Confessions on a Dance Floor

Confessions on a Dance Floor

ASIN: B000B8QEZG

Editorial Reviews
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Apparently there's nothing in Kabbalah that disallows sweaty, head-spinningly good dance music, because here comes a flame-haired Madonna hawking a dozen songs' worth: Confessions on a Dance Floor darts seamlessly from Madge's early days, when she emerged as the genre's enduring darling, through the political, kiddie, and acoustic pap that drove a wedge between her and early adopters of the fingerless glove look. Songs like the pop-leaning "Jump" and first single "Hung Up"--an adrenaline drip on high that, like many of these tracks, will inspire mild shame among those who've thrilled to the much thinner disco-dusted outpourings of younger divas recently--represent both a return to form and an unmistakable march into the future. "Get Together" is a sonic freak-out in the best sense; "Push" traffics in gut-level futuristic trance; and "Forbidden Love" loops in '80s blips and bleeps for a follow-me-into-the-past effect that's both neo and retro. For all the image-affirming innovations here, though, these confessions find Madonna framed in her share of reflective moments too. "Was it all worth it/How did I earn it?" she asks on "How High," a song featuring vocoder. "Nobody's perfect/I guess I deserve it," comes the answer. A later lyrical inquiry is left for the listener to judge: "Does this get any better?" Madonna wants to know. But that opens the door to a dizzying proposition. Few of us would have guessed, after all, that it got this good. --Tammy La Gorce

Product Description
On Confessions of a Dance Floor, Madonna, the most popular and significant female artist in pop music, returns unapologetically to her roots. A stunning blend of musical styles with one foot in early disco and the other pointed toward the future, Confessions On A Dance Floor "is all about having a good time straight through and non-stop," says the Material Mom, who co-wrote and co-produced every track. For Madonna and music fans everywhere, the all-dance, no-ballad Confessions on a Dance Floor is a welcome guilty pleasure.

Tracks:

Hung Up
Get Together
Sorry
Future Lovers
I Love New York
Let It Will Be
Forbidden Love
Jump
How High
Isaac
Push
Like It Or Not

Amazon.com

Apparently there's nothing in Kabbalah that disallows sweaty, head-spinningly good dance music, because here comes a flame-haired Madonna hawking a dozen songs' worth: Confessions on a Dance Floor darts seamlessly from Madge's early days, when she emerged as the genre's enduring darling, through the political, kiddie, and acoustic pap that drove a wedge between her and early adopters of the fingerless glove look. Songs like the pop-leaning "Jump" and first single "Hung Up"--an adrenaline drip on high that, like many of these tracks, will inspire mild shame among those who've thrilled to the much thinner disco-dusted outpourings of younger divas recently--represent both a return to form and an unmistakable march into the future. "Get Together" is a sonic freak-out in the best sense; "Push" traffics in gut-level futuristic trance; and "Forbidden Love" loops in '80s blips and bleeps for a follow-me-into-the-past effect that's both neo and retro. For all the image-affirming innovations here, though, these confessions find Madonna framed in her share of reflective moments too. "Was it all worth it/How did I earn it?" she asks on "How High," a song featuring vocoder. "Nobody's perfect/I guess I deserve it," comes the answer. A later lyrical inquiry is left for the listener to judge: "Does this get any better?" Madonna wants to know. But that opens the door to a dizzying proposition. Few of us would have guessed, after all, that it got this good. --Tammy La Gorce

Album Description

On Confessions of a Dance Floor, Madonna, the most popular and significant female artist in pop music, returns unapologetically to her roots. A stunning blend of musical styles with one foot in early disco and the other pointed toward the future, Confessions On A Dance Floor "is all about having a good time straight through and non-stop," says the Material Mom, who co-wrote and co-produced every track. For Madonna and music fans everywhere, the all-dance, no-ballad Confessions on a Dance Floor is a welcome guilty pleasure.

Customer Reviews:

4 stars for the album, 1 for the attitude.......2007-06-30

I apologize in advance for going against the grain. The album is fine and has a lot of catchy tunes; not quite up there with Ray of Light, but okay. And let me give credit where credit is due (I don't own this album, but my friend Angela and her husband Jon always have it on in the background whenever I visit)---Madonna's vocals sound better than ever; I don't know if it's training or technology, but her voice is clear and resonant. However, I need to vent about the follies of Madonna, not the album.

