|
Post by Guest on Feb 1, 2020 12:28:34 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by germancanadian on Feb 1, 2020 12:39:40 GMT -5
Great article. I think Mad Love is one of Linda's best albums. She could really rock when she wanted to.
|
|
|
Post by PoP80 on Feb 1, 2020 17:06:21 GMT -5
Hard to believe it's been 40 years since Mad Love was released! I remember all the buzz about this album because it was such a departure for Linda in many ways. Matthew Hochter understands the creativity behind the song choices and has a deep appreciation for Linda as a fearless trailblazer.
|
|
|
Post by the Scribe on Feb 1, 2020 17:43:56 GMT -5
From eponymous to her last effort all of her albums sound crisp, fresh and current. Not dated at all except compared against today's popular genres but the music sounds great.
|
|
|
Post by goldie on Feb 1, 2020 18:46:03 GMT -5
Look Out For My Love is one of my favorites. This was Linda's "most rockin' " album and very popular at the time. I learned to expect the unexpected from Linda.
|
|
|
Post by musedeva on Feb 16, 2020 23:56:11 GMT -5
Look Out For My Love is one of my favorites. This was Linda's "most rockin' " album and very popular at the time. I learned to expect the unexpected from Linda. Totally AGREE!!! that ALBUM is a CLASSIQUE...its the MOST FORCEFULL and CONTROLLED over the top intensity of anything she ever delivered...yet....look out for my love....so very very tender.......
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Feb 17, 2020 13:10:51 GMT -5
Love that song as well. "You own it" "You own it now". Great background vocals that Linda is part of - or did all? eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by germancanadian on Feb 18, 2020 19:54:42 GMT -5
Just heard "Hurt So Bad" on Sirius Bridge. It's been a long time since they've played that one on the radio.
|
|
|
Post by erik on Feb 18, 2020 20:41:30 GMT -5
Quote by eddiejinnj:
Yes, Linda did the background vocals via overdubbing.
It is kind of weird to look back on it now in this way, but Mad Love was arguably the most controversial album of Linda's entire career. The critics bellyached and b****ed to hell and back about her "slick" albums, especially her most recent one, Living In The USA; but then when she did this album, a basic modern (1980) rock and roll album, something of a nod to the "new wave" of the time, then they bellyached and b****ed about it too. In fact, it took thirty-nine years for Rolling Stone just to acknowledge Linda's audaciousness on that album, as back in the day they virtually panned it.
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Feb 18, 2020 21:33:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought she did all the background. Great effect. Thanks!!! eddiejinnj
PS: If Linda didn't cut her hair so short and had her longer hair they probably would have been more likely to call it the rock it is. Maybe? Good shot? lol
|
|
|
'Mad Love'
Mar 23, 2020 15:50:59 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by memac62 on Mar 23, 2020 15:50:59 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 23, 2020 16:15:11 GMT -5
Rolling Stone has said that Mad Love was a commercial failure before. It debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Album chart. A record for a female artist at the time. It went Platinum and had 2 top 10 hits and a 3rd single was in the top 40. It was Number 3 on the Billboard Album chart for what seemed like months and a Platinum album. Also , imo, too much focus on Costello as if he had a major impact on her career choices. eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by Richard W on Mar 23, 2020 16:41:58 GMT -5
Typically snarky RS bs, damning with faint "praise".
"The album became a dollar-bin staple; in the Eighties, they wouldn’t let you walk out of a record store without making you take a copy of Mad Love with you. Linda fled to the theater...
Fled, indeed.
|
|
|
Post by erik on Mar 23, 2020 18:21:42 GMT -5
Quote by Richard W:
As I said before, it was the mentality of Wenner's Rag back in 1980; and apparently that hasn't changed too terribly much just because her career has long since been ended by Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
If anything, this new missive at Linda is just them beating the hell out of someone when they're down because it feels so god****ed good.
|
|
|
Post by MokyWI on Mar 24, 2020 6:37:08 GMT -5
First of all, I NEVER saw MAD LOVE in the cut-bins. I used to go through them at least a couple of times a week for years and never saw a new MAD LOVE album in the cut-out bins. I've seen it plenty in the USED bins. Now Living in the USA was a cut-out bin staple for years and you can find one easily in the used record bins. As far as Mad Love not being a commercial success, that is total BS! It went to #3 and stayed there for a month. Not to mention Mad Love debut at #5, a first for a female solo artist. The album went platinum and was one of the best selling albums of 1980. And it needs to be mentioned that in 1979 all record albums took a big hit and albums were not selling anywhere near the amount they had years prior. In 1980 album sales were rebounding but it was not until 1981 that album sales were back to what they had been prior to 1979. The album had two top ten singles and the third single went top 40. Yes, the album was panned a lot in reviews, made a few worst albums of 1980 lists, but it was far from a commercial failure. The Mad Love Tour was a huge success.
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 24, 2020 8:19:04 GMT -5
1982 was a bad sales year for albums. The biggest selling album of that year was John Cougar's "American Fool" and I think it went double platinum. One reason probably, Linda was a little shy of a platinum record with "Get Closer". The big comeback year was 1983 with "Thriller" "Can't Slow Down" and "What's New" the top 3 albums for awhile. "What's New" was on the Billboard album chart for 54 weeks. eddiejinnj
|
|
|
Post by erik on Mar 24, 2020 8:58:06 GMT -5
Quote by eddiejinnj:
And even Get Closer did make it to Platinum status a few years later; but its initial first-year sales of 900,000 copies was made to look like it was a clinker by comparison to what she had done before, which was not exactly true.
