
And we're all a little surprised:
Disc 1 - Hung Up / Music / Vogue / 4 Minutes / Holiday / Everybody / Like A Virgin / Into The Groove / Like A Prayer / Ray Of Light / Sorry / Express Yourself / Open Your Heart / Borderline / Secret / Erotica / Justify My Love / Revolver
Disc 2 - Dress You Up / Material Girl / La Isla Bonita / Papa Don't Preach / Lucky Star / Burning Up / Crazy For You / Who's That Girl / Frozen / Miles Away / Take A Bow / Live To Tell / Beautiful Stranger / Hollywood / Die Another Day / Don’t Tell Me / Cherish / Celebration
So there you have it.
Most exciting news is the DVD release that's coming out of this:
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"The final track listing for Celebration is not out there yet and "won't be available until much closer to the release," I have confirmed from a source so powerful she could drop any Madonna fan should she so choose."
-- Matthew Rettenmund,
Boy CultureSo you fans of "Live to Tell" and "Who's That Girl" hold on--we're still not confirmed.
As for the source, I'm gonna go with Liz Rosenberg as my guess.
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Matthew Rettenmund and
DrownedMadonna posted word about the tracklisting for Madonna's 3rd best-of (and 5th compilation total) that's due in September.
There are no surprises as to what made it on--in fact, it's one of the most legitimate lists ever in terms of "does this count as a hit?" status. What's something of a surprise is that a solid chunk of Madonna's best material is ignored. True fact:
The Immaculate Collection and
GHv2 already exist to cover much of the material that is again being released for this 2-CD set. But ...
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In 1994, Madonna released a very R&B-themed
Bedtime Stories, which also featured some of her very first dabbles in electronica. From the leaked demo Shep Pettibone-penned "Love Won't Wait," or the eventually released b-side "Your Honesty," you'll hear that Madonna was going for an occasional old-school disco sound in addition to the friendly R&B and lite electronica. One track, "Don't Stop" is actually the only really hold-over from the sound, and it's a good change of pace on a really great album. It sounds like with
Confessions Madonna finally got to make her dark disco album, and
Hard Candy
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The new Madonna song:
"4 Minutes" features a minute-long intro from Timbaland that does nothing to really introduce the track... the lyrics don't make any sense: "We only got 4 minutes to save the world." Save the world from what? Why do you have 4 minutes? Is the idea that this song is the last hope to save the music world or something? 'Cause, well, you lost. And you only had 4 minutes and wasted 1 on Timbaland robotically saying the main line over and over? Talk about slacker saviors.
It's not an awful song. The horns are cute, if dated, and sound a lot like Missy Elliot 4 years a...
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