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Episode Nine - Madonna - American Life

True (Re)View - August 08, 2021 13:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Grab your soy lattés with double shotés and gear up for our first episode after our (impromptu) summer hiatus. Madonna’s ninth studio album, American Life, was one of her least commercially viable albums but has become a fan favourite in recent years. In this episode, we dive deep into the album’...

Episode Eight - Madonna - Music

True (Re)View - April 29, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Is picking holes in the middle of Madonna’s second cultural renaissance a fruitless exercise? Maybe! But exactly half of the duo are going to try. Our first real disagreement stems from the artistic merits of Music being able to stand on its own two legs. An experimental precursor to hyperpop or ...

Episode Seven - Madonna - Ray Of Light

True (Re)View - April 05, 2021 09:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Ray Of Light is that once-in-a-lifetime career move (if you’re lucky): a bold, risky, experimental, progressive comeback album that has taken on a life of its own. With its diverse musical influences - from ambient to trance to dub to techno to bossa nova to grunge to Eastern and classical music ...

Episode Six - Madonna - Bedtime Stories

True (Re)View - February 02, 2021 19:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Where were we? An unexpected mental health break or an intentional month-long pause to help us give Erotica the praise it fully deserves... you decide! In any case, Bedtime Stories eases us back into Madonna's discography with such discerning suppleness and comfort that you'd be forgiven for over...

Episode Five - Madonna - Erotica

True (Re)View - January 06, 2021 02:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Erotica. Romance. We’d like to put you in a trance this week as we jump straight into the 1990s (in our opinion, the Queen of Pop’s greatest decade). Strap yourself in (winky face) as we attempt to swallow (no pun intended) what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame called one of the most revolutionary ...

Episode Four - Madonna - Like A Prayer

True (Re)View - December 22, 2020 03:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Get your patchouli oil ready: this week we have a reservation with the magnum opus (one of many?) that is Like A Prayer. This was a record that bridged the divide between Madonna the controversial pop star and Madonna the person - artistically forward, introspective, and thought-provoking. Is Lik...

Episode Three - Madonna - True Blue

True (Re)View - December 15, 2020 00:43 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Even though Nich and I are preparing to be continents apart for the holidays, nothing can stop us from bringing you our thoughts on what is categorically not a bad Madonna album - and we're grateful for that! True Blue is a behemoth, and emotions were appropriately raised as we stumbled over our ...

Episode Two - Madonna - Like A Virgin (ugh)

True (Re)View - December 07, 2020 20:53 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
We knew it was coming but it still didn't make it any less painful... Like A Virgin is an album of multitudes which never really reaches the heights of its contemporaneous cultural currency or iconography. God, listen to me. I didn't really like this album! And neither did Eric! Listen in as we d...

Episode One - Madonna - The Debut Album

True (Re)View - December 07, 2020 20:52 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
It's finally here! Much like Madonna, we face our debut with admirable scrappy aplomb and a few production issues which are hopefully remedied in the near future (shout out to Shep Pettibone/Auphonic dot com). In today's exclusive, exemplary, debut episode we discuss: - How we found ourselves he...