Ray Of Light - Madonna Reviews

"Ray Of Light" is the 7th album by Madonna and was released in 1998. It won 4 Grammy Awards, marked a change in musical style and helped revive the Material Girl's career. The musical style is mainly electronic with production work by William Orbit; digital sounding effects and interesting samples are usually present in the background ...  Read the complete review

I've always been a big fan of Madonna, from her early works where she was just an innocent pop star right until she turned into the sexy eroticist that she became in the mid 90's she was constantly changing her look and musical style and in fact still is to this day. I gave my brother a bit of stick at the time for coming home with "Ray of ...  Read the complete review

Madonna Ciccone has been nicknamed the 'Queen of Pop', and is wll known for groundbreaking music releasing themes of music and religion onto the stage with controversy attached. Following the release of her 1994 album 'Bedtime Stories', Madonna took a break from recording music and concentrated on the film production of the musical 'Evita', in ...  Read the complete review

"Ray of Light" came out in 1998, and it seemed to be heavily influenced by some of the events surrounding her life at the time. Following on from the starring role in the film of "Evita", and her decision to have her baby, Lourdes. (yes, that's the way Madonna does things - unlike most of the rest of womankind, she decides ...  Read the complete review

"Like a VURR-URR-URR-GIN, touched for the very first time, Does your heart beat next to mine?" Certainly, on the cover of 1998's Ray Of Light album, Ms Ciccone, despite her advancing years, opted for the winsome, come hither image, all pleading and promising eyes, windswept hair covering her gorgeous features, dreaming ...  Read the complete review

Released as another rebranding of Madonna, this cathartic album came out some four years after her last studio album 'Bedtime Stories'. But boy, was it worth waiting for! Heavily influenced by the birth and early life of Madonna's first child, Lourdes, and with a big liquid feel; melodies and rhythms wash and flow into each other. ...  Read the complete review

Madonna returned to her main craft of music after taking time out to play Eva Peron in Hollywood's version of Evita. Some of the songs which she sang in Evita have been released, but she had released no new material for a while. She also took time out to have baby Lourdes. Her image changed most dramatically for this album and is ...  Read the complete review

This is my favourite album of all time, no doubt about it. Some people can't understand why; they say that the album is too samey, too beepy - basically, too innovative and different from the rest. This album is still a regualr CD I play 3 years on and each song is special. 1. Drowned World/ Substitute For Love is an underrated track. ...  Read the complete review

This album is the most thought provoking and subtle album I think Madonna has ever produced. It is perhaps a little less commercial than 'Music', yet 'Music' clearly owes a lot of its style to this album. Tracks like 'Frozen' show why Madonna has been popular for so long. The combination of instrumentals, electronic riffs, ...  Read the complete review

We used to copy Madonna's dance routines when we were in primary school and now at the age of twenty-five I still want to be her. ** Ray of Light shows that Madonna is more than a beautiful woman who can take her clothes off and shock people. This glorious record sees her and lyrist Pat Leonard in a resounding return to ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1998, Ray of Light marked a profound change in Madonna’s music AND life. The reason – she had become a mother, and the effect on her of motherhood really shows on this album. More introspective, thoughtful and biographical than previous albums, Madonna has grown up, but being Madonna this does not mean she has become a ...  Read the complete review

After a couple of years of no new material I couldn’t wait to grace my eardrums with the sounds of ‘Ray of Light’. I am not going to bore you with commentary about the good lady, there are plenty of books to read about her...and The Sun has kept us pretty well updated. So briefly, ‘Ray of Light’ was released ...  Read the complete review

I think that even in the light of her new album, this is Madonna's best album. The tracks on Ray of Light are more mature than her previous work but not trying to be quite so 'groovy' and up to date as her latest album. Madonna is having an age crisis and feels the need to have a baby, a settled married life and an album full of new ...  Read the complete review

Although my taste in music is highly eclectic, I don't particularly have a penchant for 'dance' music. It has to have a certain quality to attract me and for me to like it. Madonna's album RAY OF LIGHT has just such a quality. The album is unlike any other Madonna album I've ever heard, and really shows how important ...  Read the complete review

I know this isn't Madonna's most recent album - Music being out quite recently - but all the wedding business has made me listen to the CD again and realise how brilliant it is. When I first got it I thought it was a bit weird, a bit odd and so didn't play it that often. Now I've realised that it's a real grower and worth lots ...  Read the complete review

This album is of course the album that was the most talked about Madonna album ever. It was produced by William Orbit and has the unique stamp of his marked all over it! Most songs sound like they have had something to do with Mr Orbit, but they also have a large element that seems to be Madonna ish. Every song on the album is great, ...  Read the complete review

The first few times I listened to this album, I was really unimpressed. It was very different to anything Madonna has every done before but that's her great quality that very few artists have, the ability to reinvent her music, to move with the times. There are various influences in there, from Indian in 'Shanti/Ashtangi' to dance in ...  Read the complete review

Madonna has always been a long-time sex symbol and pop icon. Famous for not only her music but her chameleon ways. On this album not only is she at the cutting edge of modern day music and fashions. At the ripe age of 40, and with baby in toe Madonna has done it again, in great style! The Material Girl succeeded in reinventing herself yet again ...  Read the complete review

This is Madonna?s best album. Full of fantastic tracks (five singles were taken from this album ? six if you count one as a double A-side) and this was the record that made producer William Orbit a household name. Hard to believe that it?s a little dated now, since every producer going has ripped off the styles presented, but listen to it and you ...  Read the complete review

Wow. What an amazing comeback for the Queen. Madonna has had yet another music makeover and once again, she succeeds. To be honest, I didn't like this album much at first, but it grew on me and now I can't live without it. I think that this album certainly reflects the maternal and newly established spiritual side of her personality. She ...  Read the complete review