1. Ray of light 2. Erotica 3. Bedtime stories 4. Music 5. Like a prayer 6. Like a virgin 7. Rebel heart 8. Confessions on a dancefloor 9. American life 10. Hard candy 11. True blue 12. Madonna 13. Mdna 14. Madame x
Thanks for sharing! Personally, feel like we tend to like a particular album more based on where we are in our own life at the moment. As we pass through the different ups and downs, we prefer different themes, and consequently her respective albums appeal more. Ofcourse exceptions exist like: Ray of Light, very hard to budge it really.
I'm so happy to see True Blue in your Top 3. It's my all-time favorite Madonna album. I adore the whole track list. Can't believe many Madonna fans usually don't even place it in the Top 5. Shame! Rebel Heart is close to my Top 5 too. I adore it but many masterpieces were cut from the final list (Revolution, Alone with You, Nothing Lasts Forever, Never Let You Go, Heaven, Queen, Trust No B*tch, Tragic Girl, God is Love)
My List: 1. MUSIC 2. RAY OF LIGHT 3. CONFESSIONS 4. AMERICAN LIFE 5. LIKE A PRAYER 6. REBEL HEART 7. BEDTIME STORIES 8. EROTICA 9. TRUE BLUE 10. LIKE A VIRGIN 11. MADONNA 12. MDNA 13. HARD CANDY 14. MADAME X
You think White Heat, Where’s The Party, Jimmy Jimmy and Love Makes The World Go Round aren’t good? I LOVE Where’s The Party? Also Love Makes The World Go Round. Check out her LMTWGR Live Aid performance and Where’s The Party on WTG world tour. They’re great songs. Musically her first albums are her best because Niles Rodgers, Stephen Bray and Pat Leonard were super solid musicians and their academic skills balanced perfectly with her instinctive talents. Also except for Niles, they weren’t famous so their sounds became hers. Unlike Mirwais, Babyface, William Orbit, Stuart Price…I sometimes wish she’d stuck with Bray and Leonard like Elton John did with Taupin but of course that’s not her style at all. Shapeshifting queen of reinvention. But musically it could have been something.
1. Debut album is a fun beginning but not particularly amazing anymore, still fun tho. 2. Like A Virgin is easily on the weaker side, the singles are (mostly) great, but those last three songs (Shoo Bee Doo, Pretender, Stay), literal filler. 😭 It would be SO much stronger if instead of those three songs it had Into the Groove (which later versions got), Crazy for You, and Gambler. 3. True Blue is already possibly the best album of the 80s, but if it lost Jimmy Jimmy, and instead gained the Who’s that Girl OST singles (the title track, Causing A Commotion, The Look of Love), as well as Spotlight and M’s original version of Each Time You Break My Heart, it would be 13 tracks of pure perfection that not even Thriller could’ve hoped to achieve. 4. The only weak song on Like A Prayer is (in my opinion) Love Song, but it contributed to the creation of Hung Up almost two decades later so I can’t hate it. 5. Erotica is perfect (I always go to the version without Did You Do It?, lol), 6. Bedtime Stories is great but I would’ve removed Don’t Stop and I’d Rather Be Your Lover and instead put Your Honesty, flows better in my opinion. 7. Ray of Light is perfect. 8. Music is perfect. 9. American Life is perfect. 10. Confessions is perfect. 11. Hard Candy is fun but not perfect. 12. MDNA is also fun (and MDNA is still her best tour imo, and yes I attended Confessions Tour in person). 13. Rebel Heart got a messy release, but if it had been organized better into a proper double album (the Rebel and the Heart sides) it would’ve been pretty damn amazing. The main problem is that it feels all over the place, but you can easily take 12 songs from it and create a more cohesive album that’s better than any pop album released by any other pop artist in the last 10 years. 14. As for Madame X, most people just didn’t understand it, but frankly I think it’s literal genius.
My ranking 1. Confessions 2. Madonna 3. Bedtime Stories 4. Erotica 5. Hard Candy (I don’t care what anyone says, this album is lit) 6. I’m Breathless 7. True Blue 8. Like a Prayer 9. American life 10. Ray of Light 11. Music 12. Like a Virgin 13. Madame X 14. MDNA 15. Rebel Heart
This was actually surprisingly easy haha: 1. Ray of Light 2. Erotica 3. True Blue 4. Like a Prayer 5. Music 6. Bedtime Stories 7. Confessions on a Dance Floor 8. American Life 9. Rebel Heart 10. Hard Candy 11. Madonna 12. Like a Virgin 13. I’m Breathless 14. MDNA 15. Madame X
To me Like a prayer is the most versatile, most personal, musically complex artistic but pure pop masterpiece with great lyrics and visuals (Like a prayer, Express yourself, Cherish and Oh father are the best music videos ever). Also great messages. Ray of light is also a genius work and Erotica was so ahead of its time. My close second and third. And American life is her most underrated album ever. I give her the fourth place. The worst album is def MDNA 90% of the songs are trash, not even the tour helped ...
