Happy birthday to the Queen!

First of all, a happy 51th to Madonna! Here's for many more records to be broken by you! ;) Cheers!

Second...madonnatribe.com posted what's supposedly the final tracklist for the upcoming greatest hits album, Celebration. Let's just say it's an odd selection of songs, and I can't see any logic at all in the track order either. And I've serious doubts about the "34 songs that changed the world" thingy, seeing all this. Let's go one by one.

First CD
Hung Up, Music, Vogue - okay, totally. Basic.
4 Minutes - while I can understand where this is coming from, I do not like it. Still do not like it. Nowhere near to the previous ones and the following ones in prestige. Just yuck. So, yeah, it might fit here in SOME way, but it's sickly and in bad need of a cough drop.
Holiday, Like A Virgin, Into The Groove, Everybody, Like A Prayer - again, totally. W00t!
Sorry - er...again, I can understand where it's coming from, but. There's Hung Up already, and somehow I don't see any difference between these two: both are for the dance floor, both have been played to death by radios. BORING! Please. Seriously, I almost outright hate this song, even though it's the one during which I could "grab" her hand at the Confessions Tour. Blargh.
Express Yourself - another basic must-have.
Open Your Heart - I'm not really sure about this one. Someone help plz?
Borderline - great, but once more...I'm uncertain. Does this have to be here?
Secret, Erotica, Justify My Love - why of course! Ultimate must-haves.
Celebration - okay, new song, lead single, needed. But needed on THIS CD? I mean, c'mon, hullooooo, there's already a Hung Up + Sorry parallel here which looks fugly, and then they make a Holiday - Celebration one too? Wtf? I know the two songs are totally different, considering music and beat, but whoever can't connect them with a direct line, is not a Madonna fan and need to dig into the Girl's past, fast and seriously.

Second CD
Dress You Up - a personal favorite, but I'm not sure it's a song that "changed the world".
Material Girl, La Isla Bonita, Papa Don't Preach - classics, no doubt.
Lucky Star - er, someone? What's with putting almost her entire first album on a greatest collection? Okay, I admit, Lucky Star is a personal anti-favorite, but still. There's Holiday, there's Everybody, there's Borderline (and that's already questionable)...what's Lucky Star so special in? No. A Confessions Tour Mix, maybe.
Burning Up - oh yeah, and here's this one too. Time travel much? At least, make it the Re-invention Tour version. That one kicks some serious ass!
Crazy For You - well okay, still to this day it's many times picked as "world's best romantic song" or some such rot, but I don't see this one as that exceptional. And then, there's the fact that it's REALLY just so sweet that you either absolutely love it, or you find it so repulsive it makes you sick - no middle route. Meh. At least it's options...unlike with 4 Minutes.
Who's That Girl - errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?!?!?!?! The hell's this one doing here? If someone knows, please inform me. Thank you.
Frozen - naturally, another classic.
Miles Away - oh dear. Personal favorite again, but when did this one even start to change anything at all in the world??? Love it, but nevertheless, it totally doesn't fit here.
Take A Bow - well, I'd rather opt for You'll See if a ballad's needed, or Human Nature if a Bedtime Story is needed, but okay, that's only my mind. Not bad.
Beautiful Stranger - again, personal favorite, again, with questionable presence. Where'd American Pie go?
Hollywood - with the video? Smashing, baby! Without that? So whatever... and just where's American Life?
Die Another Day - YES! Absolutely. Bond-experts were in an uproar because it was so unique, so unlike anything else before, that in the eyes of waaaay many, it was like a sacrilege. On the other hand tho? The track's lightyears better than the film, and yes I love the Bond-classics, but c'mon, of THIS quality, fresh blood is more than welcome.
Don't Tell Me - a song that many Madonna fans simply love, with the video or without it. Me? It's okay...but what's so special about it? The message, surely not, it doesn't say anything new. But the "it's like it's constantly wanting to start but fails" effect is nice anyway.
Live To Tell - well, yes, but not the album version. The one with the organ in it, is just more intense.
Cherish - heh...hehehehehe...joke, right? Personal favorite, but still...makes me smile (even laugh!) here.
Revolver - dunno this one, we'll see. But, it'd be better switched with Celebration, that's sure.

Well, there. First disc, jumping back and forth between long-past and quasi-present (minus Secret, Erotica and Justify My Love, which are neither here, nor there; Vogue is eternal, can't argue that one), which is totally chaotic, musically too. Let's hope it won't be a cacophony...I mean, such different eras, both sound-wise and considering the beat as well, it's just gonna create an odd atmosphere. Not to mention the Hung Up + Sorry and Holiday + Celebration parallels, which I think are major fuck-ups. Er. Yeah. And the second disc, just full of questionable decisions. Not to repeat myself, I rather ask: where's Rain? Where's Deeper And Deeper (or even Fever)? Where's HUMAN NATURE, for fuck's sake?! Or Don't Cry For Me Argentina, or You Must Love Me? Whoever picked the songs, please, someone shoot him in the head with a revolver. Don't even dare to ask where they left What It Feels Like For A Girl off, and that's one I particularly don't like the album version at all tho.

Yeah, I'm angry. It's full of errors like the developmental issues of the Nokia N97 (and the slow cpu, not enough ram, scratching camera lens cover, are quite the issues in a ~$6-700 flagship device). And I haven't even mentioned such minor issues, as the order of the tracks which seems totally random, and still, songs from the same album follow each other not once. So, as for me, I go pray. Maybe the gods'll listen and send them back to the blueprints once more. Or at least they'll make M toss something hard and heavy to the creators' heads when she sees this list.

PS: Give It 2 Me is missing 2???....