GHV2 (Greatest Hits Vol.2) - Madonna

Advantages: Musical variation a style
Disadvantages: A highly sexual orientated album

**Before you read this, I will warn you as the reader and consumer; this album review does contain sexual references, therefore may not be suitable for a reader under the legal age or if this material type makes you feel uncomfortable** **Introduction** Ever since I was a little girl I have admired Madonna. I wasn't allowed to listen to her music very often; that was until I was in my teens. This was because of the heavy sexual references portrayed ...
...an inspirationally great person and I have so much admiration for her career and her strength. I love her tunes lyrically (now I am older) and almost every song she releases nowadays is a hit. I have a lot of her albums ranging from her first album to her latest album release of 'American Life'. I always find I can listen to Madonna regardless of my mood. Her voice has a lovely relaxing alto tone which makes her easy to listen too. This album is ... Read review

Advantages: Some good tracks
Disadvantages: Some bad tracks

...Volume 2) wasn’t, well, better. GHV2 isn’t a bad album, by most artist’s standards it would be very good. But for someone as talented and as versatile as Madonna, it seems a bit limp. Possibly Madonna put all her best songs onto her 1990s Immaculate Collection release, then found that she had only the lukewarm ones for her next cash-in, sorry, Greatest Hits album. Deeper and Deeper – Taken from Erotica GHV2 opens with Deeper ...
...I said at the start, GHV2 is not exactly a terrible album, nor is it even a bad one. But Madonna is not famous for making ‘not bad’ records; she’s famous for making brilliant ones. When you look at Bedtime Stories, Something to Remember, True Blue and the self-titled debut Madonna, this seems like a very poor comparison. With the exception of Drowned World/Substitute for Love and possibly Beautiful Stranger, there are no tracks ... Read review

Advantages: Music, The Power of Goodbye
Disadvantages: Erotica and so on and so forth

...superstar’s career. That aside, GHV2 is by no means volume two of the timeless Immaculate Collection – a soulless package of Madonna’s back catalogue, it failed to make the same impression on the charts, and was in fact one of Madonna’s least successful albums. One of the problems with GHV2 is its lack of “x factor”. Nearly every track on the Immaculate Collection was an anthem of one sort or another, with an ...
...older tracks a fresh appeal. GHV2 has none of this appeal. It covers some of the most uninspired periods of Madonna’s musical career, and the whole album lacks any order or methodology, with a random track listing that bears no accurate relation to the chronology of the music. Even more disappointing is the lack of any new material – whereas the Immaculate Collection spawned the hit singles Justify My Love and Rescue Me, everything on ... Read review

Advantages: Another great collection
Disadvantages: Erotica is a poor track

...which showcased her earlier work. GHV2 is a collection of her music from the last 11 years since the release of the aforementioned 'Immaculate Collection'. The time between the two albums saw Madonna go from media darling to the target of a huge backlash and back to media darling again. Most of it her own doing I must add! The album kicks off with the upbeat 'Deeper and Deeper' which was featured on the widely disliked 'Erotica' album. This is a ...
...reels in the fans who loved her old material. 'Erotica' is taken from the album of the same name which I have just mentioned, and it is the track which I would say could be left out of this selection and the standard of the album would not suffer in anyway. The song was brought out at the same time as the highly controversial book of photos 'Sex', and I think that this was a direction Madonna deliberately took to try and shock people, but in my mind ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent pictures inside
Disadvantages: No Rain

Madonna has been around for twenty years, and she will be around for probably another twenty years, and this album pinpoints why she managed to carry on changing her image and music. This album reached number 2 in 2001 (beaten by Westlife!) and fell out the charts quickly unlike her previous Greatest Hits, The Immaculate Collection, still visits the charts and has sold 40 million copies worldwide and counting. Why is this? This is a strong album ...
...out and her tours were very successful. This album was promoted everywhere (I still have postcards from restaurants advertising it). Most people say that it was September 11th which did it (it came out a week later) and America was under scutiny. I don't think this. I don't know what it is, but this isn't it. Another problem I have with this album is that it is missing many a Madonna hit. The ones I would have added would have been Rain and American ... Read review