Ray Of Light

Really not for me this one.

Nothing here of much interest. Unremarkable voice with Unremarkable songs.

How?

Madonna past her prime for sure. There is some decent dance music in here, but other than that I don’t need it much.

Yet again she proves she is rubbish.

Producers and musicians working overtime to make Madonna relevant. Most dated compression and voice is still buried in the mix - that's very telling about the vocals. What the fuck is with the racist song? I went in with an open mind musically but after one song it's clearly just generic, nothing, reactive music. Also in general Madonna is a shit person and fuck her for what she said about Sinead O Conor.

not my thing

I love Madonna's 80's work. I hate late 90's electronic music. I didn't like a single song here. 1 Star.

Boo

Dull (apart from when she started talking in sanskrit which just confused me)

This isn't a good album. Madonna changed pop music and this album made some car commercials. It's not there lyrically, it's just bland techo pop musically, it's just not good. Huge wiff with this one. I don't understand why it's on the list. She has so many better albums, I swear this one made the cut off her name alone.

man i truly do not get this one. it's not that i don't like madonna. it's not that i can't appreciate electronic music. i just feel like this album is so flat and uninteresting. quite frankly, it's boring! the highs here are so mid and the lows are low. who the hell is going to madonna for eastern influenced music anyways? not only that, the production sounds so lifeless and dated in a bad way. madonna's vocals are not great and do not stand out at all. this could have been anyone singing these songs. if you played me most of this album out of context, i don't even think i would recognize that this is madonna's voice. i genuinely do not know what i'm missing. maybe you just had to be there. i'm glad she tried to branch out. it doesn't work for me. a lot of this album feels like it should be played at a clothing store circa 2002. the gap chic

Not her best work

I listened to this album a lot when I was a kid. I liked Ray of Light, and it's still an okay dance jam. Candy Perfume Girl freaked me out back then too. It's a pretty boring album and the songs are too long. Most of her vocals feel strained and emotionless. The lyrics are kinda poetic but most of the time they don't say anything, it's just like a "philosophical" word salad. I definitely don't think anyone needs to hear this before they die 😂 was it influential? As far as I know, not really. Maybe it introduced a lot of white people to new age spiritualism and self care? 🤷‍♀️

Can't do it, can't get through this album.

No thanks

Did not enjoy this. Slop music. It’s a waste of her beautiful voice to be on these tracks.

Kabbalah? Really?

The word for when bile backs up into your throat and you can taste it and you think that you’re going to vomit is “waterbrush.” Madonna gives me waterbrush. As such, did not listen. I refuse to contribute even a fraction of a penny to her undeserved wealth.

1,5?

Ok, let me tell ya what "Like a Virgin"'s about.

Memo to all late-90's albums: you are too long by 1/3. Maybe this was the start of more dance influence in pop music but doesn't make it any more enjoyable for me personally. 1.5 stars

How dull. I remember one or two songs from whenever this was released - I assume they were singles that got a lot of airtime. I don't ever want to hear it again - but most of it, I could hear again without realising I'd heard it before.

This album was one hour and six minutes too long

That time when Madonna reinvented herself as a one hit wonder

Sorry, Madonna

Took a break after Candy Perfume Girl. Turned it off for good during Shanti / Ashtangi. It’s not me, it’s you, girl.

I know this was a more experimental album for Madonna, but didn't do it for me. At all. Some interesting sounds and melodies, but overall, not wowed by this.

I would have given it 0 if I could, the most inauthentic piece of crap I’ve ever heard

Techno-Pop sounding like the soundtrack for a Disney movie that was way to sad and weird to make it to theaters.

Ray Of Light is a mix of songs that were way better than expected and some of the worst music I’ve ever had in my life. The opener Drowned World is great… on the other hand at some point, she sings in what I’m guessing is Hindu. It’s offensively bad. Also a lot of uhhhist uhhist uhhist EDM 3.7/10

Great opening. There are great swathes of this I really don't like.

