I'll play! I have to do it countdown-style as always.

11. I'm Breathless
10. American Life
9. Bedtime Stories
8. True Blue
7. Erotica
6. Like a Virgin
5. Music
4. Madonna
3. Like a Prayer
2. Confessions on a Dance Floor
1. Ray of Light

I'll play too.

1 Erotica
2 Ray of Light
3 American Life
4 Bedtime Stories
5 Like A Prayer
6 Madonna
7 True Blue
8 Music
9 Like A Virgin
10 Confessions
12 I'm Breathless
13 Evita

1. American Life
2. Erotica
3. Like A Prayer
4. I'm Breathless
5. Music
6. Ray of Light

SoulAlive said:[quote]My favorite Madonna album.As someone mentioned above,"Words" is an underrated gem :music:quote]

whoa, yeah

1.Like A Prayer
2.I'm Breathless
3.Immaculate Collection
4.You Can Dance (EP)
5.Erotica
6.Bedtime Stories
7.True Blue
8.Like A Virgin
9.Madonna
10. Music
11. Ray of Light
12. American Life
13. Confessions On A Dance Floor

My Favs in that order!

alphastreet said:

There's something about "Words" that really moves me.It's hard to explain,but it sounds very sad to me.That's what I really about this album.It's a dance album,to be sure,but it's not all fun and games,it's also very moody and reflective.You can actually sit down and listen to the lyrics.Some of the songs are sad.

my favorite albums:

1) Erotica
2) Ray Of Light
3) Confessions On A Dancefloor
4) Like A Prayer
5) Bedtime Stories
6) Music
7) American Life
8) True Blue
9) Like A Virgin
10)Madonna
11)I'm Breathless

I didn't count 'Evita','You Can Dance' or 'Immaculate Collection'....I stuck with the studio albums only.

yay. great album, love the whole concept of it, along with the book,
the mindset, the video's.

still one of my fav madonna albums along with like a prayer and fcuz
ray of light.

LOVEandLIGHT said:

"I'm Breathless" is your second fav madonna album?

IstenSzek said:

What happened to your eyes?

Cheek said:

i was listening to Erotica and i got sperm in them

IstenSzek said:

Are you a shooter?

Cheek said:

i'm not talking about my own sperm you pervert

IstenSzek said:

Cheek said:

SoulAlive said:

You have some serious issues mister...putting the Madonna album almost at last!!!!

MikeMatronik said:

I'm one of the few Madonna fans on the planet who thinks that her first album is overrated

SoulAlive said:

I respected you...

mine rank like this:

like a virgin
true blue
confessions on a dancefloor
bedtime stories
madonna
ray of light
erotica
american life
music
like a prayer

Erotica
Like A Prayer
Confessions
American Life
Bedtime Stories
I'm Breathless
Music
Ray of Light
Madonna
True Blue
Like A Virgin

oops done precoffee this morning.
[Edited 8/7/07 18:46pm]

ehuffnsd said:

I gained a new respect for you.

MikeMatronik said:

C'mon, he even forgot the Music album

JoeTyler said:

Please don't distract me from my hatred for the LAV album!

JoeTyler said:

give me a break i had just gotten up and hadn't had coffee yet.

Chart (1992) Peak
Position
Australia albums chart 1
Austria albums chart 10
Canada albums chart 3
France albums chart 1
Germany albums chart 5
Japanese albums chart 5
Mexico albums chart 8
Norway albums chart 11
Portugal albums chart 3
Spain albums chart 1
Switzerland albums chart 5
UK albums chart 2
USA Billboard 200 2


Certifications
Country Certification
Australia 3x Platinum
Austria Gold
Brazil Gold
Canada 2x Platinum
France Platinum
Germany Gold
Italy 2x Platinum
Japan Platinum
Mexico Platinum
Netherlands Gold
Poland Gold
Singapore 2x Platinum
South Africa Gold
Spain 2x Platinum
Switzerland Gold
UK 2x Platinum
USA 2x Platinum

Erotica is a concept album about sexuality and relationships. Each track explores a different facet of sexuality, usually involving sexual relationships. Lyrically, the album does not tie sex and sexual relationships with the traditional ideals of romance. A dance record by all accounts, the album showcases hip hop and jazz-affected club production from co-producers Shep Pettibone and André Betts. It is interesting to note that the song "In This Life" is based on George Gershwin's Prelude No. 2.

Madonna's intentions were that the album would be an accompaniment to her book Sex, which share the same cover photograph - a colored reverse negative of Madonna's face done à la Andy Warhol, from whom Madonna found much inspiration during her so-called "Erotica period" (for example, her "Erotica" and "Deeper and Deeper" videos were shot in near identical style to many of Warhol's films, with Madonna paying obvious homage to Edie Sedgwick in the latter). The photos included in the album's liner notes also come from the Steven Meisel Studio photographs shot for the Sex book.

