The Confessions Tour

Much like I’m Going to Tell You a Secret, the accompanying album to The Confessions Tour gives listeners selected highlights from the tour, but not the complete picture. And, inexplicably, two of the highlights are just segues between the sections of her concerts. No one pays attention to those Madge. Those are typically the “break time” for the fans. So, instead of including live highlights like “Ray of Light,” “La Isla Bonita,” or “Paradise (Not For Me)” we have “Confessions” and the remix of “Sorry.” For shame!

Luckily, the remixed old songs in the set are consistent highlights and everything from “Let It Will Be” on is just fantastic. “Lucky Star” is now a long-lost ABBA song, complete with the “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” sample at the end as it segues into “Hung Up” effortlessly. Even some of the new songs get the remix treatment as Madonna makes “Future Lovers” a medley with the glaringly obvious song it samples, “I Feel Love,” and creates a seven minute long intro to her concert that pumps and pumps and pumps until Madonna is finally ready to let her audience get off.

But while there are several highlights, the overall concert tour, and therefore this selection of songs, was plagued with a sense of cold detachment which betrayed the exuberant nature of Confessions on a Dancefloor. Ah well, Madonna came out in dominatrix gear with her backup dancers in riding gear for a reason. DOWNLOAD: “Future Lovers/I Feel Love”