1. Like A Prayer 2. Ray of Light 3. Confessions on a Dance Floor 4. True Blue 5. Rebel Heart 6. American Life 7. Music 8. Erotica 9. Bedtime Stories 10. Madonna 11. Like A Virgin 12. MDNA 13. Madame X 14. Hard Candy It still makes me so sad how Rebel Heart was so overlooked worldwide. Living For Love should have been Madonna's comeback anthem and should be one of her staple, iconic songs. Ghosttown should have ruled the airwaves and charts and award seasons. Granted, there are like 4 songs that should have never made it to the album and it probably would be one of her most perfect albums ever.
my madonna ranking as a newer fan (since 2021) 1.ray of light 2.american life 3.music 4.confessions on a dancefloor 5.bedtime stories 6.like a prayer 7.erotica 8.madonna 9.hard candy 10.true blue 11.rebel heart 12.like a virgin 13.mdna 14.madame x 15.i’m breathless
i was just thinking of how fun must be to have vynils and this just got recommended and look at that beautiful SW collection.... SW + Madonna, this is it
Its so crazy how different peoples opinions on music can be, in general, not the album. I Love New York is one of my absolute faves. Hollywood is my number 1 but i had seen someone claim that as her worst
I was just ranking the albums but ended up making mini reviews along the way lol. Thanks for the inspiration. 14. Madame X (can't stand her vocals on it and the whole thing sounds dry and overbearing. Also terrible featured artists) 13. Rebel Heart (I really don't like mid to late 2010s boring pop sounds and this album is full of them) 12. Hard Candy (agree with you, high highs and low lows) 11. MDNA (it's kind of a mess but it was the first M album I bought and I used to listen to it a lot, so nostalgia makes me a bit biased. Gang Bang is fucking deranged and I love it) 10. Like a Virgin (iconic singles but the album itself is just cheesy 80s pop music, nothing interesting about it. That said, Love Don't Live Here Anymore is breathtaking and I don't really count Into the Groove as part of it, which is obviously top 5 M) 09. American Life (Suffers from a horrendous title track which taints and misrepresents the real concept of the album, which is really just an introspection on M's part as a very rich mega popstar really, nothing political about it lol. The rest of the album is actually super interesting and showcases what M would have sounded like if she was more a singer-songwriter type of artist rather than, again, creamy smooth pop icon goddess) 08. True Blue (I don't know what to say about this one other than I like it and it's very iconic. Just not my favorite) 07. First Album (Extremely solid debut. In contrast to Like a Virgin, this one has a less polished club music sound which makes it very authentic and interesting) 06. Music (was my favorite for a while. Really weird album, very experimental at points. Perfect length and her soft understated vocal style at that time really stands out in her discography. Her mushroom album lol). 05. Bedtime Stories (Delightfully sensual and elegant. Super underrated. Secret is top3 M single for me) 04. Like a Prayer (Has some of the emotionally heavy and honest moments of her carreer and instrumentally is definitely her richest album) 03. Ray of Light (I mean, objectively it is her best. What a wonderful record and era of music in general) 02. Confessions (still sounds fresh, kind of ahead of its time really. The production is stellar, I like all the songs in it, even I love NY. And the tour. I mean, next level pop icon goddess queen behavior) 01. Erotica (Summarizes what makes Madonna a very special artist in pop music. Musically it's amazing obviously but I personally like to experience music as a multidimensional art form that has a context beyond just mere sounds which makes it all the more powerful and that's why I adore Erotica. What an era, what an album, what a moment in history)
Her best album is the one that made Madonna the Madonna we know today, and thats True Blue! Before True Blue she was a phenomenon after True Blue she became a global superstar
1/ Confessions 2/ Hard Candy 3/ MDNA / Music / American Life 4/ Ray of Light 5/ Some singles... 6/ First albums until Ray of light Very handsome RUclipsr btw
I think u, Sir, r now my Favorite Ranker. I TOTALLY agree w/ u on "Ray of Light" being Number 1 on a Chart. NEVER bought ANYTHING AFTER Confessions, though there r SOME Hits... It shall NEVER Surpass Ray of Light. The Debut Album is & STILL is one of my favorite Abums, thugh "Like a Virgin" gets a Higher Ranking. Music was the LAST Album that i purchased in the Early 2000's. I would PURCHASE Something 2 Remember OVER, say, Rebel Heart or MDNA. OK... THE LAST Album i purchased was "Finally Enough Love".... I love practically EVERY Track on thet. Thanks 4 hearing me Ramble on, lol!!
14. MDNA (Well, at least there's Masterpiece which wasn't even written for the album. Burn it) 13. Rebel Heart (I can't honestly say I've ever listened to this album from start to finish. Just no... Ghosttown and a few others keep it from the very bottom) 12. True Blue (Again, the hits are fire, but Jimmy Jimmy, White Heat and Love Makes the World Go Round? Yikes... and Where's the Party feels sophomoric and cringe) 11. Like a Virgin (Material Girl should never be played again, ever... plus Shoo Bee Doo? No, though if Into the Groove was an album track, this would be higher) 10. Like a Prayer (aside from the hits, which are among her career best, it's pretty forgettable... sue me) 09. American Life (this one's growing on me.. slowly) 08. Madonna 83 (aside from Borderline, which I never cared for, it's pretty much solid from start to finish.. it's only lower because it does feel a little dated) 07. Madame X (a return to form... not perfect, but flashes of brilliance and leaps and bounds better than her previous two) 06. Hard Candy (not sure why this gets so much hate... it's only the Timberlake tracks that suck) 05. Music (Impressive Instant! Gone! Paradise! So many tracks that could have easily been singles) 04. Ray of Light (It's a masterpiece, yes... but there are others that just eke it out of #1) 03. Confessions (deservedly considered one of her finest) 02. Bedtime Stories (criminally overlooked, not a single skip) 01. Erotica (fire, then, now and always.. but I am iffy on Where Life Begins) Some of these move around for me a bit, but Erotica will always be #1. 90s Madonna is where it's at.
Completely agree. I don't get the love for Rebel Heart. The production is such a mess throughout and feels very not Madonna while Hard Candy has excellent production for what it's trying to do and so thematic like a Madonna era should be.