But even as different as Mad Love was in terms of what Linda had done before, it shared a significant similarity with its predecessors as well, because it was still a Linda Ronstadt album, not a Ramones album, not an album by The Knack, or The Pretenders, or a Pat Benatar album. And for all the b****ing and moaning of the critics, audiences still made it a huge album.
And yes, Linda went into musical theater a few months later with The Pirates Of Penzance, which was quite audacious no matter how you slice it. But I don't think she actually "fled" to the theater so much as she fled away from those godawful arenas and stadiums. The picture really needs to be hung straight when it comes to certain aspects and artistic choices in Linda's career (IMHO).
|
|
|
Post by eddiejinnj on Mar 24, 2020 13:41:41 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I still believe that is listed as a "Gold" album according to the RIAA. eddiejinnj
|
|
|
'Mad Love'
Mar 24, 2020 18:00:47 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by rick on Mar 24, 2020 18:00:47 GMT -5
Yeah, some f***ing appreciation. Tony, are the claims re: sales true?
|
|
|
Post by Partridge on Mar 24, 2020 20:44:37 GMT -5
I thought the days of Rolling Stone torpedoing Linda Ronstadt were behind us. This article is just a steaming pile of bullshit. The album was a hit and went platinum almost immediately. As pointed out here, it entered the chart at #5, higher than any female artist had ever done before. Surprisingly, it peaked at #3. Still, in their December year-end charts, Billboard placed the album at #27 for the year. Linda did not dominate the sales charts as she had in previous years, but those singles that Rolling Stone claim did not do well were enough to place Linda as the #1 female singer for the year, according to Billboard. Pat Benatar came on strong as an album artist during 1980, although surprisingly her singles did not do as well. I think there was a lot of radio resistance to Linda's new sound too. And as we have seen, it is primarily radio airplay, not sales, that determines chart position. Linda was one of the best-selling female artists of the 1980s decade- everything went platinum except Get Closer. I like to point out that if you take away Linda's Nelson Riddle recordings, her Trio record, her Canciones recording, and her Broadway album, and left only her pop music, she scored more Top 10 hits during the decade than Pat Benatar. Yet you never hear Linda's Top 10 hits any more, but they play the heck out of Benatar songs that only went Top 30. Here is a page from Billboard's year-end awards issue of December 20, 1980:
|
|
|
'Mad Love'
Mar 24, 2020 21:17:00 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by memac62 on Mar 24, 2020 21:17:00 GMT -5
Yeah, some f***ing appreciation. Tony, are the claims re: sales true? Just for the record I was being sarcastic.
|
|
|
Post by Partridge on Mar 24, 2020 21:53:53 GMT -5
Looking at the year-end charts, I see John Boylan had 8 charted singles as a producer.
|
|
|
Post by rick on Mar 25, 2020 0:10:40 GMT -5
Yeah, some f***ing appreciation. Tony, are the claims re: sales true? Just for the record I was being sarcastic. memac, I don't have any issue with what you said and I wasn't trying to make a point at you. I was just talking about RS. As far as I'm concerned, we're good. I knew you meant it with sarcasm.
|
|
|
Post by alyn on Mar 26, 2020 6:19:27 GMT -5
For the record, I love 'Mad Love' for me it is neck and neck with 'Hasten Down The Wind' as Linda's best work although obviously totally different in every way. I just love the way she tore up her public image with such relish and put it out there. For me, the best tracks are I Can't Let Go and Justine although the rest all rank 8s and 9s out of 10. The new wavey edge to her voice on some tracks brings over a kind of English hard twang which I really love, notably on Justine. The tightness of the band on the album is also a major factor.
I would kind of fly in the face of opinion here by saying that I wouldn't be too disappointed if there wasn't an anniversary release with extra tracks or whatever, the album stands alone, a priceless moment in Linda's multi-coloured history, it is wonderful for the short sharp attack as a whole album. I think the only track I have heard as an out-take was 'Price of Love' (? maybe, can't remember) which was not great. But then, an anniversary release would raise the profile, so I guess from that point of view it would work.
|
|
|
Post by MokyWI on Mar 26, 2020 11:28:48 GMT -5
“Price of Love” was an outtake from the Get Closer sessions in 1982. Not the Mad Love sessions.
|
|
|
Post by alyn on Mar 26, 2020 11:44:53 GMT -5
“Price of Love” was an outtake from the Get Closer sessions in 1982. Not the Mad Love sessions. You know I had a funny feeling I was wrong as I was typing that... and lo, verily I was :-)
|
|
|
'Mad Love'
Mar 27, 2020 21:43:55 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by memac62 on Mar 27, 2020 21:43:55 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by erik on Mar 27, 2020 23:10:55 GMT -5
Quote by mermac62:
At least he was being honest, not just with us fans of Linda's, but really with himself, and the lack of grace he showed long before American audiences could have had the chance to know him.
|
|
|
Post by Partridge on Apr 6, 2020 1:37:39 GMT -5
I've been looking through the newspaper sources - there was a lot of comparison of Pat Benatar with Linda Ronstadt in the early '80s, and it seems the media usually called Pat Benatar the true rocker because she didn't do those mopey sad broken-heart songs. The truth probably was she did not have the talent for those types of songs.
At any rate, I thought it was odd that Linda's album Mad Love, a million-seller that peaked at #3 is regarded as a flop by some.
But here I'm reading about Pat Benatar's departure album, True Love, after her platinum days were over. This album produced no hits, did not even go gold, and peaked at #37 on the charts, and this article says that "True Love" was "a solid success."
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2021 7:38:47 GMT -5
|
|