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1998 - Ray Of Light [20 Years Old]


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So, the highly rated 1998 album - Ray Of Light - is 20 years old this year!

 

 

We've had some great fun voting for your favourite track here  (Thank you @@angelamanda623)

 

What I would like to know from you, the fan, is this!

 

If there was to be a 20th Anniversary SUPER DELUXE EDITION released, what would you like to see on it?

You can name as many items as you like - demos, remixes .... missing tracks from the ROL era!

 

I'm going to have a bash at curating a fan base for the car ;-)

 

 

A reminder of the tracks on the album:

 

 

1. Drowned World / Substitute For Love 
2. swim 
3. Ray Of Light 
4. Candy Perfume Girl 
5. Skin 
6. Nothing Really Matters 
7. Sky Fits Heaven 
8. Shanti / Ashtangi 
9. Frozen 
10. The Power Of Good-Bye 
11. To Have And Not To Hold 
12. Little Star 
13. Mer Girl 
14. Has To Be

 

 

 

 

I would certainly include:

 Nothing Really Matters (Oriental Beat Box RMX '98)

 Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Mix Show Mix)

 Ray Of Light (Victor Calderone Club Mix)

 Frozen (Stereo MC's Mix)

 Sky Fits Heaven (Sasha Remix)

 

 

^ Just to get the juices flowing :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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I'm not sure if the album could ever be improved by any additions or tweaks. It's perfect as it is.

 

Perhaps an additional disc featuring the official mixes?

 

Drowned World - Ashram Bucklodge Mix

Ray of Light - Orbit UV Mix

Skin - Collaboration Mix

Nothing Really Matters - K&D Mix

Sky Fits Heaven - Sasha Mix

Frozen - Stereo MCs Mix

The Power of Goodbye - Fabien Mix

To Have and Not to Hold - Goldie Mix*

 

*previously unreleased

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Never going to happen, so no use trying to dream up something that won't be.   Besides, I don't get why fans lust over this idea of an anniversary set.  The original albums should remain intact as they are and let people experience them as they are in original form without all these extra remixes or songs that never was meant to be included on the final concept of the album.

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The album with great packaging including a photobook with beautiful pictures (inc outtakes) and a diary about the making of the album with notes by her and orbit, patrick leonard,,,,. and a second cd with maybe demos, remixes, unreleased or w/e. 

 

But changing her social media avi is good too

 

Im more interested in Like A Prayer remastered next year though.  :suffer:

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Some very interesting comments so far! 

 

Also - @@Fighter - you and me both - LOVE Like a Prayer!

 

@@Liam, Fully get that she wanted us to hear the album as is - but then she authorised mixes, has unreleased/unheard demos and there may have been a track or 2 that was recorded that didn't make the album. 

 

It's a huge revenue miss (not that she needs it) that these deluxe sets have not happened ..... I purchased a great set from Erasure last year which is stunning, and loving the PSB further listening collections ...... which is what made me think of this post

 

Loving the feedback, loving searching youtube etc to listen to stuff I didn't know about!

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Just because she "authorized remixes" and had "demos" doesn't mean it belongs with the project.  She is an artist who can afford to commission many people to remix her songs, to end up choosing which one she prefers.  The demos that didn't make the album because it didn't fit her vision of the final product. 

 

I prefer if she is going to release "unreleased" work, it be done on a separate project.  Possibly an album of "unreleased" work.  I don't believe she'll ever do that either. She has always come off to me as an artist that has a particular idea of what music she wants the public to hear, and the "unreleased" material is meant to be locked away forever.

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There could be some live versions. Including never before released recordings from the infamous Roxy show 🤣

 

Drowned World CT

Ray of Light VMA

Candy Perfume Girl DWT

Nothing Really Matters Grammys

Sky Fits Heaven Roxy

Shanti Ashtangi Roxy

Frozen DWT

The Power of Goodbye EMA

Little Star Oprah

Mer Girl DWT

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