![]() ![]() While many rarer Madonna 7″ singles would be released on commercially available singles, or make their way to a greatest hits compilation, all of the single edits for You Can Dance remain ultra-obscure rarities secluded to this release to this very day. However, it’s the only album that locked those mixes behind a promo release (and an obscenely rare one at that). Hell, most of her singles from the era have separate, often radically different, single remixes. The songs on You Can Dance weren’t the first Madonna songs to get radio-friendly single remixes. It served as as a way for listeners to hear the newly remixed versions, while at the same time fitting them to into a more radio-friendly format. Hence, the creation of this special radio-only promo. It’s a great concept and works great at parties, but didn’t lend itself to radio play. The only concrete break in the album is halfway through, as it was still primarily an LP release and such a break was needed to flip sides. It was one of the first remix albums released by a major artist, and featured mixes of many of her biggest dance-friendly hits, as well as an exclusive track, “Spotlight.” One thing that made the album stand out even among current remix compilations is that most of the songs are mixed together to create the feeling of a live DJ set. You Can Dance is a bit of a footnote in Madonna’s discography, but the album was something of a big deal when it came out. These mixes are from the You Can Dance promo LP, which was released solely to radio stations to promote the 1987 remix compilation You Can Dance. ![]() Instead I’ll just fall back on a crutch of a comparison and call them my holy grails. If I knew the slightest about Pokemon, I would continue that metaphor to express the rarity/demand of these particular remixes. For example, did you know that there’s a mix of “This Used To Be My Playground” that’s only on a special Olympics-themed compilation called Barcelona Gold? Or that there’s a unique mix of “Human Nature” that was only included on a promo CDr that was never intended for commercial release? Madonna remixes are the Pokemon of music there’s a million of them and I want to catch them all, regardless of quality. I think that the only artists for whom I own more 12″ singles are probably Depeche Mode and Erasure, but to be honest I like Madonna more than both of those artists.Īnd while both those artists have some remixes or edits that are pretty hard to find, neither can hold a candle to level of rarity that some Madonna remixes hold. According to Discogs, I own 101 releases that feature Madonna, and I assume that a good chunk of those are 12″ singles. Learning that there were exclusive (and often very good) remixes of Madonna songs that were on vinyl were one of the reasons why I got into the format in the first place. I’ve been obsessed with hunting down Madonna remixes for about as long as I’ve been collecting vinyl, so for about 15 years now. ![]()
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