Madonna - Madonna
After having read all about the influence of the New York City danceteria (club) scene -which included a young Madonna-on my favorite band New Order (from both Sumner and Hook, Morris outstanding)I am listening to this one with more attention and fresh ears and wouldn’t you know it I totally hear New Order here..it’s hard to replace Madonna ‘s voice with Sumner but if you do it - on some tracks(notBorderline which is an outlier) you can totally imagine big parts of the backing tracks as New Order…the synths and programmed drums…which is bizarre
the New Order guitar is more post punk (not funky like Madonna) married to Ennio Morricone as is the bass… but the drums and synths in early new order are very similar to the Madonna record that broke her… madonna’s voice is so different and the fan bases of both from different planets I doubt many people put two and two together
* actually I even hear it on Borderline