Why? An hour of late era Madonna. Listen. I’m less than 100 albums into this thing, but I can imagine there won’t be any death metal, minimal thrash metal and very few interesting oddities. Hell, even jazz has been elusive and I thought this list would be rife with new jazz discoveries. I’m already mad at this album. I haven’t heard it and I believe this shouldn’t be here. My initial belief is that there are 1000 albums released IN THE PAST 10 YEARS that surpass the value of this, but only Madonna can prove me wrong. Now that my biases are on full display. Take it away, artist past her glory. She’s in her Julie Andrew’s era. That’s probably the gayest thing I’ve ever said. This is Microsoft headquarters elevator music in 1999. Is it too late to request a substitute for this album? I don’t know what to say. When an album is trying to be this understated, there is nothing to review. People get so wrapped up in making music that is so gentle and so palatable, that they forget to prepare something to fucking listen to. This is nothing. Hell yeah brother. Attach the laser beams to my roller skates pal, I’m putting down my orange pop and rippin’ out on the rink. I then fall in a heap and am trampled by 350 middle schoolers on an activity field trip. I am rushed to the hospital with a suspected concussion and broken clavicle. That’s how this song FEELS. I asked for SOMETHING in the previous track review. This is something, alright. This is a complete atrocity. War crime. Inoffensive water based cell phone ring tone underneath an ex pop star on quaaludes. Lyrics written with a cynical sneer by some moron writer who churned out 200 plus pop tunes that year. Oh buddy. Commence the club banger. This would be playing in the club in a movie funded by Madonna and John Travolta. It’s actually not the worst song but in a completely ironic way. Pretty funny. Does anything matter? Madonna certainly seems to think nothing does. Why oh why did she continue this pursuit then? The worst so far. MAKE IT STOP. As we enter the “middle aged white lady has spiritual awakening” portion of this album, I just want to remind all white people that while you may think your own culture is “boring” or “uncool,” it doesn’t mean you get to latch yourself to someone else’s. Develop a personality and while cultural appreciation and self-education should be encouraged, whatever this is truly fucking sucks. Back to Michigan, faded pop diva. We’ve recovered from our mid-life crisis to return to our mid-album crisis. Frozen. Uhhh. Something about the movie, uhhhh errrr uhhh fuck. How about just BADonna. Saved it. The power of good-bye is truly the greatest of powers. Imagine saying goodbye to this piece of trash album? I can picture it like I’m walking into an idyllic cloud kingdom. God how I pine for that future. Hold music for a suicide hotline. They had to change it out as it decreased call volume for the wrong reasons. I thought it was over. Two songs. That’s it. I can do it. Fuck I almost forgot how to dream. Thanks Madonna. I owe you one. I’ll repay it now, with a tip: retire. Quit. You’ll make more in a month than I’ll make in a decade off of Spotify royalties alone. Travel the world. Hug your loved ones. Burn your albums. Just stop perpetuating this. Let’s get a song about a monstrous lab creation where a girl is turned into an aquatic beast!! A “MerGirl” if you will. This will be cool right? Oh. It’s a whisper pop song belched out by an aged former star with a whiff of spiritual nonsense that ultimately goes nowhere and provides nothing? Who could’ve seen that coming? Nerds love this album. Maybe it’s not me who hates music. This album is a collection of near silent, yet not silent enough pseudo songs. It’s gruel. It is flavourless sustenance for people to ignore in waiting rooms, car dealerships and bad movies. Just there to coat the walls like slimy, outdated wallpaper without any sense of kitsch or whimsy. Oddly racist club tracks in amongst a sea of washed out nothingness. An attempt at producing oceanic atmosphere ends up the waterlogged corpse of a career that while never musically capable was at least somewhat alive. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: smoke billowing from the eyes of a cursed token. Gods consume the dying seconds of each passing hour. Floating heavenward adrift in purgatorial anguish, the steam rises from an endless ocean. Searing the once faithful few as their loyal vessels melt into the endless expanse of human suffering. Penance is paid.

