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"Jump" is a great song, should be a single....

Jump will never be a single. Other songs on the album are far better. Jump has an incessant, vaguely similar west end girls bassline. Quite a good album all the same, track 2 is v good

It seems like "Jump" WILL be a single. The sticker outside the album states: "Features the hits Hung up, Sorry and Jump".

read a couples of reviews of this, Jump is considered the poorest track on the album, i'd disagree but there is better on there.

Yes, but there were also better tracks on Release than Home and dry or London...

This interview was published on from www.drownedmadonna.com today, I've just cut out the intresting part:

[BREAKING NEWS] Madonna Interviewed VIA Instant Messenger on AOL....

We asked Madonna's pal Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to host her AIM interview himself -- with our supervision, of course! On Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 5PM ET, Madonna will perform songs from her new CD 'Confessions on a Dance Floor,' live from London, exclusively on AOL Network LIVE!

HERE IT IS.....


RHanthonyCP: what were you listening to prior to making this record?
MadonnaKonfesses: i was listening to Moroder, Cerrone, Chic, SisterSledge, Kraftwork, Pet Shop Boys, Evelyn Champagne King, Salsoul Orchestra and ABBA!

markus wrote: RHanthonyCP: what were you listening to prior to making this record?
MadonnaKonfesses: i was listening to [...]Kraftwork,[...]

Chrispsb wrote:Yes, but there were also better tracks on Release than Home and dry or London...

there werent many better than home and dry.

paninaro28 wrote:

Chrispsb wrote:Yes, but there were also better tracks on Release than Home and dry or London...

there werent many better than home and dry.

How about every other track on there?

Comon people, Paninaro is obviously present in the (weak) track 'I love New York'! Anybody can hear that!

...'Confessions' is a great album by the way. My favorite track would be 'Future lovers'. Another nice track is 'Sorry, (in which she could have easily placed a sample of 'Can you feel it' by 'The Jacksons'!).

Well it looks like she was listening to PSB (among others) during the making of her new CD. See the link to a chat she recently did on AOL with Anthony from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

http://music.aol.com/artists/aim_celebr ... ew/madonna

I don't that the timpani in I LOVE NEW YORK is an intentional nod to PSB. If you take that view then there are hundreds of pop songs which use a bit of Paninaro. I rather think that it was the other way round - M and Stuart Price used timps in the song and then afterwards probably said "Oh, that sounds a bit like the PSBs"

The string pad at the beginning of JUMP sounds very very similar to the West End Girls string pad - and that seems like a muh more likely deliberate PSB reference.

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BlueSwan wrote:

paninaro28 wrote:

Chrispsb wrote:Yes, but there were also better tracks on Release than Home and dry or London...

there werent many better than home and dry.

How about every other track on there?

Home and dry is among the top three tracks on that album.

paninaro28 wrote:Home and dry is among the top three tracks on that album.

I'd say it's probably in the top ten on that album, actually.

Markus, thanks for posting that, I was going to..

Darkmoon, yes, that timpani drum is totally Paninaro.. it's clearly there.
Cheers..


Wow, PSB have been always talking about her whether pro or con, but she's never deigned to mention them. I find it gratifying that at least in interviews she is acknowledging them as influences. The CD is so infused with that era and PSb were SO prime in taking NYC beats into the UK pop and dance ..I suppose we have Stuart Price to thank for re-enlightening her.

When will we ever get a picture of Neil and Chris with Madonna?
I offer a million dollar ransom.