| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00093624058526 | | Release Date: 11/5/1992 | | Buy.com Sku: 60144941 | | Item#: MSNTCF |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Madonna (vocals); Paul Pesco, Jerome Dickens (guitar); Danny Wilensky (saxophone); James "Sleepy Keys" Preston (piano); Joe Moskowitz (keyboards, drums, programming); Shep Pettibone (keyboards, sequencing, programming); Tony Shimkin (keyboards, sequencing, programming, drum programming, background vocals); Andre Betts (keyboards, strings, synthesizer, piano, bass, drums); Doug Wimbish (bass); Anton Fig (drums); Sander Selover (programming); Donna Delory, Niki Harris (background vocals). | | Producers: Madonna, Shep Pettibone, Andre Betts. | | Recorded at Mastermix and Sound Works, New York, New York. | | Madonna released EROTICA around the same time she released her SEX book, and that's exactly what it sounds like. The title song has a sensuously static groove over which she commands, "Put your hands all over my body." "Where Life Begins" demands that you do something a whole lot more intimate (and quite unrepeatable here) to her. The CD booklet has a photo of Madonna in bondage. To get across the album's naughty feel, Madonna dispensed with the pop prettiness of LIKE A PRAYER and returned to her hard-core dance club roots. | | She and co-producer Shep Pettibone, who had made his name as a club DJ and dance remixer, craft some alluring bad-girl grooves (catch the ocean-deep bass on "Waiting") while still managing to keep things catchy. "Deeper And Deeper" is celebratory dance-pop (with a brief Latin break that nods to the music's true roots) and "Rain" stands among Madonna's major ballads. There's a strange heaviness amidst the fun, games and bondage on EROTICA, which "In This Life" goes a long way toward explaining: it's about AIDS and homophobia. At her naughtiest and most R-rated, Madonna still carries a message, and it resonates well beyond the dance floor. |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Christina Aguilera ~ Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Christina Aguilera ~ Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Aguilera, Christina | | Artists, Various | | The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Getting Into The Grooves: Madonna... ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | The Dance Floor Tribute To Madonna ~ Artists, Various | | Who's That Girl ~ Original Soundtrack | | Selections from Evita ~ Original Soundtrack | | Selections from Evita ~ Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | I'm Going to Tell You a Secret [PA] ~ Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Getting Into The Grooves: A Tribute To Madonna ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | The Dancefloor Tribute to Madonna ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Vitamin String Quartet |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/05/1992 | | Original Release Date : 1992 | | Catalog ID : 40585 | | Label : Sire Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : DDD | | UPC : 00093624058526 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (11/26/92, p.70)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...EROTICA is everything Madonna has been denounced for being--meticulous, calculated, domineering and artificial. It accepts those charges and answers with a brilliant record to prove them..."Spin (1/93, p.62)
- Recommended - "...largely poignant, reflective, and compassionate in tone..." Q (12/92, p.121)
- 3 Stars - Good - "...the substance of EROTICA resides in a range of straight-talking, almost intimate songs based, not on an idea about sex, but on experience of relationships..." Musician (1/93, p.90)
- "...ranges from the snazzy, deep house groove of `Deeper And Deeper' to the luscious, slow-tickling pulse of `Rain'..." Village Voice (3/2/93, p.5)
- Ranked #22 in the Village Voice's list of the 40 Best Albums Of 1992. |
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