Daily Jam - Borderline

Here's The Flaming Lips, with a little help from fellow Oklahomans Stardeath and White Dwarfs, covering Madonna.  Listen to "Borderline" below, our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Like a Prayer

Yeah, I’m writing about a Madonna song today. Wanna fight about it?

Madonna Louise Ciccone has been veritable staple in our pop culture for four decades now. She’s had her ups and downs, fallen in and out of favor, stoked controversy, inspired other artists, earned her own fair share of mockery, recorded some great and fun music, and made some questionable artistic decisions, as our aging pop stars are wont to do in an often misguided attempt to maintain relevancy. But through all of this music, the good stuff, the bad stuff, the stuff I secretly like, and the REALLY bad stuff (please don’t ever rap again), the one constant for me has always been how awesome “Like A Prayer” is. And still is.

Yes. It IS awesome. I don’t care what you think.

Madge really hit it out of the park with that single, the title track from her 1989 album, inspiring equal amounts of evangelical derision and Pepsi ad dollars. Pairing gospel music with pop and dance proved infectious in the Williams household though, even as its ecstasy via spirituality themes flew right over my then 10-year old, prepubescent head. But it stayed with me, through my grunge years, and my industrial years, and my Britpop years, and my punk and metal and techno and hip-hop and indie rock and psych years…always there on the backburner…just waiting for me to come back…like Black Jesus.

“God…”

King Hannah Covers Madonna

Liverpool shoegaze-tinged band King Hannah just dropped a dark and moody cover of Madonna's "Like A Prayer," and it's eerie as heck.  Check out the extended version below and download it here from City Slang.

Daily Jam - Human Nature

Express yourself, don't repress yourself.  Here's Madonna with "Human Nature," our Daily Jam.

Daily Jam - Live to Tell

My vacation is done.  Back to the real world.  Back to the salt mines.  But before i head off to the office, here's some Madonna.  Listen to "Live to Tell" below, our Daily Jam.

Large Plants - La Isla Bonita

Former Wolf People member Jack Sharp now makes chugging retro psych rock as Large Plants.  As a goof, he covered Madonna's "La Isla Bonita," and accidentally made something outstanding.  It actually sounds like it predates the original.  Amazing.  Check it out below and grab the 7" here from Ghost Box.

Daily Jam - Deeper and Deeper

Sometimes when i look back on my 40+ years, i'm surprised by how many Madonna songs i'm into.  Go figure.  Anyway, you put Udo Kier in your music video, and it's just that much better.  Here's the disco-indebted "Deeper and Deeper," our Daily Jam.