M's father lives in Northern Michigan, and M deigns to visit him on a fairly regular basis. For a person who claims to be enlightened and in the know regarding spiritual matters, I think Madonna still has a long way to go. I've heard from first-hand accounts that she can treat others unkindly and even rudely (giving people the bird and verbally manhandling the owner of a lakefront house when she rented the place); this maltreatment extends to her own husband (a man who chartered a boat for the couple said she did nothing but talk her husband down the entire time, but Guy apparently took it in stride). In my book, this does not sound like enlightened behavior, much less an elightened or happy person. To those of us who aren't steadfast fans, she can come off as self-righteous, abrasive, and pathologically self-absorbed (in truth, I've had my own days of self-absorption, but at 34, I'm moving beyond that unhealthy frame of mind). She seems to be religiously confused/deluded--conflating and twisting religious symbols and ideologies until they become mumbojumbo (this remark is not against Cabalism, as I don't know enough about it to have an informed opinion). Until she actually IS practicing enlightenment, i.e., treating others with kindness and respect, regardless of who they are (famous or obscure), I wouldn't consider her a spiritual guru, but an entertainer who has a very unique and elaborate way of compensating for underlying low self-esteem.

As much as I dislike Madonna's current mindset, I am appreciative that she's helping children in Africa. That charity is enlightenment---if only she could carry that out in other areas of her life...But I thought it inappropriate for Mad'a to invite an 80-year-old man in frail health (the pope) to see her concert, knowing that the provocative images would be disturbing to him. And then to justify it with the fact that some of the profits go to charity. That's like when the senate tries to pass a bill that has a few reasonable, helpful things on it with several irrational, invasive measures on it, the bad ideas trying to use the coattails of the good ideas.

Sorry, I just needed a venue to vent about this woman. (I recognize that I am in the wrong to speak harshly about another human being, and I also recognize that I may be wrong about Mad's character, especially as I've yet to walk a mile in her Prada shoes.) I believe that Mad'a can find a new, better way to feel a sense of importance, at no one else's expense. I think Dale Carnegie's straightforward book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, can help her a whole lot more than her confusion with mysticism and incomplete enlightenment. Or if she still wants to stick with the spiritual, she can consider Solomon's wisdom: All is vanity; Our souls are restless until they reside in You, O Lord. And another equally brilliant insight from Solomon: Indeed, before You the whole universe is as a grain from a balance or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth; For You can do all things and overlook the sins of men that they may repent; For You love all things that are, and loathe nothing that You have made, for what You have hated You would not have fashioned, and how could a thing remain had it not been called forth from You? But You spare all things because they are Yours, O Lord and Lover of souls. (My dad was actually brought to tears when I shared this passage from the Book of Wisdom with him, and I also get choked up whenever I repeat it.)

This is a WONDERFUL WONDERFUL album!.......2007-06-27

One of her very best, a true GEM. From start to finish this album has it all and will MAKE you a fan, if you're not.

I wish I could add more stars.

JC.......2007-04-23

OK, honestly, I've never, ever written a review before, but I was compelled to do so with Confessions On The Dance Floor, and Madonna in general. My later teen years were all about the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, and the "rock legends" brewing in the mid-70s. Madonna came a bit later in my early adult years, her early works I found her to be very bubble-gum pop (appealing primarily to 13 year old teenage girls). During her "Like A Virgin" era I found her cute, with catchy music, and I even bought the album, but I never thought she'd amount to anything beyond the "fad of the moment". Ha ha, boy was I wrong!

Today I consider Madonna to be among the greatest Legends in rock/or pop. She's right up there with Elvis and the Beatles, and she deserves her place among them. In many ways, her talent surpasses theirs (I probably be shot with that remark, but I truly believe it to be so).

As an artist Madonna has always been totally involved with every aspect of her own career, so the end results give you nearly 100% MADONNA, as opposed to other end results that are 50% artist/50% producer, if you understand my meaning here. Madonna not only wrote the majority of her songs, but she also co-produced them, and was totally involved with the making of each and every one of her songs ~ And with her enormous output during her 25-plus year career, there aren't too many unlikeable songs.

Confessions On A Dance Floor is no exception. It is another Madonna creation that takes us back to Madonna's earlier "dance" songs. It fits in perfectly with any of her other works. It's a great record. And, unlike most other artists who have aged 20-plus years since their hey-dey, Madonna's voice sounds as lush and beautiful as it ever did ~ She looks just as good, if not better, as well. Madonna definitely has aged well!

Although I was never into Madonna "the person" so much (as I was with some of the Eagles, and most definitely Stevie Nicks), I was, on the other hand, totally into Madonna's music. She has few peers when it comes to the quality and quantity of her professional output (excepting perhaps Elton John, Paul McCartney or Bob Dylan - But each of these artists had at least 15-20 years head start on her).

