Great!! I had not the chance to listen to them yet, but it's soo great. Let's dicuss it!

btw, "The Game" ist the first AL-outtake!!

Before I get too excited, I found a torrent with a whole bunch of leaks. How many of these are real?

1. Ariosa (Wonderland Theme) (True version from Orbit himself)
2. Dear Father (Leaked this summer. Erotica era demo song)
3. Get Together (Original Bagge & Astrom demo. Very different from the final) (Leaked this summer)
4. History (Land Of The Free) (Leaked this spring)

NEW leaks:

5. Is This Love (Bon D'Accord) From the 2005 'Hello Suckers' Musical project - later radically reworked into Voices on Hard Candy
6. Keep The Trance (Final 2005 Mix) (Very different from previous leaks. The final version of this song)
7. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room (ABBA Cover recorded with Orbit during Ray Of Light sessions) incl. instrumental take.
8. Liquid Love (Final Edit) (Again, VERY different from the previous leak. This version was intended for the Music album
9. The Game (American Life song that never made it) (And also the FIRST American Life era demo to surface)

TRON said:

yeah, they're all real. You could also add the PHarrell Williams demos for HC!!

Is it just me, or is the concept of "leaking songs" getting old to anyone?

graecophilos said:

details please.

***"Is This Love" (unreleased song from 2005)


***"The Game" (unreleased 2002 song)


This one leaked many years ago,but for those who haven't heard it yet...
***"I'd Rather Be Your Lover" featuring Tupac (unreleased 1994 version)

***"Liquid Love" (a different mix...recorded in 2000)

***"Keep The Trance"(a different,final mix of this 2005 song,which is an outtake from Confessions on a Dancefloor)

***"Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" (unreleased 1997 song from the ROL sessions.It's an Abba cover)

***"Get Together" original demo version (2005)---This is the version that producers Bagge and Astrom recorded with Madonna,but she wasn't totally satisfied so it was re-worked by Stuart Price.

***"History (Land Of The Free)" (a different mix of the 2005 track that was left off the Confessions on a Dancefloor album)


***"Dear Father" (a 1992 outtake from the Erotica sessions)

TRON said:

I think he's referring to Pharrell's early demos of two Hard Candy tracks...

***"Spanish Lesson"


***"Heartbeat"

PW did a demo for "Ring My Bell"... asWELL

They're both really nice....better than "Angel passing through....". The Game is a bit melody-less, but Is This Love, the original version of Voices - is really nice. Its strange to hear just her voice and guitars - they're the most demo like songs ive ever heard of hers. Makes me wonder if they were recorded live, just her & mirwais platying guitars?

Actually they sound so similar - i wonder if the Game really is an AL outtake. Maybe they were both for the musical. Id never heard of the Game before it leaked, nor Is This Love!
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yes, well X-Static Process comes nearest to it soundwise, no?

But who says that The Game was written with Mirwais? Maybe Stuart? Monte Pittman?

There are many songs we don't know about. Just think about als those rumoured Bedtime Stories songs... and suddenly there was "Your Honesty".

Is this love is maybe the best song the bitch ever wrote!

Matronik said:

i wouldn't go that far... but actually those two songs gave me more respect for her as a songwriter. I bet she didn't write them on her own - like 95% of her songs.
But I like the fact that Madonna sometimes seems to write songs... to express herself. and not just with a commercialpurpose in her mind. you know what I mean?

Man, those songs made me wanna listen to Prince's acoustic album from 1996 (what's its name?) and Lauryn's Unplugged album.

graecophilos said:

Dude...One more chance is one of my favorite M songs of the 90's!

Matronik said:

i don't like it that much. For me it's an artificial acoustic song. Madonna didn't play the guitar back then and David Foster...?? For me itÄs just a song produced as a guitar song.

The Game made me listen to American Life again... I liked it in 2003 very much, but though I prefer Hard Candy I quite like AL!

graecophilos said:

Dude AL is the Ziggy Stardust of Pop music!

HC is the Black tie White noise of Pop music













































Bedtime Stories is pure shit!

what's Black tie White?

and I LOVE Bedtime Stories. It's my third favorite M album!

graecophilos said:

She re-used a lot of lyrics from "Is This Love" into "Voices" but that one only has Timbaland and company credited, so I'd think Madonna wrote this song on her own. If it was done with someone else, they would be credited, like Joe Henry on "Devil Wouldn't Recognize You".

The other one is probably written with Mirwais, as most of the American Life songs.

CrozzaUK said:

After listening to "Is This Love",it makes me wish that Madonna would include more ballads on her albums! She sounds really sincere on these songs...without all the trendy beats,bells and whistles.I'm hoping that her next album will include at least three or four really good ballads.