Madonna Immaculate Collection ( remaster vinyl 2LP )

Release date:01-06-2018(orginally released in 1990)

2016 EU ( remaster vinyl 2LP ) All hits collected in one case,a definitive retrospective of Madonna's heyday in the '80s. After all, it features 17 of Madonna's greatest hits, from "Holiday" and "Like a Virgin" to "Like a Prayer" "Angel," "Dress You Up," "True Blue," "Who's That Girl,"  "Causing a Commotion."and "Vogue" from the period 1983 to 1990 as well as two previously unreleased tracks: Justify My Love and Rescue Me. The name of the album is a reference to immaculate conception (the conception of the Virgin Mary).

Tracks:(2LP)
LP1:
A1 Holiday
A2 Lucky Star
A3 Bordeline
A4 Like A Virgin

B1 Material Girl
B2 Crazy For You
B3 Into The Groove
B4 Live To Tell

LP2:
C1 Papa Don't Preach
C2 Open Your Heart
C3 La Isla Bonita
C4 Like A Prayer

D1 Express Yourself
D2 Cherish
D3 Vogue
D4 Justify My Love (Backing Vocals – Lenny Kravitz, Madonna)
D5 Rescue Me

On the surface, the single-disc hits compilation The Immaculate Collection appears to be a definitive retrospective of Madonna's heyday in the '80s. After all, it features 17 of Madonna's greatest hits, from "Holiday" and "Like a Virgin" to "Like a Prayer" and "Vogue." However, looks can be deceiving. It's true that The Immaculate Collection contains the bulk of Madonna's hits, but there are several big hits that aren't present, including "Angel," "Dress You Up," "True Blue," "Who's That Girl," and "Causing a Commotion." The songs that are included are frequently altered. Everything on the collection is remastered in Q-sound, which gives an exaggerated sense of stereo separation that often distorts the original intent of the recordings. Furthermore, several songs are faster than their original versions and some are faded out earlier than either their single or album versions, while others are segued together. In other words, while all the hits are present, they're simply not in their correct versions. Nevertheless, The Immaculate Collection remains a necessary purchase, because it captures everything Madonna is about and it proves that she was one of the finest singles artists of the '80s. Until the original single versions are compiled on another album, The Immaculate Collection is the closest thing to a definitive retrospective.