Everyone can see the loneliness inside me...
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| Title: Love Don't Live Here Anymore Writer: Miles Gregory Producer: Nile Rodgers Album: Like A Virgin (1984) and Something To Remember (1995) Edition Date: Fourth single from the album Something To Remember, March 1996 Length of the album version: 4' 45'' Credits: ©1978 May Twelth / Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Corp. BMI. | ||||||
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| The 5th track from the Like a Virgin album is a song written in 1978 by Miles Gregory. It is the best song from that album, if we consider the musical point of view. Producer Nile Rodgers seemed to understand the real nature of this song, and gave it some orchestral arrangements, with a wide string sections (directed by himself), which made it completely diferent to the other (sintetized) songs from Like a Virgin. The way Madonna sings is excellent, with a great control of her breathing, showing all her critics she could sing. In 1984 it was released a a single, but only for Japan. In 1995 was included in Madonna's greatest ballads album Something to Remember, being remixed especially for this reason. Strange as it seems, it was released as the 5th and last single from that album, and had one of Madonna's simplest videos. Some dance remixes were made, and were released as promos, but didn't reached the commercial release, the same as the I want you remixes. This song is a classic that has also been sung by other artists as Jimmy Nail (Magaldi in Evita), Faith Evans or Rose Royce. | ||||||
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 Shows the look from the You'll See video. The photo is taken by Eugene Adebari, and it is designed by Lyn Bradley. |
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| It was edited in 1984 as a single just in Japan, reaching number 4 in the charts. Then, in 1996, it was released again, but it wasn't successful at all, reaching 78 in USA and 31 in Canada . If the consider the video, and the final Warner decision for not releasing the remixes, we can say it's one of the weakest singles from Madonna's musical carreer. |
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| 1. Album Version (4:45) 2. Video Instrumental 3. Album Remix Edit / Edit / Album Edit (4:03) 4. Album Remix / Remix (4:54) 5. Soulpower Radio Remix Edit (4:03) 6. Soulpower Radio Remix (4:44) 7. Hot Mix Radio Edit / Hot Mix Edit (4:50) 8. Hot Mix Eedit / Hot Mix Mixshow Edit (6:43) 9. Extended Journey / Hot Mix (8:01) 10. Edge Factor Dub (7:59) 11. Early Morning Dub (10:01) 12. Mark!s Radio Edit (4:03) 13. Mark!s Full On Vocal Radio Edit (4:53) 14. Mark!s Full On Vocal / Mark!s Full On Vocal (10:01) 15. Mark!s It's A Boy Dub (9:37) 16. Mark!s It's A Girl Dub (8:02) |
It may seem strange that Madonna chose this song (an 1978 song) as her last single in 1996. Madonna wanted to express and reflect the horrible welcome she had in Argentina by the press and some social-politic circles. And the best way to tell them what she felt was: love don't live here anymore. It is also said that the main reason for such a boring video (we don't think the same) is to give a reply to all those MTV critics at the strong content of some of her videos.