Customer Reviews
GHV2 - By: Mr. TB Reeks, 06 Sep 2008 
GHV2 sums up Madonna's singles from 1992 to 2001 from Erotica, Bedtime Stories the Evita soundtrack, Ray of Light, Beautiful Stranger & Music.
What I like about the album is it's artwork & the jumbled track listing.
What I didn't like about the album is the editing of quite a lot of tracks.
However, not all the singles are here & there's no new music either but if you're a Madonna fan who's enjoyed the hits from the 1990s, then this is a good start before you venture further with the albums.
No QSound... - By: Ronnie, 29 Apr 2008 ...But they should include "Bad Girl" & especially "Rain".
1. Deeper & Deeper. 10/10
2. Erotica. 10/10
3. Human Nature. 10/10
4. Secret. 10/10
5. Don't Cry For Me Argentina. 8/10
6. Bedtime Story. 10/10
7. The Power of Good-Bye. 10/10
8. Beautiful Stranger. 9/10
9. Frozen. 10/10
10. Take a Bow. 10/10
11. Ray of Light. 10/10
12. Don't Tell Me. 10/10
13. What It Feels Like For a Girl. 10/10
14. Drowned World/Substitute For Love. 10/10
15. Music. 10/10
OVERALL GRADE: 9/10
It looks promising, though the editing is ghastly & som of the songs, like "Bad Girl", "Rain", "Fever", "You'll See", "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" & "This Used To Be My Playground" aren't on there thoughin my opinion I think they should be.
Madonna: Queen of pop - By: Laura, 23 Aug 2007 
I like this greatest hits album. There might have been other songs that she did round about this timein her career but they aren't included. That is the only negative point I have to make.
Madonna sings 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina ' really really well, I am very impressed & can't fault her for that.
I really like 'Drowned World/Substitute for love ' a really touching, hauntingly beautiful song about how fallingin love has changed her since she met Guy Ritchie...it's sweet & reveals a more softer side to Madonna.
Fascinating Yet Disposable... - By: G. Bowden, 15 Aug 2006 For someone who claimed she wanted to be "as famous as God", Madonna certainly does all that she canin the name of pop music to come incredibly close to making that statement a reality. Of course, Madonna's success is easily attributed not simply to her music but also for her work as a multi-media force of nature, her videos & live performances often pushing boundaries of taste & mainstream respectability. The work featured on The Immaculate Collection saw her writhing suggestively onstage during a rendition of "Like A Virgin" at the MTV awardsin America, showcase Jean-Paul Gaultier's fabulously pointy brassieres for the "Vogue" video & eventually commission her own soft-core porn short with the accompanying video to "Justify My Love". However, the work featured on GHV2 sees her run the gamut of various musical genres of the 1990s with their leading production aficionadosin an effort to stay ahead of the game. The result is often less-than-convincing but,in its defence, more daring than one would assume the Queen of Pop to have any right to be.
Fundamentally, GHV2 falls down on sheer value for money. The same gripes that some have alleged to Immaculate are present herein that most of the cuts here are presentedin radio edits, as well as there being some glaring omissions from the final tracklist, such as Oscar winner "You Must Love Me" from Evita or Erotica's lead ballad "Rain". One significant factor also is that, for the most part, Immaculate was cheerfully nothing more than unabashed pop songs about romance & dancing. The later material on GHV2 sees Madonnain a more navel-gazing modus operandi, lording over the gripes of fame & being misunderstood (hear "Human Nature", "What It Feels Like For A Girl" & "Drowned World/Substitute For Love") amidst songs of spiritual enlightenment & heartbreak. There isn't even any new or exclusive material to tack onto the end to entice hardcore fans to buy the compilation.
However, GHV2 remains essentially listenable despite Madonna's attempts at profundity because every single track here is produced within an inch of its life into the most expensively intelligent pop music money can buy. "Deeper And Deeper" kicks things off appropriately almost like a recap of Immaculate with Shep Pettibone & Madonna referencing her earlier workin a fists-in-the-air love anthem, "Papa Don't Preach", "La Isla Bonita" & Pettibone's masterly "Vogue" all rearing their heads into the mix at some point. Other highlights include the Björk-penned "Bedtime Story", a self-pastiche with a fittingly jaded Madonna trappedin trance house atmos, "Ray Of Light", Madonna's most vocally explosive moment, & "The Power Of Goodbye", which could be overall Madonna's most heartfelt momentin her back catalogue.
Madonna has every right to include the producer credits on the reverse sleeve of the album, as this proves to be an eclectic, enjoyable listen (where else could you hope to find work from Andrew Lloyd Webber followed by a dance dub courtesy of Nellee Hooper on the same album?) And for the passing Madonna fan (which surely is more of a nichein the pop world than anything else), this collection will provide an easier overview to counter her extensive back catalogue. And yet Madonna is hamstrung by the boundless genre-hopping containedin the album. On a purely musical level, it works, yet for all of the personal admissions she sings ofin her lyrics it leaves us none the wiser as to who Madonna actually is as a person. Maybe she's taken the "God" thing literally after all...
Madonnalicious!!! - By: Mad Fan, 27 Apr 2006 The undisputed queen of pop closed out the 90's with her most critically acclaimed album of her career to date (Ray Of Light) & to top it off came GHV2, a searing collection of Madonna hits from 1992's Erotica through to 2001's Uber cool electro clash jaunt that was Music. Having granted the fact that her sales took a dipin the 90's (Dip not fall!!)Madonna unleashed her most inner creative desires throughout the 90's becoming more experimental, fun, & down right funky with her choice of musical styles. Not only was she eager to embrace new sounds but visuals as well. She circum-navigated the globe through her choice of visual direction & inspired millions including a few other female entertainers to boot, from the gay clubs of LA & NYCin Deeper & Deeper & Erotica through to the world of Barbarrellain the Bedtime Story clip, our hero also took on the world of the Geisha & Cowgirl with Ray Of Light & Music. There wasnt much that the 1st lady of pop wouldnt undertake, like a jugernaut she trashed through every culture snapping up pieces on the way, the result is an album that shows an artist fullyin control of her career able to make the choices she wants directing where she goes. GHV2in retrospect is a kind of thankyou to the millions of fans for sticking by her through thick & thin, her choices of musical styles may not have been to everyones tastein the 90's but she proved that you can either follow the crowd & become staid or stike out & become a vissionary!! Madonna chose the latter & im so glad she did! The tracks themselves are a mish mash of old & new, Deeper & Deeper compliments anything on the album as its straight up camp disco, her latter work fits uncomfotably next to hits such as Secret yet songs from the same era compliment the new- Bedtime Story & Frozen for example. My only gripe is that there were fabulous hits missed of this collection most notably the Edit one mix or video version of Fever, Rain, Nothing Really Matters & You'll see plus other hits such as Bad Girl, I Want You (with Massive Attack)and You Must Love Me. To date this albumin the UK alone has sold over 920,000 so not such a flop after all. I think the lack of some new tracks to publicise the album & accompanying DVD (lets be honest her Hits DVD collection 93-99 missed out the best)let the sales down, but, allin all a fantastic snap shot of a woman at the top of her most creative powers, heres to the next decade & a GHV3!!!