The album is Madonna's first album to bear a "Parental Advisory" label (the only other albums to do so being 2003's American Life and 2007's The Confessions Tour). A separate "clean" version was released without the sexually explicit song "Did You Do It?"

Originally, "Bad Girl" was planned as the second single from the album with an X-rated video to match the '"Erotica" single, but it was changed due to the backlash of the SEX book and instead it was released as the third single.

Originally, the album was to feature completely different artwork (see right). Warner Bros. Records refused to use it, as it was too explicit. The original image is now seen in the final inlay sleeve of the album.

The final image used is identical to the SEX book foil cover, if you place the CD on the cover it is the same size and fits perfectly. Up until near the release date, the finished artwork did not include any writing on the cover and later a "Madonna" font sticker was added to the bottom right corner using the same font as the "Bad Girl" single. The new writing was added at the last minute.

The completed tracklisting was not what Madonna originally had planned, if the Maverick Records press information is to be believed: Erotica, Waiting, Rain, Deeper and Deeper, Thief of Hearts, Bad Girl, Why's It So Hard, Where Life Begins, In This Life, Words, Bye Bye Baby, Secret Garden, Goodbye to Innocence, Fever.[1] "Did You Do It?" does not appear and "Goodbye to Innocence" may have been included as a bonus track. The catalogue number for this tracklisting is the Parental Advisory version.

While Madonna had always expressed her sexuality suggestively through her art -- primarily through music and promotional music videos -- she was never as explicit as she had been during the Erotica period of her career. Erotica was one of a trio of sexually oriented mainstream projects released by Madonna or with her involvement within a span of several months. Released nearly simultaneously with Erotica was the coffee table book Sex, which featured the singer in photographs depicting simulations of sexual acts and BDSM. Less than four months later, a poorly received film titled Body of Evidence was released to theatres, featuring Madonna fully nude and in scenes engaged in simulated sexual acts.

By American cultural standards, a celebrity of Madonna's stature releasing such sexually explicit material was quite anomalous and noteworthy, and it could be argued that no mainstream American star with such immense fame has ever gone as far, before or since. In spite of the poor reception at the time of this era in Madonna's career, today many critics and fans highly respect her for what she presented during this period.
The controversial sexuality presented to the mainstream by Madonna during the Erotica period was not well received. Madonna had always been considered an expert at "pushing buttons", but many thought she had greatly misstepped here. At the time of Erotica's release, she was widely condemned in the media for having pushed the limits of sexuality too far and was no longer considered acceptably suggestive, but lewd.

Interestingly, the sexual imagery Madonna put forward in both Erotica and Sex was widely criticized for not actually being erotic, but sterile and calculating. On the subject, Madonna said to CNN's Larry King on January 19, 1999, "I didn't write a book about sex. I wrote a book that -- I mean I published a book that basically was sort of a -- an ironic tongue-in-cheek, sticking-my-tongue-out-at-society photo essay..."

Reviews of Erotica that concentrated only on the musical aspect of the album were mostly positive; Rolling Stone hailed the album as one of Madonna's best. In hindsight, both fans and critics have warmed to the album over the years, with some even considering it to be among her best work.
The surrounding massive media and critical backlash hurt Erotica's sales. While sales were initially brisk, the album didn't go through the roof as many predicted, shifting 167,000 in the first week. The album stalled over the long-term, selling a disappointing two million copies each in the USA, and Europe. Erotica also became the first album since her debut to yield no number one hits in either the UK or the USA, with the title track reaching #3, being the highest charting single from the album. In fact, the #36 Billboard Hot 100 peak of "Bad Girl" made it the first Madonna single to fail to reach the U.S. top 20 after 29 consecutive releases stretching back to "Holiday" in 1983 had done so. Nonetheless, the album produced six singles and was well received on the dance club circuit. To date, "Erotica" has shifted more than 5 million units globally.

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Ranking the albums:

1. Erotica
2. Bedtime Stories (1 and 2 somtimes switch)
3. Like A Prayer
4. Ray Of Light
5. Madonna
6. True Blue
7. Confessions on A Dancefloor
8. American Life
9. Music
10. Like A Virgin
(Evita, if it counts)
11. I'm Breathless

"I'm Breathless" isn't bad but easily my least favorite.

There seems to be quite a number of Madonna fans on the org. I enjoy several of her singles, but have none of her cds. Is Erotica good for Madonna beginners?

Rodya24 said:

I think so.

Erotica is where Madge makes the switch from a singles artist to an album artist.