Holocaust Chic

Fantastique!

Madonna performs Everybody, Burning Up and Holiday at London's Camden Palace on October 13, 1983.

No Sewer is Too Deep

That hair, that body, that filth - it's perfect.

How I wish we had this on the proper Virgin Tour release. Here's Burning Up from Dallas, Texas - May 3, 1985. Love the arrangement, love the uh - uh's, love the voice, love it all.

Madonna/Madonna VHS Cassette plus Record Store Counter Promo

When this 4 track Video VHS came out in late 1984, it was bliss! Borderline (still my all-time fav), Burning Up - finally in great quality - I used to have to watch MV3 with Richard Blade here in Los Angeles to get Burning Up and Everybody because MTV didn't play those. The club version mix of Lucky Star. And, of course, the original Like a Virgin - which is Mary Lambert's original cut and the first one they showed on MTV for the first couple of weeks of their exclusive.

This is the Record Store Counter Promo they had for the VHS. It folds under and it stands straight up like a pyramid. Fab.

What's Your Favorite Video From Madonna/Madonna - The First Album?

From Madonna's decadent debut album, Madonna, she had four great videos that reflected different eras in the early history of motion picture. With each video she progressed, as the medium of The Music Video grew with the advent of MTV.

Film Exhibition: Everybody (1982). Like a Nickelodeon machine but projecting outward in clubs, the sexy downtown street waif beckons everyone to dance and sing, get up and do their thing. A glimpse inside the underworld in which she came. Performing on stage, people are dancing beneath her and walking across her stage with a boom box, she unaffected.

Symbolism: Burning Up (1983). Raunchy Sex Goddess in heat that crawled up from the gutters into a world of goldfish bowls, Grecian/Roman marble busts with illuminating eyes, an abundance of door locks, chains, eyeballs and lips. Doors turn into boats and a car drives through the river around her. She ends up in the middle of a road, tugging at her garment as she's the target of a speeding driver. Just as the car would impact her and she would end up as road kill, she emerges driving the vehicle with the initial male driver nowhere to be found.

Narrative: Borderline (1984). Photographer discovers strikingly beautiful street girl as she's dancing with her lover and friends. Flattered at his proposal to pose for photographs, girls jealous boyfriend disapproves as she and photographer drive off to the studio. Being shot in a series of photos and ending up on a cover of a magazine, girl has flashbacks to her life when it was easy, sexy, fun and free. Bored with the glamorous champagne atmosphere photographer provides, an argument ensues, she rebels and returns to guy she loves.

Technique: Lucky Star (1984). A visual and voyeuristic study of performance and personae using close up, medium and long shots via fast paced editing. A character study of the dancer with the use of a motion picture camera. From the moment she removes her sunglasses, she 'lifts the curtain' to expose herself to the viewer. Long shots of dancers performance, close up of body parts from eyes, lips, stomach, feet and bellybutton. Performer allows us into her narcissistic world while making love to the camera as it follows every move leading to a personal extravaganza and ending with performer 'dropping the curtain' by putting glasses back on.

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Which is your favorite video from the Madonna album and why?

Fantastic Celebration DVD tracklisting announced...Burning Up, enough said.

I've added Everybody here because its one of my favorites and unfortunately always left off.

Bolded never before on DVD collection.

Madonna Celebration DVD Track Listing:

01) Burning Up - Was included on her first VHS collection.
02) Lucky Star
03) Borderline
04) Like A Virgin
05) Material Girl
06) Crazy For You
07) Into The Groove
08) Live To Tell
09) Papa Don’t Preach
10) True Blue
11) Open Your Heart
12) La Isla Bonita
13) Who’s That Girl
14) Like A Prayer
15) Express Yourself
16) Cherish
17) Vogue
18) Justify My Love with extra footage!
19) Erotica
20) Deeper and Deeper
21) Rain
22) I’ll Remember
23) Secret
24) Take A Bow
25) Bedtime Story
26) Human Nature
27) I Want You
28) You’ll See
29) Frozen
30) Ray Of Light
31) The Power Of Good-Bye
32) Beautiful Stranger
33) American Pie
34) Music
35) Don’t Tell Me
36) What It Feels Like For A Girl
37) Die Another Day
38) Hollywood
39) Love Profusion
40) Hung Up
41) Sorry
42) Get Together
43) Jump
44) 4 Minutes
45) Give It 2 Me
46) Miles Away
47) Celebration


Missing videos are:

Oh Father (The Immaculate Collection Dvd)
This Used To Be My Playground (A League Of Their Own Dvd)
Bad Girl (The Video Collection 93-99 Dvd)
Fever(The Video Collection 93-99 Dvd)
Love Don't Live Here Anymore(The Video Collection 93-99 Dvd)
You Must Love Me (Evita Dvd)
Drowned World (The Video Collection 93-99 Dvd)
Nothing Really Matters (The Video Collection 93-99 Dvd)
American Life

I never count Dear Jessie as anything.

Goodbye, Norma Jeane. June 01, 1926 - August 05, 1962

No Sewer is Too Deep

unlike the others, i'll do anything ~

vintage madonna by peter cunningham

madonna/madonna VHS + counter promo

...and EYE will take you by surprise

tramp mouth

andy warhol photographs early madonna performance at fun house - 1983

early