I stopped reading at 13 with Rebel Heart (actuality it would've been 14 with MDNA as it shouldn't be that low, but I quickly forgave you) but I could no longer take you seriously and is unforgivable
1. Ray of Light 2. Like a Prayer 3. Confessions of a Dance Floor 4. True Blue 5. Bedtime Stories 6. Erotica 7. Music 8. American Life 9. Madonna 10. Like a Virgin 11. Madame X 12. Rebel Heart 13. Hard Candy 14. MDNA
Omg new fans need years of living with her work to really process. Ray Of Light and Rebel Heart are by no means her best work. (Ray Of Light Time has some of her best videos though) But time has shown very clearly that Rebel Heart and Ray Of Light will not have songs as impactful as Holiday, Material Girl, Like A Virgin, Dress You Up, Into The Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Open Your Heart, Like A Prayer, Vogue, Music or Hung Up. Her first albums are her best followed by Confessions. Hung Up is the only song post 2000 to left a solid impact on pop music culture. I hope Give it to me, I’m Addicted, Bitch I’m Madonna and Medellin gain such impactful influence in time but i doubt it.
If you listened to what I said, I said, these are my own personal favourites and never said this is a list of the most impactful Madonna albums, that’s a different conversation and a different list all together
@ I listened. MDNA wasn’t impactful but it’s a favorite of mine even though it was a missed opportunity in many ways mainly because of Martin Solveig’s shortcomings and M wanting to bring back Orbit on a project that didn’t fit him.The track list isn’t cohesive and the main single wasn’t memorable. But GGW and I’m Addicted should’ve been blueprints for the rest. GGW just like Living For Love feature uninspired rushed vocals that needed redos which her schedule didn’t allow. Truly great programming though on I’m Addicted. Benassi Brothers are so good. They should have done the whole thing. So I wasn’t just talking impact. In all cases to each his own. The 90’s are starting to be dissected and reinvented like the 50’s 60’s 70’s and mostly like the 80’s which are clearly the current inspo for so many artists like Chappell Roan and many others. Wait for a big 90’s RnB sound come back. And who knows what time will make of the 00’s and 2010’s. I probably won’t be here to know. Always glad when new fans dissect M’s work. I’m 56 and was lucky to work with her long ago.
Love won’t wait, let down your guard, and other songs should have made bedtime stories Shame, goodbye to innocence should have made erotica, I wish these songs made the album and then they would have been my favourite Madonna albums. I never see love for rebel heart
Like A Prayer Ray of Light True Blue I'm Breathless Confessions Erotica Bedtime Stories Madonna Music Like A Virgin Rebel Heart Hard Candy MDNA Madame X American Life
My top: 1. American Life 2. Music 3. Hard Candy 4. Confessions 5. Ray of Light 6. Erotica 7. Madonna 8. Like a Virgin 9. Rebel Heart 10. MDNA 11. Madame X 12. Bedtime Stories 13. True Blue 14. Like a Prayer Quite the opposite of yours!
Sometimes I wonder where she was going with American Life or Madame X 2 OF MY LEAST favprite albums Hopefully 2025 wont disappoint me - Finally enough love was a New favorite of mine.
My essential 8: 1. American life 2. Madame X 3. Ray of Light 4. Like a Prayer 5. I'm Breathless 6. Erotica 7. Something to Remember 8. Madonna My non-essential 8: 9. Confessions 10. Rebel Heart 11. MDNA 12. Music 13. Bedtime Stories 14. Like a Virgin 15. True Blue 16. Hard Candy
Mine would be 15. Madame X. Great concept, bad execution, the moments of music exploration are offusced by the commercialism, copy and paste of music genres. 14. MDNA. Fun but simple, there's some really strong tracks but also a lot of bad ones, creating a mixed experience. 13. Like a Virgin. Iconic songs, but the material isn't really that strong as a full album, it's carried by the singles. 12. Hard Candy. I love the direction that she goes on the sound here, some bops, but to many fillers, should have been 8 more focused songs as her debut. 11. I'm Breathless. Great performance and vocals on the very specific genre tracks, it does what is supposed to do with taste but bring nothing groundbreaking. 10. Rebel Heart. It's clearly unfinished, worst production of her career with some of her best lyricism. 9. American Life. It could be better, the outtakes are superior and more emotional and political, some of those songs are more of a point then a song, and the political message is lost in the tracklist. 8. True Blue. Strong 80s pop, Latin instrumentation, bubblegum synths and a lot of attitude, simple but great stuff. 7. Bedtime Stories. A much better mashup of genres then MX, hip hop, rnb, alt, trance and pop under a great low-key approach. Some tracks worked better then others, she was also still developing lyrically. 6. Madonna. Simple lyrics that work so well, goditer post disco production, surprisingly one of the best debut albums of all time, it gets overlooked by most people because of the lack of historical moments and complex lyrics, but it sounds amazing and detailed. 5. Like a Prayer. Strong concept, strong execution, unique and powerful. It just gets unserious at certain times taking you out of the baroque anti religious fantasy that the album puts you in. 4. Erotica. Her greatest drums production, most ambitious concept, incredible vocal performance, well suited lyrics, unique atmosphere, I would just say it's maybe a little too long sometimes? But only sometimes. 3. Music. Her underrated Bible, pioneering pop, electronic, experimental and even county production. Probably her most influential album in many fronts, top tier production, a lot of music after this followed its rulebook in secret. 2. Confessions. It suited her voice so well, god production exploring many genres of pop, dance and electronic music, super ahead of its time making everything like a DJ set, also her best album to listen on LSD. 1. Ray Of Light, god tier exploration of so many genres and ideas, her peak lyricism and subjectivity. Created a unique sound pallet and a unique moment in pop history, what if one of the main figures in commercial music showed a heart? A brain? A new groove. Explored many topics and sounds unseen and unrivalled on pop music.
