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Material Girl (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of Madonna) (CD)

By: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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DISC 1 for Material Girl (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of Madonna) (CD) Album By Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
1   True Blue  
2   La Isla Bonita  
3   Papa Don't Preach  
4   Like A Prayer  
5   Crazy For You  
6   This Used To Be My Playground  
7   Borderline  
8   Into The Groove  
9   Like A Virgin  
10   Holiday  
11   Material Girl  
12   Who's That Girl  
 

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Full title: Material Girl: The RPO Plays The Music Of Madonna.
Recorded at CTS Studios, London, England in August 1997. Includes liner notes by Fred Dellar.

Album Description

The Royal Philharmonic playing Madonna. Sounds like a hoot, right? Wrong. It's soulless and dry as a bone. No humor, no clever renditions -- they just play it straight, and it's positively coma-inducing. It's elevator music, the stuff they put you on hold with. The arrangements are exact copies of Madonna's, which is fine for pop, but head-scratching for pop-as-classical. It's not cheeky enough to be a parody, and not clever enough to be classy. It's simply bizarre.
"Papa Don't Preach" is completely robbed of its earnestness. The melody of "Like a Prayer" is played by a trumpet, of all things. "This Used to be my Playground" kind of works, mainly because it was orchestrated to begin with. "Into the Groove" is just weird.
This album is sure to appall Madonna fans and classical fans alike. It's good for some kitsch value, but little else. ~ Melinda Hill

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