Source.- In our new issue, Q310,we name the legends of pop's best songs. We've all seen artist best of compilations that miss of amazing album tracks, ignore rarities and even get the classics wrong, well this month we take the important business of picking what songs should feature on a best of out of the bands' hands and let our writers run riot with a few legacies.
Get our new issue next week for the full Real Best Ofs lists and our writers' reasoning behind their picks, however in the meantime we'd like to invite you to take part in some heated musical debate. For the next week or so we will be publishing two of our Real Best Ofs a day as Spotify Playlists (well, where the tracks are available, pull your fingers out The Beatles, Oasis et al) over at Facebook.com/Qmagazine. We'll be kicking it all off today with best of playlists for Radiohead and The Clash. Have a listen to our selections and let us know via Facebook what you think of them. What's missing? What would you have picked? And what you think about each act's catalogue generally?
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Madonna's Top 10 Best
1. Borderline, 1983
Her first truly great single: tense dancefloor desperation.
2. Into The Groove, 1985
Exhilarating Manifesto for the joys of clubbing: 'Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free'
3. Live To Tell, 1986
Inspired by her childhood, Madonna's best ballad is eerie. For once she sound like the vanquished rather than the victor.
4. Oh Father, 1989
Daddy issues and catholic guilt exorcised.
5. Justify My Love, 1990
A Public Enemy beat and heavy breathing make this such a good advert for her erotic capital that it should have rendered sex moot.
6. Deeper & Deeper, 1992
A far more persuasive salute to early '90s New York House than Vogue.
7. I Want You, 1995
From her cred-hopping mid '90s Massive Attack-produced Marvin Gaye cover.
8. Skin, 1998
The most extreme product of her William Orbit-midwifed rave rebirth; berserk, stream-of consciousness Levantine techno.
9. Don't Tell Me, 2000
Mirwais' production was never better than on this electro-folk number.
10. Hung Up (SDP Extended Vocal), 2005
The ABBA-sampling juggernaut that instantly reasserted her disco credentials.
I want you is Iconic, her collaboration with massive attack was a huge buzz, If I am not mistaken, they were considered in the same realm as Bjork, kinda indie electro. So it was really unexpected for them to collaborate with Madonna, as it was something very different from anything she had ever done.
thats one of her best vocal deliveries ever right there. Rarely such emotions get thru from a song. Its ****ing cool track. And the video is probably her best too.
I want you is Iconic, her collaboration with massive attack was a huge buzz, If I am not mistaken, they were considered in the same realm as Bjork, kinda indie electro. So it was really unexpected for them to collaborate with Madonna, as it was something very different from anything she had ever done.
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Originally posted by Dollhouse
thats one of her best vocal deliveries ever right there. Its ****ing cool track. And the video is probably her best too.
Contemporary critics have praised it before..
Its brilliant.
for me it will always be one of her horrendous AC ballads along with Live to Tell, I'll Remember, Crazy for you etc
finally some recognition for this amazing song.