You won’t regret it! Ghosttown, Joan of Arc, Wash All Over Me are great slower songs, and there are other great up-beat moments too! (Living for love, Devil Pray, Bitch I’m Madonna)
No pun but American Life uninspired?? I Love New York is M’s worst song? Nobody Knows Me??? Mother and Father??? What?? MDNA is in my top 5 M album. I’M ADDICTED is one of her most underrated songs. Killer production, top line and lyrics. Absolutely love it. Of course GGW is great although it was recorded in a rush. Gang Bang, Turn Up The Radio, Some Girls, Superstar, I Don’t Give A, what? MDNA is getting so much undeserved pan. Hard Candy is a great and underrated album too. Ray Of Light is her most overrated album. To each his own i guess but Madame X and Rebel Heart are her weakest albums. Crave sucks buckets nothing Madonna about it. Dull melody. Oddest enunciation. Nothing Madonna about it. Like A Virgin, Madonna, Bedtime Story, True Blue, Like A Prayer, Erotica, Confessions, HC, AL, MDNA, Music, RH, Madame X. By the way True Blue is not “THE 80’s Madonna album”. For sure not in terms of looks. Nothing is more iconic than Boy Toy Desperately Seeking Susan Madonna. Into The Groove come on. True Blue was her least memorable look with her platinum blonde hair she was trying to evolve and didn’t know how after the incredible impact of her boy toy look. Her looks in True Blue tte video and WTG were probably the worst in her career. The Herb Ritts photo on the album was a rip pff of Olivia Newton John’s iconic Physical which was calculated by her label since ONJ was the biggest star on earth up until then and M was basically replacing her. Great album by all means nonetheless.
Some Madonna albums are underrated, like Erotica and Bedtimes Stories, and then some are overrated, and I agree Like a Prayer (and True Blue) are some of them. Sure, the hits are among her most classic songs, but the deep cuts... yikes... nope. Her early albums progressively get better and with more promise, but she doesn't hit her peak until Erotica.
I’d be interested to know if this is an age thing I’m gonna say the older you are the more you may disagree with your opinion I’m 50 and would put like a prayer in my top 5 just. No critique of your view each to there own.
1. Ray of Light 2. Confessions on a Dance Floor 3. Like A Prayer 4. True Blue 5. American Life 6. Rebel Heart 7. Madame X 8. Music 9. Bedtime Stories 10. MDNA 11. Erotica 12. Like a Virgin 13. Hard Candy 14. Madonna
1. Ray of Light 2. Music 3. Hard Candy 4. Bedtime Stories 5. Confessions 6. Erotica 7. Madame X 8. True Blue 9. Madonna 10. Rebel Heart 11. American Life 12. MDNA 13. Like A Virgin 14. Like A Prayer
I love Madonna’s music but like it happen to me about every artist, all of their album are full of skips. She has gems in each album.
I'm Breathless is included over other Madonna soundtracks because it is entirely an original Madonna work.
1. Ray of light
2. Erotica
3. Bedtime stories
4. Music
5. Like a prayer
6. Like a virgin
7. Rebel heart
8. Confessions on a dancefloor
9. American life
10. Hard candy
11. True blue
12. Madonna
13. Mdna
14. Madame x
Thanks for sharing!
Personally, feel like we tend to like a particular album more based on where we are in our own life at the moment. As we pass through the different ups and downs, we prefer different themes, and consequently her respective albums appeal more. Ofcourse exceptions exist like: Ray of Light, very hard to budge it really.
I'm so happy to see True Blue in your Top 3. It's my all-time favorite Madonna album. I adore the whole track list. Can't believe many Madonna fans usually don't even place it in the Top 5. Shame! Rebel Heart is close to my Top 5 too. I adore it but many masterpieces were cut from the final list (Revolution, Alone with You, Nothing Lasts Forever, Never Let You Go, Heaven, Queen, Trust No B*tch, Tragic Girl, God is Love)
The unreleased songs are so good!!
I'm Breathless is Madonna studio album! It has her name on it. It's not a soundtrack. The Dick Tracy soundtrack is something completely different.
My List:
1. MUSIC
2. RAY OF LIGHT
3. CONFESSIONS
4. AMERICAN LIFE
5. LIKE A PRAYER
6. REBEL HEART
7. BEDTIME STORIES
8. EROTICA
9. TRUE BLUE
10. LIKE A VIRGIN
11. MADONNA
12. MDNA
13. HARD CANDY
14. MADAME X
Luv this man, luv that u give rebel heart some luv. Most people are not fans and it is def in my 2nd as well after ray of light.
True blue is the definition of a singles album every non single isnt good but the singles are all iconic and great
You think White Heat, Where’s The Party, Jimmy Jimmy and Love Makes The World Go Round aren’t good? I LOVE Where’s The Party? Also Love Makes The World Go Round. Check out her LMTWGR Live Aid performance and Where’s The Party on WTG world tour. They’re great songs. Musically her first albums are her best because Niles Rodgers, Stephen Bray and Pat Leonard were super solid musicians and their academic skills balanced perfectly with her instinctive talents. Also except for Niles, they weren’t famous so their sounds became hers. Unlike Mirwais, Babyface, William Orbit, Stuart Price…I sometimes wish she’d stuck with Bray and Leonard like Elton John did with Taupin but of course that’s not her style at all. Shapeshifting queen of reinvention. But musically it could have been something.
