Like A Prayer

All the instrumentals and most of the lyrics are just so garish. In between the occasional stylistic ice pick to the brain it is pretty boring. Highlights: "Cherish", "Keep It Together"

80's vibe, not so much my style.

two madonna albums heard. TWO STRIKES

I have heard Like A Prayer the song but never listened to the album. Not really a fan of the song and now that I have heard the album, I am not a fan of it either.

I hate to give such a revered artist a bad score but this album did nothing for me. I didn't really enjoy the vocals or the pop sound.

Only 3 songs that I liked. The rest I didn't care for.

Not a fan. I thought I would like it but I was wrong

another instance of a whole album i can't stand and then i go "oh huh this one's not that bad" but its because the album ended and spotify started autoplaying other things. this happens So Often.

I didn’t like a single song from this album

This was an awful waste of my afternoon. Vapid pop music, and at no point in my life would I be the target market for Madonna. And if there is one defining factor for Madonna, it is shrewd marketing. If only her music was as good as her PR.

Jumps from inane 80s pop to boredom. Not my thing

Not for me. 1/5

Popgedudel vom Feinsten. Nein, war noch nie was für mich.

More like “Like a 😴”

- Niet afgeluisterd, bah bah bah - 0 nummers toegevoegd aan MMMM

I was never into Madonna's music. Ray Of Light had some fun tunes, but her 80s output was always the bad kind of 80s music for me. Love Song seemed like a wholesale ripoff of Prince's sound, so I wasn't surprised to learn he featured on it. Although I'd rather put it the other way around: i's a Prince song that features Madonna on vocals.

Until I had to listen to madonna albums on this list, I never realised how much I disliked her voice. So manufactured and packaged, nothing real or spontaneous about the material girl. Ugh, I hate it.

Title track does a lot of heavy lifting here, the rest was quite empty sounding

great pop

‘Like’ a prayer. Like, not actual, that’s the key. There’s nothing authentic here as there never is with Madonna. She’s pure hype, nothing but presentation all the way down. It becomes even more depressingly cynical when she pretends that there’s some genuine revelation or attempt at artistry. I’m not buying.

No. I lived through this second rate shit. I don’t have to listen to a single second.

This is not a far star, I have never been a fan of her music and don't want this messing up my future tidal recommendations.

No, immediately no

I really didn't like this

I get it but I don't like it.

Unintentionally I listened to the 30th anniversary release rather than the original release. The re-release album was two tracks shorter (woohoo) but some of the tracks were extended and\or dance mixes (boo). If you haven't worked it out yet I didn't enjoy this experience. I haven't lived under a rock so I am aware of Madonna and have heard several of these tracks multiple times - but that was never out of choice. I didn't even make it all the way through, so by default this gets 1 star!

Meh

I pray that I never have to listen to this again.

realized this was going to be real boring by the middle if the first song

1. prayer - 1.5 2. ezprezz - 1 3. love - 0 4. death - 0 5. promize - 1.5 6. cherizh - 0 7. jezzie - 0 8. father - 1 9. keep - 0 10. zpanizh - 1 11. contrition - 0

Never been a Madonna fan. Her voice is not good to my ears.

Bruh moment.

Oh man, dit zijjn echt wel de slechtste clichés van de jaren tachtig samengebald. Over het paard getilde sterpretentie gekoppeld aan de lulligste blikken keyboards aller tijden, en dan ook nog een keer Prince ertussendoor. Het klinkt alsof het 1983 is, maar in werkelijkheid zijn we al aan het eind van het decennium. Zelfs de titel is een rip-off van een eerdere hit. Eerlijk gezegd vond ik de LP die ik laatst in Duitsland uit de 'zum mitnehmen'-bak viste (True blue) een stuk beter, maar vanaf vinyl klinkt natuurlijk alles beter.

thought this might be bearable given it's Madonna - it wasn't. Synth music that sounds direct from the 80s and boring to listen to - title track is easily the best on the album

I just can't sorry. So cheesy and cringey.

