Madonna - Like a Virgin (w/ guest Jeff Fiedler)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Massive Album November is here! Each episode this month will be a different artist and record that has attained huge sales numbers that we've somehow missed so far. To get us started, thegreatalbums.com blogger Jeff Fiedler joins Bill and Brian to discuss Madonna's sophomore effort Like a Virgin (1984, Sire). Although a success on the dance scene, Madonna had yet to make herself a household name prior to this release. With the help of producer Nile Rodgers and an excellent set of tunes, Madonna became the icon she has continued to be today. Jeff talks about becoming a record collector at a very young age and how it helped him cut through the production of 80s pop as a listener. Bill, Brian, and Jeff then discuss the contributions of Rodgers' bandmates in Chic, the songwriting talents of Stephen Bray, Madonna's early bands Breakfast Club and Emmy, how the controversy over the sexuality on the album is a bit overblown, how pop songs were songs in the 80s, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	I made it through the wilderness, somehow I made it through the wilderness.
0:11.0	Somehow I made it through.
0:16.0	Didn't know how lost I was until I found you
0:22.6	I was beat in to me
0:27.6	I've been had I was sad and blue
0:31.6	But you made me feel
0:35.6	Yeah you made me feel
0:38.9	shiny and new
0:43.3	Hello, like a bird in.
0:46.2	Hello, and welcome to the great albums podcast.
0:49.0	My name is Bill.
0:49.6	And I'm Brian.
0:50.4	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:52.3	That was, like a virgin by Madonna off the November 12th, 1984 album of the same name.
1:01.7	What we do here every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.
1:07.0	We're going to get into a little bit of our own personal connection to the music,
1:12.3	and then we're going to give a little bit of a band bio, and then finally we're going to do a
1:16.4	track-by-track review. Sounds good. Let's do it.
1:19.5	All right. Brian, welcome to the very first episode of Massive Album November.
1:24.9	Yes, welcome back. We did it last year, and it was a rousing success. So we're
1:31.1	very excited to bring you year two. So for the next four weeks, including today, we're going to be
1:36.9	doing, we're going to be doing albums that sold a massive amount from bands that are just
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