Low lows but high highs
@Diego-gg1rc mm
Rebel Hearts reception was tragic. Such a great album 😢
Easily her best modern one and its aged well except for b*tch I'm madonna that song gets worse by age still a bop tho
1. Debut album is a fun beginning but not particularly amazing anymore, still fun tho. 2. Like A Virgin is easily on the weaker side, the singles are (mostly) great, but those last three songs (Shoo Bee Doo, Pretender, Stay), literal filler. 😭 It would be SO much stronger if instead of those three songs it had Into the Groove (which later versions got), Crazy for You, and Gambler. 3. True Blue is already possibly the best album of the 80s, but if it lost Jimmy Jimmy, and instead gained the Who’s that Girl OST singles (the title track, Causing A Commotion, The Look of Love), as well as Spotlight and M’s original version of Each Time You Break My Heart, it would be 13 tracks of pure perfection that not even Thriller could’ve hoped to achieve. 4. The only weak song on Like A Prayer is (in my opinion) Love Song, but it contributed to the creation of Hung Up almost two decades later so I can’t hate it. 5. Erotica is perfect (I always go to the version without Did You Do It?, lol), 6. Bedtime Stories is great but I would’ve removed Don’t Stop and I’d Rather Be Your Lover and instead put Your Honesty, flows better in my opinion. 7. Ray of Light is perfect. 8. Music is perfect. 9. American Life is perfect. 10. Confessions is perfect. 11. Hard Candy is fun but not perfect. 12. MDNA is also fun (and MDNA is still her best tour imo, and yes I attended Confessions Tour in person). 13. Rebel Heart got a messy release, but if it had been organized better into a proper double album (the Rebel and the Heart sides) it would’ve been pretty damn amazing. The main problem is that it feels all over the place, but you can easily take 12 songs from it and create a more cohesive album that’s better than any pop album released by any other pop artist in the last 10 years. 14. As for Madame X, most people just didn’t understand it, but frankly I think it’s literal genius.
My ranking
1. Confessions
2. Madonna
3. Bedtime Stories
4. Erotica
5. Hard Candy (I don’t care what anyone says, this album is lit)
6. I’m Breathless
7. True Blue
8. Like a Prayer
9. American life
10. Ray of Light
11. Music
12. Like a Virgin
13. Madame X
14. MDNA
15. Rebel Heart
Ray of Light is the best album Madonna has ever made. She won't top that.
This was actually surprisingly easy haha:
1. Ray of Light
2. Erotica
3. True Blue
4. Like a Prayer
5. Music
6. Bedtime Stories
7. Confessions on a Dance Floor
8. American Life
9. Rebel Heart
10. Hard Candy
11. Madonna
12. Like a Virgin
13. I’m Breathless
14. MDNA
15. Madame X
To me Like a prayer is the most versatile, most personal, musically complex artistic but pure pop masterpiece with great lyrics and visuals (Like a prayer, Express yourself, Cherish and Oh father are the best music videos ever). Also great messages.
Ray of light is also a genius work and Erotica was so ahead of its time. My close second and third.
And American life is her most underrated album ever. I give her the fourth place.
The worst album is def MDNA 90% of the songs are trash, not even the tour helped ...
I honestly like MDNA , in fact I listen to it frequently. I think is has some gems.
Maybe I’ll try it again!
I LOVE that you love Rebel Heart!!! Such a great album. My Holy trinity: Ray Of Light, Rebel Heart, Confessions!!!
Rebel Heart was done dirty... major sabotage done to Madonna during this era
1. Promise to try
2. Borderline
3. Live to tell
4. The power of goodbye
5. To have and not to hold
1. Like A Prayer
2. Ray of Light
3. Confessions on a Dance Floor
4. True Blue
5. Rebel Heart
6. American Life
7. Music
8. Erotica
9. Bedtime Stories
10. Madonna
11. Like A Virgin
12. MDNA
13. Madame X
14. Hard Candy
It still makes me so sad how Rebel Heart was so overlooked worldwide. Living For Love should have been Madonna's comeback anthem and should be one of her staple, iconic songs. Ghosttown should have ruled the airwaves and charts and award seasons. Granted, there are like 4 songs that should have never made it to the album and it probably would be one of her most perfect albums ever.
My favorite albums from Madonna are The Immunciate Collection, Erotica, Ray of Light and GHV2
Could you please do an album review on bedtime stories ?? would love to hear what you have to say and love your videos !!🫶
Thank you! I’m going through and reviewing all Madonna albums so I will get to that one at some point!
1. Rebel Heart
2. Erotica
3. American Life
4. Madame X
5. Music
6. Bedtime Stories
7. MDNA
my madonna ranking as a newer fan (since 2021)
1.ray of light
2.american life
3.music
4.confessions on a dancefloor
5.bedtime stories
6.like a prayer
7.erotica
8.madonna
9.hard candy
10.true blue
11.rebel heart
12.like a virgin
13.mdna
14.madame x
15.i’m breathless
i was just thinking of how fun must be to have vynils and this just got recommended
and look at that beautiful SW collection.... SW + Madonna, this is it
A good combination!
Great ranking video. I love madonna. I like your glasses they look good on you
Its so crazy how different peoples opinions on music can be, in general, not the album. I Love New York is one of my absolute faves. Hollywood is my number 1 but i had seen someone claim that as her worst
I was just ranking the albums but ended up making mini reviews along the way lol. Thanks for the inspiration.
