Celebration (Deluxe Edition)

Celebration

“It should speak volumes that Celebration, Madonna’s third greatest hits compilation and most comprehensive, can actually be criticized for not being long enough and excluding too many great songs. While this effectively works like gang busters to introduce the unconverted or new recruits to the Immaculate Church of the Divine Madge, for diehards the only need to get this would be to obtain the two (three depending on where it was purchased) new tracks.

Generally, I think that this is as solid a collection of infectious and groundbreaking dance confections as has ever been assembled, but it is slightly problematic. The biggest problem is that the track listing is arranged so slapdash that there’s no sense of career, vocal, artistic or personal growth. There’s a string of 80s” read more