border line
Into the Groove
Express your self
Goodbye
Ray of Light
Frozen
Vogue
Beautiful Stranger
Music

IstenSzek said:

I can see this. I really like the less Madonna-esque songs. The ones that you're surprised by. Every once in a while, in the lyrics she says really surprising things too... I love it when she takes these kinds of risks and then all the Madonna fans can say, "Oh, this is lame..."

whatta internet fucker

cborgman said:

Cuz it's her best.

GangstaFam said:

we deserve to see it again on tour!

badujunkie said:

I missed it last time around.

GangstaFam said:

i only saw a bootleg of last round.



i am SOOOOOo going here in nyc this round!!!!

cborgman said:

I still have no tix, but I'll be there one way or t'other.

GangstaFam said:

in ny??

cborgman said:

No, probably not. Although I would like to get back there soon for a visit. I'll probably see her in Chicago.

I can't believe bitch is skipping her hometown again.

GangstaFam said:

yea, as a a michigander, i was a little miffed even though i don't live there anymore

it's too hard to narrow down to 10 songs

GangstaFam said:

Is there a reason for this?

rainbowchild said:

Bitch got too big for her britches.

GangstaFam said:

I'm really puzzling over her ticket prices. I mean, what's the point? Seems a bit ridiculous, no?

dreamfactory313 said:

Choosing only 10 is impossible.

I'm really digging all of this "Who's that Girl" love.

Axchi696 said:

Very underated single, even if it did go to number one. Much like "This Used To Be..." it's one of her number ones that she tends to ignore, thus so does the public.

AndreC said:

You can "justify" that as a Madonna song. She rarely does covers but when she does....Well, I'm not a huge fan of that song. And let's take a look back at "American Pie", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" and "Imagine"...Not her best. Madonna really needs to stick to her songs IMHO.

dreamfactory313 said:

I couldn't actually come up with 10. There are a few which sort of grab me in a unique way, but the rest I can clump together in one big mass. Questions like this make me wonder if I'm really a fan or not.

This was hard to cut it down to just ten songs.
In no particular order apart from the first one

Dont Tell Me
Jusify My Love
Erotica
Human Nature
Deeper and Deeper
Jump
Bedtime Story
Like A Prayer
Music
Issac

Axchi696 said:

It's the best thing to come out of that sorta True Blue era. I remember my fam pumpin "La Isla Bonita" and "Who's That Girl" on 45. Shit's dope!