14. Madame X (can't stand her vocals on it and the whole thing sounds dry and overbearing. Also terrible featured artists)
13. Rebel Heart (I really don't like mid to late 2010s boring pop sounds and this album is full of them)
12. Hard Candy (agree with you, high highs and low lows)
11. MDNA (it's kind of a mess but it was the first M album I bought and I used to listen to it a lot, so nostalgia makes me a bit biased. Gang Bang is fucking deranged and I love it)
10. Like a Virgin (iconic singles but the album itself is just cheesy 80s pop music, nothing interesting about it. That said, Love Don't Live Here Anymore is breathtaking and I don't really count Into the Groove as part of it, which is obviously top 5 M)
09. American Life (Suffers from a horrendous title track which taints and misrepresents the real concept of the album, which is really just an introspection on M's part as a very rich mega popstar really, nothing political about it lol. The rest of the album is actually super interesting and showcases what M would have sounded like if she was more a singer-songwriter type of artist rather than, again, creamy smooth pop icon goddess)
08. True Blue (I don't know what to say about this one other than I like it and it's very iconic. Just not my favorite)
07. First Album (Extremely solid debut. In contrast to Like a Virgin, this one has a less polished club music sound which makes it very authentic and interesting)
06. Music (was my favorite for a while. Really weird album, very experimental at points. Perfect length and her soft understated vocal style at that time really stands out in her discography. Her mushroom album lol).
05. Bedtime Stories (Delightfully sensual and elegant. Super underrated. Secret is top3 M single for me)
04. Like a Prayer (Has some of the emotionally heavy and honest moments of her carreer and instrumentally is definitely her richest album)
03. Ray of Light (I mean, objectively it is her best. What a wonderful record and era of music in general)
02. Confessions (still sounds fresh, kind of ahead of its time really. The production is stellar, I like all the songs in it, even I love NY. And the tour. I mean, next level pop icon goddess queen behavior)
01. Erotica (Summarizes what makes Madonna a very special artist in pop music. Musically it's amazing obviously but I personally like to experience music as a multidimensional art form that has a context beyond just mere sounds which makes it all the more powerful and that's why I adore Erotica. What an era, what an album, what a moment in history)
Love this! Thanks for sharing!
Her best album is the one that made Madonna the Madonna we know today, and thats True Blue! Before True Blue she was a phenomenon after True Blue she became a global superstar
ray of light is far better
I 100000000 % hate and deny YT algo recs.. this GOT Me!
Really happy to see you love Rebel Heart!!!
1/ Confessions
2/ Hard Candy
3/ MDNA / Music / American Life
4/ Ray of Light
5/ Some singles...
6/ First albums until Ray of light
Very handsome RUclipsr btw
1. Ray of Light
2. Confessions of a Dance Floor
3. Music
4. Erotica
5. Hard Candy
I think u, Sir, r now my Favorite Ranker. I TOTALLY agree w/ u on "Ray of Light" being Number 1 on a Chart. NEVER bought ANYTHING AFTER Confessions, though there r SOME Hits... It shall NEVER Surpass Ray of Light. The Debut Album is & STILL is one of my favorite Abums, thugh "Like a Virgin" gets a Higher Ranking. Music was the LAST Album that i purchased in the Early 2000's. I would PURCHASE Something 2 Remember OVER, say, Rebel Heart or MDNA. OK... THE LAST Album i purchased was "Finally Enough Love".... I love practically EVERY Track on thet. Thanks 4 hearing me Ramble on, lol!!
I'm such a big madonna and michael fan! Thank you!
The GOATS
14. MDNA (Well, at least there's Masterpiece which wasn't even written for the album. Burn it)
13. Rebel Heart (I can't honestly say I've ever listened to this album from start to finish. Just no... Ghosttown and a few others keep it from the very bottom)
12. True Blue (Again, the hits are fire, but Jimmy Jimmy, White Heat and Love Makes the World Go Round? Yikes... and Where's the Party feels sophomoric and cringe)
11. Like a Virgin (Material Girl should never be played again, ever... plus Shoo Bee Doo? No, though if Into the Groove was an album track, this would be higher)
10. Like a Prayer (aside from the hits, which are among her career best, it's pretty forgettable... sue me)
09. American Life (this one's growing on me.. slowly)
08. Madonna 83 (aside from Borderline, which I never cared for, it's pretty much solid from start to finish.. it's only lower because it does feel a little dated)
07. Madame X (a return to form... not perfect, but flashes of brilliance and leaps and bounds better than her previous two)
06. Hard Candy (not sure why this gets so much hate... it's only the Timberlake tracks that suck)
05. Music (Impressive Instant! Gone! Paradise! So many tracks that could have easily been singles)
04. Ray of Light (It's a masterpiece, yes... but there are others that just eke it out of #1)
03. Confessions (deservedly considered one of her finest)
02. Bedtime Stories (criminally overlooked, not a single skip)
01. Erotica (fire, then, now and always.. but I am iffy on Where Life Begins)
Some of these move around for me a bit, but Erotica will always be #1. 90s Madonna is where it's at.
Completely agree. I don't get the love for Rebel Heart. The production is such a mess throughout and feels very not Madonna while Hard Candy has excellent production for what it's trying to do and so thematic like a Madonna era should be.
I stopped reading at 13 with Rebel Heart (actuality it would've been 14 with MDNA as it shouldn't be that low, but I quickly forgave you) but I could no longer take you seriously and is unforgivable
I’m Breathless isn’t a soundtrack.
It’s music from AND inspired by the film Dick Tracy, so I guess you could make the argument either way!
1. Ray of Light
2. Like a Prayer
3. Confessions of a Dance Floor
4. True Blue
5. Bedtime Stories
6. Erotica
7. Music
8. American Life
9. Madonna
10. Like a Virgin
11. Madame X
12. Rebel Heart
13. Hard Candy
14. MDNA
Totally agree on Rebel Heart being underrated. I just love it.