I tried my best

1.5 thought it was gonna be worse but it was till a really weird combo

This was bad. Like really bad. What was the formula here? Madonna does madlibs over generic Dance Dance Revolution-type beats? Lyrically, this is one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard. The production ranged from bland to jumbled, at some points sounding like they were just randomly hitting a keyboard to see what stuck. I am left with more questions than answers: why was this included on the list? How did Madonna get so big making music like this? What was going on in the 80s? I’d rather grab a beer with Stagger Lee than listen to this pile of garbage again.

Not going to dignify this with a response

sigh, it was okay

Weak pop, 1 Star sorry lady

Nothing worthy of more words than this.

Gave it a listen, regretted that decision.

Don’t like Madonna

To me this just feels like Madonna interpretation of various parts of the 90’s. The singing is like Celine Dion and the production is like The Prodigy. It’s like someone put “make me an edgy late 90’s album but with dramatic, heartfelt vocals” into CHATGPT. It’s like a boomer’s interpretation of late 90’s music. It’s like Disney trying to make Star Wars or Amazon trying to make LOTR. You can’t adapt it if you don’t understand the subject matter. I am interested in hearing more Madonna on this list for her earlier stuff. This is far from her best though, and should not be on the list.

I really don't want to listen to this one, I don't like Madonna at all

No thanks

Really didn't like it - it feels like it was designed to play in a very crowded fancy club that people go to just to say they've been. Not a fan

Booo! Hissss!

NO

Fucking hell that was painful. I don't like Madonna. Why are people waiting for this person to come out 3 hours late and sing this trash live... 1.5 stars and hoping I never have to listen again...

Utterly generic.

Meh

When this popped up, I remembered how much I hated that Ray of Light song and was fully prepared to hate the album. As it was I didn't hate it, just disliked it and was prepared to give it 2 stars. Then 'Little Star' came on and I thought - nah, 1 star.

Gross. Not pop. Not upbeat. The guy is an obvious attempt to add SOMETHING for the radio. The cultural appropriation is up front in every track. This sucks in almost every way.

Worst first song on an album I’ve ever heard

Ok beats, bijna air achtige instrumentaties op Swim, vocals volgen wel niet perfect Ray of Light BEGON mooi maar wat is deze beat opeens, chorus wel catchy, maar mix zit niet bijzonder goed? Bass super muddy, sommige synths pijnlijk hoog in de mix Skin heeft redelijk tacky lyrics, beats zijn te 90's, ik moet dit skippen Vieze synth op Shanti, is heel cringe

Boooooring. I couldn’t even make it through the first track without dozing off.

1.4 - Honestly got a bit annoyed listening to this. Not sure if that's cos I was feeling generally irritable, but felt like it was random sayings over techno-pop.

I mean, this sounds fine. I can see why plenty of people like it. But I couldn't wait for this to be over. Every song overstayed its welcome, and they weren't that welcome to begin with. Good for Madonna for evolving her sound, and good for the people that like to listen to this. I'm sadly not one of them.

Holy snooze fest this is just LONG. At first I really liked the electronic sound of this album but lost interest really quickly when there was no variability and nothing that engaged me. I was also clocked out by track 11. If you're going to make a 66 minute album at least give me a reason.

Noget af det kedeligste pop/electronica jeg nogensinde har hørt. Forstår ikke rigtigt hvordan hun (eller, den her type musik) var så populær engang. Men I guess hun heller ikke bliver talt om så meget længere

Madonna sucks

1.5 i remember at least one of these songs being overplayed on the radio

Should Madonna be on this list? Probably. With this album? Certainly not.

Very dated pop music - like mall store music.

Madonna’s vocals are the least interesting part of this album. The electronics are fun, but nothing groundbreaking that I haven’t heard before. Way too long for what it is.

Dette er det første albumet vi har hatt her som jeg genuint misliker. Dette er det jeg liker minst med Madonna og det jeg liker minst med 90-tallet i ert og samme album. Det er kjedelig pop. Det er seigt, det har null glede. Nesten villig til å kalle det pretensiøst. Til å være en artist som alltid har fått creds for å henge med på trendene så syns jeg dette var urovekkende utrendy og bare kjedelig. «Frozen» den mest kjente låten her, er en 6-minutter langgørrkjedelig funeral-dirge av en poplåt. Fuck Madonna, fuck dette albumet. Det verste vi har fått så langt.

