#LachlanREVIEWS - Like a Prayer (1989)

[Angelus 11,476]

33 minutes ago, Lachlan said:

The album is excellent, I don't think there's any way this would've taken me years to get into.  Not sure if I'll do Erotica or I'm Breathless next; I've only done one listen of IB as opposed to like four listens of Erotica.

I couldn't connect with it, i don't know why, it felt like it wasn't Madonna album

Only last year when i bought physical copy and stared listening it while reading booklet i started falling in love with it. And I'm glad i did, i hated the fact that i disliked album so much that at one point it was actually my least favorite M album.

[Madonna 46,062]

I agree with this entire review.  

You literally stan every single one of my fave tracks (LAP, Oh Father, TDDUP, Spanish Eyes)  and I do have a soft spot for Love Song too. Glad you pointed out how it's a great midway between Prince and Madonna. I personally don't think she hates it, otherwise she wouldn't have reworked the track into Hung Up.  

Keep these great reviews coming! @Lachlan  

A nice side fact is that Confessions actually makes a lot of references to Like a Prayer and some of her earlier songs. 

[Madonna 46,062]

On 19.1.2017 at 2:16 PM, Vertigo-go said:

This album is a piece of boring trash, and I'm ready for Lil Satan and Deviltore to stick their pitchforks up my ass, and regret nothing Joan of Arc.mp3

 

Lil Satan had his way

Deviltore too

Whether they were good or bad is

Strictly up to you!  

This is who I am

You can

Like It or Not.mp3 

 

[Lachlan 18,474]

2 hours ago, Salvatore said:

I agree with this entire review.  

You literally stan every single one of my fave tracks (LAP, Oh Father, TDDUP, Spanish Eyes)  and I do have a soft spot for Love Song too. Glad you pointed out how it's a great midway between Prince and Madonna. I personally don't think she hates it, otherwise she wouldn't have reworked the track into Hung Up.  

Keep these great reviews coming! @Lachlan  

A nice side fact is that Confessions actually makes a lot of references to Like a Prayer and some of her earlier songs. 

Well talent needs to be recognised! I have a feeling you won't be agreeing with my Erotica review but we'll see.

[SeekingThrill 10,040]

14 minutes ago, Lachlan said:

Well talent needs to be recognised! I have a feeling you won't be agreeing with my Erotica review but we'll see.

When will you post it?  

[Lachlan 18,474]

1 minute ago, Neyde said:

When will you post it?  

I'm not too sure, I have the weekend off work so I can squeeze in a few more listens and type up a review but that isn't a guarantee. It'll most likely be somewhere between Monday and Wednesday.

[Madonna 46,062]

43 minutes ago, Lachlan said:

Well talent needs to be recognised! I have a feeling you won't be agreeing with my Erotica review but we'll see.

I'll be fine as long as it's below Like a Prayer and Ray of Light.  

 

[WarrenThanksYouAll 15,920]

Good review. 

I still don't know exactly what this album is about to be honest, there's a clear message of dealing with the male authority figures in her life (lover, father and then finally god - she's the one consistently being punished) and there's this other undercurrent of contrast and contradictions, hope leading to disillusions, illustrated by the dynamics of songs such as Express Yourself versus Love Song & Till Death Do Us Part. And then the mysterious reversed choir vocals in Act of Contrition... it just seems like the album deals with the concept of paradox as well, which she talked about on several occasions.

Cherish : 

I perish the thought of ever leaving, I never would

Vs. 

Oh Father : 

I got away from you, I never thought I would

Don't know exactly what she's telling us, but it's definitely intentional.

And the theme of disillusionment is displayed in the contrast between Dear Jessie (who's by the way is the name of the track's producer' baby daughter who Madonna connected with and saw her younger self in her.) and Oh Father, clearly highlighted by the following lyric "what a child will believe" and then there's the contrast between Keep It Together & Oh Father, one moment she's running away from her father and the other moment she's preaching about family values and how her father tells her she's always welcomed around? or maybe that's an ironic statement about your true friends being your family - which she bluntly states in the Blond Ambition performance  

And beside the title track, there are some concerning sexual images that she draws in some tracks, like Spanish Eyes for example... 

I light this candle and watch it throw

Tears on my pillow

Definitely an album that deserved its' critical praise, even if you don't completely understand it - it's so beautifully conducted that it just doesn't matter. 

[WarrenThanksYouAll 15,920]

55 minutes ago, Lachlan said:

Well talent needs to be recognised! I have a feeling you won't be agreeing with my Erotica review but we'll see.

You better praise the shit out of it. 

[Angelus 11,476]

7 minutes ago, Jjang said:

Good review. 

I still don't know exactly what this album is about to be honest, there's a clear message of dealing with the male authority figures in her life (lover, father and then finally god - she's the one consistently being punished) and there's this other undercurrent of contrast and contradictions, hope leading to disillusions, illustrated by the dynamics of songs such as Express Yourself versus Love Song & Till Death Do Us Part. And then the mysterious reversed choir vocals in Act of Contrition... it just seems like the album deals with the concept of paradox as well, which she talked about on several occasions.

