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Confessions on a Dance Floor | 
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| Artist: Madonna
Label: Warner Bros
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 17.99
Buy New: CDN$ 9.74
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 2920
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 49460
UPC: 093624946021
EAN: 0093624946021
ASIN: B000B8QEZG
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail. Delivery to Canada/USA takes approximately 5 working days from posting.
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| 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 |
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From 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
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 Hear my Confession.... July 25, 2008
Jamieson Villeneuve (Ottawa Ontario Canada)
Madonna is an artist that constantly changes who she is. While she is still the Queen of Pop, her music style changes with each album. I like to think of her as a chameleon; you're never sure what she's going to do and Madonna never does the same thing twice.
Starting out with her pop albums (the self titled "Madonna" and "True Blue") she then switched her focus to sex (who could forget her album "Erotica"? Or her book "SEX"?). Then, after the birth of her children, her focus changed once again to electronica. This change in focus produced perhaps the best selling Madonna album ever: "Ray of Light".
After "Ray of Light" and another electronica folk album "Music" came "American Life". I love this album, but many claim it to be her one huge musical flop. It's a deeper album because Madonna attempted to make a statement and say something in her music.
It covered all sorts of ground but was trashed by fans and critics and fans alike. To appease them she put out "Remixed and Revisited" which sparked her "Reinvention Tour". This album, though only a short seven songs, was received much better than "American Life" because it was like the old Madonna had come back to sing again.
And then the dance floor was quiet for a bit. Many wondered if Madonna would continue her music career after such a devastating musical punch to the gut. Many thought it would be the last album of her career. I am ecstatic to report that the nay Sayers were wrong. Madonna is back with a vengeance and "Confessions on a Dance Floor" is the proof of that.
Perhaps her best album since "Ray of Light", Madonna has reinvented music once again. Taking her cues from music gone by, Madonna has created a non-stop dance album that just gets better each time you listen to it. It's disco mixed with beat and rhythm and you can't help but get up and dance to it. It's a nonstop dance album that just begs your body to move to its music. Gone is the dark haired Madonna of "American Life". Now a red haired siren leads us through a dance sensation.
There has been a lot of publicity about Madonna using a sample of music from ABBA ("Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)") but this serves well to give the album its starting point. "Hung Up" is an amazing dance track that makes you want to dance. The sample from ABBA gives it a life that flows through the album. Though there are no other samples of music in the rest of the songs, none are needed. After ABBA's help on the first song, Madonna is in comfortable shoes.
After listening to the album several times (it hasn't left my stereo since I bought it) I'd have to say that my favorite song is "Push". I'm pretty sure that this song is about her husband Guy Ritchie, but the message of the song is a great one. Some of the lyrics are as follows:
/you push me! /to go the extra mile/you push me!/when it's difficult to smile/you push me! /a better version of myself/you push me!/only you and no one else/you push me!
see the other point of view/you push me!/when there's nothing else to do
you push me!/when I think I know it all/You push me!/when I stumble and I fall/
Though the song at first sounds like a rocking dance tune, you have to stop and listen to the words to find the deeper message within the song. That is true of many of the songs on "Confessions on a Dance Floor". Though the tune makes you want to dance, the words will let you see into the world of Madonna and her confessions.
Another deep song on the album is "Isaac". It begins with incredible vocals by Yitzhak Sinwani that set the tune of this rocking track. The track is very much like a spiritual experience and is incredibly layered. It is one of the more spiritual tracks on the album, where Madonna comments on religion, heaven, hell and the forgiveness of God all in one song.
/Staring up into the heavens/In this hell that binds your hands/Will you sacrifice your comfort?/Make your way in a foreign land?/Wrestle with your darkness/Angels call your name/Can you hear what they're saying?/Will you ever be the same?/
One of my other favorite tracks is "Sorry". Though it is about a break up and forgiveness, it's an incredible track that makes you want to move. Everyone can relate to its words:
/I don't want to hear/I don't want to know/Please don't say you're sorry/I've heard it all before/And I can take care of myself/
Though it is one of the sadder songs on the album, it still makes you want to dance. It is deep because of its layers. You will only hear the message if you listen. I think that "Sorry" is an anthem for anyone that has ever had their heart broken and doesn't want it to be mended by petty words.
Of course, not all songs are deep on this album. "I Love New York" while lacking in lyrics, is simply a great dance track. It is they weakest lyrically on the album but is one of the best tracks for a rollicking good beat and will make you grin by the end of it. Madonna was just having good fun with this song. While loving New York isn't really a confession, it's a great dance track.
/I don't like cities/But I like New York/Other places/make me feel like a dork/Los Angeles is for/people who sleep/Paris and London/Baby you can keep/Other cities always make me mad/Other places always make me sad/No other city ever made glad except like New York/
Words cannot express how much I love this album. I think it is ten times better than "Ray of Light" because it's evident that Madonna is having fun here. I've listened to the album countless times already and, each and every time, it's just getting better. It's so layered that I hear something new each time I listen to it.
Madonna proves that, even though these are dance tracks, she is not just the Queen of Pop anymore.
Best ever June 29, 2008
Martine (Montreal)
I am a true Madonna fan & I have all her movies, books, DVD shows, documentaries, CD's & almost all her singles! Confession on a dancefloor is one of the best of her life work. You will dance to it
Madonna Comes Out With Another Winner Album June 19, 2008
Trevor Gendre (Wpg, MB)
I realize that the title I selected is a bit tardy considering she has a more recent album than this one, but I felt that it was worth giving Madonna the credit that she deserves. I realize that Madonna does some contraversail things, but she basically came from a broken family had her shows may be part of the ways she expresses her emotion.
I found this album to be very intelligent, and it was put together with thought, time, and care. This is the type of music I could see being played at a semi-formal night club in the evening hours, as tracks 1, 7, & 9 would really fit an evening mood; and actually Madonna's first track on this album: "Hung Up" is the reason I bought this album. Other brilliant tracks on this album would be tracks 3, 4, & 5. Totally worth the money spent on it!!!
Future Disco Genius! February 29, 2008
Mr. Michael Butler (Melbourne, Australia)
Some of the 1 Star reviews here are so poorly written that it becomes impossible to take them seriously! Instead, they're reduced to illiterate. juvenile rants for the rest of us to laugh at!
COAD is an exceptionally well-produced slice of dancefloor heaven! Madonna is in top form here in body and mind, and her accompanying world tour was one of the biggest grossing for a female artist in 2006! Age really doesn't enter in to the equation, and I would challenge anybody here to stand up and say they can match Madonna's fitness level!
To say anyhing further would be to labour the point!
PURE GENIUS October 2, 2006
Joseph Vatinno (Toronto,CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This may be Madonna's best release (as a whole) to date.
What other recording artist can stay at the top of their game
throughout their career and still release solid catchy pop music?
This album is consistant dance/pop with difinate hooks and
basslines that will keep the dance floors shakin' for years.
It's amazing dance music.
It's classic Madonna.
It's pure genius.
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