| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00093624610021 | | Release Date: 11/7/1995 | | Buy.com Sku: 60144295 | | Item#: M9WY9J | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 23606 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. I Want You - (with Massive Attack) ~ Madonna |  | | 2. I'll Remember ~ Madonna | | | 3. Take A Bow ~ Madonna | | | 4. You'll See - (previously unreleased) ~ Madonna | | | 5. Crazy For You ~ Madonna | | | 6. This Used To Be My Playground ~ Madonna | | | 7. Live To Tell ~ Madonna | | | 8. Love Don't Live Here Anymore - (remix) ~ Madonna | | | 9. Something To Remember ~ Madonna | | | 10. Forbidden Love ~ Madonna | | | 11. One More Chance - (previously unreleased) ~ Madonna | | | 12. Rain ~ Madonna | | | 13. Oh Father ~ Madonna | | | 14. I Want You - (orchestral, with Massive Attack) ~ Madonna | |
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"...a good best-of compilation..." Entertainment Weekly
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | SOMETHING TO REMEMBER is a collection of Madonna's ballads. It includes two new songs, "You'll See" and "One More Chance," and two versions of "I Want You," originally recorded for the Marvin Gaye tribute album INNER CITY BLUES, which was released three weeks earlier. | | Personnel includes: Madonna (vocals); Dean Parks (acoustic guitar); Michael Thompson (electric guitar); Suzie Katayama (cello); David Foster, Jan Mullaney (keyboards); Simon Franglen (programming); Massive Attack. | | Producers include: Nellee Hooper, Madonna, Patrick Leonard, Babyface, David Foster. | | Engineers include: David Reitzas. | | Recorded at Chartmaker Studios; Brooklyn Studios. Includes liner notes by Madonna. | | Personnel: Dean Parks (acoustic guitar); Michael Hart Thompson , Michael Thompson (electric guitar); Suzie Katayama (cello); Jan Mullaney, David Foster (keyboards); Simon Franglen (Synclavier, programming). | | Audio Mixer: Dave Reitzas. | | Recording information: Brooklyn Studios; Chartmaker Studios; Los Angeles, CA. | | Photographers: Dean Chamberlain; Mario Testino. | | Arrangers: Madonna; Rob Mounsey; David Foster. | | She can dance and she can jive, and most of the time that's why you buy Madonna records. She's our real-life dancing queen. So if buying an album advertised as her "Greatest Ballad Hits" strikes you as sort of like buying acoustic Abba, you're probably not alone. | | But ever since TRUE BLUE, Madonna has displayed a keen interest in pop orchestration and smoky, soulful singing. On the breakthrough "Live To Tell," she discovered the low end of her vocal range, while co-producer and co-writer Patrick Leonard built a psychedelic swell of keyboards, guitars and sound effects around her. It was like nothing she had done before, dealing directly with dark secrets, foreshadowing an adult pop sound that she'd stick by through all the twists, turns and trends that followed. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER collects such slow and mid-tempo tracks from the various nooks in which Madonna's hidden them (though most were singles, many had showed up in album form only on soundtracks), and shows off the dark chanteuse qualities that she has only intermittently gotten credit for. | | Notice the almost Beatlesque harmonies and swooping strings of her 1994 hit "Take A Bow," the dream-like feel of the electric piano on the wistful "This Used To Be My Playground," or the epic feel of "Oh Father," which starts with a dance of classical strings before dipping to a soul-baring vocal about the causes and effects of child abuse. The three new songs on SOMETHING TO REMEMBER are formidable additions to this oeuvre. "You'll See," with its Spanish guitar flourishes and lyric about surviving a wrecked affair, is a direct sequel to "Take A Bow." "I Want You," a Marvin Gaye cover that also appears on the Gaye tribute album INNER CITY BLUES, is a stunning collaboration with UK's Massive Attack, taking Madonna into a trippy, spare realm that sounds like dub with strings. And "One More Chance" is, amazingly, almost acoustic Madonna--the dancing queen cast improbably as the strumming princess. |
Musical Guests | | Massive Attack | | David Foster |
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| | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | Through The Wilderness: A Tribute To Madonna ~ Various Artists | | Vitamin String Quartet |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 11/07/1995 | | Original Release Date : 1995 | | Catalog ID : 46100 | | Label : Warner Bros. Records (Record Label) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624610021 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (11/24/95, p.107)
- "...By placing her greatest-hit ballads...in a new context--that is, separated from her more attention-getting dance music--Madonna reinvigorates them, which is just what a good best-of compilation is supposed to do..." - Rating: AQ (2/96, p.109)
- 4 Stars - Excellent - "...the best thing she has done in many a year..." Melody Maker (11/11/95, p.40)
- "...she's obviously hoping to be remembered as sultry crooner rather than pouting disco queen....the breathless, steam-showered, snogtastic, Massive Attack-accompanied take on Marvin Gaye's 'I Want You' is irrefutably incredible..." |
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| | Bio | | As Madonna puts it, "I had no particular sense that I was going to be anything. When I was in high school, I wanted to be a professional dancer. That was my dream...dance just led to music and singing, but I did not grow up wanting to be a singer. Someone taught me how to play the guitar, and I started writing music like I was possessed. Writing songs. It was the strangest thing. I didn't know I was going to be a singer until I was twenty-four." Madonna is, of course, the ultimate icon. The musical masterpieces, groundbreaking videos, starring film roles, charitable causes, and now the greatest role of all--Lourdes' and Rocco's mom! Through the chameleon-like changes, all the controversies and clamor, and now the joys of motherhood, it seems that the modern woman of legend has done it all: singer--composer--producer--author--actor--model--mogul--you name it. Not only can she do it all; there is nothing, it seems, she hasn't tried... at least once! Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, the third of eight children in a large traditional Italian family, was named after her mother who passed away from breast cancer when Madonna was only six years old. Sylvio Ciccone raised his children not only with a solid Catholic background, but with a disciplined work ethic as well. In high school Madonna was a cheerleader and straight-A student. She fell in love with dance and sometimes spent up to five hours a day taking dance classes and working out. Upon graduation she won a dance scholarship to the University Of Michigan. Finding the academic atmosphere stifling, after a year of college Madonna set off for New York City in 1977 with just $35 and her suitcase of leotards and toe shoes. Before long she had earned a spot with the Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe and, for a while, worked as the assistant to modern dance choreographer, Pearl Lange. After struggling for several years in the dance world she began to broaden her artistic horizons. She turned her energies to music, and the rest, as you know, is a historical and legendary work in progress...
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