Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Madonna
The Immaculate Collection
(WEA, 1990)
Truly the best of best of’s: From 1984’s Holiday to 1991’s Rescue Me by the former Mrs Ritchie.
This has to be right up there with Abba Gold as a collection of singles so deeply ingrained in the collective consciousness you’ll know every track, even if, like MOJO’s editor, you’d really rather not. But there is no denying the pop nous behind Ms Ciccone’s first 15 years of hits, here brilliantly packaged in, gasp, chronological order (terribly old hat these days – but why?!). It’s a period of her career so closely identified with the MTV generation it’s virtually impossible to hear these singles now without mentally rerunning her equally impressive video collection, in which Madonna variously enacts Catholic pyschodrama for Papa Don’t Preach; dark eyed exoticism blown in from La Isla Bonita (aided by a guitarist who may or may not be the long haired one from Charles And Eddie and recasts Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as a high-camp manifesto for girl power-in-a-monocle for Express Yourself (simultaneously launching the career of Fight Club director David Fincher). It’s no wonder both Madonna and Hollywood saw no reason why she shouldn’t be a successful actress – she’s certainly capable of outstanding performances. If only she’d stayed in London, we might have seen her in Chicago by 2010 (right after Dani Behr’s run ends).
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 02/12/2008
Further Listening
Madonna – The Ultimate Collection DVD (Warner Music Video)
U2 – The Best of U2 1980-1990 (Island)
Abba – Gold (Polydor)
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A wonderfully consistent disc. Full of romance, naughtiness, danceable grooves. Yes, the best!
Posted by Adam at 10:11 AM GMT 11/12/2008 Report Abuse
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Throughout her life, from Blonde Ambition to Evita all the way up to MDNA, Lady Madonna does the happy/sad balancing act. Like a Gymnast/Icon on her balance beam with guitar, Madonna's art is ballet in miniature from Detroit via London and back. This-Immaculate-let's call it Ciccone's Shakespeare period is based on 17 chapters/psalms of a certain Kabbalah Bible! Madge can do joyous dance concertos
-Holiday, Lucky Star, Into the Groove, Vogue and Rescue Me. She can practise brilliant and good sex-Justify My Love
-and turn it into art. She evokes the sadness of Wallis Simpson and Evita Peron in Like a Virgin, sings a Spanish lullaby to Lola in La Isla Bonita, comforts Rocco in Open Your Heart, cries to her mother in Like a Prayer, embraces love as a sacred act in Cherish, sings and cries to her audience in Crazy for You and cries her Sad and Wet Tears out of catharsis in Live to Tell. Madonna was just getting started in Immaculate so think of Immaculate as the bedrock of her unimpeachable legacy. She is brilliant, that Madonna. Long may she run forever! Namaste, Madge!
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