By Keith Caulfield | July 27, 2013

"Everybody" is still one of my faves from her. I have it as a single on CD. The instrumental was dope too.

Borderline was the first song I heard from her, then I saw the video and I was hooked.

the album was going to be titled Lucky Star and this is the original,withdrawn artwork

getxxxx said:

http://theatlantic.com/en...er/277974/

Good read. Thanks! There's some nice music nuggets in there.

I really enjoyed this article. I always wondered why Madonna was so impatient to release Like A Virgin (in interviews) and wanted to perform "Like A Virgin" on the 1984 MTV VMAs, but I see her first album and its singles were taking their sweet time on the charts.

When you bring up the fact that Madonna was pushed toward a black audience, it would explain why "Physical Attraction" and songs like that were at top of the Billboard Black Singles Charts.

You can't make this stuff up. Warner Brothers really didn't know what to do with her. See, there was a subtext to Madonna that had to do with her personality. She looked like a punk rocker to a lot of people. When people at record companies, law offices, and managerial places first saw Madonna before she became an established artist, a lot of people were put off by her. They thought she was too crazy and too weird. Being a music person and a human being, I don't operate that way. I thought she was cool and different. I didn't really know if she was going to become a big star, but I thought she had something valid to say and I could help her with it. Warner Brothers didn't get it right away, but Michael Rosenblatt did.

When she took off, there was an immediate, massive shift to move in and establish business relationships with her. In the beginning, she was just this little dance artist that Frankie Crocker gave a few spins to, and some DJs out in San Francisco, and she starts creating this buzz. Then, people at the record label started putting two and two together and got five. They immediately did a 360 and welcomed her with open arms.

Her best 80s album IMO.

Holiday is the first Madonna song I became familiar with because my aunt (who used to live with us) used to sing it so much. In fact I always used to think it must be by a Zimbabwean artist. (At the time I didn't know what Madonna looked like/who she was, and I heard the song more often from my aunt than the actual recording). Anyway, to this day it still kinda reminds me of my aunt..... though much has changed since.

Man, no matter what just such a creative youthful-not matter what your age, time

Great album. Really, one of her best, even though it's her debut and she, at times, sounds her most Minnie Mouse-ish. Lol. (Incredible vocal prowess was never the point of Madonna).

Lucky Star is still one of my Top 5 Madonna songs. Think of Me is an underrated gem that I wished had received the full remix treatment (has it?).

All Madonna fans should own the "You Can Dance" album, which remixed early hits. The Holiday-Everybody-Physical attraction remix sequence is hot and the segues between songs are great. (The entire album is great (Spotlight!!), but these are the tracks from the first album.

coltrane3 said:

Great album. Really, one of her best, even though it's her debut and she, at times, sounds her most Minnie Mouse-ish. Lol. (Incredible vocal prowess was never the point of Madonna).

Lucky Star is still one of my Top 5 Madonna songs. Think of Me is an underrated gem that I wished had received the full remix treatment (has it?).

All Madonna fans should own the "You Can Dance" album, which remixed early hits. The Holiday-Everybody-Physical attraction remix sequence is hot and the segues between songs are great. (The entire album is great (Spotlight!!), but these are the tracks from the first album.

Yes, yes and yes! One of my all times faves, love Spotlight and the extended mixes of Into The Groove. I always thought M, as Queen of the Dancefloor, should release a new album that was mixed through like a live DJ club set...and then she did one with Confessions which was fantastic! I thought she should have done the same with MDNA which felt for the most part like a nightclub album to.

Madonna was so hot!