A departure from her previous work, Ray of Light is an electronica, dance and techno-pop album which incorporates several genres, including ambient, trip hop and house music. Being from India and big into the Indian music scene, this album hit home in such a beautiful way that was not obvious or too upfront. The recording process was the longest of Madonna's career and experienced problems with Orbit's hardware arrangement, which would break down, and recording would have to be delayed until it could be repaired. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Following failed sessions with them, Madonna pursued a new musical direction with English producer William Orbit. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. She has not contradicted herself and has maintained her equinimity throughout a carrer of eclectic prowess and which is rather indicative of her sincerity.The music still sounds Fresh with the same method of use of dreamy synths Grimes likes to use today.

This album really scores high in all areas of sound, composition, arrangements, melody, rhythm and lyrics. Rhythm tracks are bold and very creatively put together creating a lot of dance friendly tracks in addition to the melody and soul.It is a beautiful song about how motherhood changes a person and seeing the world through a child's eyes and a defo rating of 10/10 for a song next I will say Swim This is the second track it is just so good I really enjoyed the use of electrica sound she has used on this ablum the first in her career I think from Pop to Dance Pop I think Ray of light is different from most other Madonna albums as it is a lot more about love and relationships other then the conversational 1980's stuff from like a virgin Which was just great which talked about having sex for the first time to like a Prayer burning the cross and using a black Jesus another classic great Madonna album but Ray of light is unique To bedtime Stories from 1994 to Erotica from 1992 it is less sexual and more balled sounding much more like Madonna's natural singing voice I do like it a lot and am so happen I purchased this album as I have not stopped playing it. My favorites are tracks 9-13, the final 5 of Frozen, Power of Goodbye, To Have not To Hold, Little Star and Mer Girl. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Thanks due to ‘RMlegshaver’ for pointing out that Willem Makkee was involved with this 2003 vinyl pressing, he also did work for ‘Speaker’s Corner Records’. And with the Kabbalah informed sentiment of 'Nothing Really Matters' "Baroness Ciccone" has eased into 10th gear and cruising along the Hyper Galactic Highway.

So do yourself a favour, get this either on Vinyl or CD and listen to one of the greatest albums of Madonna, The best album of the 90's or maybe of all time! Epic album from two decades ago, having massive hits of that days, like: The Power of Good Bye, Nothing Really Matters, Frozen or more popular and less liked (by me) Ray of Light. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Astonishingly good album, ‘To Have And Not To Hold’ and ‘Frozen’ have to be 2 of the greatest songs written.The meditative elements of Orbit's electronic programming gives such a beautiful Eastern flavor as well. exceeded my expectations tremendously and feel 100 percent sure that theres no need for another copy. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Ray of Light is now an all time favorite and I never would have thought Madonna of all artists would be part of my all time favorites. It would be enjoyable to hear her drumwork but alas there are no extant recordings otherwise surely they would be available,but I believe the bands that she fronted or collaborated with had no record deal.

In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. A couple of tracks like Candy Perfume Girl and Skin have the usual sultry lyrics, but even with those, the music is phenomenal. If You are a massive fan of Madge You sound get this it is just great and one of the best albums of her career and the Nighties little Star is a great song as well another song which is just beautiful and show's off Madges maternal side.Today, I am a huge fan of Bollywood composer AR Rahman's film scores and songs given his eclectic genius.