Moonbeam said:

Me too. When American Life was new, that was my favorite. Things have reverted back a bit in recent years though. It'd be something like...

1. Erotica
2. Ray Of Light
3. American Life
4. Bedtime Stories
5. Like A Prayer

1. Like A Prayer
2. Madonna
3. Erotica
4. True Blue
5. I'm Breathless

Tho' I haven't been listening to any of them in ages...

GangstaFam said:

Like A Prayer was my Erotica, I suppose. My list is mostly based on memories, esp Nr 2 and 3 and often subject to change.

1. Ray Of Light.
2. Like A Prayer.
3. Madonna.
4. Erotica.
5. Bedtime Stories.

Cheek said:

'I'm Breathless' makes your Top 5?

SoulAlive said:

It's got Vogue, I'm Going Bananas AND Hanky Panky. What's not to love?

HamsterHuey said:

I agree,it's an interesting album,and quite a departure from the dance/pop stuff that Madonna was doing in that era.

SoulAlive said:

Good description; interesting. I totally agree. I love the experiment. I alwasy do, when it comes to Madonna.

HamsterHuey said:

+ He's A Man, Sooner Or Later, Something To Remember, More and What Can You Lose?.

SoulAlive said:

Just shut the fuck up...

As a whole Ray Of Light hasn't aged particularly well.
A lot of the production was just 2 gimmicky in hindsight.
& Those UFO's flying by (or landing, not sure) annoy me.

BUT most of the songs are fucking great
& it has Drowned World/Substitute for Love on it..
The best Madonna song when Paradise(not 4 me) is having an off day.

something like this i guess..

1. American Life
2. Music
3. Madonna
4. Erotica
5. Like A Prayer

Martinelli said:

I will forgive you.

Martinelli said:

Ik ben bezig met wat krentenbollen. Ik had inderdaad honger.

And I playing the Confessions Tour now. I feel tres gay.

1. Like a Prayer
2. Ray of light
3. Madonna
4. Music
5. True Blue

HamsterHuey said:

Yeah, I also think it has aged rather well. Still sounds phenomenal to me.

HamsterHuey said:

I was way in the back with the 40 something housewifes.

Roma is the best the iti crowd is always hot..I stood behind a sicilian midget lady who brought a suitcase 2 stand on..great atmosphere...

HamsterHuey said:

i guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that your top 5 is equal to mine.

IstenSzek said:

It's not too late to marry. We still can.

HamsterHuey said:

we'd have like an entirely duplicate recordcollection

IstenSzek said:

Easy. One hardrive in my study, one in yours; wireless internet and iPod docking stations EVERYWHERE.

1. Like a Prayer
2. Ray of Light
3. Bedtime Stories
4. True Blue
5. Erotica

True Blue holds a special place in my heart and record collection, because it's the first album (cassette) that I ever owned. #6 would probably be Confessions or Madonna. Last place is 100% reserved to American Life. I think I have as many songs from AL on my iPod as I do from the Who's that Girl soundtrack.

1.Erotica
2.Like A Prayer
3.Confessions
4.American Life
5.Ray of Light.

We are all fams

Axchi696 said:

Title track, Hollywood, I'm so stupid, Nobody knows me, X-tatic process, Die another day...

??

I must the only one that worships American Life...

JoeTyler said:

Nobody Knows Me
Nothing Fails
Die Another Day
Easy Ride...

are the only songs I can bear to listen to from that album; at the time, I'd never heard worse lyrics on a Madge release. Even the songs that I enjoy from there (Nobody Knows Me) are full of clunkers like guy/fly/sky and lives/child/died. I'll never be able to get past lyrics from American Life, I'm So Stuipid, Xstatic Process, Mother and Father, or the rest.

Hollywood is just too half-baked for my taste; perhaps another few weeks of work might have made the track salvagable. Melodically, it was a decent song, but otherwise, the song just went nowhere.

Confessions isn't a total step up lyrically, but it is better than the prior offering.

Put it this way, other than "Die Another Day" and "Easy Ride", I enjoy the rest of the American Life songs LESS than "Can't Stop" and "Jimmy Jimmy", which I think are lyrically superior. No lie.

Axchi696 said:

Well, AL is full of naïve and child-like lyrics, but that's part of its charm: sonically, the album is impeccable...