Confessions On A Dancefloor

Amazon sold this album from their good value Web audio downloads section for 79p, though I think it was part of their January sales in 2009. It's about time Amazon downloads were available to British people at home, thanks at last Amazon.The downside is you have to Fast Forward / Rewind rather than picking tracks. Mmmm ... this was 79 pence for the whole album. Thank you Amazon. So if you're a miser or poor, or miserly for an album by Madonna, this is great value. Why not splash out with 79p and get the non-stop mix of Confessions on a Dancefloor from wonderful Amazon...?This is a really strange album. I'm sure that's what was intended. 'Let's make a retro album to get them' - or 'double wonder retro' it's someone imagined from the retro world or 'a retro world' doing retro - 'to get them' - like those strange avant-garde artists who want to provoke a reaction of getting under your skin or something. Whilst also, you know, this piece of art disco music being a natural sort who just slowly crafts earthenware pots as a cottage industry in his backyard. It's worthy too, actually.It is disco. Really obviously, with no identity concerns. It's certainly not house music, which some Madonna music can be a subset of. While it's modern club music as much as disco music, dance music based clubs (meaning 'non-mecca', or better, those living on the line in time which dated from rare groove and house in the 80s, sometimes called more underground clubs) aren't likely to play this much. 'Mecca' is an ancient British term for a popular dance venue, weekly fun location for many more dancers than any other dance venue type, and also an often hugely derided type of disco club. 'It just wasn't cool!'. And also, they just weren't cool at all, very frequently (that's me!) - also good places at times. Mecca goers would have loved this slow disco music, it would have fitted, though it's so much more serious and greater than most of the rest of Mecca hall popular tracks.'Confessions on a Dance Floor' is though for every dance hall, cool clubs for a change, and the ghost of Mecca places too. Why not? They were fab at times too. And it would be funky in every dance hall, maybe not of the very best songs heard on that night.It's certainly worth experiencing Madonna's conceptual throwback art for 79 pence. This album is so strange and contrived it's hard to say it's good or bad. But it's certainly interesting. And you can certainly enjoy doing dancing. Do dancing, it's good, it's serious, it's fitness and it's you, it is because you've started and you will find it worthwhile.What's more, as the conceptual artists involved know so well, it's a social event kind of thing - this happened, you know. This really went and made big. So hear it. Hear the times inspired by past times. It's lovely. O.K. it's a bit more complex than that alone: Be involved in something a bit left of centre, a bit right of centre in being almost vacuously left of centre just in itself, which you should take notice of - that's what they made in essence, exactly that, from the drawing board. (Perhaps its right of centre first, then left, Canadians will tell you differently etc ...)But it's also fine, so that doesn't always count. And of course it's a bit better than that too, quick rewinds in your head of what you've just listened to confirm there is quality in there. Just not TOO much. Why it's fun, really.The album starts with the clock ticking, like going back in times I guess, then 'Time goes by ... so slowly' and I think that's because these people are still back there in the 70s and early 80s in this album. It doesn't matter that that last sentence doesn't make any sense, it's all in some science fiction disco world where it does make sense.And, it's serious. It doesn't want to be great. And so you don't have to let it be. It doesn't want to be anything - it has integrity as well as being contrived, this paradox is part of its nucleus of identity. I don't know if it's possible to let it be great. I can't tell, truly.I reallly need to add also that (as well as some quite clinical retro stuff which has quality) there are few classics on here - for example 'Get Together', with a production with a house tip and nodding to 70s, 80s, 90s slow techno, and techno pop influences is excellent. This song will easily fit among the top half in a single album of 10 tracks of Madonna's greatest tracks. The other thing I need to say is the example of what sounds like it could be a pretty wonderful song, 'Future Lovers', given a backing and rhythm arrangement which sounds only like the conceptual part of this album expressing that this stuff is 'been there, done that', for our notebooks. I think that's a shame. The next song 'I love N.Y.' makes it clear that everything's not good and bad though - just is, maybe without value, and there's the value (!), however hard and gritty and disappointing this may be to accept. The educational value of conceptual art. You know, it's not a good school though (to me at least), the minimalist, low key, has been, grungey quality of 'I love N.Y.' is again selling the production which Madonna's interpretation deserves far short. Conceptual art plan has lifted a low charting grungey rock techno pop song from a low chart position in 1982 and played it back underneath Madonna's fine, atmospheric, characterful vocals.Generally Madonna is singing very well indeed on this. It's also a great theatre space the great lady is playing at. It's a further annoyance though that really great production arrangement elements are often followed by really naff elements.If you have really good speakers, I know from experience that this album can be a really amazing experience, much better than with headphones. I don't have great speakers at the moment, but it's giving joy.Despite the disappointing parts I mentioned, there is so much interesting stuff here, and a great deal of quality that the mix album just about deserves five stars. I hate to be relative and draw attention to the fact this is in the handful of better albums of the last 4 or 5 years, and there haven't been many better albums in recent times. But that's nothing to do with its 5 star ratings. A highly recommended album. Most interesting. Most rewarding and indulgent to experience. A true element of value of rich, modern culture, whenever it was actually first conceived.

