Here's the 1998 Behind The Music special in its entirety.

Again, I can't fully link it, since embedding isn't allowed:

...http://vimeo.com/6752935

Thanks for the links. We're going to need q back in here to embed

30 minutes in. Great stuff.

I was going to say this is back when VH1 used to focus on music but saw they were doing a C. Aguilera BTM edition earlier tonite - from 2010, but all the same.

Erotica has a ton of great stuff--I usually prefer the original versions. It's interesting because it and Vogue before sorta marked the change in remixers when they went from constructing longer club mixes for songs that still sounded the same, and moved to re-inventing the song completely. I always loved Bye Bye Baby, though I am hardly shocked it wasn't a hit as a single.

A highlight for me still is the performance of Why's It So Hard at Girlie Show after the orgy scene (which again, hardly seems more shocking now than many music videos)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3k_s6DlEeo

Sneak peak of Girl Gone Wild video:

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The leather suit and bondage (chains represent bondage, correct?) takes me back to one of Madonna's other responses to the Sex (Erotica/JML/BoE) controversy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6FCoq349o

ETA:

Looks like there was a listening party in Los Angeles yesterday. So these are the statewide reviews and they're still rather good...

Billboard: http://www.billboard...006416552.story

Five minutes after an aerobic workout on the dance floor, we're in her private booth, where she's spilling her guts about relationships and how things just didn't turn out the way they planned. Then, another five minutes later, we're back to dancing up a storm to a song like "Gang Bang."

Yes, "Gang Bang."

The track is one of the album's many stand-outs. It's a dark, throbbing tune that is twisted and surprising and altogether pop-tastic. (Yes, that's a word.)

"Gang Bang" Commence freaking out, hard core Madonna fans, as "Gang Bang" is the song you've been waiting for. It's dark, clubby, driving, thumping and altogether sickening. (Meaning: It's fantastic, y'all.) Consulting our notes, the scribbles include the words "OMG," "dubstep breakdown" and "GOD THE BEAT." So yeah, it's freaking amazing.

Examiner: http://m.examiner.co...ght-on-steroids

• Our favorite track on the album is “Love Spent,” an amazing electro-ballad that is beautifully sung and produced. We were told that an acoustic version of the song is set to be released.
  
• Our second favorite song is “Gang Bang,” which is wild, scary, and sexy all in the same breath.

MTV: http://www.mtv.com/n...onna-mdna.jhtml

One of the highlights is "Turn Up the Radio," which sounds like it was born to be this summer's feel-good anthem. It's bright, happy and fun, all about letting go of the past. Over Martin Solveig's sunny production, Madge sings, "It was time I opened my eyes/ I'm leaving the past behind/ Nothing's ever what it seems/ Including this time and this crazy dream."

LA Times: http://latimesblogs....aline-rush.html

And "I Don't Give A," produced by Madonna and Solveig, is a Daft Punk-style banger in which she addresses divorce: "I tried to be a good girl, tried to be your wife/Diminished myself, and swallowed my life/I tried to become all that you expect of me/And if it was a failure, I don't give a ..." There's a dose of dubstep -- replete with deep bass-drop -- on the track, right before Nicki Minaj jumps in to reinforce Madonna's argument: "When I let a dude go that's his loss/I was cutting those checks I was his boss," she sings, before declaring, 'I'm not a businesswoman, I'm a business, woman."

The final of the bonus tracks is by far the most personal; called "Best Friend," it's a love letter to a former beau, and listening to it you can't help but draw the conclusion that its intended recipient is Ritchie. For someone who's so often "a business, woman," "Best Friend" is one of the most personal and moving songs of her career.

Think of Me was always my favourite off her debut album. Too bad it was never a single (then again, most songs on the album were singles).

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Edited March 10, 201213 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Never heard that one before.

When my niece was 2-3 (she was born in 1995), this was her jam. I had bought the CD single and she'd use my CD player and play this over and over. (She ruined that CD). In her pampers, she'd just hum and spin, hum and spin. Too cute. If only YouTube was around back then she'd have been immortalized and embarassed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6B418iJw5Q

She was sort of like the boy here but with more balance and passion (and just the pamper), lol.

"Give Me All Your Luvin" apparently has hit #1 on Billboards Dance/Club Play Charts. I guess in the listing that will come out on Monday. This marks Madonna's 41st #1 on the dance charts. This extends her all-time lead in this category. She's followed (Top 10 All-Time) by Janet Jackson (19), Beyonce (17), Rihanna (17), Donna Summer (16), Kristine W (16), Mariah Carey (15), Whitney Houston (13), Lady Gaga (12), Debroah Cox (11) and Jennifer Lopez (11). Very female dominated chart.