No

Pop music is just too repetitive

Horrendous. Madonna is the purest version of style over substance and this album showed it perfectly. She can't really sing and like a prayer aside the only songs I can remember are the ones that really annoyed me. Express yourself in particular was so long I genuinely thought I'd managed to hit repeat or something. With all of this said, I will admit I like beautiful stranger from watching Austin powers as a youngun. But this album is dire.

This might be the album Satan plays at the gates of Hell to welcome newcomers

Too 80s. Not my vibe. It was the drums I think that made it sound stale.

Really not great

I don’t think this album has real substance but is merely symbol for the influence it had during its peak on radio charts. Madonna has writing credits on all the songs, so there’s that.

First Madonna album I've listened to end-to-end. Don't love 80s pop in general. Some interesting musical elements I never heard in Madonna songs I had listened to before (strings? something that sounded like Prince?). Overall a 1* for me.

What is Madonna famous for? It can't be music because this is seriously awful

Pas mon style

besides first 2 tracks (famous singles), this album has been a slog.

I can't believe I'm giving Madonna 1 star, but I reeeeeallly didn't like this. Excluding the first two tracks, every song was obnoxious.

Actual garbage

I was hoping 'Express Yourself' would turn out to be an NWA cover version. Sadly it was more SAW. And when I found out that 'Till Death' wasn't a critique of the 60s 'sitcom' (at least not obviously), it was time to bail.

Pray for this shite to end

The Material Girl. I don’t know if it was the era or these particular songs but I couldn’t Keep It Together. I can’t even remember what it sounded like, I just blocked it from my memory after listening to it on Friday. I did NOT Cherish my time listening to this one. I mean, Like A Prayer is good and famous for a reason. Other than that, I didn’t find much here. Dear Jessie makes me feel like I’m watching a terrible live musical, and I’m sitting in the middle of row, inescapable of the shittiness that is occurring in front me. A true assault of the senses. I’m not familiar with Madonna’s catalogue, and this doesn’t make me want to be.

Woof, this one was rough. Starts off strong with the title track but its all downhill from there. My eyes almost rolled out of my head listening to Dear Jessie. Didn't think it could get any worse than that song but then Act of Contrition came on.... Didn't even make it through my second listen, had to turn it off. Boooo!

Hated this album when it came out. Still hated it after listening to it today. Not even Prince could save this turd.

Can you separate your revulsion for an overplayed pop sound, just to appreciate the album’s place in music history? Sometimes you just can’t.

kinda boring

The issue with this one is the fact that Madonna made a really good single and then tacked a whole album behind it. Some of the songs are alright, I guess, but it's this kind of industry behavior that has saturated the market with mediocrity. This isn't Madonna's fault herself, especially since I'm sure there was industry pressure and influence. Some of the songs feel very strangely put together and some feel pretty coherent. This album is quite the mixed bag. Additionally, I couldn't find anything about this online with some brief googling, but "Express Yourself"'s chorus has the same chorus as "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga. It made me tweak out a bit when I was trying to figure out why it sounded so familiar (and I know that this is a backwards way of thinking about it, since clearly Gaga copied Madonna in this way, but I wanted to mention it in my review). Highlight: 1.

I can deal with some eras of Madonna. This is not one of them.

I never took Madonna's music seriously. And after listening to this album... I still don't take her music seriously.

A bold expression of sexuality and freedom who's influences still echoes to this day. Feels like a relic of it's time.

I sometimes think I never gave music like this a fair shake in the 80s, because it was popular music and my tastes were different, but, really, this music has nothing for me, I really do not like.

Never been a fan. I get why teenage girls liked her back in the 80s, but it's not for me. Some of her later stuff is okay, but not this.

So produced Jubilant horns Cherish is good It's fine but it's a no.

I regret wasting my time for this

wow, this was so much worse than i expected. classic one hit and a shit load of filler album. the problem is the quality of the filler is piss poor. its like a disney soundtrack for a film about an OAP stuck in the body of a teenager that by some cruel twist ages in a way that will result in a teenager stuck in the body of an OAP. the film is called the chronicles of madge. its a straight to video monstrosity.

I can see why it was popular, but I didn’t like it at all. Super pop-y but not in a way that is memorable or pleasing to listen to more than once.

ew

Mag ich nicht!

cacota pop

Nope