As a club and former radio dance-radio station DJ, as well as a man that is completely secure in my masculinity, I am not afraid to admit that I enjoy some Madonna music. I think it’s due to my age that I haven’t really enjoyed a lot of Madonna’s stuff since “Erotica” (with the exception of “Confessions on the Dance Floor”), but when I hear a track from the early Madonna days (before the turkey skin), I can usually be found at least tapping a toe or two.
Random fact: my father and I spent Christmas morning 1990 watching the videocassette single of “Justify My Love” together. I believe we were watching it for different reasons. Maybe not. Who knows actually, my father wasn’t the chatty type. He grinned a lot, though.
I have three favorite songs by Madonna, one of them not being “Vogue”, though it was my moves to “Vogue” that got me the paid gig dancing on a speaker in a bar in Boston where I got to keep at least some of my clothes on. As I type the latter half of this paragraph, I wonder if I have ever shared this story with anyone that I call family.
I digress.
My three favorite Madonna songs (god that makes me sound gay) in chronological order are:
1. Physical Attraction, from her first album called “Madonna”. I used to have a promotional-only copy of the radio edit of this song but it’s long gone to milk crate heaven. I don’t think there was ever an official video, but there’s a live version floating around on YouTube that’s kind of nifty.
2. Deeper and Deeper, from her album “Erotica”. I have always liked the song and I used to mix this into Robin S’s “Show Me Love” when I was a club DJ. In fact, doing that very thing the other night prompted me to write this blog entry. Another quick aside, for one second you can see Madonna’s former pal Sandra Bernhard in the video.
Sandra is not the one with curly hair.
3. Jump, from her album “Confessions On A Dance Floor”. Personally I enjoy the extended mix of this song (not remix, just a longer version) and I don’t think this track got the justice on the charts that it deserved. Maybe it’s because the video was boring.
Honestly, I’m more apt to listen to a country track or something on 70s on 7 or 80s on 8 before listening to Madonna these days, but once in a while it’s fun to spin these tunes up and tap my toe a bit.
i think my favorites would be Borderline, Like a Prayer, Beautiful Stranger and Sorry. If i had to cut down to three, Beautiful Stranger would be out, but with much regret. 🙂
You were a speaker dancer? Hmm…..
I’ve never been a fan of Madonna. Most of the songs always sounded too… cultured. And by “cultured” I mean created to fit the market. But I do like the song “Don’t Tell Me” (from Music) and “Shanti/Ashtangi” (from Ray of Light) for some reasons that I can’t explain.
Yes, I was a “speaker dancer” in a bar in Boston that was gay only on Sunday nights. 🙂 Pleather and fruit of the looms. Hawt.