You can dance
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9/10 |
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68m: 31s |
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The Hit Factory |
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You Can Dance is a remix album by Madonna from 1987. It is her fifth album release.
background
In order to bridge the long break between the last studio album True Blue (1986) and the next album Like a Prayer (1989), a "new" album was to be released in 1987, which should exploit the media hype surrounding Madonna commercially. However, she had no time for new recordings because she was on her Who's That Girl - World Tour and was then booked for the Broadway play Speed the Plow .
It seemed too early for a greatest hits album, although Madonna had already released 21 singles in her first four years. A few months earlier, Janet Jackson had released her remix album Control Remixes , and Madonna was to present this new album form in an even more sophisticated way: The individual tracks were not only remixed, but merged into one another as a long megamix - something Madonna did with her dance in 2005 -Album Confessions on a Dance Floor successfully repeated.
The only new track on the album was Spotlight , which didn't make it onto the previous album, True Blue , because it was too reminiscent of Holiday . For this reason, the single was discarded - Spotlight only appeared in Japan and made it to third place in the charts. For DJs, the album was released as a 3-vinyl set, which made it possible to play different songs from the album in succession in the clubs without having to buy the album twice. So it was able to place itself at the top of the US club charts.
The title You Can Dance comes from the Madonna song Into the Groove , one of their most popular dance titles. The included remix by Shep Pettibone is the version that Madonna has been using in live performances ever since; last in 2004 on the Re-Invention Tour . The album gathers the tracks from Madonna's beginnings, which were most popular in discos and also lyrically put party, dance and movement in the foreground, which is why the album True Blue only used Where's the Party . Instead, older titles such as Physical Attraction or Madonna's first single Everybody were preferred . Overall, the new versions differ only slightly from the originals; rather , they are extended versions , as they were popular in the 1980s and the songs mostly only expanded with more club-friendly beats and lengthened with instrumental parts - also to give the DJs more time to mix them into the next song.
The album sold over five million times and is still one of the best-selling remix albums today. An outtake from the La Isla Bonita photosession by Herb Ritts was used for the cover .
Track list
- Spotlight - 6:24
- Holiday - 6:32
- Everybody - 6:43
- Physical Attraction - 6:20
- Over and Over - 7:11
- Into the Groove - 8:26
- Where's the Party - 7:16 am
- Holiday (Dub Version) - 6:56
- Into the Groove (Dub Version) - 6:23
- Where's the Party (Dub Version) - 6:20 (CD version only)
Charts
album
| year | title | Chart placements | annotation | ||||
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| DE | AT | CH | UK | US | |||
| 1987 | You can dance | 13 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 14th |
First published: November 17, 1987 Sales worldwide: 5.1 million. |
Singles
| year | title | Chart placements | Sales | annotation | ||||
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| DE | AT | CH | UK | US | ||||
| 1988 |
Spotlight "You Can Dance" |
nv | nv | nv | nv | nv | 0.35 million |
First published 1988 Video: Live Mix Video |
- Except for Spotlight in Japan, the album was not promoted by any commercial single.
- The DJ promo set (3 maxi vinyl) from the remix album You Can Dance made it into the US dance charts .
- Where's the Party was released as a vinyl single in the Philippines.