Like A Prayer - Madonna

Advantages: An album crammed full of talent and beautiful music
Disadvantages: The last two tracks mean that the album limps to the finish

...world, and Madonna stuck out like a sore thumb because she actually had something to say. The title track 'Like A Prayer' is a classic track, but one which caused many problems for Madonna. She was criticised by the church and religious people the world over, and even many of her less devoted fans felt that she had crossed the line of decency, but it was only a song after all..and a good one at that! The mix of rock, pop and gospel works very well ...
...has also dated very well. Like some of the songs I have mentioned, this also had an unforgettable video, and featured a beautiful child on an idyllic beach with Madonna and her cropped blonde hair. 'Dear Jessie' is a song which I love if it catches me in the right mood, but if I am feeling even the slightest bit irritable then it grinds on me big time! It is the kind of song I would play to my daughter and I just know that she would love it! There ... Read review

Advantages: Full of great tracks
Disadvantages: Forget the last two songs!

Like A Prayer is by far and away my favourite album by Madonna, and probably rates as one of my favourite albums of all time. Before you dismiss my music tastes immediately, I shall try to explain some of the reasons why I like the album so much. Like A Prayer was released in 1989 at a time when pop music was struggling a bit. The charts had been taken over by the various signings of the Stock Aitken and Waterman camp, most notably by Kylie Minogue. ...
...1. The title track, Like A Prayer, had been heralded in a blaze of publicity - which I am sure was what Madonna and her record company wanted. The video, sponsored by Pepsi, featured a busty brunette Madonna cavorting with a black Jesus amidst burning crosses and gospel singers. It was an exciting video - and an epic song. It is probably my favourite track on the album because it complements Madonna's voice so well, and I love the arrangement. The ... Read review

Advantages: entertaining and enyjoyable
Disadvantages: you have to buy it

...‘Like a Prayer’. Like a prayers material is varied from song to song and shows her true feelings and emotions. It was her first break from teenybopper pop that she had been doing before into controversial issues and she really does ‘express herself’. So what makes this album so good? Lets have a look… 1: Like a Prayer (5.51) This song when released caused a huge stir. It was meant to originally be on a Pepsi advert. ...
...Over al the song sounds like one big struggle. It is about a bad patch in a relationship when you are not sure if the person is just playing with you or trying not to hurt you. Its not very good and I normally skip this song to one of the better songs on the album. 4: Death Do Us Part This is one of my favourite songs on the album. Its about a marriage that has gone wrong. He doesn’t love her anymore and she loves him too much to leave. It ... Read review

Advantages: absolutely everything
Disadvantages: nothing, its madonna

Critically acclaimed, massively popular, this album literally caused a massive stir, not only for its wonderful songs with their meaningful lyrics, but for its blatant blasphemy(well, this is Madonna I'm talking about). This album is one of those rare ones, where every track is as good as the singles released. First on the album is the title, "Like a Prayer". No one could possibly do justice to the overwhelming grandeur that is this song, and not ...
...toward her confusion(to put it nicely) toward the Catholic church. The video is equally breathtaking, while it courts bad publicity, it is in itself a faultless piece of cinematic art. Whew. So that being over, the rest of the album moves along seamlessly. "Express Yourself" is a lively, purely pop song, demonstrating "girl power" way before the Spices. Difficult subjects are dealt with aplomb, divorce in "Till Death Do Us Part", child abuse in ... Read review

Advantages: classic tracks such as Like A Prayer, Cherish etc.
Disadvantages: Love Song with Prince is a bit disappointing

...I was able to get Like A Prayer for free, and it's much more satisfying. For me, Like A Prayer is Madonna at her most confident, and there's a great mix of traditional upbeat Madonna songs as well as contemplative ballads and more experimental tracks. The lyrics are also more intelligent than on Music, and seem to reveal a lot more about Madonna herself. Here's the track listing: 1. Like A Prayer - one of my favourite Madonna singles of all time, ...
...heard it, this track sounded like very simple play it by numbers pop, but the lyrics are actually about Madonna's marriage to Sean Penn and are quite dark. Gets better and better the more you listen to it and is reminiscent to me of the late, great Dubstar. 5. Promise To Try - a song about dealing with her mother's death, the lyrics are again powerful and moving and the musical arrangement is understated. One of her best ballads ever, I would say. ... Read review

Advantages: .
Disadvantages: .

...life, but once I said Moby was Welsh and like a prayer, Madonna believed me. What precludes is late 90s popular music, not to be confused with late (any definition, but preferrably one of the word late; the dictionary - mine at least - offers quite a few definitions I'm sure, but it would mean opening the book and stopping typing and I want to pretend to be Hunter S Thomphone, at least until I the song says at least one more time) 90s pop music, which I s like late 90s popular music, not like late 90s popeular music, and evolves Moby more than Chris Isaak, much to the chagrin of many hotels, both of the blue variety, and those of other colours, pleased that someone made it out of the ghetto and might break down a few barriers to ease their path to money and sluts. Sluts eh? Sluts eh? I said to mine, I said, I said "Slut where you go slut... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Every track's a winner!!!
Disadvantages: NONE!

...of the 1980's. It's then back into jamming pop terriotry with the delicious, Open Your Heart which Madonna performs brilliantly, sufboarding neatly up and down those familiar, catchy arrangements. The sultry, Latin effects on La Isla Bonita is one of her most compelling recordings of that era. Madonna's smooth, lush delivery gives the wonderful musical arrangements an extra spark. Fantastic! In early 1989 Madonna came up with one of her more controversial outings with the startling religious and spiritual undertones on Like A Prayer. The video to this classic was eventually banned but Madonna had made her mark and Like A Prayer is another of her most definitive classics. The gospel backing vocals along with Madonna's crisp, distinct performance is absolutely divine! The red hot funk sounds of the electric and spectacular, Express... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Some cracking forgotten tracks revisited and some great new material
Disadvantages: The odd weak link caused by bad selection choices

...for the whole albums as I'll end up having loads of duplicates. Without a doubt, The Immaculate Collection was a fine work of art - it was released just at the right time, shortly after the success of Like a Prayer back in '89 and featured virtually everything from her well known 80s repertoire that you'd expect it to house. GHV2, on the other hand, was something of a disappointment. This was down in my opinion to a combination of Madonna not having the wealth of cracking material that she had at her disposal for her first best of and also down to some pretty poor compilation choices by her record label - what the hell was Don't Cry For Me Argentina doing on there when there were so many other far better singles/B sides that could have taken its place. But that's another story. Something to Remember was released in 1995 and hence sits snugly... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful