10 Favorite/10 Least Favorite Madonna Songs

[AshaBlack]

My 10 favs...

Secret
Take a Bow
Who's That Girl
Live to Tell
Express Yourself
Papa Don't Preach
Oh Father
You'll See
Erotica
La Isla Bonita


Least favs....

4 Minutes
She's Not Me
Incredible
Spanish Lesson
Voices
Revolver
How High
Hey You
Dance 2night
Up Down Suite

[sleeptheclock]

Wow. I'm surprised by some of the "Worst Madonna Songs" choices. La Isla Bonita? Till Death Do Us Part? Holiday? Burning Up? Nothing Fails? Deeper and Deeper? Vogue? Everybody? My head is spinning ...

I figured True Blue, GMAYL, and 4 Minutes would get cited, but I like them and personally don't think they're her worst songs. I happen to love Mother and Father, Miles Away, Cherish, and several others that are on the "worst" lists.

It's much harder for me to come up with 10 favorite songs, but Madonna does have some songs in her catalog that are pretty glaringly awful, many of which have already been mentioned. So I found it pretty easy to do a Least Favorite list. I'm sticking to songs that have been officially released in some capacity, since songs that weren't ever intended to be heard ... well, often SOUND like they weren't intended to be heard.

1. Hey You
2. Jimmy Jimmy
3. Love Makes the World Go 'Round
4. White Heat
5. I'm Going Bananas
6. I Love NY
7. Spanish Lesson (I am one of the few HC fans around here, but this song is terrible)
8. I'm So Stupid
9. Don't Stop
10. Fighting Spirit *

* I pretty much think every B-side and unreleased demo from this era is terrible, except for "Super Pop."

[Joey]

I swear I'm the only Madonna fan I know who loves "White Heat" and "Love Makes the World Go Round."

[sleeptheclock]

I could also have easily thrown "Where's the Party?" on there ... I really don't like that song at all.

[sleeptheclock]

OK, ten favorites. Not in order:

1. Live to Tell
2. Like a Prayer
3. Oh Father
4. Forbidden Love (1995)
5. Borderline
6. Into the Groove
7. I Want You
8. Frozen
9. Tie: Erotica (1992) and Erotica/You Thrill Me (2006, from Confessions Tour)
10. Vogue

Also: Express Yourself, Waiting, Paradise (Not for Me), Nothing Fails, Take a Bow, Dress You Up, Impressive Instant, Drowned World (Substitute for Love) ... and, like, a million others.

[AshaBlack]

Joey, I love White Heat!!!! I don't get what people don't like about it. It baffles me. I also like Love Makes the World Go Round

[The Seaward]

+
Drowned World/Substitute for Love
I'll Remember
Vogue
Open Your Heart
Like a Prayer
Cherish
Music
Lucky Star
Material Girl
Like a Virgin


-
4 Minutes
Gimme All Your Luvin'
Candy Shop
Revolver
Isaac
Love Don't Live Here Anymore
Jimmy Jimmy
Where Life Begins
Spanish Lesson
Like it or Not

[waitressboy]

Wow. I'm surprised by some of the "Worst Madonna Songs" choices. La Isla Bonita? Till Death Do Us Part? Holiday? Burning Up? Nothing Fails? Deeper and Deeper? Vogue? Everybody? My head is spinning ...

It says "least favorite songs".
And I am tired of Vogue.

[Faust]

Favorites:
Human Nature
Impressive Instant
Frozen
Like a Prayer
Beautiful Stranger
Forbidden Love ('05)
Promise to Try
Vogue
La Isla Bonita
Nothing Fails

Dunno about Least Favorites off the top of my head. Except for 4 Minutes, of course.

[bongohead]

1. Frozen
2. Live to Tell
3. Like a Prayer
4. Hung Up
5. I Want You
6. Shanti/Ashtangi
7. Secret
8. Paradise (Not For Me)
9. Everybody
10. Vogue

Honorable Mentions: Forbidden Love (2005), She's Not Me


1. I Know It
2. Push
3. I Can Be Your Lover/Sister/Mother/Uncle/Grandma/Step-Child/Etc.
4. Cry Baby
5. Incredible
6. Candy Shop
7. Celebration
8. American Pie
9. Don't Stop
10. American Life (everyone says it's the atrocious rap, but it's really the awful production)

Dishonorable Mentions: Nobody Knows Me, Thief of Hearts, Jimmy Jimmy, Love Don't Live Here Anymore

[sleeptheclock]

Dishonorable Mentions: Nobody Knows Me

This is apparently some kind of fan favorite, but I never understood the love for it. It sounds like Madonna at her most out-of-touch, despite the solid performance during the RIT.

[bongohead]

sleep, I think it epitomizes everything that I found wrong with American Life. Heavy cacophony of production noises without cohesive music, hammered home by preachy lyrics that's the opposite of self-aware. In short, an unfinished piece.

[The Seaward]

I really love American Life as an album. It's probably her most personal and I think it's quite cohesive. However I can totally understand the problems most people have with it. For me though, it's quite solid.

[sleeptheclock]

^

I like AL as an album a lot as well. It just has some very high highs and some very low lows.

Even the songs that don't work for me have interesting features, though, whether in terms of the production or the vocals. I really like her vocals on this album, and I thought Mirwais was a great producer for her.

[Driver]

I swear I'm the only Madonna fan I know who loves "White Heat" and "Love Makes the World Go Round."

I love White Heat and I'm a huge Madonna fan

Least Favorite:
Push
Words
Hey You (never even listened to the whole thing)
Beat Goes On
Like it or Not
Take A Bow
In this Life (not that i don't appreciate it. it's just low on my giant list of favorites)
4 Minutes
Spanish Lesson
I guess..Jimmy Jimmy

Favorites (with a lot of trepadation and anxiety):
Get Together
Causing A Commotion
Into the Groove
Inside of Me
Sky Fits Heaven
Lucky Star
Heartbeat
Nobody Knows Me
Keep it Together
Angel