It's like being stuck at the world's lamest rave.

It may be a genre-defining departure for Madonna, or some production masterpiece that shook the musical world into the 2000s, but that does not excuse the fact that this album is so BORING. We're not talking not my cup of tea boring, but that kind of shit that grew out of favor for a reason as the years went on. None of the beats here stick in your mind as none of them are catchy, the slick nature seems like a total relapse of everything pop music had learned earlier in the decade with the rise of grunge, and I just straight up don't care as I'm listening to the point of anger. And at over an hour long despite the slim thirteen track length, why would I bother? That's not to mention the fact that Madonna does nothing here. Her voice is inoffensive but not notable, and I cannot imagine she's the one who made all of these "futuristic" backing tracks, leading me to believe the only praise this album tends to get from music critics is those who already love William Orbit's style and want to praise this boring "choose your car!" sounding shit. Feels like a crime this can be considered trip hop because putting this and acts like Björk and Portishead in the same sentence seems like blasphemy. Bleh.

Brutal stuff. So boring

Frozen and nothing really matters are nice pop tunes. Ray of light has not aged well.

Me aburrio y no lo escuche

Trash 🚮

Garbage

could not get thru bec of her voice....

I respect Madonna for her hustle. When you think pop music, there is something in the back of your head that says "Madonna". But... I can't find any pleasure in listening to her songs.. On this album most or even all of the songs are something I would call a "production tricks". There is the voice of Madonna... and everything else is bland and inappetic. Some would say that in most of the pop music production overvalues the artistic aspects, but with Madonna's music I, personally, can very clearly hear that. First 1/5 on the list.

Embarrassing all around. Music is boring. The vocal phrasings are odd. Madonna should be embarrassed that this exists with her name on it. Robert Dimery should be embarrassed that he put it in the top 100,001 let alone the top 1,001.

Oh I remember this! This is when Madonna got dull.

Vomit emoticon

This type of music has to easily be one of my least favorite genres. I'll be honest, I only skipped through after I saw this was over an hour. I had to tap out. I feel slightly bad giving this one star, but it also does make my skin crawl.

why ya gotta make me listen to this right after radiohead

i am not sure if i have ever been more bored in my life

Once cutting edge, now past her prime superstar hops on a trend and rides the wave to a minor resurgence in popularity, a resurgence that wouldn't leave much of a lasting impact. Material girl all day over this. 1 seated lotus out of 5. 🧘

I didn't enjoy this one much. I couldn't get into any songs past Skin. Mer Girl is a real bummer of a track to end on.

I’m generally quite fond of Madonna, but this album wasn’t for me. Other than the title track, I didn’t enjoy any of the songs.

Ой вот это звук Теплый, футуристичный Как первый раз в самолете Как тот поезд в германии в октябре 2000 Уже чую индоктринацию но что поделаешь, мадонна Да что ж все песни в одном ладу- лидийский или какойто там, типа доминантсепт как тоника Аа миксолидийский В итоге не понравилось У мадонны слабый завышенный голос, который она зачем-то обрамляет вибрато. Кошмарные тексты, либеральная индоктринация, разрушение западных ценностей, нарциссизм. Явно сама писала. В песне про очередное озарение и перерождение и то как она больше не думкет только о себе каждая строчка начинается со слова Я. Блядь бесит. Вся музыка просто миксолидийская гамма туда обратно. Она потом же это в бьютифул стренджер продолжит. Какая бездарная баба. Песни блядь на хинди и санскрите, курукара гугугага- тебе индусы карьеру сделали, просветленная ты наша? Блядь сука В топку, сжечь.

Boring drivel. Whats with all the 30 second barely audible intros? I Shanti be listening to this album again.

Just dreadful.

