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Now That's What I Call Music (also simply titled Now or Now 1) is the first album from the popular Now! series that was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 1983. Initial pressings were released on vinyl and audio cassette. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album and series, the album was re-released on CD for the first time in 2009. Alternative longer mixes of "Only for Love", "Double Dutch" and "Candy Girl" were included in place of the original shorter single mixes from 1983

Not only is there a sense of conscious craft to the album, in how the sounds and the songs segue together, but in how it explicitly references the past - both her own and club music in the larger sense - the music seems disassociated from the present; Madonna is reworking familiar territory, not pushing forward, in a manner not dissimilar. to how her former opening act the Beastie Boys returned to old-school rap on their defiantly old-fashioned 2004 album To the 5 Boroughs. That's what the album was designed to do, and it works well on that level. It works well as a whole, but as a collection of individual tracks it falls apart, since there is a distinct lack of melodic or lyrical hooks.

Confessions on a Dance Floor is the tenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna. It was released on 11 November 2005. Initially, she began working with Mirwais Ahmadzaï for the album, but later felt that their collaboration was not going in the direction she desired. The songs are sequenced and blended together so that they are played continuously without any gaps. The title arrived from the fact that the album tracklisting consists of light-hearted and happy songs in the beginning, and progresses to much darker melodies and lyrics describing personal feelings and commitments. Songs on the album use samples and references of music by other dance-oriented artists like ABBA, Donna Summer, Pet Shop Boys, Bee Gees and Depeche Mode, as well as Madonna’s earlier work in the 1980s.

That year - which opened with Like a Virgin perched at Number One, and would later see Crazy for You knock We Are the World off the top of the charts - she boiled down her philosophy, her definitive worldview, to one phrase. But as Confessions on a Dance Floor illustrates, Madonna has never lost her faith in the power of the beat. The tracks are constantly shifting, with dizzying layers of sounds and samples dropping in and out, skittering and whooshing across the speakers. Unlike the crystalline precision of latter-day Madonna discs like Ray of Light and Music, the sonic signature here is a powerhouse density - on tunes like Future Lovers and Push, it’s damn near psychedelic.

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With Confessions on a Dance Floor, her 14th album, Madonna again reinvents herself, and it appears she's nearly lapped herself. Her latest iteration is a pre-Madonna (prima donna?) disco vixen, basking in a '70s musical style that she herself, among others, helped to morph and displace in the early '80s. It sounds like a transparently targeted post-9/11 valentine to the Big Apple- odd coming from an ex-pat. Inanities like "If you don't like my attitude/ Then you can eff off" are at least partly excused by Price's production, which builds from the beat up to incorporate rock elements that could be a nod to Brooklyn hipster dance punk. Despite Price's best efforts to infuse these songs with motion and finesse, Confessions never quite reaches its earlier heights after "I Love New York". Now I can tell you about success, about fame," she intones at the end of "Let It Will Be", as if that's all she knows anymore.

Confessions on a Dance Floor is one big pulsating dance masterpiece from our lady Madonna. If you’re into old divas then look no further! This album sounds particularly good when you’re dancing to it whilst intoxicated. Hung Up is a dance classic, as is the wonderful Sorry. Every song is strong on here though, I even like the much panned I Love New York. Here’s Madge at the top of her game.

Doomed' Track one on 'That’s The Spirit' sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack. I’m sorry but it’s too late and it’s not worth saving," Oli Sykes croons over a swell of electronics. It sounds ominous, and this is unlike anything Bring Me The Horizon have attempted before. Musically there's rumbling, widescreen rock that's as relentless as the rest of the album, but powerful lyrics like "I need a cure for me, because the square doesn't fit the circle" make this band feel vulnerable all the same. 8. 'Run' This is a big anthem. There are some rounded edges on 'Run', but barring the odd pause for electronic touches here and there, it's the closest this album comes to having a straight-up rock song.