Here is another tracklist this one by Madonna tribe:
CD 1:
01) Hung Up
02) Music
03) Vogue
04) 4 Minutes
05) Holiday
06) Like A Virgin
07) Into The Groove
08) Everybody
09) Like A Prayer
10) Ray Of Light
11) Sorry
12) Express Yourself
13) Open Your Heart
14) Borderline
15) Secret
16) Erotica
17) Justify My Love
18) Celebration

CD 2:
01) Dress You Up
02) Material Girl
03) La Isla Bonita
04) Papa Don't Preach
05) Lucky Star
06) Burning Up
07) Crazy For You
08) Who's That Girl
09) Frozen
10) Miles Away
11) Take A Bow
12) Beautiful Stranger
13) Hollywood
14) Die Another Day
15) Don't Tell Me
16) Live To Tell
17) Cherish
18) Revolver

At least this one looks pretty strong. It has all the UK & US No.1s minus True Blue & American Pie (those won't be missed much anyway) and Playground (it should have been there). From the rest only 4 songs weren't massive hits:Everybody and Burning Up (definitely happy to see them included) and the weird choices of Hollywood and Miles Away.

have a hard time believing Miles Away or Hollywood will be on there.

jiorjios said:

I could live with this.

SoulAlive said:

Yeah, it's the best rumored list so far. More than half of Madonna (5 tracks) is present, which is certainly not a bad thing.

OTOH, what is up with that order? It's not in chronological order, but they still stick "Justify My Love" and "Erotica" together?

jiorjios said:

It's not bad. Some very strange choices though. And representing "American Life better than "Erotica" is a crime. Fucking "Hollywood", which I think only she really liked considering she attempted to smash it into two of her biggest hits of the 80s (something I just noticed while looking at "Remixed and Revisited"). It's not terrible and "Who's That Girl" is on there!

"American Life" is a much wiser choice than "Hollywood"...and we all can't wait to have to that video on the set. Am I right? If the video is going to be 180min, it will likely have more than the album, correct?


And happy birthday.....You old heathen!

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Madonna's as I'd like to remember her. Cute, happy, blond, from Detroit, and eating carbs!
[Edited 8/15/09 17:18pm]

jiorjios said:

1.Like A Prayer
2.The Beast Within (i consider it a totally different song from JML)
3.Oh Father
4.Bad Girl
5.Rain
6.Erotica
7.Live to Tell
8.Deeper and Deeper
9.Vogue
10.Burning Up
11.Everybody
12.Let It Will Be
13.Paradise Not For Me
14.Promise to Try
15.I Want You
16.Dance 2night
17.Nobody Knows Me
18.Nothing Fails
19.Open Your Heart
20.Holiday
21.Justify My Love
22.Sanctuary
23.Bedtime Story
24.Muisc
25.Frozen
26.Spainsh Eyes
27.This Used to Be My Playground
28.I'll Remember
29.Express Yourself
30.Secret
31.Lucky Star
32.Don't Tell Me
33.Jump
34.Heartbeat
35.La Isla Bonita
36.Look of Love
37.Intervention
38.Bye Bye Baby
39.He's A Man
40.Into the Groove
41.Gambler
42.Power of Goodbye
43.Something to Remember
44.Impressive Instant
45.Gone
46.Easy Ride
47.Causing A Commotion
48.You'll See
49.Secret Garden
50.Waiting

Happy Birthday Madge!

Happy Birthday Madge!

ehuffnsd said:

I love that version. Finally found it on cd a few years ago.

It's scary lol. Talkin about Revelations/Rapture to that mideastern beat etc.

xlr8r said:

I prefer the reversion done for the reinvention tour over the JML single remix. I love Stuart Price's synth string breakdown.

jiorjios said:

This is ok, but to include Miles Away, Sorry or Hollywood over Deeper & Deeper is an effing crime. Burning up is on there because its Guy Oseary's favourite song. The mixed tracklist could have been worse, but it still doesnt sit well with me.....but at least shes not ignored who's that girl.

CrozzaUK said:

Sorry I don't mind. it's a great, recent single. Hollywood and Miles Away, though? oh lord! there just isn't any justification for those. not only weren't they very impressive as hits, they just aren't very good songs at all. when I heard them for the first time on their albums, I just kind of rolled my eyes and said "yeah, obvious single, ho hum." that USED be a good thing, but with those two albums, it just made me think "I'm going to have to include this shit on my Madonna singles comps for the rest of eternity" when there was stuff on them that deserved it more.

The Madonna Tribe tracklist is the real thing! They have been accurate about everything they published exclusively in the last 3 years (especially tour setlists) so we better start getting used to it. I actually like it a lot, just surprised the Evita era is completely forgotten, even though Madonna still keeps giving it attention on tours.

Hopefully some of the versions there are surprises, for example "Erotica" could be CT mix, "Hollywood" the Stuart mix instead of just the regular radio edits.

LiveToTell86 said:

Cool! That tracklist isn't perfect but I can live with it.It's so cool that "Dress You Up" and "Who's That Girl" are included,plus my recent favorite "Miles Away"!!! I can't really complain.