Madonna has always been able to reinvent herself and go after trends before they become such. That said, this leaves me somewhat cold. Most of it is her meandering spiritual stuff, which doesn't interest me. The only song that works for me here is the title track, and it's fantastic. I wish there'd been more like it!

Madonna tries to make a New Age dance record and it goes about as well as you would expect. Takes the crown for most dated instrumentals I’ve heard yet in the project (including all the 80s LPs, which is saying something).

Shoutout to that bartender at the country bar for this one but this shit sucks. Best song I had to pull up the phone and realize the album was over and was on shuffle playing another band

Meh

No me gustó ninguna canción

Madonna a souvent été précurseure. Ici, c’est plutôt beige comme album. J’entend qu’on tente d’incorporer des élément de trip-hop à du dance. Ce n’est pas particulièrement réussi.

Couldn’t get thru this. I much prefer her early material

fucking terrible. Made it 5 songs

nei

Weird boring beats. Dull lyrics. Really shit

No thanks.

I hated this album. Trying to be so dance/pop but just sucks.

cheesy as fuck i couldn’t

Fuck sake. Madonna. An ageing cockwomble struggling for a sense of relevance in the strange modern world. Stumbling around like a drunk auntie at a wedding, Madonna seems to be both uninterested and entirely up for it all in one. I felt nothing listening to this.

Awe, man. Do I really have to? This just sounds like producers have finally mastered ProTools and want to make everything sound like an AI robot wrote it. Whereas MIDI allowed 80s/90s bands to perfect polyrhythms and live layering, this era of 00s records just made everything lifeless and bland. Madonna has great records from the MIDI-era. I'm sure this is considered a "return to form" in terms of commercial sales, but it has none of her early charm. And, it came out at a time where I never ever ever ever could have given it a chance. I had officially checked out on main stream pop (have since returned) and considered it an example of what good music was not. Can I give this single star to Janis Joplin's Pearl?

„Und was hörst du so?“ „Charts.“ 1.1

1998: Ray of Light

Not for me at all.

Madonna explora muchas cosas interesantes musicalmente, pero no es para mí.

Худшее из того, что слышал в рамках списка. И эта отвратительность... она не в раздражительности. Она в пустоте. А точнее в пустоте, позиционирующей себя как полноту. Да, я могу прослушать новый для себя по звучанию арт- альбом и также ощутить поначалу пустоту и неприятие. Но мне хватит свести 2 и 2, чтобы прийти к выводу, что я что-то не понимаю. Тут же ничего не понятного вроде бы и нет. Пустые аранжировки, пустые вокальные партии, пустые тексты. Музыка, которую будто слушаешь в примерочной торгового центра. Звуковые обои. Да, может и компетентнее оценивать альбом как вещь-в-себе, в отрыве от реалии. Тогда да, могу попытаться найти приятные мотивы, припевы, которые мог бы напевать... Но зачем? Думаю, избавившись от подросткового роцкодрочерства я ныне везде что-то хорошее могу найти. Frozen вот вполне приятная. И что теперь, единицы никому не ставить? Думаю, всё же имею право их ставить тому, где могу найти что-то хорошее... но при этом ненавижу всей душой. А тут этот случай. Задаюсь вопросом, откуда пошла эта тема с сильными независимыми женщинами, с серьёзным лицом напевающих какую-то попсовую унылую хуйню. ВИА ГРА с их бриллиантами, цветками и ножами, Бейонсе с её сингл лэди. Где начало. У меня познания невелики, но почему-то всегда на роль источника претендовала Мадонна. Для меня именно подобный кал и испоганил попс. При короле Майкле то такой хуйни вроде не было. Если только на маргинальном положении. Не, пускай этот альбом будет в 1001 альбоме, что нужно послушать. Но не чтобы насладиться, а чтобы ужаснуться от массового безвкусия. Чтобы услышать звук безликого капитализма, вырождающегося общества потребления.

was für ne langweilige scheiße, da fällt mir nichts zu ein """Lieblingssong(s)""": 1. Frozen 2. -------------------------------- 3. -------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Really not for me this one

Está viejo esto ya

Not my type of music