Track Listing

1. I Want You - Madonna & Massive Attack
2. I'll Remember
3. Take A Bow
4. You'll See
5. Crazy For You
6. This Used To Be My Playground
7. Live To Tell
8. Love Don't Live Here Anymore
9. Something To Remember
10. Forbidden Love
11. One More Chance
12. Rain
13. Oh Father
14. I Want You (Orchestral) - Madonna & Massive Attack

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12109 in Music
• Released on: 1995-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
It didn't take the post-motherhood Ray of Light to prove that Madonna is a big softie; this collection of ballads and slow jams had already done that. Somewhat confused in intention--the scalding ache of "Oh Father", a 1989 song for her own dad, is shoved between the sex of "Rain" and a version of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You"--this is nonetheless a highly listenable album for those who dig Madonna for her music as much as for her cultural significance. --Rickey Wright

CD Description
She can dance and she can jive, and most of the time that'swhy you buy Madonna records. She's our real-life dancing queen. So if buying an album advertised as her "Greatest Ballad Hits" strikes you as sort of like buying acoustic Abba, you're probably not alone.
But ever since TRUE BLUE, Madonna has displayed a keen interest in pop orchestration and smoky, soulful singing. On the breakthrough "Live To Tell", shediscovered the low end of her vocal range, while co-producer and co-writer Patrick Leonard built a psychedelic swell ofkeyboards, guitars and sound effects around her. It was like nothing she had done before, dealing directly with dark secrets, foreshadowing an adult pop sound that she'd stick by through all the twists, turns and trends that followed. SOMETHING TO REMEMBER collects such slow and mid-tempo tracks from the various nooks in which Madonna's hidden them (though most were singles, many had showed up in album form only on soundtracks), and shows off the dark chanteuse qualities that she has only intermittently gotten credit for.
Notice the almost Beatlesque harmonies and swooping strings of her 1994 hit "Take A Bow", the dream-like feel of the electric piano on the wistful "This Used To Be My Playground", or the epic feel of "Oh Father", which starts with a dance of classical strings before dipping to a soul-baring vocal about the causes and effects of child abuse. The three new songs on SOMETHING TO REMEMBER are formidable additions to this oeuvre."You'll See", with its Spanish guitar flourishes and lyric about surviving a wrecked affair, is a direct sequel to "Take A Bow". "I Want You", a Marvin Gaye cover that also appears on the Gaye tribute album INNER CITY BLUES, is a stunning collaboration with UK's Massive Attack, taking Madonna into a trippy, spare realm that sounds like dub with strings. And"One More Chance" is, amazingly, almost acoustic Madonna--the dancing queen cast improbably as the strumming princess.

Customer Reviews

Something to remember
After buying "The Immaculate collection" and "GHV2" there were still notable omissions from Madonna's record-breaking career which I still needed to own. "Something to remember" is the ideal collection of Madonna's finest tracks for music fans like myself who have always admired the Queen of pop, but not enough to appreciate her albums.

"Something to remember" features Madonna's best ballads. One of which is "Oh father" which first appeared on the "Like a prayer" album. This has become one of my all time favourite songs. The emotional ballad features Madonna's song writing at its best. 10/10

Also featuring here is other classics such as "Take a bow" and "Live to tell", "I'll remember" and "Rain".

Having said this there are a few tracks on here which aren't particularly memorable. Though maybe a couple more listens may correct this... we'll see.

Accompanied with "The Immaculate Collection" and "Greatest hits volume 2" this is the perfect way to complete your Madonna collection.

Madonna in laid back mode - get ready for re - reinvention
MADONNA was in back-to-back film projects when this unheralded collection hit the stores just a year after the bedtime stories album, spanning her first 12 years, this compiles a selection of ballads, most of which were not included on madonna's GHV2 greatest hits album.
The romantic theme is scotched somewhat by her scolding song about her own father, but it's a minor quibble.
Showcasing her emotional vocal range far way before she played the icon in the film evita, highlights include a cover of marvin gaye's I WANT YOU and her very own wonderful RAIN, a reminder that Madonna is adept at brooding longing as she is at controversy, a brilliant album with huge amounts of emotion and songs you can really relate to 10 out 0f 10!

One of THE Madonna albums- a must have for any fan or not!
This is one of THE best Madonna albums available- there is a wide range of her more emotional and slower music available here. All of these songs are classics and this is a perfect album for the end of the night or the middle of the afternoon. Striking songs here are: "I Want You"- somewhat different than the original but gorgeously covered. The orginal version is excellent, the orchestral is unusually haunting yet stunning.
"I'll Remember"- a sweet ballad, yet it stilll has a good flow. "You'll See"- revenge, wrapped up in a nice little musical package. "This Used To Be My Playground"- one of Madonna's best songs, and very emotional too. "Live To Tell" + "Crazy For You"- classics, need I say more? The other songs are also good with two exceptions- Forbidden Love and One More Chance. Bboth dull, both boring. Other problem with the album- where is "The Look of Love", "Sooner or Later", "Veras" ("You'll See Spanish version) and "La Isla Bonita". Otherwise a must have collection!