Celebration
Madonna
I criticized this one when I first heard about it, accusing Madonna of simply trying to complete her contract with the final album in the easiest way possible with a greatest hits. But I take it all back, this record really is what we’ve been needing. The Immaculate Collection was a near perfect compilation, collecting onto a single disc everything that was wonderful about 80s Madonna. All that really needed to be done was an addendum to that with the huge hits from the albums since to create the definitive Madonna. And here it is. Ignore entirely the dismally constructed GHV2, Celebration does 19 years later what Immaculate did in 1990 — everything you loved about Madonna, presented in the same version you originally loved it as, but with a remastering that ups the pleasure level just a touch.