Madonna has earned, and most definitely deserves her place as the most successful female artist in history, and I cannot imagine her ever losing that title.

It's nice to see her career is still a work-in-progress. I pray we continue to hear more of Madonna in the coming years. Nothing she has put out yet has been disappointing. She definitely knows how to make great records!

Nice collection........2007-04-08

Good mix of dance oriented songs. Madonna is great for keeping up with the current style of music.

Shake your Bitty. I mean, um, Booty.......2007-03-17

Whatever you think of "Confessions"---and this latest one is all about the same funky, bumpy, shake-your-moneymaker glamor-pop, club-strafing stuff that Madonna has brewed up her entire career, no more, no less---whatever you think about the beat, the vocals, the lyrics, you have to admit Madonna is a generous artist.

But wait, before we get to that: when you play this CD backwards (you can only do it with one of those modern, um, thingies, and they're hard to find but well worth it) you'll hear Madonna's confessions. They are:

1) "I'm a Kabbalist! Betcha don't know what that is!"

2) "I have feathery seventies hair! All you girls should get it, it's the latest thing! It makes me wanna shake that thang, shake it shake it shake it shake it SHAKE THAT THANG, SHAKE DAT BOOTY!"

3) "I went to Africa and all Guy Ritchie got was this lousy African child."

4) "Does this leotard make my butt look fat?"

5) "I'm just a squirrel, on the dance floor, lookin' for a Nut, to shake your Butt, to make you SHAKE IT SHAKE IT SHAKE DAT THANG, SHAKE IT ALL NIGHT!"

It's all good, though. As usual, Madonna just rocks it up old school all night long and shakes DAT booty, yo. Word. Straight up.

OK, back to the point: bottom line, Madonna is a generous artist. After all, it was awful nice of her to let her grandma strike a pose on the album cover.

JSG

Confessions on a Dance Floor [Special Edition]

Average customer rating:

This is such a excellent CD and Fighting Spirit is Great!
A Different Kind of Madonna
My wife is a die-hard Madonna fan and she loves this!
Amazing
I'm so in love with this album I just don't get tired of it

Confessions on a Dance Floor [Special Edition]
Madonna
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BJS4BM
Release Date: 2005-12-13

Tracks:

Hung Up
Get Together
Sorry
Future Lovers
I Love New York
Let It Will Be
Fordbidden Love
Jump
How High
Isaac
Push
Like It or Not
Fighting Spirit

Album Description

â€œI want people to jump out of their seats.â€ â€"Madonna On Confessions On A Dance Floor, Madonna, the most popular and significant female artist in pop music, returns unapologetically to her roots. A stunning blend of musical styles with one foot in early disco (Ã la Giorgio Moroder) and the other pointed toward the future, Confessions On A Dance Floor â€œis all about having a good time straight through and non-stop,â€ says the Material Mom, who co-wrote and co-produced every track. For Madonna and music fans everywhere, the all-dance, noballad Confessions On A Dance Floor is a welcome guilty pleasure. Special Limited Edition includes, 40 Page Picture Book, 80 Page Blank 'Journal' Book (includes some diary entries from Madonna), 1 Bonus Track, 1 month trial Fan Club Membership. Slip Case.

Customer Reviews:

This is such a excellent CD and Fighting Spirit is Great!.......2007-03-22

Don't Listen to the 1 star reviews they just hate Madonna and have not heard the album at all you can tell from their reviews. Nothing about the album but the artist Madonna. Now for a review of each song.

Hung Up: Great song which samples Gimme Gimme Gimme A Man after Midnight the 1979 hit my ABBA. There is one part in this song where it slows down and you can hear 80's sound more pronounced and you hear a clock ticking then going off with another alarm clock going off at the same time, very clever. It smoothly moves into the next song.

Get Together: The beginning sounds like Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper. She sings "Can we get together I really want to be with you" The songs gets a little fast toward the middle with again amazing 80's sounds blended in while she is singing. It ends the same way it beginns.

Sorry: She says Sorry in 5 different languages and you hear in the background "I heard it all before" repeated numerous times with each time it gets louder and she sings "I don't want to hear, I dont want to know, please dont say your sorry". She also sings "don't explain yourself cause talk is cheap" great words. Towards the end she sings forgive in a few different languages then in English. This is one of my favorite tracks and is supposed the second single.