LiveToTell86 said:

They've posted tracklists before, haven't they? It's slightly disappointing, and emphasizes some of her later shit, but ulimately that's Madonna for you. I just don't get "Hollywood" even over "American Life" (maybe cause most of YOU hate it!).

LiveToTell86 said:

As long as they give us the original versions of Into The Groove and Beautiful Stranger they can remix everything else I don't really care. I have the original versions anyway.

would really be great if the version of Hollywood is th Stuart Price version. except, you know, with lyrics. should have been the single to begin with.

VinnyM27 said:

Yeah, they posted the majority of the Hard Candy tracklist as well, which was accurate too.

About "Hollywood", they needed something to represent American Life and the title track has too much of a bad reputation, Warner surely did not allow it to be included. It's that song where she started to have problems on US radio...

I'm not sure if we can expect the original version of "Into The Groove" though, I'm betting on the TIC mix.

LiveToTell86 said:

what about just leaving it at Die Another Day? i mean, you know, the only actual HIT to be found on that album?

probably included it because of the notoroiety surrounding the 2003 VMA's and it being in a Gap commercial, so they figure people know it. on the other hand, who even remembers the Hollywood portions of those 2 things? it was all about LAV and ITG with those. promoting Hollywood just got in the way.

errant said:

I don't disagree with you, but I can see why Madonna still wanted to represent that era as much as anything else in this decade. Would it be really fair to completely ignore an album of hers only because the damage the title track and the video caused? Plus there's the "fan request" factor as well, I can see "Hollywood" being the most requested from the AL singles.

I'm actually glad it's there and that this compilation is not strictly about her chart or radio hits. This song deserved a lot more attention, and I always hated how it was relegated to a dancer interlude on the Re-Invention Tour. Even if the Stuart mix is used here that only includes the verse and the chorus, it's still better than pretending AL didn't exist.

jiorjios said:

I was thinking about "Into the Groove"....We get it...you hate Steve Bray, but don't punish us! He got that one right and Shep messed it up (with that jazzy keyboard BS!). I can't imagine they'll do that again but maybe Oakenfield might have a hand in remixing.....NO!

LiveToTell86 said:

No offense, but I hope you're wrong about nearly everything! TIC "Into the Groove"? We never had a chance to have the original on a Madonna and radio plays the original (although maybe some confused stations picked up the TIC version for two seconds). She'll really piss people off if that's the case.

As for the tracklisting, I believe they've already posted tracklisting for "Celebration" and have been proved wrong (including posting the one that excluded "Live To Tell"?). Might have been another place.

VinnyM27 said:

i doubt it. I think WB knows this is their last shot with the Madonna catalog for awhile (as for what they own, ignoring the rumors that Live Nation wants to contract the promotion and distribution of her stuff with them to WB) until they can work something out with her 5 or 10 years down the line. hopefully they aren't going to screw it up by remixing stuff.

ON THE OTHER HAND. it would be nice if Cherish was a new edit that includes the part at the end where the music drops out and it goes acapella for a few seconds. like on The Immaculate Collection. except not remixed. always felt the 7" version of Cherish was missing the very charming climax that the album version had.

LiveToTell86 said:

So fans overwhelmed her with "Hollywood" requests but said little or nothing about "Erotica"? Maybe that's all about assumption since people probably figured "Deeper and Deeper" was more of a lock?

errant said:

I totally agree about "Cherish". That was a butchering!

LiveToTell86 said:

see, if this was a box set, then I'd agree with you. everything should fairly be represented from an artistic standpoint.

but for something like this... what is clearly meant to be a greatest hits release should be comprised of nothing but the biggest hits. of course when i make my own comps, i'm very anal about following rules, etc., and most GH package compilers don't seem to be as stringent as i am about it.

hell, after hearing "Celebration" I'm not even thrilled that there's new material on there cluttering up what ought to be a career-defining hits package if this is going to be the definitive collection for the next god-knows-how long of her classic material with WB. neither of her previous best of's is very satisfying anyway, between the remixes on TIC and the stuff left off of GHV2 because of STR. and this is really the last shot for a long time to finally get it right.

but as i've said before, i'll listen to the album as it is release like, maybe once, and just plunder it for high quality digital copies of the old single edits and mixes for my own comp

if only i weren't so OCD about it. i might actually be able to sit down and listen to compilation albums without feeling the need to fiddle with and better them

VinnyM27 said:

ITG is just my guess lol, I just have the impression that Madonna finds the TIC versions more definitive than album versions. "Express Yourself" is the clear example, on iTunes, the album version is not even available, but the 8 minute long remix is sold as track #2 of Like A Prayer!

No, Tribe never posted that tracklist, they are very reliable, they would not risk their reputation. All the other rumoured tracklist were just blog and forum creations.

It's the same when the COADF tracklist was starting to leak on fansites and nobody wanted to believe that she'd have another song called "Forbidden Love".

I don't know what the deal is with Erotica requests, but I can't really believe that D&D is such an universal fan fav that would have been a lock. Also, it's very possible of course that they did not like every request, only "Everybody", "Dress You Up", "Who's That Girl" & "Hollywood".