Madame X is by far my least favourite
Love Madonna older Albums
AND Promise to Try is her greatest song ever Its the best song she ever sang
American life I agree, however the remixes of some of the tracks are far more superior than the album versions🎉
American Life is Madonna’s GREATEST album.
I love it!
Ray of light and confessions! Like the background pick song!
Omg new fans need years of living with her work to really process. Ray Of Light and Rebel Heart are by no means her best work. (Ray Of Light Time has some of her best videos though) But time has shown very clearly that Rebel Heart and Ray Of Light will not have songs as impactful as Holiday, Material Girl, Like A Virgin, Dress You Up, Into The Groove, Papa Don’t Preach, Open Your Heart, Like A Prayer, Vogue, Music or Hung Up.
Her first albums are her best followed by Confessions.
Hung Up is the only song post 2000 to left a solid impact on pop music culture.
I hope Give it to me, I’m Addicted, Bitch I’m Madonna and Medellin gain such impactful influence in time but i doubt it.
If you listened to what I said, I said, these are my own personal favourites and never said this is a list of the most impactful Madonna albums, that’s a different conversation and a different list all together
@ I listened. MDNA wasn’t impactful but it’s a favorite of mine even though it was a missed opportunity in many ways mainly because of Martin Solveig’s shortcomings and M wanting to bring back Orbit on a project that didn’t fit him.The track list isn’t cohesive and the main single wasn’t memorable. But GGW and I’m Addicted should’ve been blueprints for the rest. GGW just like Living For Love feature uninspired rushed vocals that needed redos which her schedule didn’t allow.
Truly great programming though on I’m Addicted. Benassi Brothers are so good.
They should have done the whole thing. So I wasn’t just talking impact.
In all cases to each his own.
The 90’s are starting to be dissected and reinvented like the 50’s 60’s 70’s and mostly like the 80’s which are clearly the current inspo for so many artists like Chappell Roan and many others. Wait for a big 90’s RnB sound come back.
And who knows what time will make of the 00’s and 2010’s. I probably won’t be here to know. Always glad when new fans dissect M’s work.
I’m 56 and was lucky to work with her long ago.
Super Deluxe version of Rebel Heart, is my favorite ❤
Those extra songs have some gems in them for sure!
1.True Blue
2.Like a Virgin
3.Ray of Light
4.Confessions
5.Music
Totally agree with you saying that Rebel Heart shoud've been her last album.
Would’ve been a good body of work to be her last! Still excited to see what she does next.
Great video
Thanks!
Love won’t wait, let down your guard, and other songs should have made bedtime stories
Shame, goodbye to innocence should have made erotica, I wish these songs made the album and then they would have been my favourite Madonna albums.
I never see love for rebel heart
My top three albums are confessions on a dance floor
MDNA
Rebel heart
ROL, bedtime stories and true blue are my absolute faves... erotica too!
Like A Prayer
Ray of Light
True Blue
I'm Breathless
Confessions
Erotica
Bedtime Stories
Madonna
Music
Like A Virgin
Rebel Heart
Hard Candy
MDNA
Madame X
American Life
1. True Blue, 2. Confessions, 3. Erotica, 4. Ray of Light, 5. Like a Prayer...
My top:
1. American Life
2. Music
3. Hard Candy
4. Confessions
5. Ray of Light
6. Erotica
7. Madonna
8. Like a Virgin
9. Rebel Heart
10. MDNA
11. Madame X
12. Bedtime Stories
13. True Blue
14. Like a Prayer
Quite the opposite of yours!
I like it!
I also defend Rebel Heart like you fo and it's also my top 2 followed by ray of light
Taste!!
I consider Erotica to be her masterpiece. Very disappointed with Rebel Heart and Madame X.
Sometimes I wonder where she was going with American Life or Madame X 2 OF MY LEAST favprite albums Hopefully 2025 wont disappoint me - Finally enough love was a New favorite of mine.
My essential 8:
1. American life
2. Madame X
3. Ray of Light
4. Like a Prayer
5. I'm Breathless
6. Erotica
7. Something to Remember
8. Madonna
My non-essential 8:
9. Confessions
10. Rebel Heart
11. MDNA
12. Music
13. Bedtime Stories
14. Like a Virgin
15. True Blue
16. Hard Candy
I like her first album best,
So the first album is better than like a prayer? Come on...
As an album, yeah! I find it hard to skip a song on The First Album personally, banger after banger
and indeed
i love new york is her worst and kills the vibe of COADF
Agree!!
Mine would be
15. Madame X. Great concept, bad execution, the moments of music exploration are offusced by the commercialism, copy and paste of music genres.
14. MDNA. Fun but simple, there's some really strong tracks but also a lot of bad ones, creating a mixed experience.
13. Like a Virgin. Iconic songs, but the material isn't really that strong as a full album, it's carried by the singles.
12. Hard Candy. I love the direction that she goes on the sound here, some bops, but to many fillers, should have been 8 more focused songs as her debut.
11. I'm Breathless. Great performance and vocals on the very specific genre tracks, it does what is supposed to do with taste but bring nothing groundbreaking.
10. Rebel Heart. It's clearly unfinished, worst production of her career with some of her best lyricism.
9. American Life. It could be better, the outtakes are superior and more emotional and political, some of those songs are more of a point then a song, and the political message is lost in the tracklist.
8. True Blue. Strong 80s pop, Latin instrumentation, bubblegum synths and a lot of attitude, simple but great stuff.
7. Bedtime Stories. A much better mashup of genres then MX, hip hop, rnb, alt, trance and pop under a great low-key approach. Some tracks worked better then others, she was also still developing lyrically.