Future Lovers: Very different sound from the whole album. This one was produced by Mirwais Ahmadzai who is credited for producing her Music and American Life album. She sings this songs in a very seductive voice and sings "would you like to try and come with me". She sings "give me evidence of this brilliance" referring to the love. This has a futuristic disco feel to it and the synthesizers they use do wonders for this song. This is also very dancebale track and one of my favorites and I hope it becomes a single too. This type of sound puts you in a trance. The music goes into I love New York and you can hear a little of Ray Of Light while blends into the next tune.

I Love New York: My favorite track. This is by far the most danceable track on this album. The beats are very intense and has a rock feel to it. This song is brilliant. The lyrics are funny. Madonna sings " I don't like cities but I like New York other places make me feel like a dork" At the end you hear cop sirens going off. She sings this song with an attitude and near the end she sings " get off of my street" several times, its just great!!

Let It Will Be: Oddly titled track beginns with the violin and is very similar to the beginning of Papa Don't Preach from the True Blue album. She sings about success and fame. The chorus part is great and I love this song.

Forbidden Love: This is the slowest track on the album but is not a ballad. This title can also be found on Madonna's Bedtime Stories Album but this one is a lot better. The vocoder is used and she sings "forbidden love are we supposed to be together" and then sings it without the vocoder. This song is also very emotional and sad. The ending ends with numbers being count backwards from 5 and during each one a love line is said. This is just a beautiful song. This songs slowly blends into Jump. The way is blends is is pure genious.

Jump: Starts extacly like the beginning of West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys. This is just a fun song and she sings "Are you Ready to jump, just take my hand get ready to jump. When she sings these lines you seriously want to get up and jump. She also sings "I work and I fight till I find a place of my own" referring back to her early years in the 80's.

How High: The vocoder is used again and it has a robotic sound to it in the beginning. Madonna sings and questions her fame again as she did in Let It Will Be and sings" was it all worth it" and "should I carry on will it matter when I'm gone". This song has grown on me a lot and has a great beat to it. It was also produced by Mirwais and Bloodshy and Avant.

Issac: A masterpiece by itself. It starts of like similar to sounds you would hear in a lullaby story and then you hear a rabbi's chanting in the back. This song is obviously Kabbalah related. Madonna sings "wrestle with your darkness angels call your name can you hear what they are saying will you ever be the same" then you hear the chorus and the chanting again then she sings other versus and the chanting and the chorus follows through again. This songs usues quite a few sounds mixed in well expecially towards the end. There is a pounding sound an a few times near the end it's amazing then the chorus. It ends with a man talking.I find this song brilliant and hope it becomes a single. This track is the longest track a little more than 6 minutes, its brilliant though.

Push: Another genious pop blend from Issac. This song has a good hip hop feeling to it and if you listen to it it does have a little rap in it. Madonna sings "You push me" then in a hip hop rap fashion sings" to go the extra mile" and "when it's difficult to smile". This song she sings to her husband Guy Ritchie. The chorus is the best part and has such a happy feeling to it and is similar to "Don't Tell Me" from her Music Album.

Like It Or Not: A nice song to end this brilliant album. She sings "this is who I am you can like it or not you can love me or leave cause I'm never gonna stop". This song is mid tempo and not really fast. It ends beautifully with the guitars. Overall I give this album an A+. I dont skip any song. I would highly recommend it if you really want to dance hard!! Also don't forget to check out Madonna's American Life album a very underrated album indeed!

Fighting Spirit: On my god, I love this song so much. It has a good message "don't let it get you down" telling people dont ever let things get you down it is a mid tempo song with excellent use of the electronica sound. It would be worth getting this CD just for that song you have got to hear it it's simply amazing.

This Special Edition also includes a pretty journal book which has Madonna's own writing in it from the song Like It Or Not, each part of it is a lyric from that song and is written at the bottom of each page and a few animations are drawn referring back to the song LION ( listen to the song and you will understand what I mean), the rest of the journal is blank so you can write your own confessions, a nice picture book from the COAD period where she also writes her own confessions which is not from any of the songs on COAD or anyone other song at all that she has written, and it gives us the definitions of what the word confession means and a one month trial membership to ICON which I think is great. You can see if you are really interested or if it's worth subscribing to just for a trial period. Overall great package. Fighting Spirit of course is another reason you should buy it because it is not included in the original COAD and as mentioned it is so good and it will help you out especially the lyrics in it if you are feeling down, had a bad day, or just feeling under the weather lately.

A Different Kind of Madonna.......2007-03-12

Madonna deserves a lot of credit for her resilience in the music industry and the ability to reinvent herself in a different style with this CD. "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is saturated with synthesizer technology and pulsing beats; all you need is the disco ball and strobe lights in your living room.

