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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624790228 Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Label: Warner Bros / Wea Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea Release Date: May 22, 2001 Studio: Warner Bros / Wea Sales Rank: 6339 MPN: 47902
Album Description: Japanese remastered version of Madonna's 1986 album. Includes the worldwide classics ''Live To Tell'', ''Papa Don't Preach'', ''True Blue'', ''Open Your Heart'', and ''La Isla Bonita''. Also includes 2 remixes of ''True Blue'' and ''La Isla Bonita'. Warner. 2005.
Amazon.com essential recording: A quintessential '80s pop artifact, Madonna's third album was a huge musical leap forward and ranks with Like a Prayer and Ray of Light in the top echelon of her works. Only the title track (a bit too obviously a '60s girl-group homage) and the fine-but-nothing-special "Jimmy Jimmy" slightly lower the quality bar. Most of the songs share a jittery dance-pop sound, edgy, distracted, and nerve-jangling but simultaneously invigorating and exhilarating and almost dangerously giddy--a perfect soundtrack for the mid-'80s. Highlights include the hedonist's credo of "Where's the Party," the subtle and pretty Latin pastiche "La Isla Bonita," and, towering above all, three stunning mega-hits. "Papa Don't Preach," with its gorgeous pseudo-classical strings intro, is a sumptuous airwaves banquet, as Madonna wrestles with the have-the-baby-or-give-it-up dilemma (abortion's not in the picture) in newly gritty tones. "Open Your Heart"'s marriage of jitter-pop and wistful melody underscores the singer's yearning but forceful stance ("You better open your heart to me, buster"). And "Live to Tell" is a riveting ballad, lushly melodic yet spare and haunting--a place, as the song says, where beauty lives. --Ken Barnes
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Rating: - The first album that made me buy a movie!
I love Madonna's music.
Even though she changes direction so often with both her sound and image,I ALWAYS buy her album without even reading reviews or listening to previews because I can ... Read More
Rating: - Madonna toys with her imagine for the first time with stellar results.
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Rating: - Truth in music.
The Eva Peron voice, although hailed, sucks compared to the vocals on this LP. Madonna's vocals are pure and perfect, wrapped in the wonderful melodies. Pat and Stephen are in great form here too, add ... Read More
Rating: - True blue better than ever.
This album is magical and pure genius. With this album madonna became the biggest star in the world and has remained that way ever since. She is the greatest and most talented artist in the business not to ... Read More
Rating: - 80s Classic
A Classic ,One Of My Favorie Madonna Albums It Had 3 #1 Hits In US
- The first album that made me buy a movie!
- Madonna toys with her imagine for the first time with stellar results.