Cherish : 

I perish the thought of ever leaving, I never would

Vs. 

Oh Father : 

I got away from you, I never thought I would

Don't know exactly what she's telling us, but it's definitely intentional.

And the theme of disillusionment is displayed in the contrast between Dear Jessie (who's by the way is the name of the track's producer' baby daughter who Madonna connected with and saw her younger self in her.) and Oh Father, clearly highlighted by the following lyric "what a child will believe" and then there's the contrast between Keep It Together & Oh Father, one moment she's running away from her father and the other moment she's preaching about family values and how her father tells her she's always welcomed around? or maybe that's an ironic statement about your true friends being your family - which she bluntly states in the Blond Ambition performance  

And beside the title track, there are some concerning sexual images that she draws in some tracks, like Spanish Eyes for example... 

I light this candle and watch it throw

Tears on my pillow

Definitely an album that deserved its' critical praise, even if you don't completely understand it - it's so beautifully conducted that it just doesn't matter. 

Why don't you open a thread where you're going to review every album?

 

 

 

 

[Angelus 11,476]

@Lachlan How can you go from LAP to Erotica without experiencing Vogue, Justify my love and This used to be my playground in between

First 2 are so important

[WarrenThanksYouAll 15,920]

2 minutes ago, Li'l Sebastian said:

Why don't you open a thread where you're going to review every album?

Maybe I will when I'm in the mood to do it, right now I'm not.  but there's tons of substance to analyze in her work, which I always like to point out in threads like this, there's so much that goes on in her albums / tours / music videos that fans just don't know of or don't appreciate which aggravates me kinda  I think it's time we start discussing things on a deeper level because her work warrants that  (well, at least pre 2010 Madonna minus the genius MDNA tour) 

[Angelus 11,476]

2 minutes ago, Jjang said:

Maybe I will when I'm in the mood to do it, right now I'm not.  but there's tons of substance to analyze in her work, which I always like to point out in threads like this, there's so much that goes on in her albums / tours / music videos that fans just don't know of or don't appreciate which aggravates me kinda  I think it's time we start discussing things on a deeper level because her work warrants that  (well, at least pre 2010 Madonna minus the genius MDNA tour) 

Why are you not in the mood for that?

I feel like we're not talking enough about ALBUMS here

When Lachlan is done with his reviews you can do yours, and i can do mine etc. By the time we all do it we will get a new album

[WarrenThanksYouAll 15,920]

2 minutes ago, Li'l Sebastian said:

Why are you not in the mood for that?

I feel like we're not talking enough about ALBUMS here

When Lachlan is done with his reviews you can do yours, and i can do mine etc. By the time we all do it we will get a new album

I'm currently listening to music that has nothing to do with popular culture, so Madonna has been thrown out of the loop for a while  I'll eventually come back to revisit her discography when I feel like I missed it and I'll probaby write reviews then 

[Lachlan 18,474]

20 minutes ago, Li'l Sebastian said:

@Lachlan How can you go from LAP to Erotica without experiencing Vogue, Justify my love and This used to be my playground in between

First 2 are so important

I have listened to all of these! Justify My Love and Rescue Me really kind of foreshadow what Erotica would be about lyrically and sonically which is nice. I did enjoy I'm Breathless a lot, as well as Playground. I'm just so eager to properly dive into her 90s albums because they're so brilliant. 

[Angelus 11,476]

2 minutes ago, Jjang said:

I'm currently listening to music that has nothing to do with popular culture, so Madonna has been thrown out of the loop for a while  I'll eventually come back to revisit her discography when I feel like I missed it and I'll probaby write reviews then 

Oh it's ok then i finally started collecting her cds last year so i kinda got into the grove and i'm revisiting her albums very often since then And I'm so glad that happened because until last year i wasn't that much in her 80s work, now i LOVE it.

 

[Angelus 11,476]

Just now, Lachlan said:

I have listened to all of these! Justify My Love and Rescue Me really kind of foreshadow what Erotica would be about lyrically and sonically which is nice. I did enjoy I'm Breathless a lot, as well as Playground. I'm just so eager to properly dive into her 90s albums because they're so brilliant. 

OMG YES QUEEN

 

You've got TASTE, that's what all the girls say

 

 

[Lachlan 18,474]

2 minutes ago, Li'l Sebastian said:

OMG YES QUEEN

 

You've got TASTE, that's what all the girls say

 

 

Just like a Lachlan, I'll take you there.

[Saiga 16,485]

6 minutes ago, Lachlan said:

I'm just so eager to properly dive into her 90s albums because they're so brilliant. 

Can't wait for your Erotica and Bedtime Stories review tbh!

[Brightflower 19,304]

Till death do Us Part is one of my favorite Madonna, seriously