1. Holiday/Lucky Star (1983)

2. Like a Virgin (1984)

3. Material Girl (1985)

4. Angel/Into the Groove (1985)

5. Open Your Heart (1987)

6. Causing a Commotion (1987)

7. You Can Dance (LP Cuts) (1988)

8. Like a Prayer (1989)

9. Express Yourself (1989)

10. Keep It Together (1990)

11. Vogue (1990)

12. Justify My Love (1991)

13. Erotica (1992)

14. Deeper and Deeper (1993)

15. Fever (1993)

16. Secret (1994)

17. Bedtime Story (1995)

18. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (1997)

19. Frozen (1998)

20. Ray of Light (1998)

21. Nothing Really Matters (1999)

22. Beautiful Stranger (1999)

23. American Pie (2000)

24. Music (2000)

25. Don't Tell Me (2001)

26. What It Feels Like For A Girl (2001)

27. Impressive Instant (2001)

28. Die Another Day (2002)

29. American Life (2003)

30. Hollywood (2003)

31. Me Against the Music [britney Spears featuring Madonna] (2003)

32. Nothing Fails (2004)

33. Love Profusion (2004)

34. Hung Up (2005)

35. Sorry (2006)

36. Get Together (2006)

37. Jump (2006)

38. 4 Minutes [featuring Justin Timberlake & Timbaland] (2008)

39. Give It 2 Me (2008)

40. Celebration (2009)

41. Give Me All Your Luvin' (2012)

I totally forgot DCFMA was a dance club hit until I saw this list and the remix came back to me. I think Madonna should also get credit for Junior Vasquez's "If Madonna Calls (I'm Not Here)" although I don't think she wants that particular credit. She cancelled her attendance last minute for some party for him and he was pissed. Then he made this song in response and she was pissed (and has apparently never talked to him again, and is on his behind for remixes of her tunes he puts out). I remember the period this was on the NY radio stations all the time. I had thought she contributed the lines to a track and didn't realize it was an actual message and "slam" tune at the time...

Junior also went on to unofficially remix some of her songs, which pissed her off more, since he wasn't commissioned to do so.

Madonna has never forgotten her club roots, no matter where she's gone and what she's experimented with musically. It's part of the reason why she dominates this particular area.

The Dance/Club Play Chart is very diva focused, since a lot of the club culture in America is largely dominated by the gay community.

Edited March 16, 201213 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Still one of my favorites of Madonna's...remix versions that is...I remember looking for this song in stories....and finally finding it in a maxi cd single...just love this remix.....the original version was just too slow and boring for me

The dance charts mean [!@#$%^&*]==my woman Donna Summer has had her singles chart there since 1970 and as I've said, my other woman (don't worry--they don't fight) Kylie has pretty much everything she does chart there, as do the Pet Shop Boys.

since he wasn't commissioned to do so.

No commission because of his very public response to her party cancellation.

Eric, you're dismissing the list "because even [your] Kylie can chart?" Hee, tough love Kylie's only had a little over a handful of #1's (DCP) in her 25 year career despite being able to consistently chart in dance.

I wouldn't dismiss the list for two reasons, one, because that Top 10 All-Time is filled with some of pop, dance and disco's biggest names ever. Though to your point there's one chick there that I have never heard of but I barely know who Kylie Minogue is either except for that song from the 80s (Locamotion) and that other one (Can't Get You Out of My Mind). And, two, some very popular singers have had minimal success in the Hot 100 and much success on the various Dance charts and vice versa (much success in Hot 100 and little love in Dance).

Billboard's Statement on #41: http://www.billboard...006488352.story

I'm not referring to that song in particular.

Junior's unofficially remixed Madonna's songs, without her or Warner authorizing him to do so. That's part of the reason she and him haven't been able to repair their relationship.

Edited March 17, 201213 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Here another hit of Kylie's... Angela

I'm not referring to that song in particular.

Junior's unofficially remixed Madonna's songs, without her or Warner authorizing him to do so. That's part of the reason she and him haven't been able to repair their relationship.

But do you really think they would have been able to repair it after the song IF he just didn't do the remixes (and/or asked to do them)? Or did the remixing issues start even before "If Madonna Calls"?

Soapsuds, the poster disallowed embedding Did she have any other release in the U.S. that came close to the two I mentioned? I SHould Be So Lucky is one? I remember the two I mentioned well (Can't Get You Out Of My Mind went on and on and on ON the dance music stations), any other I'd have to hear to jog my memory.

ETA:

My lazy ass went to YouTube, no - I don't have any memory of it. In the 80s it was Madonna, Michael, Prince, Whitney, George, Cyndi, Annie, Boy George, Paula and Bonnie for me.

Locomotion I do remember.