I have listened to this CD repeatedly and each time, the constant electronic groove is entrancing. The music by itself is worth a 5-star rating but some of the lyrics seem to possess a mundane prose. I mean, I wonder if Madonna actually sang these lyrics from "I Love New York" with a straight face:

"I don't like cities but I like New York.
Other places make me feel like a dork".

I know I laughed when I first heard it. In the end, it's all good, though.

I rated this CD at 4.5 stars. The packaging/blank notepad-type booklet that came with the Special Edition didn't seem necessary, because it's really about the music.

My wife is a die-hard Madonna fan and she loves this!.......2007-03-09

My wife loves Madonna and loves this DVD

Amazing.......2006-11-03

I loved it!. Amazing booklet... excelente quality!. Love the new song Fighting Spirit!!!!! :D

I'm so in love with this album I just don't get tired of it.......2006-08-26

I purchase this cd when it first came out november 15 2005 and since then I can not stop listing to it I hear it every day and it was like yesterday I ran to the store right after work and got it madonna your the best thank you for a great year to me it's my favorit cd. you should buy it if you like dance music I recomend

Average customer rating:

8 stars
Madonna is the Best!
Brilliant.
I am Hung Up on Madonna

Confessions on a Dance Floor
Madonna
Manufacturer: Wea Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000GW88ZQ
Release Date: 2006-09-04

Tracks:

Hung Up
Get Together
Sorry
Future Lovers
I Love New York
Let It Will Be
Forbidden Love
Jump
How High
Isaac
Push
Like It or Not

Tracks:

Hung Up [Multimedia Track]
Hung Up: Making Of [Multimedia Track]
Sorry [Multimedia Track]
Sorry: Making Of [Multimedia Track]

Album Description

Exclusive Japanese Limited Tour Edition pressing of her worldwide #1 smash album includes a bonus DVD (NTSC/2) featuring two videos: 'Hung Up', and 'Sorry', along with the making of both videos. This version of the album is to commemorate Madonna's first Japanese tour since 1993. Warner. 2006.

Album Details

CD Includes 12 Tracks. Dvd Will Include Video Clips and Making-of Footage of 'hung Up' and 'sorry'.

Customer Reviews:

8 stars.......2007-01-04

Back to basics! If you haven't heard the songs on this CD, and you're a fan of Madonna's, you need to get it. Its funky, fresh, lively, makes you wanna move, sexy, smart, baudy, stylin, timeless, provocative and in your face.

Madonna is the Best!.......2007-01-03

What a great cd!!! What a sound, what a rhythm! The songs remind me of my own "discotime", and I'm having so much fun listening to this music. Makes me feel like dancing! Thank you Madonna! Please move on!
But why do you put two videoclips and their making-ofs only onto the Japan-CD? Your fans do not understand that!!!

Brilliant........2006-09-29

Absolutely fantastic album from Madonna.
Well worth buying, and not just for Madonna fans.
My favourite track without a doubt is Jump, followed closely by Hung Up, Sorry,I love New York,Future Lovers and Push.
Lets hope Madonna's "American life" days are in the past, and she continues to put out dance orrientated music like this album.
This album is up there with Madonna's best work.

I am Hung Up on Madonna.......2006-09-10

This CD is to celebrate Madonna's returing to Japan for her outstanding Confessions World Tour. Because last time she was there for a tour was in 1993!
This is in my opinion one of Madonna's best albums. The futuristic dance-themed CD includes number one tracks around the world such as Hung Up and Sorry and her newest singles Get Together and the upcoming Jump. In this album she goes back to her roots as dance club goddess and boy does she deliver these tracks with some of her best vocals and lyrics. The album is non-stop dance. So when your listening to this album have your dancing shoes on.
This album, the import has a bonus DVD of Hung Up & Sorry the video and the making of Hung Up and Sorry, there could have been some interviews and other special features but we cant have everything. This CD when it was released had a promo book to it, which you won't find now because Amazon doesnt have it.
I would higly recommend this CD to anyone but this import is more for collectors. If you are a Madonna fan, who has every album or every single, books, etc. THIS CD IS FOR YOU.
But for a cheaper version, buy it here for about 12-15 bucks and you still get the same CD but w/o the bells and whistles, which you wont miss with the original cheaper version! This CD is fantastic, you have to have it and you too will be HUNG UP on Madonna!

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Confessions on a Dance Floor

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EQ5W9E
Release Date: 2006-01-24

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