6. Madonna. Simple lyrics that work so well, goditer post disco production, surprisingly one of the best debut albums of all time, it gets overlooked by most people because of the lack of historical moments and complex lyrics, but it sounds amazing and detailed.
5. Like a Prayer. Strong concept, strong execution, unique and powerful. It just gets unserious at certain times taking you out of the baroque anti religious fantasy that the album puts you in.
4. Erotica. Her greatest drums production, most ambitious concept, incredible vocal performance, well suited lyrics, unique atmosphere, I would just say it's maybe a little too long sometimes? But only sometimes.
3. Music. Her underrated Bible, pioneering pop, electronic, experimental and even county production. Probably her most influential album in many fronts, top tier production, a lot of music after this followed its rulebook in secret.
2. Confessions. It suited her voice so well, god production exploring many genres of pop, dance and electronic music, super ahead of its time making everything like a DJ set, also her best album to listen on LSD.
1. Ray Of Light, god tier exploration of so many genres and ideas, her peak lyricism and subjectivity. Created a unique sound pallet and a unique moment in pop history, what if one of the main figures in commercial music showed a heart? A brain? A new groove. Explored many topics and sounds unseen and unrivalled on pop music.
I love the Rebel Heart appreciation here! It’s completely underrated
Confessions-done.
1. Erotica
2. Bedtime Stories
3. ROL
4. American Life
5. Like a Prayer
6. Music
7. Confessions
8. Madame X / Rebel Heart
9. Madonna
10. True Blue
Thank you, American Life is one of her worst albums.
Rate madonnas tours
MDNA, killer cover, shiit album.
5 great songs but they can't save a 15 song+ album
I never gave the chance to Rebel Heart. Ghosttown is the only song that I love and play here on tube. But I'm gonna take your advice and buy it.
You won’t regret it! Ghosttown, Joan of Arc, Wash All Over Me are great slower songs, and there are other great up-beat moments too! (Living for love, Devil Pray, Bitch I’m Madonna)
No pun but American Life uninspired?? I Love New York is M’s worst song? Nobody Knows Me??? Mother and Father??? What?? MDNA is in my top 5 M album. I’M ADDICTED is one of her most underrated songs. Killer production, top line and lyrics. Absolutely love it. Of course GGW is great although it was recorded in a rush. Gang Bang, Turn Up The Radio, Some Girls, Superstar, I Don’t Give A, what? MDNA is getting so much undeserved pan.
Hard Candy is a great and underrated album too. Ray Of Light is her most overrated album. To each his own i guess but Madame X and Rebel Heart are her weakest albums. Crave sucks buckets nothing Madonna about it. Dull melody. Oddest enunciation. Nothing Madonna about it. Like A Virgin, Madonna, Bedtime Story, True Blue, Like A Prayer, Erotica, Confessions, HC, AL, MDNA, Music, RH, Madame X.
By the way True Blue is not “THE 80’s Madonna album”. For sure not in terms of looks. Nothing is more iconic than Boy Toy Desperately Seeking Susan Madonna. Into The Groove come on. True Blue was her least memorable look with her platinum blonde hair she was trying to evolve and didn’t know how after the incredible impact of her boy toy look. Her looks in True Blue tte video and WTG were probably the worst in her career. The Herb Ritts photo on the album was a rip pff of Olivia Newton John’s iconic Physical which was calculated by her label since ONJ was the biggest star on earth up until then and M was basically replacing her. Great album by all means nonetheless.
Like a Prayer is full of skips. easily her worst and least interesting work in my homosexual opinion.
I agree, there’s quite a few skips 😳
Some Madonna albums are underrated, like Erotica and Bedtimes Stories, and then some are overrated, and I agree Like a Prayer (and True Blue) are some of them. Sure, the hits are among her most classic songs, but the deep cuts... yikes... nope. Her early albums progressively get better and with more promise, but she doesn't hit her peak until Erotica.
Hard to disagree with that!
I’d be interested to know if this is an age thing I’m gonna say the older you are the more you may disagree with your opinion I’m 50 and would put like a prayer in my top 5 just. No critique of your view each to there own.
What?
I LOVE NEW YORK IS THE BEST TRACK ON CONFESSIONS!!!
The BEST!!?? *sighs in get together*
Gurl are you drunk
@ LOLLL it makes me wanna drop everything i’m doing and start a new life somewhere care free!
Okkaaaay I can see that vibe
i hate confessions ❤ such overrated album.😅
Used to hate it I mean it's still overratted but come on its a decent album not a bad one
Agreed. It’s still great but it only has like 4 amazing songs.
I thought it was a breath of fresh air after Music and American Life. Back to the core dance roots.
Ray of light is the album I think is way overrated!
@@azzyb6165 come on. Ray of light is a masterpiece. Magnum opus by madonna.
Ugh Ray of light so overrated frozen only really good song
Best album’s Madonna… like a prayer erotica confessions bedtime stories true blue
Frozen is so good! So is the power of goodbye, nothing really matters, ray of light, so many more!
She has so many greats!
1. Ray of Light
2. Confessions on a Dance Floor
3. Like A Prayer
4. True Blue
5. American Life
6. Rebel Heart
7. Madame X
8. Music
9. Bedtime Stories
10. MDNA
11. Erotica
12. Like a Virgin
13. Hard Candy
14. Madonna
1. Ray of Light
2. Music
3. Hard Candy
4. Bedtime Stories
5. Confessions
6. Erotica
7. Madame X
8. True Blue
9. Madonna
10. Rebel Heart
11. American Life
12. MDNA
13. Like A Virgin
14. Like A Prayer