For me the best of the Madonna albums - its continuous 'dance' pop beat is great for those long car journeys.

An upbeat, fast paced and feel good factor CD album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is by far the one and only album I can truly dance to! I just love the morals in the tracks entitled "Hung Up", "Sorry", "Let It Will Be", "Jump", "Push" and "Like It Or Not", while the badass lyrics from "I Love New York" such as "If you don't like my attitude, then you can 'f' off!" always make me laugh! Also, singing along is not at all difficult, since Madonna's voice is clear cut and she really sounds as if she herself had great fun making these songs, which is what makes me feel happy to let loose on the disco floor (which is in my bedroom). One track that I find particularly gorgeous in terms of dancing has got to be "Isaac"; there are whole sections of haunting Egyptian or Arabic music that conjure up memories of when I used to go belly-dancing and put me back in the mood. I can never finish with this CD without feeling that sense of elation that comes with doing an immense dance workout, which makes me admire her all the more when I see her strutting her stuff over on her Youtube videos (and there are a lot of these), so you have to hand it to this Queen of Pop, she really is an incredibly physically fit woman for all of the dance routines she's produced to go with music as addictive as this! I am well pleased with this purchase; it arrived really quickly and in excellent condition, including a nice little booklet showcasing some up close photos of the lady herself (I absolutely love the red hair)!

Very happy with it!!! And its the pink vinyl. Which it makes it better

Recently, I read a review in a newspaper of Madonna's performance at the USA Grammy Award show. The reviewer was joking at her outfit, calling it "gym-clothes like Olivia Newton John in 'Physical', Barbie-makeup and Farrah Fawcett-hair" and having an embarrasing dance correography. I really don't think that the reviwer fully understand what it is Madonna is doing on this, her latest CD. Well, perhaps he is to young...For me who are 45+ year - about the same age as Madonna - I vividly remember the '80s where she was a trendsetter and the moving icon of Disco. The video for the first track on the CD "Hung Up" shows an mid-age lady, dancing around in a gym, following the rythmns of the ABBA-track. And she is dreaming herself back to the days where she was young and heard that track for the first time - could move like the young.This is the key to the record, and the title of the CD also says so: Madonna is confessing the story of her life. "Hung Up" is the start (because of the ABBA who was just before Madonna and would have been an inspiration for every ambitious artist in the '80s), and the last track named "Like it or Not" is a powerfull end-of-statement.In between these two tracks you'll get the musical of Madonna, spiced up with (some time well hidden) references to some of her major hits. I can easily hear references to both "Frozen" and also to "Like a Prayer". But there are more direct references to her life, naturally "I Love New York" with the extremely dry synth sound and also "Isaac" with the Semitic chanting. I believe it to be Hebrew (the male singer seems to me to chant the words "im nin'alu"), and it is a clear reference to Esther's - or Madonna's - interrest in the Kabalah.The track of "Future Lovers" sounds like it was a reference to the "Erotica"-collection, but what I like the most in this track was the obvious EuroDisco synth-beat rythms. Again, very dry sounds, fat analogue monophonic KORG / YAMAHA-like synth tapestry - yes, I remember!What you should do, if you buy the CD, is to dress yourself up with tight spandex, fill your hair with a good spray to make it wild in the controlled way, get a load of candlelight, cheap beer and strange smelling tobacco, install a disco ball in the ceiling, add some coloured light and then - play this CD so loud that the blood will pour out of your ears! Don't "analyze" it - just dance!