Madonna's greatest ballads collection, this album contains many of Madonna's best ballads of yesteryear, as well as a few new ones. I Want You (with MASSIVE ATTACK) is a powerful, seductive song. "I want you to want me, I want you, but I want you to want me too" Madonna croons, silkily. Resist that if you can. MASSIVE ATTACK add a powerful backing music to it that adds weight to the song. A long introduction starts this song, with a hip-hop drum with exceptional emphasis on the bass, and a semi-tone string figure. Madonna sings this song of desire and unrequited love in a languid manner, her vocal right to the front of the mix. The theme of ...  Read the complete review

The follow up to the multi-platinum Bedtime Stories, was 1995s Something To Remember. Described in the press release for the album as ‘a very special collection, which brings together her finest ballads’, it is indeed a very fine record. One gets the impression that maybe Madonna was feeling a little sorry for her-self around this time, as the sleeve notes state that ‘so much controversy has surrounded her career the last 10 years that the music is all but forgotten’. Without fanfare she introduces the collection of ballads saying, “…all of them are from my heart”. Heck, even the cover of the album has Madonna in a ...  Read the complete review

Yes, Madonna the Queen of Pop has yet another fine collection of songs. This collection of songs are quiet ones, not ones to get up and dance to, but rather to sit back quietly and hum along and sing (badly in my case) to the words. The song "This used to be my playground" comes from Madonna's film A League of Their Own. This is definitely a great album and well worth buying. Another fine collection of songs featuring a lot of my favourites such as Rain, Crazy for You and This used to be my playground. Well worth listening to. ...  Read the complete review

Something to remember is a compilation album by Madonna released in the year 1995. The album is totally different than her previous albums and contains more ballads, but there are also three new songs and some old songs not previously appeared on her albums. These are softer songs of Madonna. Below is a discussion of some songs: I Want You I want you is the first song on the album and begins with a kind of knocking sound after another and quickly an electro beat begins to play. It has a somewhat vague beginning and the song remains in a slow tempo. You hear violins in the background and a sultry voice of Madonna. It is a kind of ballad only by the obvious ...  Read the complete review

Everyone knows Madonna isn't the best singer on the planet. But she does produce some damn good albums when she wants to. "Something To Remember " is a fine example of this. All the best ballads from previous albums or soundtracks have all been placed onto one disk. Here's what I think of each track: I WANT YOU (with Massive Attack) I really don't understand why this was given the priority to go first. I Want You is bland, boring and by far the worst song on this album. Don't be too put off though. I'LL REMEMBER Quite fast but definetly a ballad. Wasn't on her previous (full) albums, much stronger than ...  Read the complete review